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"Now we come to one of the most controversial and
misunderstood items in the Western diet".
Orientals and Africans have traditionally
avoided milk- except as a purgative. But in the Western world,
people are told to drink milk everyday throughout their lives.
If we look at nature, we see that the young
feed exclusively on milk until weaned away from it with other foods.
The natural disappearance of the milk-digesting enzyme lactase from
the human system upon reaching maturity proves that adult humans
have no more nutritional need for milk than adult tigers or
chimpanzees.
Though milk is a complete protein food when
consumed raw, it also contains fat, which means that it combines
poorly with any other food except itself. Yet adults today routinely
'wash down' other foods with cold milk. Milk curdles immediately
upon entering the stomach, so if there is other food present the
curds coagulate around other food particles and insulate them from
exposure to gastric juices, delaying digestion long enough to permit
the onset of putrefaction. Therefore, the first and foremost rule of
milk consumption is, 'Drink it alone, or leave it alone.'
Today, milk is made even more indigestible by
the universal practice of pasteurization, which destroys its natural
enzymes and alters its delicate proteins.
Raw milk contains the active enzymes lactase and
lipase, which permit raw milk to digest itself. Pasteurized milk,
which is devitalized of lactase and other active enzymes, simply can
not be properly digested by adult stomachs, and even infants have
trouble with it, as evidenced by colic, rashes, respiratory
ailments, gas and other common ailments of bottle-fed babies.
The lack of enzymes and alteration of vital proteins also renders
the calcium and other mineral elements in milk largely unassailable.
During the 1930's, Dr. Francis M. Pottenger
conducted a 10-year study on the relative effects of pasteurized and
raw milk diets on 900 cats. One group received nothing but raw whole
milk, while the other was fed nothing but pasteurized whole milk
from the same source.
The raw milk group thrived, remaining healthy,
active and alert throughout their lives, but the group fed on
pasteurized milk soon became listless, confused and highly
vulnerable to a host of chronic degenerative ailments normally
associated with humans, including heart disease, kidney failure,
thyroid dysfunction, respiratory ailments, loss of teeth, brittle
bones, liver inflammation, etc.
But what caught Dr. Pottenger's attention most
was what happened to the second and third generations.
The first offspring of the pasteurized milk group
were all born with poor teeth and small, weak bones- a clear cut
sign of calcium deficiency, which indicated lack of calcium
absorption from pasteurized milk.
The offspring of the raw milk group remained as
healthy as their parents.
Many of the kittens in third generation of the
pasteurized group were stillborn, while those that survived were all
sterile and unable to reproduce.
The experiment had to end there because there was
no fourth generation of cats fed on pasteurized milk, although the
raw milk group continued to breed and thrive indefinitely.
If that is insufficient proof of the ill effects
of pasteurized milk, take note of the fact even that newborn calves
fed on pasteurized milk taken from their own mother cows usually die
within six months, a fact which the commercial dairy industry is
loathe to admit.
Despite such scientific evidence in favor of
raw milk and against pasteurized milk, and despite the fact that
until the early twentieth century the human species thrived on raw
milk, it is actually illegal to sell raw milk to consumers in all
but a few states in America today.
It is far more profitable to the dairy
industry to pasteurize milk to extend its shelf-life, though
such denatured milk does nothing whatsoever to extend human life.
Furthermore, pasteurization renders milk from
sick cows in unsanitary dairies relatively 'harmless' by killing
some, but not all, dangerous germs, and this too cuts costs for
the dairy industry.
It required only three generations for Dr.
Pottenger's pasteurized milk fed cats to become sterile and
enfeebled. That's about how many generations of Americans and
Europeans have fed on pasteurized milk. Today, infertility has
become a major problem for your American couples, while calcium
deficiency has become so rampant that over 90 percent of all
American children suffer chronic tooth decay.
To make things worse, milk is now routinely
'homogenized' to prevent the cream from separating from the milk.
