Cow's Milk: Good or Bad?!
Cow's Milk: Good or Bad?
I really enjoy drinking milk - I've grown to like it for the taste, the fullness, and the protein, calcium and vitamins it contains. However, I am aware that there are some sources pointing out that Cow's milk may not be so good for you.
If anyone could clear this up for me, that would be great. I drink about a gallon a week of regular 1% milk.
2 months ago
It may be strange, but just because it does not occur naturally does not necessarily mean that it is bad. No other animals cook the meat that they eat, yet it was that which allowed the human species to take in the advance proteins necessary for the evolutionary development of our brains. And that certainly got us somewhere.
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2 months ago
It may be strange, but just because it does not occur naturally does not necessarily mean that it is bad. No other animals cook the meat that they eat, yet it was that which allowed the human species to take in the advance proteins necessary for the evolutionary development of our brains. And that certainly got us somewhere.
You shouldn't fear drinking milk. It is part of a healthy diet and provides your body with calcium which helps strengthen bones. It will also reduce the chances of diseases such as osteroporosis (weakening of bones).
The only problem is with age. If your young then this is extremely healthy, if your aged near your 60s milk becomes less or a nessesity in your daily diet.
It's good, especially chocolate, unless you are lactose intolerant then it's not so good.
Are you talking about unprocessed milk..straight from the utter? It is only bad if you are pregnent!!
As long as your milk is steroid free, and as long as you're lactose tolerant, you can drink all the milk you want.
Milk is excellent for you and quite tasty! :)
Consider this.. we are the only mammal alive that drinks milk after we have been weined off the bottle.... and we drink milk from other animals... I'm sure this is not how nature intended for us to be. Don't get me wrong.. I love milk myself.. but don't you find it strange??? And there are vegetables out there to get your calcium from.. like broccoli... So are we really supposed to be drinking another animal's milk,... probably not but I still like it.
It is delicious
Cow's milk is great if you want to grow up to be a big and strong cow.
The fortified vitamin D in it comes from pig, cow, or sheep skin, or from wool.
It's also full of growth hormones.
1% means that butter-fat has been taken out of the milk. The amount you are drinking is not bad for you.
Bad, definitely bad but what ive concluded is that its still milk and somewhat it helps. try soy milk or organic milk.
milk is good for health. but the persons are in diet constious should aware of milk becauz os cholestral
Well, current highly processed and adulterated milk = bad. Very bad. Talk to anyone from a farm who consumes organic raw milk, they'll tell you how that stuff from the store doesn't even compare. It's like comparing a fresh vegetables from your garden to mushy cooked old canned vegetables.
As the other person pointed out, it's completely unnatural for non-breastfeeders to be consuming milk, especially from another animal. Once you stop breastfeeding, there is no need for milk. In fact, once you stop, your body will slowly stop producing the enzyme that helps break down milk and thus you will become what the milk industry has termed "lactose intolerant". Contrary to popular believe, people outside of N. America do not consume much dairy. In fact, most of Asia consumes none at all. My wife is from China, and she says dairy is not part of the Chinese diet. Beyond breastfeeding, she never had any dairy. There are billions of people in Asia, by-the-way, and they get along fine without dairy.
Milk has never been a large part of the human diet until the invention of artificial stimulation of the milk, as prior to this, a cow would only product milk when pregnant or with baby. So, you'd get some milk at certain times of the year and you'd milk the cow, and take the milk straight to the table... no processing except to perhaps make butter or natural cheese (without renet). All cheese looked much like cottage or feta before someone got the 'brilliant' idea to suck the stomach fluid from a baby cow and add it to milk. See, the enzyme creates a solid (a food, not a drink) from milk. Basically, babies are making cheese in their stomaches -- they are not just drinking milk as adults drink water. If you cooked breast milk first then fed it to a baby -- it would die. So would an adult on a 100% cooked milk diet.
