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By Raymond Francis 1 Jan 2004 www.beyondhealth.com/milk.htm

Cow milk is rich in calcium, but is a poor source of calcium. It can cause calcium loss. Cow milk contains 1200 mg. of calcium per quart while human milk contains only 300 mg. However, an infant actually absorbs more calcium from a quart of human milk because the calcium in the cow milk is less bioavailable. While there is a lot of calcium in cow milk, there is also a lot of phosphorous. The calcium combines with the phosphorous in the digestive tract and prevents its absorption. In addition, cow milk is low in magnesium which is necessary for calcium metabolism. Calcium that is not properly metabolized ends up as kidney stones, gout, and atherosclerotic plaques. (John Robbins wrote this information in his book Diet For a New America 1983 which is baked up by research published in the New England Journal of Medicine)

Diseases caused by milk include anemia, intestinal bleeding, ear infections, MS, ALS, and ovarian cancer. Milk contains too much fat.

Pasteurizing changes molecular structure and further reduces milk’s bioavailability. Pasteurized milk was fed to calves. All the calves died within two months.

Milk is also contaminated with viruses and bacteria. Government regulations state that after pasteurization milk should contain no more than 20,000 bacteria per milliliter. A study done by Consumer Reports found that seven out of twenty-five milk samples had in excess of 130,000 bacteria per milliliter.

Milk contains a sugar, called lactose, which is found only in milk. Mammals are born with the ability to make an enzyme, called lactase, which digests the lactose. All mammals, lose the ability to make this enzyme after weaning.

70% of the world's human population does not drink milk. Mother nature never intended mammals to drink milk after weaning. No mammalian species, except for a small percentage of humans, teaches their kids, cubs or puppies to consume milk after weaning.

Dr. Frank Oski, Director of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, said "No one should drink milk."

The milk of most American mothers who are breast feeding is so contaminated with PCBs, dioxin, and various pesticides that, "...it would be subject to confiscation and destruction by the FDA were it to be sold across state lines." These chemicals store in the mother's fat which is then used to make the mother's milk. "The EPA has concluded that the average American breast-fed infant ingests nine times the permissible level of dieldrin, one of the most potent of all cancer causing agents known to modern science." It shouldn't be a surprise that cancer has become the leading cause of death for children under the age of fourteen. All this is happening because of the mother's bioaccumulation of toxins from her own consumption of meat and dairy.


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