Comments on: Is Milk Good For You?

By: kez

kez — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:35:51 +0000

I’d just like to remind everyone that not all dairy producers are in the USA.
In Australia it is illegal to use hormones on cows to encourage greater production.
Also, a certain percentage of Holstein cows carry the A2 gene.
Our organic herd is largely of the Guernsey, Jersey & Normande breeds, with all Holstein and Holstein cross cows bred from A2 bulls.
Henry mate, you are sadly very ignorant of the world. Sure, some calves are injected and mistreated. But not all.
I encourage everyone to do their own research, and not rely on the propaganda of those who wish to push their own barrow.
The best diet is a non-processed, seasonal, varied diet that you are happy eating.

By: rebecca

rebecca — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:32:36 +0000

Oh Bee…wow. I got all the way to “They admit that produce contaminated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy entered the human food chain in England between 1986 and 1989. They say. “The result of this experiment is awaited.” As the
incubation period can be up to three decades, wait we must.

The immunodeficency virus is seen in cattle in the United States and is more worrisome. Its structure is closely related to that of the human AIDS virus. At this time we do not know if exposure to the raw BIV proteins can cause the
sera of humans to become positive for HIV. The extent of the virus among American herds is said to be “widespread”. (The USDA refuses to inspect the meat and milk to see if antibodies to this retrovirus is present). It also has no plans to quarantine the infected animals. As in the case of
humans with AIDS, there is no cure for BIV in cows. Each day we consume beef and diary products from cows infected with these viruses and no scientific assurance exists that the products are safe. Eating raw beef (as in steak Tartare)
strikes me as being very risky, especially after the Seattle E. coli deaths of 1993.” And I began to pay attention. Until then I was going ya ya ok but…
I think everyone should read the article (it takes a while) and make their decision. I still say most of the problems come from stuff already discussed above by people on this post.
But I learned stuff from this article. I will not discount it.

By: rebecca

rebecca — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:01:25 +0000

Good information Diana. Thank you for bringing that out too.

By: Ludovic

Ludovic — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:30:10 +0000

I am a vegan but I believe some raw milk is better,with the enzymes it is easier to digest. And it is hard to say no to a good cheese made from raw milk.

Enjoy your week end

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:41:05 +0000

Important to mention- one of the reasons there is such high dairy intolerance in the US compared to Europe: (from Mercola site- Devin in the milk):
Cows with who produce this protein in their milk with a proline at number 67 are called A2 cows, and are the older breeds of cows (e.g. Jerseys, Asian and African cows). But some five thousand years ago, a mutation occurred in this proline amino acid, converting it to histidine. Cows that have this mutated beta casein are called A1 cows, and include breeds like Holstein.

Proline has a strong bond to a small protein called BCM 7 which helps keep it from getting into the milk, so that essentially no BCM 7 is found in the urine, blood or GI tract of old-fashioned A2 cows. On the other hand, histidine, the mutated protein, only weakly holds on to BCM 7, so it is liberated in the GI tract of animals and humans who drink A1 cow milk.

BCM 7 has been shown to cause neurological impairment in animals and people exposed to it, especially autistic and schizophrenic changes. BCM 7 interferes with the immune response, and injecting BCM 7 in animal models has been shown to provoke Type 1 diabetes. Dr. Woodford’s book presents research showing a direct correlation between a population’s exposure to A1 cow’s milk and incidence of auto-immune disease, heart disease, type 1 diabetes, autism, and schizophrenia.
Simply switching breeds of cows could result in amazing health benefits.

By: Bee

Bee — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:01:50 +0000

Dear Carolyn Dean,

What are your thoughts on this article? :

http://notmilk.com/kradjian.html

Greetings,

By: rebecca

rebecca — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:43:51 +0000

I grew up on a small 40 acre farm. We usually had two milk cows. There was a two stall milking space in the barn with a dirt floor. The cows came in out of the pasture and went to their stalls where Dad gave them a big coffee can of grain to eat while they were milked. Dad perched on a one legged stool and hand milked each cow into the ‘milk bucket’. When he finished he paused and slopped a little of the fresh milk into a cat dish next to the grain box. Then he swung the bucket of milk uncovered to the house where my mom pulled down her flour sack dishcloth kept just for this purpose and strained out the what not that had made its way into the milk in this whole process and stored it in the fridge in a glass gallon jar. For a time they ran the milk through a separator and filled a big tin milk can with the cream to sell and took it to the train station once a week. We weren’t so fond of that because we hated what we called “blue john” milk. There was no cream and it was thin and blue and icky.
My whole point is we used and drank lots of whole unpasteurized and unhomogenized milk produced from grass fed cows in unsterile surroundings. And we didn’t die! And more, we were healthy!
Raw dairy has an “X factor” that I do not understand I just know it’s good for you. Mess with milk and it is destroyed.
If you don’t understand about cholesterol don’t be hollering about it. It is not a bad substance. And there is no “good” and “bad” cholesterol. Both have an essential function in the body and we would be in trouble without it. And if yours is too high quit the sugar and if it’s out of balance knock off the trans fats and the ‘dumb carbs’.
I have been trying to figure out how to revamp my diet lately because my body has changed post menopause and I’m not fond at all of what’s happened. I cannot believe the controversy and yes the “poison dogma” and the fanaticism and misinformation swirling around out there. I think I’ve found someone trustworthy and then I notice that this other ‘trustworthy’ person disagrees with the first one. I have begun to think that maybe meatloaf and baked potatoes aren’t so bad. But I cannot handle the discord and the uncertainty of all the hoo ha.
Christian Northrup said it well ‘eat as best you know how and sometimes you just have to pray over it and eat’. Or words to that affect.
Glad I got that off my chest.

By: Joyce Naumu

Joyce Naumu — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:55:00 +0000

Hi,
I follow the Blood Type diet & eat local grass fed beef. I am a type O & agree with you about some people needing more meat protein than others. I had tried the vegetarian route & for some reason felt horrible, sluggish & well weak. I now know why.
Mahalo,
Joyce

By: Lynette

Lynette — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:22:36 +0000

We live in a world of extremes at present and I think a balanced approach is what is needed. In my view, your approach is very sensible and balanced and in line with some of the latest research I have read. Ultimately people need to learn to trust their bodies and find out what is right for them.I personally can’t tolerate cream or fatty milk (I feel sick at the smell of it) However I eat home made yogurt and a very small amount of organic butter and cheese and my cholesterol is fine. As you become more health conscious you can ask your body “how is my body receiving this food” and you will get an answer- and the need to be dogmatic melts away!

By: Gary Eneberg

Gary Eneberg — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:49:32 +0000

Sounds like the best use for Cool Whip is in the bedroom, not the kitchen. Some basic common sense ideas: Natural is better than man-made, moderation is better than excess, and eating whole foods is preferred to packaged “food-like” products with additives of any kind, including being fortified with synthetic vitamins/minerals.
I do believe we need selected supplements like magnesium, vitamin D3, and a few others, but for the most part should be getting our nutrition from whole foods, including milk, preferably raw if possible. Saturated fat is not the enemy. The real enemy is carbs, which raise your triglycerides which in turn raises the small,dense cholesterol which can damage the walls of our blood vessels. Oh yes, its true. What you want is low triglycerides and high HDL. Saturated fat does not raise your small, dense LDL, carbs do that. A standard blood test does not differentiate the large, light LDL that are not harmful, from the small, dense harmful ones. Don’t believe the poison dogma that saturated fats are bad.