Dangers Of Milk And

Dairy Products - The Facts

By Dave Rietz
Webmaster www.notmilk.com
7-6-2

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/leadcaus.html (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.html 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/message/835)

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/message/629 Lactose is dangerous
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/453 Ben's heart
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/396 Female Cancers
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/378 Lactose intolerance

Colostrum (cow's first milk): Loaded with hormones, particularly IGF-I, along
with loads of immunizing agents for COW DISEASES.

Answers courtesy of the NOTMILKMAN. (notmilkman@notmilk.com)

MILK...What a surprise!

Read what a NOTMILK guest book respondent said:

http://www.notmilk.com/gbooktalk.txt

For more of the WHOLE truth... visit:

For all past newsletters visit with a wealth of information:

http://www.notmilk.com/deb/column.html

and for the Daily Squirts of NOTMILK wisdom...

http://www.notmilk.com/deb/squirts.html

Diabetics please read http://www.notmilk.com/deb/011099.html

Read up on "mad cow disease"? Visit

http://www.milkgate.com for what may well be mankind's NEXT plague.
http://www.notmilk.com/milkinfo.txt my 2400 word overview (this file)
http://www.notmilk.com/wholemilk.txt USDA facts, and what they omitted
http://www.notmilk.com/52reasons.txt A reason for every week of the year

Perhaps the BEST single reference:

http://www.notmilk.com/a-z.txt
Extensive reasons by ailment/topic

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

OTHER BAD NEWS SUBSTANCES

http://www.dorway.com aspartame (Equal/Nutrasweet) This fake sweetener is

not an effective diet aid and it was NEVER proven to be safe. Think 92 FDA
complied symptoms (including death see
http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html).

http://www.truthinlabeling.org MSG this flavor enhancer kissing-cousin mind-

blower to aspartame has 30 different names. Aspartame was used in the testing
placebos BEFORE it was legal (see http://www.dorway.com/msg.txt).

Dave Rietz
dorietz@awod.com
July 2002

http://www.notmilk.com/milkinfo.txt

Say 'No Way' To

 Milk Whey Protein
From Robert Cohen
notmilk@earthlink.net
9-8-2

After fat and casein are removed from milk, dairy processors are left with whey
protein. Whey is composed of bovine blood proteins. Serum albumen.
Lactalbumen. Dead white blood cells. Hormonal residues including estrogen
and progesterone.

The body's reaction to a foreign protein is to destroy that antigen-like invader

with an antibody. For those individuals unfortunate enough to possess a genetic
pre-disposition to such an event, the antibody then turns upon one's own cells.
That is what is known as an auto-immune response.

In the case of diabetes and Multiple Sclerosis (MS), the body's response to
whey proteins is to attack the outer membrane protecting nerve cells, or the
myelin sheath.

It has long been established that early exposure to bovine proteins is a trigger
for insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Researchers have made that same milk
consumption connection to MS. The July 30, 1992 issue of the New England
Journal of Medicine first reported the diabetes autoimmune response milk
connection:

"Patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus produce antibodies to cow

milk proteins that participate in the development of islet dysfunction... Taken as
a whole, our findings suggest that an active response in patients with IDDM (to
the bovine protein) is a feature of the auto-immune response."

On December 14, 1996, The Lancet revealed:

"Cow's milk proteins are unique in one respect: in industrialized countries they
are the first foreign proteins entering the infant gut, since most formulations for
babies are cow milk-based. The first pilot stage of our IDD prevention study
found that oral exposure to dairy milk proteins in infancy resulted in both
cellular and immune response...this suggests the possible importance of the gut
immune system to the pathogenesis of IDD."

THE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS/MILK CONNECTION

The April 1, 2001 issue of the Journal of Immunology contained a study
linking MS to milk consumption.

