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Got Milk?! – Chapter 1

For the last few years,there has been a controversy around homogenized milk and dairy consumption in general. Myself,I read a number of articles and medical research reports,which either support or dismiss the need of dairy in our diet.

Many vegan-living advocates and many medical and nutritional experts support the idea that we are better off without dairy due to the following facts:
-conventional cattle farming exposes cows to heavy treatment with antibiotics and growth hormones.
-we can get all the calcium we need from a healthy,balanced plant-based diet
-homogenized milk has been associated with heart disease and cancer

Let’s take a brief look at homogenization process.

The homogenization process breaks up an enzyme in milk (xanthine oxidase),which in its altered (smaller) state can enter the bloodstream and react against arterial walls causing the body to protect the area with a layer of cholesterol. There is some very compelling research demonstrating clear associations with this absorbed enzyme and increased risks of heart disease.

Robert Cohen,Executive Director of the Dairy Education Board,wrote in his article “Homogenized Milk:Rocket Fuel for Cancer,”accessed Nov. 28,2007.

“Homogenization is the worst thing that dairymen did to milk. Simple proteins rarely survive digestion in a balanced world. Milk is a hormonal delivery system. With homogenization,milk becomes a very powerful and efficient way of bypassing normal digestive processes and delivering steroid and protein hormones to the human body (both your hormones and the cow’s natural hormones and the ones they were injected with to produce more milk). Through homogenization,fat molecules in milk become smaller and become ‘capsules’for substances that bypass digestion. Proteins that would normally be digested in the stomach or gut are not broken down,and are absorbed into the bloodstream…Homogenized milk,with its added hormones,is rocket fuel for cancer.”

What about calcium?! – Indeed,this question makes me want to ask another question. Where do cows get calcium for their huge bones?! I doubt it comes from human milk consumption,please pardon my sarcasm. Well,let’s see…may be plant based diet is the answer! Many researches have shown that celery,spinach,broccoli and other plants and vegetables have few times more absorbable calcium than a glass of milk. All we need to do is to learn how to bring these plants back into our diet. Leafy greens,nuts,fish and soy foods contain impressive amount of absorbable calcium along other minerals that are easy for our body to assimilate.

So what are the options of individuals who are not ready to give up their dairy? My advice is to look into buying organic non-homogenized sheep,goat or cow dairy products. Goat and sheep dairy is known to be a little easier to digest even by people who are unable to digest cows milk.

In our next newsletter I will share with you few facts about antibiotics and growth hormones in conventional dairy produce and how to prevent it from harming our children and us.
With healthy blessings,

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