You’ve heard that saying over and over again and the likes of it also. What you have not heard is the truth behind the saying “Milk has something for everyone”.
Now we all know that the dairy industry is big in America, in fact one out of every seven food dollars is spent on dairy products, five cents is spent on milk advertising per 100 pounds of dairy products sold and the shocker; and one out of every seven congressmen receives election support from the dairy industry. That should be no surprise considering how milk is ‘preached’ in our school system.
So with that being said you might ask what the truth is. I can assure you the statistics are not pretty. We are told that milk builds strong bones yet here in America we suffer from the highest rate of osteoporosis. No doubt about it milk carries lots of calcium, but you see for calcium to be absorbed by the body Magnesium and Vitamin D has to be present which Milk lacks so in fact 75% of the calcium in milk is in absorbable by the body, couple that with the hundreds of pounds of sugar which we consume each year (which leaches calcium from the bones) it should be no wonder why we American’s suffer from the highest osteoporosis rate.
Asthma which so many of us suffer from is mainly due to dairy products, milk forms mucus which affects asthma greatly and therefore is one of the main causes of asthma. Here are ten other health problems that milk has been linked to.
coronary artery disease
cancer
neurological diseases
juvenile diabetes (milk causes leaky gut syndrome which leads to juvenile diabetes)
digestive problems
infectious disease
acne
rheumatoid arthritis
dental decay
hyperactivity
And the list is still counting. Another thing that I have not mentioned is milk even after pasteurization is allowed contain up to 20,000 bacteria per milliliter by FDA standards plus along with the milk comes viruses, prions, antibiotics, hormones and organic pesticides and yet we hardly hear this over the evening news.
Now back to the school issue, the US government recommends that the diet contain less the 30% fat yet the Federal law requires schools to provide fatty whole milk and school lunches are over 40% fat. Butter and cheese amount to ⅓ of the money the government spends on lunches for school and the mind boggling one; only 1% of fruits and vegetables provided for our schools are fresh and 90% are canned.
So you may ask yourself what should I do and are there any alternatives? Well there are, for one instead of using dairy milk use a good wholesome soymilk and please read your labels to make sure that it contains no refined sugar, in fact most soymilk’s on the market contain more calcium then whole milk. Kale, turnips and sesame seeds are better sources of calcium then milk, in fact sesame seeds contain ten times the amount of calcium that milk contains per serving and it comes with all those little goodies to help your body digest the milk. At this point I must stress that you should try to get 20 to 30 minutes of sunlight a day preferably in the early morning or late afternoon to avoid the midday and mid afternoon ultraviolet rays, this will give your body the Vitamin D it needs to absorb the calcium. And last but not least try to use the vitamins in their natural state, supplements are fine but nothing beats a fresh cup of carrot juice over a pill of vitamin A.
In closing, milk has its “good things” but would you want to risk that tiny amount of good for a whole host of other problems? Here is a thought to ponder; did you know that we humans are the only mammals who consume milk after weaning? Makes you wonder what they have been teaching us all these years.
P.S If you would like to get the source for these statistics or any others that I have mentioned email me I will be more then happy to supply them.
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