!: Dairy Products - The Painful Truth They Don't Want You to Know

One of the first things you learn in the Hippocrates health lifestyle is that dairy products are not designed for the human body. Think about it for a moment: the milk of the dairy cow is for a calf to grow into a one thousand + pound creature.

Imagine walking up to a cow in an old barn, kneeling and drinking directly from the teat. The only reason billions of people do it is because they have been brainwashed by traditional beliefs that today are reinforced by the media and marketing special interest groups.

"Got milk?" We see it all the time, on T-shirts, television commercials and advertisements. "Milk...it does a body good," we are told by the media and the dairy industry. If you don't drink milk, where are you going to get your calcium? Will you end up with osteoporosis? What about vitamin D? These are the kinds of questions that immediately pop into most people's minds when it is suggested that they or somebody else stop consuming milk.

You many even feel angry to hear that milk is not the great health food you believe it is. Consider SOME facts: All cow's milk, including "organic" milk, contains more than 50 active hormones, scores of allergens, and loads of fat and cholesterol. The recommended three glasses of milk per day contains the same amount of cholesterol found in 53 slices of bacon!

Another noteworthy constituent of cow's milk is a growth hormone called Insulin-like Growth Factor One (IGF-1). IGF-1 is the hormone responsible for causing a 60-pound calf to rapidly grow into a 600-pound cow. No wonder that 50 percent of Americans are obese! Contrary to what the dairy industry tells us, milk does not promote weight loss; instead, it promotes weight gain.

Not only does IGF-1 cause our waistlines to grow by inches, it also causes the rapid growth and proliferation of breast, prostate, and colon cancers. Data from Dr. T. Colin Campbell's landmark scientific study, the China-Oxford-Cornell Study, indicates that women, who derive their protein from animal products, including milk, are five times more likely to die of breast cancer than women who follow a plant-based diet.

Along with IGF-1, another cancer-causing substance in milk is a protein called casein. Casein represents 80 percent of the protein in milk. This protein is a powerful binder and is used as a glue to make sturdy furniture and to hold beer-bottle labels in place. Casein is also a polymer used to make plastics. In his book The China Study, Dr. Campbell tells about one of his studies, funded by a research grant from the National Institutes of Health. In the study, he administered aflatoxin, a known carcinogen, to rats. One group he fed with a diet of 20 percent casein and the other group he fed with a diet of 5 percent casein. After 100 weeks, all of the animals fed 20 percent casein were dead or near death from liver tumors. The group that was fed 5 percent casein was alive, active and healthy. The same results were found when mice were dosed with HBV, another known carcinogen. These implications in rodents apply to humans because of the almost identical protein requirements in rats and humans and because protein operates in humans almost the same way it does in rats.

Another protein present in milk is whey protein. Whey is made up of bovine blood protein. The body's reaction to this foreign protein often causes an auto-immune response, as the antibody used to destroy the invader turns against the body's own cells. The New England Journal of Medicine reported in 1992 that insulin-dependent Type 1 diabetes is linked to the body's production of antibodies to cow's milk. And diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases among children.

This is one of the few areas that are painful to see how our children are misled by the special interest groups and lobbies that influence public policy.

If you don't yet realize the dangers of consuming milk and milk by-products keep researching all the information available. You and your children deserve to know the truth. Follow the Hippocrates Health Lifestyle and you will steer clear of the dangers of milk.