Milk is high in protein, this contributes to Osteoporosis . Osteoporosis is not an ailment caused by the lack of calcium; the body is taking calcium reserves from the bones in order to process and and get rid of excess protein. Zinc and other minerals in lesser amounts are also used in the process of breaking down protein since amino acids are what the body utilizes, not whole proteins.
Conclusion, milk can be good, for babies, but it's never good for adults. Sure, hey, you are stuck in the middle of the desert, trekking for days, very thirsty as you have no food or water, and a cow walks by dripping milk from her udders. Do you drink to stay alive? Sure, go ahead. Otherwise... no.
Yes... milk is Mother Nature's "perfect food" ...for a calf... until it is weaned.
Everything you know about cow's milk and dairy is probably part of a Dairy industry MYTH.
Cow's milk is an unhealthy fluid from diseased animals that contains a wide range of dangerous and disease-causing substances that have a cumulative negative effect on all who consume it.
MILK'S BASIC CONTENTS
*ALL* cow's milk (regular and 'organic') has 59 active hormones, scores of allergens, fat and cholesterol.
Most cow's milk has measurable quantities of herbicides, pesticides, dioxins (up to 200 times the safe levels), up to 52 powerful antibiotics (perhaps 53, with LS-50), 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 ... (the 50's strontium-90 problem).
LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH IN AMERICA
http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadc... (1998)
Rank Total Description
1 724,859 Heart Disease (think fats/cholesterol: meat/dairy)
2 541,532 Malignant Neoplasms (cancer: think toxins/milk/dairy)
2a 250,000 Medical system (drugs/etc. think ignorance/incompetence)
3 158,448 Cerebro-vascular (think meat milk and dairy)
4 112,584 Bronchitis Emphysema Asthma (think toxins/milk/dairy)
5 97,835 Unintentional Injuries and Adverse Effects
6 91,871 Pneumonia & Influenza (think weak immune systems and
mucus)
7 64,751 Diabetes (think milk/dairy)
7a 40,000+ Highway slaughter (men, women and children)
8 30,575 Suicide (think behavioral problems)
9 26,182 Nephritis (Bright's disease: inflammation of the
kidneys)
10 25,192 Liver Disease (think alcohol and other toxins)
(2a and 7a were added for completeness)
(note: Number 13 on the CDC list is -18,272 Homicide & Legal Intervention-. It is curious that the CDC would readily list law enforcement and homicides... and not the 250,000 deaths caused by the medical system!)
CANCER FUEL
Of those 59 hormones one is a powerful GROWTH hormone called Insulin- like Growth Factor ONE (IGF-1). By a freak of nature it is identical in cows and humans. Consider this hormone to be a "fuel cell" for any cancer... (the medical world says IGF-1 is a key factor in the rapid growth and proliferation of breast, prostate and colon cancers, and we suspect that most likely it will be found to promote ALL cancers).
IGF-1 is a normal part of ALL milk... the newborn is SUPPOSED to grow quickly! What makes the 50% of obese American consumers think they need MORE growth? Consumers don't think anything about it because they do not have a clue to the problem... nor do most of our doctors.
(See http://www.notmilk.com/igf1time.txt........ for a time line)
QUANTITY
Each bite of hard cheese has TEN TIMES whatever was in that sip of milk... because it takes ten pounds of milk to make one pound of cheese. Each bite of ice cream has 12 times ... and every swipe of butter 21 times whatever is contained in the fat molecules in a sip of milk.
MONSANTO AND rbGH (Posilac)
Monsanto Chemical Co., maker of fine poisons such as DDT, agent orange, Roundup and more... spent around half a billion dollars inventing a shot to inject into cows... to force a cow to produce MORE milk (for an already glutted taxpayer subsidized market).
Unfortunately, they created *FIVE* errors in their Frankenstein Posilac (rbGH) shot that direly affected all test animals... but that important report (Richard, Odaglia & Deslex, 1989) has been hidden from everyone under Clinton's Trade Secrets act. The Canadians read enough of this report (before it was stolen) to reject rbGH for their country.
