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 The information you've read here is just a taste of the ugly truth behind the dairy industry. Keep in mind that it may take you some time to "clean up" your system after ditching milk, too:
According to our observations, dairy products prevent the cleansing of residues of meat consumption from earlier in one's life. In order to discharge these residues, one must stay completely free of dairy for a minimum of six months — some health practitioners estimate several times this long. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Because that's the message that the dairy industry has spent hundreds of millions of dollars over many, many years to inject into peoples' minds. The public relations efforts and the advertising has paid off, people now mistakenly believe that cows' milk is a great source of calcium.
Well, it simply isn't a great source of calcium. In fact, it's not even what I would consider a mediocre source of calcium. Why is that? First off, note that spirulina has far more calcium than milk on an ounce per ounce basis. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 According to the dairy industry, the amount of salt in butter is about 2 percent. Occasionally annatto (a natural coloring extracted from a tree) is used. The body is capable of handling this fat quite comfortably. Whereas the same cannot be said for margarine, which is heated several times before it eventually reaches our tables.
Here is a brief summary of how oils and margarines are manufactured. This method is approved internationally, according to the oil companies. However, they neglect to mention that this approval does not necessarily mean that these products are good for you! |
| There is now so much research indicating just how harmful cow's milk is that I believe in years to come the dairy industry will be sued for promoting a product as essential when in fact it causes untold misery and ill health! To quote from Dr. Colin Campbell in his book The China Study, "Cow's milk may cause one of the most devastating diseases that can befall a child" (The China Study 187). There is also research indicating that cow's milk is a major factor in autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis. |
| Well, it made economic sense for the dairy industry to wax lyrical about the tremendous health benefits of consuming their products. And then there
65 were certain members of the medical profession who got quite worked up about the need for dairy products in the diet. Perhaps they were just misguided, or perhaps they saw themselves losing a lot of revenue from those poor people suffering from ear infections, tonsillitis, asthma, and sinusitis.
Then I looked at those suggesting that I eliminate dairy products from my diet. What did they have to gain? Nothing! |
| Within a few years the dairy industry became more powerful and wanted their own food group and a few years later so did the fat industry. Did our health improve? Absolutely not. In fact, since WWII heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, autoimmune diseases, and digestive diseases increased.
As research started to show how our health had deteriorated and that we needed to be eating simpler with less protein and less processed fats, the food industry attempted to change things by introducing the food pyramid. |
| For years, the dairy industry has been telling us that milk, milk products, yogurt, and cheese will prevent osteoporosis (brittle bone disease), yet the countries that consume the most milk and milk products have the most osteoporosis cases and the countries that consume the least dairy have the least brittle bone disease.
One of the most powerful things about the Internet is that it makes it so easy to check out research. Genuine research will indicate who funded it and usually you have to pay to download the research in full. |
| TARTRAZINE (E 102)
ANNATO (E 160 [B])
This is a natural yellow coloring extracted from the Annato tree and used to color cheese and butter. The dairy industry may claim that it is harmless, but there is evidence that it can provoke symptoms of intolerance in people who are susceptible to urticaria (hives) or angioneurotic edema (a severe condition of hives or a bad skin rash).
Used as a silver colorant, aluminum is also found in Ceylon (black) and green tea (though not herbal teas). |
Mike Adams
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| Milk doesn't have much calcium in it to begin with, regardless of the hype and promotional efforts of the dairy industry (which will be discussed in greater detail later). A cup of broccoli juice, for example, has more calcium than a cup of milk. An ounce of spirulina (a micro-algae superfood) has far more calcium than milk, along with magnesium and zinc as well.
Secondly, the calcium in milk isn't well utilized by the human body unless magnesium and vitamin D are also present - and both of these are typically lacking in the American diet. |
| Carol Simontacchi, The Crazy Makers
And yet the vast majority of human adults, spurred on by advertising from the dairy industry, continue to pump their bodies full of this nutritionally-imbalanced substance (imbalanced for humans, of course, but not for cows).
