FROM MY KITCHEN TO YOURS: MY CREAMY SOUP OF ZUCCHETI :-)I was just having a very interesting conversation with my husband yesterday about milk and we both agreed that cow milk has got to be the worst food out there. I would rather nominate a banana as a perfect food than cow milk and if you disagree with me, please take no offense just do more research and come to your own conclusion--mine is certain. I guess part of my conclusion is based on my very own experience, the experiences of people I know and indisputable research from distinguished professionals through out the century and beyond. Man/humankind was NEVER meant to drink the milk of another but from its mother as an infant. My youngest brother who never drank milk his entire life is now a 6 foot tall basketball player and he's yet to have a broken bone or falling teeth, so you tell me, where is the calcium defficiency and retarded growth in this case? I challenge you to try a month without milk, no wait, I take that back, try a week and you will tell the difference. Milk is the most mucus forming food. It is only the 'perfect food' when it is for the baby calf and not for humans.
-Consider all the hormones, pesticides and antibiotics fed to the cow, then think of casein--the milk protein-- which is used as industrial glue in carpentry and used to make plastics and adhesives, ever wondered what it does to your insides? By the way, 80% of milk protein is casein.
-Consider the pus in the milk caused by forcefully enlarging the mammary glands of these cows in order to overproduce due to the high demand of milk.
-Consider the fact that these cows get their own calcium from eating plants and you want to get yours from eating them? why not just go for the plant too and avoid the poisons from herbicides, pesticides, dioxins, up to 52 powerful antibiotics, blood, pus, feces, bacteria and viruses. (Cow's milk can have traces of anything the cow ate... including such things as radioactive fallout from nuke testing ... "It's not how much calcium you eat. It's how much calcium you prevent from leaving your bones."--Robert Cohen
read this for yourself: http://www.notmilk.com/igf1time.txt
-Consider that it takes 10 pounds of milk to make a pound of cheese so each slice of cheese has 10x what is in milk, every bite of ice cream has 12x that and butter 21x whatever is in milk.
-Consider the fact that milk consists of almost 50% fat and it goes across the board for milk products as well.
-Consider that although milk is hailed as 'Liquid protein' it is just very expensive water because 87% of milk is water.
-Consider the fact that countries with the highest consumption of dairy have the highest rates of osteoporosis. This is because the protein in dairy inhibits the absorption of calcium.
-Consider that milk is allowed to undergo pasteurization to 'kill' the bacteria and feces found in the milk but this also makes it into a non-food. And since pasteurization does not kill all the bacteria milk tends to go bad rather quickly, sad huh?
-Consider that apart from milk not being Kosher, it's level of cholesterol is alarming and to think we some nutritionists recommend 2-3 glasses of milk a day. The cholesterol in those glasses of milk is equivalent to that from 52 slices of bacon...can you see yourself eating that daily?
Here are a host of problems that dairy may cause:
1) Obesity (Over 50% of Americans)
2) Leukemia
3) Diabetes
4) Crohn's Disease
5) Heart disease
6) Cancer, please read this :http://www.notmilk.com/deb/062198.html
7) Allergies (Ever wondered why there are so many lactose intolerant folks?)
8) Digestive problems
9) Asthma
10) Desensitization to antibiotics.
11) Toxicity of the human body due to ingestion of ingestion of dioxins, herbicides, pesticides.
12) Pollution and environmental degradation (we have only one planet)
To read more about milk visit http://www.notmilk.com/ and read more from author Robert Cohen.
Have a very blessed day.
~B.