Monsanto's Posilac creates additional IGF-1 in milk: up to 80% more.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) insists that IGF-1 is destroyed in the stomach. If that were true, the FDA has proven that breast feeding cannot work. Common sense says their "finding" is ridiculous because this growth factor DOES make the baby calf grow (rapidly, as mother natured intended). Visit the Dairy Education Board at http://www.notmilk.com/deb/100399.html..... to review a DAIRY study that confirms what the FDA has lied about this for years.
IGF-1 INCREASES
This study involved two groups. One group consuming 12 ounces of milk a day and the other consuming the USDA recommended allowance of 24 ounces (three cups). This report notes that the participants consuming 12 ounces more milk per day... HAD A 10% RISE IN IGF-1 IN THEIR BLOOD SERUM! Now, consider that PER DAY, from ALL sources, the typical milk/dairy consumer ingests approximately 39% of daily diet from dairy... and that 10% increase becomes the "tip of the iceberg". We have NO idea of the non-dairy versus full-dairy difference but considering cancer rates... it has to be significant.
FAT
Whole milk 49% of the calories are from fat.
"2%" milk 35% of the calories are from fat.
Cheddar cheese 74% of the calories are from fat.
Butter 100% of the calories are from fat.
Most folks suspect that butter is all fat. Most folks have no concept of the just how much fat is in the rest of milk and dairy. Perhaps the 54% of Americans who are obese need to comprehend that milk, ice cream, cheeses, yogurts, and all the OTHER products that use milk derivatives (casein, whey, lactose, colostrum) are most likely a significant cause for their weight and health problem.
CALCIUM
Calcium? Where do the COWS get calcium for their big bones? Yes... from plants! The calcium they consume from plants has a large amount of magnesium... necessary for the body to absorb and USE the calcium.
The calcium in cow's milk is basically useless because it has insufficient magnesium content (those nations with the highest amount of milk/dairy consumption also have the highest rates of osteoporosis. Proof? How about a controlled study of 78,000 nurses over a period of 12 years?
Read more about it at:
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/030799.html..... Article on the 78,000 nurse study
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/092098.html..... CALCIUM AND BONE DISEASE
http://www.notmilk.com/badbones.html....... WHO GETS BONE DISEASE?
http://www.notmilk.com/bonehead.txt........ CRIPPLING BONEHEADS
http://www.notmilk.com/calcium/index.htm... Consolidated info
Cows milk has three times the calcium as does human breast milk. No matter, neither are very usable because in order to be absorbed and used their MUST be an equal quantity of MAGNESIUM (as exists in the greens that cows eat to get all the calcium they need for their big bones). Milk has only enough magnesium to absorb around 11% (33mg per cup) of calcium.
Per the USDA 8 ounces (one cup) of cows milk contains:
Calcium, Ca mg 291.336
Magnesium, Mg mg 32.794
The USDA recommends 1200mg of calcium per day. The USDA recommended three cups of milk a day only have 900mg of calcium. Some argue that only 1/3 of the magnesium is necessary. Mother nature seems to suggest it should be one to one. If the ratio for proper absorption were 1/3 magnesium to one calcium then no more than 300mg of that 900mg of calcium is usable. If, in fact, it is a one to one ratio... only 98.38mg of calcium is usable.
It is not a matter of how much calcium one ingests... but how much one does not lose.
PROTEIN
Milk can be thought of as "liquid meat" because of its high protein content which, in concert with other proteins, may actually LEACH calcium from the body. Countries that consume high protein diets (meat, milk and dairy) have the highest rates of osteoporosis.
THE 'WHOLESOME' PROTEIN MYTH
87% of milk is water. That makes it VERY expensive water.
Broken down into its basic groups... WHOLE MILK is:
WATER FAT CASEIN OTHER PROTEIN
87% 3.25% 4% 1% 4.75
(note: that is 3.25% "milkfat" which includes the 87% water.)