I find it truly bizarre that so many people think that a grown, healthy, 180-pound adult man should be sucking baby food from the teat of a bovine animal. Seems truly strange, doesn't it? |
| Hence, they are unlikely to make public information that would earn the wrath of the dairy industry. \
When it comes to hormones, however, there is one thing you can do to protect yourself: buy organic milk made without the use of hormones. Even though you'll still be subject to the other negative health effects of drinking cows' milk, you will at least avoid the synthetic hormones.
The contamination of cows' milk with pus
Beyond the BGH in cows' milk, there's also the issue of pjjs in cows' milk. Did I say pus? Indeed, I did. From NotMilk.com by Robert Cohen:
Pus in milk? |
| Whether dairy products cause you to experience the same symptoms is something that only you can determine. The dairy industry, of course, denies that any of this occurs with anyone, but millions of people who are discovering the side effects of dairy products now know otherwise.
Stick with soy milk. It won't clog you up. And it won't turn you into a geeky nose-blowing math nerd. Nuts with no sugar, no salt, no MSG
Now we get to another of my favorite healing foods: nuts. Nuts are another staple of the healthy diet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Of course, the dairy industry doesn't want you to hear any of this. And probably, I'll get a threatening legal from them after this is published, challenging everything I've said here. But nevertheless, it's all quite true.
Wrapping this up, let me give you my experience with getting calcium into my body. What do I do for it? First of all, I do take coral calcium. I blend it in with my morning drink. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Don't worry about your food choice or diet, just be sure to drink lots of milk, because the dairy industry is tight with the feds. Don't worry about that mad cow disease from a Texas cow (that reluctantly took the USDA seven months and three rounds of testing to finally admit), because the beef industry has executives in key positions at the USDA, and they're out to protect your health, too.
Don't worry about all the children being drugged up with antidepressant drugs -- the very same drugs that have been banned from use in children in the U.K. The kids need those drugs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It was heavily influenced by the dairy industry. Look at how much milk it says we should drink now. Apparently, all humans are supposed to eat from cows utters, which is rather interesting, given that there is no nutritional requirement for any human being to eat from any cow.
The everyday shoppers who buy all of this garbage that's been advertised are chronically diseased. You can see it at a remarkably young age. Even when they're teenagers, you can see the disease starting to progress. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The USDA, one of the great misguided agencies of modern government, has given us the Food Guide Pyramid that offers us nutritionally worthless advice, heavily influenced by private industry, especially the dairy industry, and now the agency claims to be protecting us from mad cow disease (but really is just protecting the cattle industry).
No surprise there -- a lot of people in high-level positions at the USDA are from the cattle industry. It's similar to the FDA, where top officials are ex-drug company executives. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You'll also see some rather shocking images in this documentary of some of the effects of corporations getting out of control -- environmental effects and cruelty to animals in the dairy industry, for example. You will see how they treat pigs, and you'll see how they treat other human beings in developing nations or underdeveloped nations. You will see how these corporations treat their customers and how they treat the planet. Some of these images are quite shocking and disturbing. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 PR/marketing group to help design this new food guide pyramid, and that group is best know for doing work for the dairy industry. By some amazing coincidence, taxpayer dollars have gone to create a guide that basically says everybody should drink a lot more milk. It's all about milk. In fact, historically, the food guide pyramids that the USDA has created have always been about eating more food, drinking more milk and basically consuming larger and larger quantities of everything that the American food industry has produced. |
| It's the marketing arm of the farmers of America, the cattle ranchers and the dairy industry. In fact, this isn't even debatable. It is part of the mission statement of the USDA to promote the interests of agriculture and these various industries in the Untied States. That's in its charter, so we shouldn't be surprised when this group -- this government group -- tells us that we should eat more of all these foods and ingredients. |
David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.
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 The ups and downs of the dairy industry are a good example. At one time the government provided subsidies, which have since expired, to the dairy industry to encourage milk production. At the time they were introduced, there was a great push to communicate the health benefits of milk, particularly with regards to its central role in providing calcium for healthy bones. The government aided the dairy industry in these promotions, advising Americans to eat dairy products for the calcium they contain. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| There are all kinds of problems with this type of fat, and yet the dairy industry has managed to convince people that it's healthy.