Michael Dosch, M.D., and his team of researchers determined that multiple
sclerosis and type I (juvenile) diabetes mellitus are far more closely linked than
previously thought. Dosch attributes exposure to cow milk protein as a risk
factor in the development of both diseases for people who are genetically
susceptible. According to Dosch:

"We found that immunologically, type I diabetes and multiple sclerosis are
almost the same - in a test tube you can barely tell the two diseases apart. We
found that the autoimmunity was not specific to the organ system affected by
the disease. Previously it was thought that in MS autoimmunity would develop
in the central nervous system, and in diabetes it would only be found in the
pancreas. We found that both tissues are targeted in each disease."

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Multiple sclerosis affects approximately 300,000 Americans. Two-thirds of

those diagnosed with MS are women. Most researchers believe that MS is an
autoimmune disease. Auto means "self."

WHO DOES NOT GET MS?

It is interesting to note that Eskimos and Bantus (50 million individuals living
in East Africa) rarely get MS. Neither do those native North and South
American Indian or Asian populations who consume no cow's milk or dairy
products.

WHO GETS MS?

The British medical journal Lancet reported that dairy-rich diets filled have
been closely linked to the development of MS. (The Lancet 1974;2:1061)

A study published in the journal Neuroepidemiology revealed an association

between eating dairy foods and an increased prevalence of MS.
(Neuroepidemiology 1992;11:304Â-12.)

MS researcher, Luther Lindner, M.D., a pathologist at Texas A & M University

College of Medicine, wrote:

"It might be prudent to limit the intake of milk and milk products."
Women are targeted by dairy industry scare tactics that offer misinformation
regarding osteoporosis. Two-thirds of MS victims are women. As milk and
cheese consumption increase along population lines, so too does an epidemic
number of MS cases. The numbers add up. The clues add up. The science
supports epidemiological studies. Got diabetes? Got MS? The milk connection
has been established.

Whey protein? Say no way!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

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The Pus-Bacteria Moustache

Marketing Milk & Disease
By John McDougall, MD
(65 references)
6-11-3

The Dairy Industry is really big business, with sales of over $11 billion for
milk and $16 billion for cheese annually in the USA alone, so you might expect
hard line marketing from them, but would you expect them to aggressively sell
their products if they were known to be harmful to people, especially to women
and children?
The Dairy Management Inc., whose purpose is to build demand for dairy
products on behalf of America's 80,000-plus dairy producers, has just released
the Dairy Checkoff 2003 Unified Marketing Plan (UMP) with a budget of
$165.7 million. (1)

The United Marketing Plan explains, "This ongoing program area (referring to
the section Dairy Image/Confidence) aims to protect and enhance consumer
confidence in dairy products and the dairy industry. A major component
involves conducting and communicating the results of dairy nutrition research
showing the healthfulness of dairy products, as well as issues and crisis
management." (1)(Most likely, I fall under the heading of "issues and crisis
management.")

A significant portion of the money from the 2003 Unified Marketing Plan is
specifically targeted to children ages 6 to 12 and their mothers. The goal is "to
guide school-age children to become life-long consumers of dairy products,
2003 activities will target students, parents, educators and school foodservice
professionals." (1) (Similar words and intentions have been attributed to the
tobacco industry.) All this marketing is working, too: annual fluid milk
consumption among kids 6 to 12 increased to 28 gallons per capita, the highest
level in 10 years. Children under 18 drink 46% of the milk consumed in the
USA.

Realize that when I say milk in this article, I'm also implicating all dairy
products that are made from milk: non-fat milk, low-fat milk, buttermilk,
cheeses, cottage cheese, yogurt, ice cream, whey, kefir, and butter. All of them
share a similar nutritional profile (plus or minus the fat, protein, and sugar),
and as a result, all of them contribute to a wide range of health problems.

Will the UMP Inform You of the Contamination? E. Coli, AIDS and Leukemia
Viruses?