80% of the protein in milk is casein. Casein is a powerful binder... a
polymer used to make plastics... and a glue that is better used to make
sturdy furniture or hold beer bottle labels in place. It is in
thousands of processed foods as a binder... as "something" caseinate.
Casein is a powerful allergen... a histamine that creates lots of
mucus. The only medicine in Olympic athlete Flo-Jo's body was Benedryl,
a power antihistamine she took to combat her last meal... pizza.
For the whole Flo-Jo story:
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/092198.html,....
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/111598.html..... and
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/112398.html..... for the whole story.
BACTERIA
Cow's milk is allowed to have feces in it. This is a major source for bacteria. Milk is typically pasteurized more than once before it gets to your table... each time for only 15 seconds at 162 degrees Fahrenheit.
To sanitize water one is told to boil it (212 degrees F) for several minutes. That is a tremendous disparity, isn't it!
Keep in mind that at room temperature the number of bacteria in milk DOUBLE around every 20 minutes. No wonder milk turns rotten very quickly.
PUS
ONE cubic centimeter (cc) of commercial cow's milk is allowed to have up to 750,000 somatic cells (common name is "PUS") and 20,000 live bacteria... before it is kept off the market.
That amounts to a whopping 20 million live squiggly bacteria and up to 750 MILLION pus cells per liter (bit more than a quart).
1 cup = 236.5882cc 177,441,150 pus cells ~ 4,731,600 bacteria
24 oz (3 glasses) = 532,323,450 pus cells ~ 14,220,000 bacteria
(the "recommended" daily intake)
The EU and the Canadians allow for a less "tasty" 400,000,000 pus cells per liter.
Typically these levels are lower... but they COULD reach these levels and still get to YOUR table.
CHOLESTEROL
The cholesterol content of those three glasses of milk is equal to what one would get from 53 slices of bacon. Do you know of any doctor who recommends that much bacon per day?
KOSHER
Is cow's milk and dairy "Kosher"? Consider this:
"D-3 always is derived from an animal. The sunlight reaction that converts 7-dehydrocholesterol to vitamin D-3 is a 'pure' chemical reaction that occurs in your skin in certain cells."
"The provitamin known as 7-dehydrocholesterol is extracted and isolated from the skins of mammals and purified." (Marian Herbert of the Vitamin D Workshop U of C)
Vitamin D-3 can come from four different sources:
Pig skin, sheep skin, raw fish liver, and pig brains. Most of the time, Vitamin D-3 is extracted from pig skin and sold to dairy processors.
Short answer to "is milk kosher" - probably not.
OTHER 'STUFF'
Fat and cholesterol. Lots of it. Per the dairy influenced USDA "food pyramid" all milk, dairy and meats should represent no more than 8% of the diet. Statistically, by volume of sales in a nation of 281 million Americans, it works out to almost 40% of the diet for MILK AND DAIRY.. without the meat.
The milk of each of the over 4,700 mammals on earth is formulated specifically for that species. There are special lactoferrins and immunoglobulins (cow specific immunizing stuff) that in humans serve as allergens.
LEUKEMIA
According to Hoards Dairyman (Volume 147, number 4)... 89% of America's dairy herds have the leukemia virus. (more at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/me...
DIABETES
The protein lactalbumin, has been identified as a key factor in diabetes (and a major reason for NOT giving cows milk to infants).
CROHN'S DISEASE
Mycobacterium paratuberculosis causes a bovine disease called "Johne's."
Cows diagnosed with Johne's Disease have diarrhea, and heavy fecal shedding of bacteria. This bacteria becomes cultured in milk, and is not destroyed by pasteurization. Occasionally, the milk-borne bacteria will begin to grow in the human host, and the results are irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn's Disease.
MAD COW DISEASE
There may also be prions (pronounced PREons) in the milk and meat. This is crystalline substance that acts like a virus... with an "incubation" period of from 5 to 30 years. The end result is MAD COW DISEASE!