This involves the fragmentation and pulverization of the fat
molecules to the point that they will not separate from the rest of
the milk. But it also permits there tiny fragments of milk fat to
easily pass through the villa of the small intestine, greatly
increasing the amount of denatured fat and cholesterol absorbed by
the body. In fact, you absorb more milk-fat from homogenized
milk than you do from pure cream!
Women worried about osteoporosis should take
note of these facts about pasteurized milk products. That such
denatured milk does not deliver sufficient calcium to prevent this
condition is abundantly evident from the fact that American
women, who consume great quantities of pasteurized milk products,
suffer the world's highest incidence of osteoporosis.
Raw cabbage, for example, supplies far more
available calcium than any quantity of pasteurized milk, yogurt,
cottage cheese, or any other denatured dairy product.
Recent studies at the Human Research Centre in
Grand Folks, North Dakota, indicates that the element boron is also
an essential factor in absorbing calcium from food and utilizing it
to build bones.
Even more noteworthy, the level of estrogen in
the blood of women given sufficient quantities of boron more than
doubled, eliminating the need for estrogen replacement therapy,
which is a common stopgap measure against osteoporosis in the West.
And where do we find boron? In fresh fruits and vegetables,
especially apples, pears, grapes, nuts, cabbage, and other leafy
vegetables, where we also find calcium. Nature has already
provided abundant sources of all the vital nutrients we need in
synergetic form, but man insists on cooking and processing them to
death, and then wonders why his diet doesn't 'work'.
Adults should seriously reconsider milk as a
constitute of their daily diets, unless they are able to obtain raw
certified milk, which is an excellent food.
To stuff children with
pasteurized milk in order to make them grow 'strong and healthy' is
sheer folly, because they simply cannot assimilate the nutrients.
Indeed men, women, and children alike should
eliminate all pasteurized dairy products from their diets, for these
denatured dairy products only gum up the intestines with layer
upon layer of slimy sludge that interferes with the absorption of
organic nutrients."
Cow's milk is probably the most mucus-forming
food used by human beings. The casein content of cow's milk is
exceedingly high, being about 300% more than is contained in
mother's milk. [Casein, by the way, is a milk byproduct and is
considered to be one of the most tenacious adhesives used for gluing
wood together.] This is one of the reasons for the mucus
condition of children and adults brought up to drink
quantities of such milk and for the resultant colds, running noses,
tonsil, adenoid, and bronchial troubles--whereas carrot juice is
one of the greatest aids in the elimination of mucus!
"This
prodigious generation of mucus in the body as a result of drinking
such quantities of cow's milk is not limited to youngsters, but is
found just as much in adults, where the effects are likely to be far
more disastrous because, as people grow older, their resiliency is
correspondingly lower than in the younger generation." Dr. N. W.
Walker
Dairy
"Cow's milk is meant for calves, and babies are
meant to drink mother's milk until weaned from it".
Nature has designed both types of milk and
digestive systems accordingly.
It is a scientifically documented fact that
calves fed on pasteurized milk from their own mother cow usually die
within six weeks, so it stands to reason that pasteurized cow's milk
is not a wholesome, life-sustaining food for calves, much less for
humans. Yet not only do adult humans feed this denatured animal
secretion to their own infants, they also consume it themselves.
Cow's milk has four times the protein and only
half the carbohydrate content of human milk. Pasteurization destroys
the natural enzyme in cow's milk required to digest its heavy
protein content.
This excess milk protein therefore putrefies in
the human digestive tract, clogging the intestines with sticky
sludge, some of which seeps back into the bloodstream.
As this putrid sludge accumulates from daily
consumption of dairy products, the body forces some of it out
through the skin (acne, blemishes) and lungs (catarrh), while the
rest of it festers inside, forms mucus that breeds infections,
causes allergic reactions, and stiffens joints with calcium deposits.
Many cases of chronic
asthma, allergies, ear infections, and acne have been totally cured
simply by eliminating all dairy products from the diet.
Cow's milk products are particularly harmful
to women.
Milk is supposed to flow out of, not into,
women's bodies.