Ben: Is it the same story with skim milk? Are the benefits of something like that skewed at all?
Mike: The benefits are definitely skewed, even with skim milk. Even though it doesn't have the fat in it, it comes from cows that are milked under very unscrupulous conditions. There is a level of pus in all dairy products and cow's milk sold in the United States. There's a certain amount of pus that's legally acceptable according to the government regulations. |
Mike Adams
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| Milk is sacred, it seems, and the dairy industry has effectively influenced most people into believing that milk is good for you.
Cows' milk, human milk, and cross-species consumption
Based on a rigorous nutritional analysis, it is quite evident that cows' milk and human milk demonstrate sharp differences in nutritional content. Human milk is primarily designed to feed and grow baby brains with fatty acids such as DHAand GLA. Cows' milk, on the other hand, is primarily designed to energize and fatten a baby calf so that it can walk. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 If I wanted to hurt the dairy industry and be a little wild in my interpretation of study results, I could produce another headline to say, "New birth control chemical discovered in cow's milk." Recent research, for example, showed that CLA dramatically kills chick embryos.13 Also, CLA increases the tissue level of saturated fats that could (using our dramatic method of interpretation) exacerbate heart disease risk. Of course, I have taken these two unrelated effects grossly out of context in my example. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 Cow's milk is heavily advertised by the dairy industry as a health-promoting food—one that "does a body good." However, while dairy products are a good source of protein, calcium, and some other nutrients, there are a number of important concerns about the safety of this food group. Research suggests that drinking milk may increase the risk of developing type 1 (juvenile onset) diabetes,15 although not all of the studies agree. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 The dairy industry touts its products very highly with support from nutritionists and physicians, but they never mention in their advertisements that many people are made sick by milk.
We are unique as individuals and our needs for nutrients vary, as do other biochemical and physical attributes. There will be a narrow range of variation for some nutrients and a wide range of variation for others. Each nutrient will have its own range. |
Mike Adams
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| It promotes the dairy industry, the grain farmers, meat producers and various food producers. But the number one recommendation by the USDA is of course the grains. And most people think that a slice of white bread is a healthy grain because it is recommended by the USDA.
The USDA offers deadly nutritional advice
They think pancakes count as grains. They think corn chips count as grains as well. The fact is that the USDA Food Guide Pyramid is not only heavily influenced by politics of food industries; it is also a provider of terrible nutritional advice. |
| The dairy industry would disagree, of course...)
Ban fast food restaurants at schools and hospitals
We should also ban junk foods and fast foods at schools and hospitals. I think it's crazy that some schools have fast food chains right in the cafeteria where children can buy disease-promoting foods for lunch. It is just as crazy that our hospitals, which are supposed to be institutions of health and healing, also serve the same junk foods. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 The soy milk industry puts vitamin D2 in soymilk, even though the dairy industry quietly stopped adding this form of the vitamin years ago. While any form of vitamin D helps people meet their RDAs (Recommended Daily Allowances), D2 has been linked to hyperactivity, coronary heart disease and allergic reactions.27
Low fat—or "lite" soymilks—are made with soy protein isolate (SPI), not the full-fat soybean. To improve both color and texture, manufacturers work with a whole palette of additives. Several years ago, titanium oxide, a form of white paint, was popular. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Due to the shortage of dairy products during WW II, margarine became a common food among the civilian population, and the commonly used coconut oils, flax oils and fish oils disappeared from the shelves of America's grocery stores.
The campaign by the emerging food industry against natural oils and genuinely beneficial fats such as the very popular coconut oil became fueled by a massive media disinformation that blamed saturated fats for the wave of heart attacks that suddenly started to grip a large portion of the American population. |
Mike Adams
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 Calcium, as you probably know, is also important for bone strength. The dairy industry has for many years engaged in what I consider to be a completely distorted propaganda campaign to try to convince people that milk is the best source of calcium. Personally, I think it's a very poor source of calcium for a number of reasons, such as the fact that it doesn't contain other minerals that are necessary as complementary minerals for bone density formation. That would include things like magnesium and trace minerals such as strontium. |
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