HOMOGENIZATION
Large fat molecules cannot get through the intestinal wall into the bloodstream. The cream no longer rises... because homogenization breaks up those large molecules into small ones that DO get into the bloodstream! This becomes an expressway for any fat-borne toxins (lead, dioxin's, etc.) into your (otherwise) most protected organs.
CUMULATIVE EFFECTS
How does this impact humans who consume cow's milk and dairy? Obesity (over 50% of Americans and rising), heart disease, cancer, allergies, digestive problems, diabetes, asthma, desensitization to antibiotics, behavioral problems, and the constant ingestion of dioxin's, herbicides, pesticides (and anything else the cow eats that is not good for any critter), that winds up getting stored in HUMAN fat... is not healthy by any measure.
Those who resist believing the truth should understand that MOST of the world's population CANNOT tolerate the lactose in cow's milk. Up to 95% of the black population, around 53% of the Hispanics, etc.) So much for cow's milk being "natures perfect food" for humans! Mother nature knows better.
Common sense question: Where was this massive "milk is a must" before refrigeration, pasteurization and mass transportation? Back when cows gave only 1-4 pounds a day it was quickly made into BUTTER and cheese! Now that those same cows have been tweaked and shot-up with Posilac to produce up to 55 or more pounds of milk per day... almost all year long... it is suddenly (after many thousands of years) a daily "staple". NOT!
POLLUTION
There are around 9.2 million dairy cows in the United states. Each dairy cow ingests around 330 pounds of feed (perhaps 50 pounds) and water (around 280 pounds or 33 gallons) per day. Allowing for the best dairy production of 55 pounds of milk per day (over ten times what mother nature designed the cow to produce) that means that what remains becomes "slurry".
That means around 275 pound of urine and feces per day... per cow, for a daily total of 2.53 BILLION pounds of pollution. Per year... that amounts to around 923 billion pounds of UNTREATED pollution entering our streams, rivers, lakes... and drinking water systems.
Cows are hot-blooded mammals. Like all other mammals they pass gas. Somewhat like elephants their compartmented digestive system is rather inefficient... which leads to the creation of MORE gas. During a Discovery Channel documentary on elephants a parting quip was that the average adult elephant passes enough methane gas per day to run a car about 20 miles.
Cows are not much better. The English New Scientist (page 5 -31.8.96) mentions that cattle produce around 48 kilograms (105 pounds) of methane each per year and that more bubbles out of the animals' manure. Dairy cows eat more because they produce milk. With 9.2 million dairy cows times a minimum of 100 pounds of methane gas per year... that amounts almost a billion pounds of methane gas released into the atmosphere each year. With around 100 million beef cattle... pigs, sheep, and other "factory farmed" animals it should not be difficult to fathom the extent of this problem.
This means that "Beef is a greenhouse-intensive food" and a major cause of global warming (with dairy a significant part of the problem).
Another major point is:
"Milk is a very strong pollutant: it is about 400 times more polluting than untreated sewage. To put it another way, 1,000 gallons of milk has the same polluting potential as the untreated sewage from a town of 7,000 people." Morlais Owen. Chief Scientist for Welsh Water. North Wales Weekly News. 24.3.88.
SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Q: What is WHEY?
A: Whey results when the FAT and CASEIN are removed from milk.
In making cheese, the curds become the cheese.
Whey's main components are bovine serum albumin and lactalbumin.
There are other hormones contained in whey.
Q: What happens to the:
59 hormones, scores of allergens herbicides, pesticides, dioxins
up to 52 antibiotics
When made into cheese?
A: Everything gets concentrated.
When made into butter?
A: The allergens get lost: but the dioxin's and
pesticides and antibiotics remain in the fat.
In the digestive system?
A: Steroid hormones survive, as do dioxins and antibiotics.
