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ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DRINK COW'S MILK?
Calcium: Green leafy vegetables are alkaline
foods. Plants such as kale, and collard greens are
better than milk as calcium sources. Rural Asians eat little to no dairy
and lots of dark greens. They have virtually no osteoporosis or obesity whereas
Americans have the highest dairy and the highest cases of osteoporosis and
obesity.
Fat
Content: Dairy
products are high in fat, as a percentage of total calories. The fat found in
cow's milk products is saturated fat, which is linked to LDL cholesterol and
Heart disease. The consumption of fat from eggs and dairy products has also
been strongly linked to osteoporosis, Alzheimer's, asthma, and male impotence.
Iron-Deficiency: Milk is very low in iron. To get the U.S. Recommended Dietary Allowance of 11 milligrams of iron, an infant would have to drink more than 22 quarts of milk each day. Milk also causes blood loss from intestinal tract, depleting the body's iron. Regular milk is very low in iron and children become iron deficient. Toddlers get full from all the milk that parents give them and therefore they’re not eating iron-rich foods.
USE LIQUID
NUTRITION AND NEVER BE DEFICIENT
Diabetes: In a study of 142 children with diabetes, 100 percent had high levels of an antibody to a cow's milk protein. It is believed that these antibodies may destroy the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas.
Contaminants: Milk is frequently contaminated
with antibiotics and excess vitamin D. In one study of 42 milk samples
tested, only 12 percent were within the expected range of vitamin D
content. Of ten samples of infant formula,
seven had more than twice the vitamin D content reported on the label, and one
had more than 4 times label amount.
Lactose: 3 out of 4 people are unable to
digest milk sugar lactose, which then causes diarrhea and gas, The lactose sugar, when digested, releases galactose, a simple sugar that is linked to ovarian cancer
and cataracts. This may be why the world's most drank milk is goat's milk.
Allergies: Milk is one of the most common
causes of food allergy. Often the symptoms are subtle and may not be
attributed to milk for some time.
Colic: Milk proteins can cause colic, a digestive upset that bothers one in five infants. Milk-drinking mothers can also pass cow's milk proteins to their breast-feeding infants. Cow's milk is best drank by "baby cows".
In Australia, a study of children who had diabetes found that children given cows milk formula in the first three months were 52% more likely to develop diabetes than those not fed cow's milk. Breast fed infants had a 34% lower incidence of diabetes than infants fed cow's milk formula. A recent Reuter's report stated that Cow's milk allergy persists longer than previously reported, and the majority of children may retain the sensitivity into school age, study findings suggest. Only 19% outgrew their allergy.
Fat
content of dairy products:
Butter: 100% fat
Cheddar cheese: 74% fat
Whole milk: 49% fat
"2%" milk: 35% fat (it is 2% fat only by weight), 2% is reduced fat
milk, not low fat milk.
IT'S TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE...!
Try soy yogurt, soy cheese, soymilk, almond milk, rice milk.