Last month I left you with some very disturbing facts about the contamination
of milk with loads of bacteria and millions of white blood cells (pus cells)
which are there to help fight off the infections found in cows and milk (see the
April 2003 Newsletter found at http://www.drmcdougall.com ).

Will the 2003 Unified Marketing Plan specify money to inform you of this
upsetting information? You will never see an advertisement with a famous
movie star proudly wearing a white mustache, properly labeled as containing
300,000 white blood cells and 25,000 bacteria.

Dairy products were the foods most often recalled by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) from the period October 1, 1993 through September 30,
1998 because of contamination with infectious agents, mostly bacteria. (2)

They are commonly tainted with disease-causing bacteria, such as salmonella,

staphylococci, listeria, deadly E. coli O1573 and Mycobacterium
paratuberculosis (4) (possibly one of the agents causing Crohn's disease; a form
of life-threatening chronic colitis), as well as viruses known to cause
lymphoma and leukemia-like diseases, and immune deficiency in cattle.

AIDS and Leukemia Viruses Dairy cattle are infected with bovine
immunodeficiency viruses (BIV) and bovine leukemia viruses (BLV),
worldwide. (Bovine immunodeficiency viruses can also be properly referred to
as bovine AIDS viruses.)

In the United States, results show an average 40% of beef herds and 64% of
dairy herds are infected with BIV. (5)

In Canada (6-7), the infection rate is 70% and in Argentina (8) the rate is 84%
for BLV.

Herds infected with the BIV are usually infected with the leukemia virus (BLV)
also. (5)

Both viruses can cross species lines thus infecting other animals, like sheep,
goats, and chimpanzees â*" and they develop disease. (5)

Nationwide and worldwide, leukemia is more common in the higher dairy

consuming populations. (9,10)

An increased incidence of leukemia has been found among dairy farmers in

multiple studies. (11-14)

BIV infection has been reported in a person. (15)

The bovine leukemia virus has been classified in the same group as the Human
T-cell Leukemia/Lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1), which is known to
cause leukemia and lymphomas in humans (Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma).
(16)

BIV is structurally and genetically closely related to human immunodeficiency

virus (HIV) type-1 (the virus causing human AIDS). (17)

Pasteurization kills many types of microorganisms, but it is not foolproof.

There is also concern that pasteurization may break the viruses into fragments
that may become even more dangerous. (18)

Has it been shown that the bovine AIDS and/or leukemia viruses will infect
you and cause disease? No. Nor has it been proved that they will not.
Compared to the efforts to try to convince you of the bone-building benefits of
milk, almost nothing has been spent to establish whether or not it is safe to feed
your family dairy products teeming with bovine immunodeficiency and bovine
leukemia viruses (and/or viral fragments). Some countries take this matter very
seriously. For example, in many European countries, health officials have
conducted programs to eradicate infected herds; Finland' program has
successfully eradicated BLV from its cattle. (19)

If you live in a region with a high incidence of herd infection with these viruses
you can be pretty sure you will be consuming dairy products containing whole
viruses or fragments of these viruses, since the milk from many dairy farms is
mixed in large vats at the dairy factory before processing and packaging. Since
the industry will not act responsibly in many countries, consumers are left with
one choice: eliminate all dairy products from their diet. If eliminating dairy
products would prevent even a small risk of human disease, it would be well
worthwhile, especially since, as you learned in the April 2003 McDougall
Newsletter, they are completely unnecessary for excellent health.

Will the UMP Market the Pain and Suffering Caused Children?

The Dairy Management Inc. has specifically targeted children in their

campaign. (1) This will raise no public concern, because most people consider
cow's milk the healthiest of all food choices, especially when it comes to
children. Over 25% of children are overweight in Western countries and cow's
milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream, butter, and sour cream, with all their fat and
calories, contribute greatly to this deadly epidemic. Many of these overweight
children are now developing type-2 diabetes. However, the most common
variety of diabetes found in children is still type-1 or insulin dependent
diabetes (IDDM).

