Anyway, the colossal disinformation which has been realized, particularly by mass media, about milk has created a number of myths that are more and more difficult to eradicate.

Let’s try to clarify something:

• Woman’s milk is excellent for babies… as cow’s milk is perfect for calves.

“Until two years old, babies should be fed with breast milk. After that period, forget any type of milk!” This famous sentence has been such as a bomb in the beginning of the 1990s, especially because it was pronounced by the famous doctor Benjamin Spock, father of the modern paediatrics. Cow milk huts, mostly in the growth stage, because it can provoke immune deficiencies and other disorders, including anaemia, allergies and even inadequate brain development. Across the Western world, many railed against Spock, defining him as an “old arteriosclerotic”, just because, at the age of 89, he had the intellectual courage of admitting his mistakes and declaring cow milk unadapt to human beings.

• A healthy mother’s milk is always fresh and bacteriologically pure, while all the other types of non-human milk need to pass through a “cooking” process.

The “cooking” process, which is realized by subjecting the liquid to high temperatures, is necessary to destroy pests… but at the same time, it destroys the good components too. Breast milk and dairy milk are absolutely different: they are different in the composition and in the quality of the ingredients, due to their final recipients. Only the breast milk has substances which immunize the new-born from infections, as well as the right quantity of phosphor useful to the brain development; while cow milk has too much casein, a protein which “curdles” in our stomach, making it difficult to digest.

through this chart, differences are easier to note. Cow milk contains from 3.5% to 5% of protein, while breast milk has an average content of 1.2%. When a human being drinks cow milk, he is drinking a protein overdose: when protein exceeds the normal requirements, the excess cause an overload for liver and kidneys, whose role is to eliminate the products of protein metabolism.

• Man is the only animal which continues to feed on milk, even after the weaning.

Cow milk is useful to help calf growing up like a cow (or a bull), but surely it does not help a baby human to become a man. To this aim, nature has prepared the breast milk. However, since 1950, with the economic boom, the number of women who renounced to feed their new-born increased. Reasons are different, from time to lack of knowledge about the importance of human milk in the first months of life, from aesthetic reasons to the pounding misinformation of mass media, paid by milk-producing industries (powdered or not), certainly helped by the “health priests” in white coats who have helped to create a real “myth”.

• Drugs and antibiotics.

The awful condition in which cows are held impose to farmers the massive use of antibiotics, in order to prevent the diffusion of diseases and infections. Not only the environmental situation, but even the continuous pregnancies and the continuous milk extraction, fuels the spread of infections, in particular mastitis. Obviously, all this drugs to which the cows are constantly submitted pour into their main product: milk. And of course, all the antibiotics are drunk by human beings, which, for the fact of being non-stop covered by antibiotic protection, make bacteria more and more stronger and resistant.

There are many more reasons to stop drinking milk, the first of which is surely the compassion for cows and all the animals involved in the fearful dairy industry.

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The animals infact are exploited and at the end killed because no more productive and unnecessary. Normally cows live for about 20 years in nature, whereas in the farms they are killed after about 5 years.

The cows live in the farms in small boxes, they are artificially inseminated and stimulated in order to produce milk (even 150 lt per day). In normal conditions the cow doesn’t produce so much milk and wouldn’t be pregnant so often.

The calves are taken away from the mother straight after the birth, the females will are used for milk production and the males for meat.

All this chain of production is really cruel and unhealthy for the animals.

Furthermore, many studies show that drinking milk is unnecessary and even unhealthy for the human body.

Milk is much more than just a drink; it’s a cultural phenomenon that can be traced back thousands of years. And still today, the milk myth resonates loud and clear: in 2001, the average American child consumed 104 quarts of cow’s milk.

Some reasons why you shouldn’t drink milk:

Milk depletes the calcium from your bones

Like all animal protein, milk acidifies the body pH which in turn triggers a biological correction. Calcium is an excellent acid neutralizer and the biggest storage of calcium in the body is in the bones. So the very same calcium that our bones need to stay strong is utilized to neutralize the acidifying effect of milk. Once calcium is pulled out of the bones, it leaves the body via the urine, so that the surprising net result after this is an actual calcium deficit.

Cow’s milk is custom-designed for calves

Each mammalian species has its own “designer” milk, and cow’s milk is no exception. For example, cow’s milk contains on average three times the amount of protein than human milk which creates metabolic disturbances in humans that have detrimental bone health consequences.

It’s important to bear in mind that mother’s milk is excellent nourishment for human babies, but its composition is very different from cow’s milk.

Scientific studies show that milk increases fracture risk

Many scientific studies contradict the conventional wisdom that milk and dairy consumption help reduce osteoporotic fractures. Surprisingly, studies demonstrating that milk and dairy products actually fail to protect bones from fractures outnumber studies that prove otherwise. Even drinking milk from a young age does not protect against future fracture risk but actually increases it.

Milk is an acidifying animal protein

Like any other animal derived protein-rich food, milk has a positive potential renal acid load (PRAL) which triggers a protective biological reaction to neutralize all the damaging acidic protein before it reaches the kidneys.

The body is designed for survival, so it sacrifices bone density to protect the kidneys and urinary tract because the latter are essential to survival. And the most readily available source of acid neutralizer is in the bones. So even though milk contains calcium, it ends up sapping your bones of that crucial mineral.

Today’s milk is a processed food

Until the end of the 19th century in Europe and the beginning of the 20th century in the US, milk was consumed unpasteurized or raw. Later on, homogenization became the industry’s standard. These processes further alter milk’s chemistry and actually increase its detrimental acidifying effects.

Source: Save Our Bones Project

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