In homogenized milk, protein hormones survive... depending upon the
gastric pH, some protein hormones in cheese survive, but not all...
eleven steroid hormones survive.
AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Eventually, everything is broken down, but not before the chemical messengers (hormones) "deliver their message."
Each of those hormones and proteins acts differently and has different rates of degradation. BOTTOM LINE... they all survive to a certain degree... and the effects are cumulative.
OTHER HEATH-TRASHING SUBSTANCES IN COW'S MILK
Whey: Blood proteins. Bovine serum lactalbumin has been identified as a trigger for diabetes and other autoimmune diseases.
Lactose: Two sugars. Glucose and galactose. Galactose has been indentified as a trigger for glaucoma. There are several columns that cover lactose (covering galactose and galactosemia):
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/090599.txt...... Dr. Gordon: Heart Disease
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/me... Lactose is dangerous
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/me... Ben's heart
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/me... Female Cancers
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/me... Lactose intolerance
Colostrum (cow's first milk): Loaded with hormones, particularly IGF-I, along with loads of immunizing agents for COW DISEASES.
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QUOTES
"It's not natural for humans to drink cow's milk. Humans milk is for humans. Cow's milk is for calves. You have no more need of cow's milk than you do rats milk, horses milk or elephant's milk. Cow's milk is a high fat fluid exquisitely designed to turn a 65 lb baby calf into a 400 lb cow. That's what cow's milk is for!" --Dr Michael Klaper MD
"I no longer recommend dairy products after the age of 2 years. Other calcium sources offer many advantages that dairy products do not have." --Dr. Benjamin Spock
I am sure some answers will point out that milk is for calves, not humans. But, if thats the case, what is meat for? I think commercial milk is garbage-full of antibiotics, growth hormones, steroids, synthetic vitamins, etc. When milk is pasturized, it destroys the vitamins and enzymes. The homogonizing agents are synthetic. So, you end up drinking milk that has all of the nutrition destroyed, then added back in with synthetic stuff. Vitamin D in commercial milk is a steroid! I do think that raw, unpasturized milk is an outstanding source of nutrition, and tastes far better than the grocery store stuff. Google rawmilk.com for info and resources to where you can get it, such as a local dairy or food co op. I loved it so much, I invested in my own cow!
i read that what got us to this point in evolution was our diet of root vegetables. meat probably helped, people like homer.
they also say that vegans are the healthiest so maybe we could probably live without milk.
if we really needed it then we'd still be sucking ... ok, i'm going to stop there.
but i'm just putting in my two cents, i'm still drinking milk... though should probably make an effort to stop...
cow's milk is very nutitious
LOL!
I'm a dairy farmers wife & I hope I can put a few things straight about milk. :-)
Caesario. If you like milk, then drink it! :-)
... but everything in moderation please!
Milk out of the cow is just over 4% fat. That's not much is it?
Full fat milk is about 3.9%
Semi-skimmed is 1.7%
Skimmed has none.
In the UK we're not allowed - & don't want to, use growth hormones or steroids in milk.
The milk from a cow that has had to be treated with antibiotics because it is ill, is not allowed to be used for human consumption.
We don't use lots of antbiotics - for one, it's too expensive, but also, the same as with human antibiotics, over use would make them less effective at treating the animal.
Pasteurisation just kills the bugs in the milk so that it has a longer shelf-life.
We drink our own milk unpasteurised - but it doesn't make us ill, for sure, because we make sure it is all produced hygienically.
We get penalised if the milk is not clean enough - it's not worth producing milk that isn't fit to drink.
Homogenising is a process where the fat glodules in the milk are broken so that they don't rise to the top to form a layer of cream. it's only done so that you, the customer can have a 'uniform' product!
I would hate not being able to have cream on my breakfast cereal!
Milk in the shops is still full of it's nutrients & perfectly safe to drink.
Just remember to keep it in the fridge when you are not using it.
:-)
See www.milk.co.uk for more information.
Go to milksucks.com. There's the answer to all of your questions.