The debilitating effects of pasteurized cow's
milk on women is further aggravated by the synthetic hormones cow's
are injected with to increase milk production. These chemicals play
havoc with the delicately balanced female endocrine system. In Food
and Healing, the food therapist Anne Marie Colbin describes the
dairy disaster for women as follows:
The consumption of dairy products, including
milk, cheese, yogurt, and ice cream, appears to be strongly linked
to various disorders of the female reproductive system,
including ovarian tumors and cysts, vaginal discharges, and
infections. I see this link confirmed time and again by the
countless women I know who report these problems diminishing or
disappearing altogether after they've stopped consuming dairy food.
I hear of fibroid tumors being passed or
dissolved, cervical cancer arrested, menstrual irregularities
straightened out...Even infertility appears to have been reversed
with this approach in several instances.
Many women, as well as
men, consume dairy products because their doctors tell them it's a
good source of calcium. This is fallacious advice.
True, cow's milk contains 118 mg of calcium in
every 100 grams, compared to 33 mg/100 grams in human milk. But
cow's milk also contains 97 mg phosphorus/100 grams, compared to
only 18 mg in human milk. Phosphorus combines with calcium in the
digestive tract and actually blocks its assimilation.
Dr. Frank Oski, chairman of the Department of
Pediatrics at the State University of New York's Medical Centre
states: 'Only foods with a calcium-to-phosphorus-ratio of two-to-one
or better should be used as a primary source of calcium.' The ratio
in human milk is 2.35 to one, in cow's milk only 1.27 to one. Cow's
milk also contains 50 mg sodium/100 grams, compared with only 16 mg
in human milk, so dairy products are probably one of the most
common sources of excess sodium in the modern Western diet.
Besides, cow's milk is not nearly as good a
source of calcium as other far more digestible and wholesome foods.
Compare the 118 mg calcium/100 grams cow's milk with 100 grams of
the following foods: almonds (254 mg), broccoli (130 mg), kale (187
mg), sesame seeds (1,160 mg), kelp (1,093 mg), and sardines (400
mg).
As for osteoporosis, it is caused not so much by
calcium deficiency in the diet as it is by dietary factors which
leach calcium form bones and teeth, especially sugar.
Sugar, meat, refined starch, and alcohol all
cause a constant state of acidosis in the bloodstream, and acid
blood is known to dissolve calcium form bones. The best way to
correct osteoporosis is to consume the non-dairy calcium-rich foods
mentioned above, while simultaneously cutting down or eliminating
acidifying calcium robbers from the diet. A daily supplement of 3 mg
of the mineral boron also seems to help bones assimilate and retain
calcium.
From the traditional Chinese medical point of
view, milk is a form of 'sexual essence. For the human species to
drink the sexual essence of another species can only lead to trouble,
especially for females, because the hormones it contains will upset
the sensitive balance of the human endocrine system.
If you insists on
consuming dairy product, your best bet is goat's milk, which
approximates the nutritional composition and balance of human milk.
The only safe products made from cow's milk are
fresh butter, which is a digestible fat, and fresh live-culture
yogurt, which is predigested for you by lactobacteria, but even
these should be consumed in moderation and preferably prepared from
raw un-pasteurized milk.
There is a large number of alternative sources of
calcium as opposed to dairy products. All green, leafy vegetables
contain calcium. Great sources are kale and collards, beets and
turnip tops. Although spinach contains calcium it also contains an
enzyme that makes it less easily absorbed by the body.
Other good vegetable sources of calcium are dried peas and beans,
such as lentils and chickpeas.
Most fruits, also, contain calcium. Oranges are a good source as
well as concentrated fruits such as prunes, dates and figs.
Raw nuts and seeds also provide calcium. Raw sesame seeds are
especially good sources and can be sprinkled on salads.
Probably the best non-dairy sources of calcium are salmon and
sardines, both canned with bones.
Herbs
Chamomile
Cleavers
Coltsfoot
Dandelion
Horsetail grass
Meadow sweet
Pimpernel
Plantain
Restharrow
Shepherd's
purse
Silver weed
Toad flax
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