Type-1 Diabetes The evidence incriminating cow's milk consumption in the

cause of type-1 diabetes is sufficient to cause the American Academy of
Pediatrics to issue these warnings, "Early exposure of infants to cow's milk
protein may be an important factor in the initiation of the beta cell (insulin-
producing cells of the pancreas) destructive process in some individuals." (20)
"The avoidance of cow's milk protein for the first several months of life may
reduce the later development of IDDM or delay its onset in susceptible
people." (20)

Exposure to cow's milk protein early in life, when the intestinal tract is
immature, sometimes results in the milk protein entering the blood stream
where antibodies to this foreign substance, cow's milk, are made by the
immune system. Unfortunately, these same antibodies also attack the insulin-
producing cells of the pancreas. By glassful of milk after spoonful of ice cream,
over a period of about 5 to 7 years, the child destroys his or her own pancreas
â*" and is left with a lifelong, life-threatening, handicap: diabetes. The
pancreas is forever destroyed and the child will have to take insulin shots daily.
Complications, such as blindness, kidney failure, and heart disease will be a
real threat during his or her shortened lifespan.(See my July 2002 McDougall
Newsletter for a discussion of type-1 diabetes).

Constipation Not as life-threatening as diabetes, but for some as mentally and

physically distressing, is chronic constipation. As a doctor who has cared for
hundreds of children, I can tell you they suffer with pain, bleeding,
hemorrhoids, and embarrassment. The causal effects of cowâ*s milk were
clearly demonstrated in a study of 65 severely constipated children published in
the New England Journal of Medicine. (21)

These boys and girls complained of only one bowel movement every 3 to 15
days and many didn't even respond to strong laxatives (lactulose and mineral
oil). Forty-four of the 65 (68%) found relief of their constipation when taken
off the cow's milk. Evidence of inflammation of the bowel was found on
biopsy, and anal fissures and pain were commonly associated with the
constipation "elimination of the cow's milk solved these problems."

When cow's milk was reintroduced into their diet 8 to 12 months later, all of
the children developed constipation within 5 to 10 days. For constipation alone,
cow's milk should be banned from the School Milk Programs, worldwide.

Rhinitis and Otitis Media The multitude of snotty-nosed kids frequently

visiting the pediatrician's office for ear infections is much more obvious than
the constipated crowd, and these problems less devastating than type-1
diabetes, but these complaints also can be due to consuming the foreign
proteins intended for calves. (22-25) In addition, these same children are likely
to suffer from gastroesophageal reflux, asthma and/or eczema from their
unnatural habit of drinking cow's milk.

Diseases of Foreign Protein Many conditions can be traced back to reactions to

cow's milk. Milk contains more than 25 different proteins that can induce
adverse reactions in humans. (26) Our immune system perceives these foreign
proteins as alien invaders, like a virus or bacteria, and launches an attack in
response, as in the case of type-1 diabetes discussed above and many other
allergic and autoimmune diseases.

DISEASES CAUSED BY, OR LINKED TO, DAIRY PROTEINS General:

Loss of appetite, growth retardation. Upper Gastrointestinal: Canker sores
(aphthous stomatitis), irritation of tongue, lips and mouth, tonsil enlargement,
vomiting, gastroesophageal reflux (GERD), Sandifer's syndrome, peptic ulcer
disease, colic, stomach cramps, abdominal distention, intestinal obstruction,
type-1 diabetes. Lower Gastrointestinal: Bloody stools, colitis, malabsorption,
diarrhea, painful defecation, fecal soiling, infantile colic, chronic constipation,
infantile food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES), Crohn's disease,
ulcerative colitis. Respiratory: Nasal stuffiness, runny nose, otitis media (inner
ear trouble), sinusitis, wheezing, asthma, and pulmonary infiltrates. Bone and
joint: Rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Beheta's
disease, (possibly psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis). Skin: Rashes,
atopic dermatitis, eczema, seborrhea, hives (urticaria) Nervous System
(Behavioral): Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, autism, schizophrenia,
irritability, restlessness, hyperactivity, headache, lethargy, fatigue, "allergic-
tension fatigue syndrome," muscle pain, mental depression, enuresis (bed-
wetting). Blood: Abnormal blood clotting, iron deficiency anemia, low serum
proteins, thrombocytopenia, and eosinophilia. Other: Nephrotic syndrome,
glomerulonephritis, anaphylactic shock and death, sudden infant death
syndrome (SIDS or crib or cot death), injury to the arteries causing arteritis,
and eventually, atherosclerosis. References are available through the National
Library of Medicine, http://www.nlm.nih.gov - Search cow's milk and any of
the diseases listed above.

