Is Dairy Products Great For Our Health And Fitness?
Facts about DAIRY – is milk really healthy? Read on and decide for yourself!
I have included the article below as I have been affected badly by dairy in my life. It took me many years to discover that the source of my irritablity and occasional bouts of depression, headaches and general lack of energy was caused by an intolerance to dairy products. Please read this carefully – you may well be very surprised!
Dairy – The latest research from the desk of Mary-Ann Shearer
Dairy products have for decades been promoted as a “whole” or “complete” food. We have been encouraged to include it at every meal, to drink 2 glasses of milk a day to prevent osteoporosis and produce growth and development in healthy children.
Research has been filtering through in the last 2 decades and is now beginning to reach a peak; the food once thought of as essential is now being found to be a main cause of
type 1 diabetes,
breast and prostate cancer,
auto immune diseases,
osteoporosis,
heart disease
and a host of other ailments.
I am listing some of research from a selection of highly qualified and recognized researchers and doctors for you to see that there is no longer any real debate. I am at present unaware of any independent research (not backed by industry related funds) which concludes that cows milk and cows milk products are necessary or essential for health.
In fact in looking at this research it would appear that the dairy industry has chosen to ignore these warnings and continue to promote a clearly harmful substance as not only safe but essential. This will I believe in time leave them wide open to lawsuits similar to those seen in the tobacco industry.
From Dr. T Colin Campbell -Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University – and author of The China Study (Benbella)
- based on the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted. It seems that besides contributing to heart disease, cancer (of almost all types) dairy products are a major factor in autoimmune diseases Cows milk protein supplies many foreign proteins that mimic our own, setting us up for one of many autoimmune diseases, ranging from
Type 1 Diabetes (juvenile diabetes)
Graves disease
Rheumatoid arthritis
Thyroiditis
Vitiligo
Pernicious anemia
Glomerulonephritis
Multiple sclerosis
Lupus
Sjorgren’s diseases
Myasthenia gravis
Addison’s disease
Scleroderma
Primary biliary cirrohosis
Uveitis
Chronic active hepatitis
I find the following paragraph particularly disturbing; “Imagine looking at the front page of the newspaper and finding the following headline: “Cow’s milk the likely causes of lethal Type 1 Diabetes” Because the reaction would be strong, and the economic impact monumental, this headline won’t be written any time soon regardless of the scientific evidence.”
At the end of the day money appears to be more important than our health. Hopefully as the research mounts we will the see the same results as the cigarette industry did, – in time.
From Doctor Neal Barnard – Breaking the food Seduction St Martin’s press; president of the physicians committee for responsible medicine
Cheese is addictive as it contains casein, like other dairy products. Casein is broken down in the digestive tract to form opiates called casomorphins. Cheese appears to be more addictive that other dairy products due to the much higher levels of casein. (Now I know why there are so many cheese addicts around!) Including dairy in a breast feeding mother’s diet is a cause of colic as the protein from dairy is able to pass from the blood stream into breast milk.
Cheese also contains an amphetamine like substance, phenylethylamine (PEA). The following hormones and related natural chemicals have been identified in cows milk; Prolatin, somastostatin, melatonin, oxytocin, growth hormone, leutenizing hormone-releasing hormone, thyrotropin releasing hormone, thyroid-stimulating hormone, vasoactive intestinal peptide, calcitonin, parathyroid hormone, corticosteroids, estrogens, progesterone, insulin, epidermal growth factor, insulin-like growth factor, erythropoietin, bomesin, neurotensin, motilin and cholecystokinin. (Any and all of these can interfere with the chemical processes in your bodyaffecting your health in thousands of possible ways).
Dairy is also a major contributor to headaches Is the most common trigger in rheumatoid arthritis Harvard studies have shown that men who avoid dairy products have a