Are Dairy Products Destroying Your Health? (Part 2)
By Charles Fisher and Randy Fisher @HHSYC
Once again the Monsanto Chemical Company is at the center of discussion when it comes to your health and welfare; this time it’s about “Milk.” They are the maker of fine poisons such as DDT, agent orange, Roundup and more and have spent around half a billion dollars inventing a shot to inject into cows…to force a cow to produce more milk. This approach may be good for profits, but may be bad for those that drink milk and eat milk by-products. What we will continue to do over the next few weeks is provide you with in-depth information about milk with the hope that you will do your own research and assess exactly what you may have been putting into your body without the knowledge of the consequences. “What you don’t know will hurt you,” and it is our hope that through this series you will be able to make a better choice about whether milk is helpful or harmful to your health.
MILK CONTAINS TOXIC LEVELS OF DIOXINS
“The level of dioxin in a single serving of the Ben & Jerry’s World’s Best Vanilla Ice Cream tested was almost 200 times greater than the ‘virtually safe [daily] dose’ determined by the Environmental Protection Agency.”
-Steve Milloy, author of junkscience.com (Milloy tested samples of ice cream for dioxins. The only major newspaper to report the story was the Detroit Free Press). 11/8/99
IGF’S IN MILK LINKED TO CANCER
The insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system is widely involved in human carcinogenesis. A significant association between high circulating IGF-I concentrations and an increased risk of lung, colon, prostate and pre-menopausal breast cancer has recently been reported.
-International Journal of Cancer, 2000 Aug, 87:4
“Levels of IGF increase in milk after cows are treated with rbGH.” [rbGH stands for “recombinant bovine growth hormone,” a hormone fed to cows to make them grow unnaturally large in a shorter period of time to maximize the dairy industry’s profits.]
-National Institutes of Health Assessment of Bovine Somatotropin, December, 1990
MILK CAUSES ALLERGIES—ESPECIALLY IN YOUNG CHILDREN
“Most formula fed infants developed symptoms of allergic rejection to cow milk proteins before one month of age. About 50-70% experienced rashes or other skin symptoms, 50-60% gastrointestinal symptoms, and 20-30% respiratory symptoms. The recommended therapy is to avoid cow’s milk.”
-Pediatric-Allergy-Immunology, August, 1994, 5(5 Suppl.)
MILK CAUSES MUCUS, SINUS INFECTIONS, CONGESTION & EAR INFECTIONS
“At least 50% of all children in the United States are allergic to milk, many undiagnosed. Dairy products are the leading cause of food allergy, often revealed by constipation, diarrhea, and fatigue. Many cases of asthma and sinus infections are reported to be relieved and even eliminated by cutting out dairy.”
-Natural Health, July, 1994, Frank Oski, M.D., Chief of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Medical School
“Milk allergies are very common in children…They are the leading cause of the chronic ear infections that plague up to 40% of all children under the age of six.”
-Julian Whitaker, M.D., “Health & Healing,” October, 1998, Volume 8, No. 10
MILK IS LINKED TO JUVENILE DIABETES
“These new studies, and more than 20 well-documented previous ones, have prompted one researcher to say the link between milk and juvenile diabetes is ‘very solid’.”
–Diabetes Care 1994; 17 (12)
MILK IS IMPLICATED IN SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME (SIDS)
“Those who consumed cow’s milk were fourteen times more likely to die from diarrhea-related complications and four times more likely to die of pneumonia than were breast-fed babies. Intolerance and allergy to cow’s milk products is a factor in sudden infant death syndrome.”
-The Lancet, vol. 344, November 5, 1994
MILK & HEART DISEASE HIGHLY CORRELATED
“Milk and milk products gave the highest correlation coefficient to heart disease. Sugar, animal proteins and animal fats came in second, third, and fourth, respectively.”
-A Survey of Mortality Rates and Food Consumption Statistics of 24 Countries, Medical Hypothesis 7:907-918, 1981
“Bovine milk is presently under investigation by this laboratory since it has been shown that milk antibodies are significantly elevated in the blood of male patients with heart disease.”
-Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 163:1981
MILK CONTAINS PESTICIDES, ANTIBIOTICS & KILLER BACTERIA
“A 1988 FDA survey of milk samples from grocery stores in 10 cities found that 73% of the samples contained pesticide residues.” -Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 1991; 47
“Milk from cows inoculated with listeria was pooled for 2 to 4 days and then heated at 162 degrees Fahrenheit for 16 seconds in a high-temperature, short-time pasteurization unit. Live listeria bacteria was then successfully isolated from the milk after heat treatment in 11 of 12 pasteurization trials.”
-Journal of Environmental Microbiology. July 1987, (53)
“…curing alone may not be a sufficient pathogen control step to eliminate Salmonella, Listeria, and E. coli O157:H7 from cheese.”
-J Food Prot, 1998 Oct, 61:10
DAIRY PRODUCTS LINKED TO RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
“Rheumatoid arthritis is more severe than osteoarthritis, is most common in the hands and feet, and is characterized by swelling of joints. Since this type of joint pain can be a symptom of a food allergy, dietary change sometimes has a profound effect. Dairy products, the most common food allergen, are one likely candidate as a contributing causative factor.”
-Vegetarian and Vegan Nutrition by George Eisman, M.A., M.Sc., R.D.
“In the case of the eight year old female subject, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis was a milk allergy. After avoiding dairy products, all pain was gone in three weeks.”
-Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1985, 78