All dairy products contain milk proteins, including skim milk, yogurt, cheese,
and butter, and many butter substitutes. Milk proteins are listed in packaged
food products with a variety of names, such as milk solids, skim milk powder,
casein, caseinates, whey, and albumin. Milk is also often put into packaged
foods and not declared on the label - this is illegal and punishable by FDA
action.

Even with all of this disease in children the American School Food Service
Association and the dairy industry have developed a School Milk Pilot Test to
demonstrate that kids will drink more milk in school if certain product
enhancements are made. (27)

The result was milk sales increased by an average of 18 percent and

consumption increased by 35 percent when schools provided flavored milks
and other package enhancements. (28)

The UMP Will Try to Deceive You about the Fattening Nature of Dairy Foods.

"Independent research confirming dairy's role in weight reduction is

mounting," said Dr. Greg Miller, senior vice president of nutrition and
scientific affairs for the Dairy Checkoff. (29) "This helps to position dairy
foods as part of the solution to America's growing obesity epidemic." And
Miller added, "Informing the public about dairy's role in the fight against
obesity will help increase consumption of milk, cheese and yogurt, among
other dairy products."

Shouldn't the idea of milk acting as an "antiobesity" food strike you as

fundamentally contradictory? After all, the biologic purpose of cow's milk is to
provide large amounts of energy and nutrients to grow the young animal from
60 to 600 pounds. So how does milk become a weight loss product in the 21st
century? This idea began with the observation that underprivileged people, who
have poor diets in general, are often obese, and also consume few dairy
products. (30) Some experiments that followed showed people and animals on
calorie- restricted diets lost a small amount of extra weight when calcium or
dairy foods were part of their diet.

The "antiobesity" effects of dairy are difficult to explain, but may be due to
calcium binding fat in the intestine, preventing its absorption. (30)

A thorough search of the literature for properly designed studies shows only
one of 17 randomized studies found weight loss in people taking calcium pills,
and of the nine randomized studies where fluid milk was added, two showed
significant weight gain, and none showed significant loss. (31)

In one study funded by a grant from the International Dairy Foods Association,
204 healthy men and women were asked to increase their intake of skim or 1%
milk by three cups a day for 12 weeks; those consuming the extra milk gained
an average of 1.32 pounds (0.6 Kg). (32) Can you imagine what their weight
gain would have been if they had been asked to add whole milk, cheese, butter,
and ice cream to their diet, instead of skim and low-fat 1% milk?

The result of all this research was well summed up by one of the dairy
industry's frequent spokespersons at the Dairy Management Inc. sponsored
Symposium: Dairy Product Components and Weight Regulation, held April 21,
2002 in New Orleans, with this statement, "In conclusion, the data available
from randomized trials of dairy product or calcium supplementation provide
little support for an effect in reducing body weight or fat mass." (31)
Yet the consumer will hear from Dr. Miller and the rest of the industry, eat
more dairy products and you will lose weight.

