The Myth About Cow Milk
Cow milk has been linked to increased risk osteoporosis ,heart disease, breast cancer, prostrate and ovarian cancer, and diabetes, as well as a host of other health problems .
This article discloses what is contrary to the traditional belief that drinking a lot of cow milk helps increase the body calcium intake from the milk and increase the bone mass and density.
As opposed to the aforesaid belief, it is found that the Americans who drink very large amount of milk have one of the highest rates of osteoporosis in the world . The only countries that have higher rates are Australia, New Zealand and some European countries because they drink more milk than the Americans.
The most extensive study ever done on the relationship between diet and health in The China Study report found that thousands of the Chinese and Taiwanese in the study drank very little or no milk at all , had virtually no osteoporosis.
A 12-year study by Harvard University which involved 78,000 women found that the women who drank milk three glasses a day had more bone fractures than those who rarely drank it. Not only does drinking milk not prevent osteoporosis ,it actually causes it. This is because animal protein in milk depletes the body of its calcium ,and that’s how people get the disease.
Dr. B. Lawrence Riggs of Mayo Clinic measured bone densities and calcium intake in women for years found that there is no correlation at all between calcium intake and bone loss, not even a trend.
For those who want to have enough calcium can eat such plant foods as dark leafy greens ,broccoli, almonds, chickpeas, soybean, figs, carobs and sea vegetables. These foods are rich in calcium and do not have animal protein.
Aside from osteoporosis, milk is linked to increased risk for heart disease ,breast ,ovarian and prostate cancers, diabetes(including type 1 which afflicts children), as well as a host of other health problems.
A Harvard study says that men who consumes the most dairy have double or quadruple the risk of prostate cancer. |
