Got Milk Got Problems
According to the National Dairy Council milk, and other dairy products, are so beneficial to our health that you may wonder how we ever existed without it in our diet.
Milk and other dairy products is the mainstay of the American diet yet some authorities on diet and nutrition discourage milk consumption, why? The truth is that milk isnâEUR(TM)t a very good source of many minerals. Manganese, chromium, selenium, and magnesium are all found in higher levels among fruits and vegetables. Most important is magnesium, which works alongside calcium. The ideal calcium to magnesium ratio is 2:1 (twice as much calcium to magnesium). This is a well-established nutritional fact found in numerous sources. MilkâEUR(TM)s ratio is 10:1, while cheese is 28:1. Relying on dairy products for calcium is likely to lead to magnesium deficiency and most assuredly imbalance.
Seeds, nuts, and crunchy raw vegetables like kale, cabbage, carrots, and cauliflower provide magnesium and calcium as well as others, more in line with what our bodies need than milk. It is, after all, designed for young calves, not adult humans.
Another common myth is that a breast-feeding mother needs to drink cowâEUR(TM)s milk in order to lactate. This, of course, is not founded in truth. The move away from breast-feeding led to the substitution of human milk with cowâEUR(TM)s milk which is very different in its protein, calcium, phosphorous, iron, and essential fatty acid content. The early feeding of human babies on cowâEUR(TM)s milk is now known to increase the likelihood of developing a cowâEUR(TM)s milk allergy, and affects one in ten babies. Common symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting, persistent colic, eczema, hives, catarrh, bronchitis, asthma, and sleeplessness. The American Society of Microbiologists has suggested that some crib deaths may be attributable to cowâEUR(TM)s milk allergy.
Conversely, breast milk is nothing but good news. A breast-fed baby has, on average, a four point higher IQ as reported in April 2003 at the American Oil Chemists Society in Kansas City. This advantage can be doubled by giving the pregnant and breast-feeding mother a supplement of omega-3 fish oils.
So, if youâEUR(TM)ve got milk then youâEUR(TM)ve got problems. Milk consumption is strongly linked with increased risk for cardiovascular disease as well as breast and prostate cancer. Our bodies produce an antibody against milk and that is good reason to believe that milk is not an ideal food. Finally, 70 percent of people stop producing lactase, the enzyme to digest milk sugar, once they have been weaned.
Milk and other dairy products is the mainstay of the American diet yet some authorities on diet and nutrition discourage milk consumption, why? The truth is that milk isnâEUR(TM)t a very good source of many minerals. Manganese, chromium, selenium, and magnesium are all found in higher levels among fruits and vegetables. Most important is magnesium, which works alongside calcium. The ideal calcium to magnesium ratio is 2:1 (twice as much calcium to magnesium). This is a well-established nutritional fact found in numerous sources. MilkâEUR(TM)s ratio is 10:1, while cheese is 28:1. Relying on dairy products for calcium is likely to lead to magnesium deficiency and most assuredly imbalance.
Seeds, nuts, and crunchy raw vegetables like kale, cabbage, carrots, and cauliflower provide magnesium and calcium as well as others, more in line with what our bodies need than milk. It is, after all, designed for young calves, not adult humans.
Another common myth is that a breast-feeding mother needs to drink cowâEUR(TM)s milk in order to lactate. This, of course, is not founded in truth. The move away from breast-feeding led to the substitution of human milk with cowâEUR(TM)s milk which is very different in its protein, calcium, phosphorous, iron, and essential fatty acid content. The early feeding of human babies on cowâEUR(TM)s milk is now known to increase the likelihood of developing a cowâEUR(TM)s milk allergy, and affects one in ten babies. Common symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting, persistent colic, eczema, hives, catarrh, bronchitis, asthma, and sleeplessness. The American Society of Microbiologists has suggested that some crib deaths may be attributable to cowâEUR(TM)s milk allergy.
Conversely, breast milk is nothing but good news. A breast-fed baby has, on average, a four point higher IQ as reported in April 2003 at the American Oil Chemists Society in Kansas City. This advantage can be doubled by giving the pregnant and breast-feeding mother a supplement of omega-3 fish oils.
So, if youâEUR(TM)ve got milk then youâEUR(TM)ve got problems. Milk consumption is strongly linked with increased risk for cardiovascular disease as well as breast and prostate cancer. Our bodies produce an antibody against milk and that is good reason to believe that milk is not an ideal food. Finally, 70 percent of people stop producing lactase, the enzyme to digest milk sugar, once they have been weaned.
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