Dairy products are loaded with fats that are easily stored under your skin as
"body fat." The fats in the cold glass of milk, the little bite of cheese, and that
small bowl of ice cream will move from your lips to your hips effortlessly. In
fact, it moves with so little effort that the chemical structure of the fat isn't even
changed. Cow's milk contains a unique kind of fat with double bonds located at
the C-15 and C-17 position on the fat's carbon chain. Examination of a person's
fatty (adipose) tissues following a biopsy will show the amount of this kind of
fat present, which will be in direct proportion to the amount of dairy products
the person consumes. (33)

All that fat the dairy industry asks us to eat is associated with higher risks of
heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and breast, prostate, uterine and colon
cancer. Yet, as a marketing scheme, the dairy industry has teamed up with the
National Medical Association to write articles about "the role of dairy in
helping reduce the risk of heart disease, hypertension, and other serious health
issues." (34)

The National Medical Association promotes the collective interests of

physicians and patients of African descent. Please explain to me how this
association came about when the vast majority of people of African descent
(80% to 90%) cannot drink milk because of lactose intolerance; causing them
diarrhea, stomach cramps and gas. (35)

Not only is this dairy fat unattractively worn and a health hazard, but it is also a
source of large quantities of environmental chemicals, like dioxins and DDT,
that affect your health and the health of a mother's offspring during pregnancy
and nursing. (36) One reason a young girl needs to start thinking about a
healthier diet early is because the accumulation of these chemicals in her own
body fat occurs over her entire lifetime.

The UMP Will Try to Confuse You about Bone Health and Animal Protein

Osteoporosis is caused by several factors; however, the most important one is

diet; especially the amount of animal protein and acid in the foods we eat. (37-
39 0 The high acid foods are meat, poultry, fish, seafood, and hard cheeses,
parmesan cheese is the most acidic of all foods commonly consumed." (40)

Once consumed, this food-derived acid must be neutralized in the body. Fruits
and vegetables can do this neutralizing (these foods are alkaline in nature).
However, because the diet of the average Westerner is so deficient in fruits and
vegetables and so high in acid foods, the primary neutralizer of dietary acid
becomes their bones. The bones dissolve to release alkaline materials.

Worldwide, the highest rates of hip fractures are among populations that
consume the most animal food (including dairy products) like people from the
USA, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, etc. (41,42) The
lowest rates are among people who eat little or no dairy foods (these people are
on lower calcium diets) like people from rural Asia and rural Africa. (41,42)

The basic experiments published in the 1980s clearly show protein causes bone
loss, and calcium offers little or no protection. (43) Even the foremost scientists
hired by the dairy industry know protein is harmful to the bones. (44) In my
April 2003 Newsletter I explained there was only one properly designed study
testing the effects of fluid milk on the bone health of postmenopausal women,
and the results were: those who received the extra milk for a year lost more
bone than those who didn't drink the milk. (44) The authors, funded by the
National Dairy Council, explained in their paper, "The protein content of the
milk supplement may have a negative effect on calcium balance, possibly
through an increase in kidney losses of calcium or through a direct effect on
bone resorption." Trying to explain why those receiving the milk were in worse
calcium balance, they said, "this may have been due to the average 30 percent
increase in protein intake during milk supplementation."

Unfortunately, all this damning information does not sit well with the powerful
dairy industry, so they have started the "3-A-Day of Dairy" program to battle
the calcium crisis in America by promoting milk, cheese and yogurt for
"stronger bones" and they have been busy doing their own research to prove
protein is good for the bones. (45-48)

Regrettably for them, their designing means were just revealed in the May
2003 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. (49) The article in
this journal exposed the way they made the results show protein is good for the
bones. To devise research that appears to contradict hundreds of articles
published over the past 35 years, you only have to provide sufficient alkaline
material in the diet of the people being studied to neutralize the acid from the
animal foods. This was accomplished by studying populations that have diets
high in neutralizing fruits and vegetables; the other approach employed was to
add a strong alkali source to the experiment, such as an antacid pill (wafer),
calcium citrate (like Citracal).

Once the acid from the food is neutralized, then any bone building factors that
might be present in meat and dairy can exert their effects. High protein foods,
and especially dairy foods, raise the levels of a powerful growth-stimulating
hormone in the body, called insulin-like growth factor-1 or IGF-1. Stimulation
of bone growth by this hormone is now being offered as the reason dairy
products build strong bones. It has long been necessary for them to find a more
scientifically supportable explanation, because the bulk of the research shows
the calcium in dairy foods has little or no benefit for bone health. (50-52)

The UMP Will Not Promote the Fact that IGF-1 is a Powerful Cancer Promoter

Consumption of animal products increases the levels of insulin-like growth

factor-1 in your body. However, modern dairy technology has made dairy
products an even more potent source of this growth stimulant. Since 1985, U.S.
dairy farmers have been allowed to inject cows with recombinant bovine
growth hormone (rbGH), a genetically engineered bovine growth hormone that
increases milk production. RbGH treatment produces an increase in IGF-1 in
cow's milk, by as much as 10-fold. (53,54) IGF-1 is not destroyed by
pasteurization. (53) The overall effect is that milk seems to raise IGF-1 levels
in people more than any other component of our diet. (55)

The direct evidence of the effects of cow's milk on IGF-1 levels in people has
been provided by the dairy industry's own efforts. Two recent studies, one on
adolescent girls and the other on post-menopausal women, showed increasing
milk consumption actually raises plasma levels of IGF-1 in the person's body
by an average of 10%. (56,57)

Their take on this is, "this is a beneficial effecT" because IGF-1 stimulates
bone growth. But, the actual lasting consequences should deliver the final
deathblow to dairy products: IGF-1 promotes the growth of cancer. This growth
promoter has been strongly linked to the development of cancer of the breast,
prostate, lung, and colon. (58) Excess IGF-1 stimulates cell proliferation and
inhibits cell death - two activities you definitely don't want when cancer cells
are involved. (58)

There is more to cancer promotion by dairy foods than IGF-1. Most dairy
products are high in saturated fat - and fat is the number one suspect when it
comes to the cause of most common cancers in Western societies (for example,
breast, prostate, colon, kidney, pancreas). Recent studies have linked the sugar
(lactose) and fat in milk with ovarian cancer, (59,60) and the calcium in milk
lowers concentrations of a specific form of vitamin D that protects against
prostate cancer, raising men's overall risk. (61,62) (See my February 2003
Newsletter for more information on diet and prostate cancer.) Hormones
(estrogens) are also involved in cancers of reproductive organs, like breast and
uterine cancer. There are several reasons dairy products raise a woman's
hormone levels causing a variety of hormone-dependent problems from early
onset of menstruation (menarche) to PMS and uterine fibroids - but one is
unique to cow's milk. Cows are milked even while they are pregnant. As a
result of the pregnancy, cows secrete high levels of estrogen into their milk.
(63)

Will the UMP Advertise that Dairy Is Simply Liquid Meat?

Red meat has become a "dirty word" when it comes to health. At the opposite
end of the spectrum of opinions on food is cow's milk - one of the world'S most
trusted foods. Do you remember the "Basic Four Food Groups?" Dairy was
usually placed first in this chart which was hung in every schoolroom (and by
no coincidence the dairy industry also provided the chart).

Dairy products are deficient in iron and beef is deficient in calcium; both
contain too little dietary fiber, essential fat (linoleic acid), and vitamin C and
B3 (niacin) to meet human nutritional requirements. (64) Heavy consumption
of either of these food groups - loaded with fat and cholesterol - will result in
the diseases common to affluent societies, such as obesity, heart disease,
strokes, type-2 diabetes and cancer, to name just a few serious problems. (65)

If a patient bargained with me, "I'll give up only one of the first two food
groups "meat or milk" - hopes of getting well," my recommendation for almost
all common health problems in Western society would be, "You're likely to get
the most benefits if you give up the dairy products."