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Are you still wondering whether milk is good for you or not?

Just take a close look at what our white and supposedly pure, wholesome drink has in it, and you decide whether milk is good for your health and fitness.

1.  Milk has fat in it.

• Whole milk, or 3% milk, contains 50% fat
• Low-fat milk, or 1% to 2% milk, contains 24% to 33% fat
• Skim milk contains 4% to 7% fat (yes, even skim milk has some fat)
• Cheese contains 70% fat

Who needs or wants the extra fat in our bodies?  Not only does extra fat cause many conditions and diseases, but we also wear it right where we don’t want it—on our stomachs, hips, thighs, and butts.

2.  Milk is also loaded with cholesterol—that same waxy substance that clogs up our arteries and veins and leads to heart attacks, cancer, high blood pressure, strokes, and many other conditions and diseases.

3.  Milk contains milk sugar.  It just so happens that an estimated 70% of the world is intolerant to the sugar in milk.  Intolerance to the sugar in milk causes discomfort, gas, bloating, and other digestive problems.

4.  Milk protein presents another set of problems.

• Little problems linked to milk protein may be:
  • Allergies
  • Ear infections
  • Asthma
  • Sinus infections
  • Colds
  • Eczema
  • Bed-wetting
  • Fatigue
  • Mood swings
  • Excess mucous – Did you ever experience, or notice in others, that you tend to have a runny nose, and you are often draining and sniffing, particularly in the mornings?  Often that excess drainage or mucous is caused from the protein in dairy products, along with other mucous-producing foods eaten on a daily basis.
• Big problems linked to the protein in milk:
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Lupus
  • Type 1 diabetes
  • Inflammation in the kidneys
  • Inflammation in the arteries
  • Iron deficiency anemia
  • Heart disease

       Yes, all of these conditions have been linked to the protein in milk.

Along with the fat, cholesterol, milk sugar, and milk protein, milk and milk products may contain contaminants, such as:

• E.coli
• Salmonella
• Tuberculosis
• Listeria (a bacteria found in cheese)
• Bovine leukemia
• Bovine aids – It has been said that bovine leukemia and bovine aids virus can now be found in about 60% of all dairy herds
• Pesticides
• Hormones (eBGH, eBST, IGF) – Cows make their own hormones that come through in the milk, and if that is not bad enough, to increase a cow’s natural production of milk, they are often given growth hormones.  These hormones get into the milk. There are many experts who believe that cancers thrive on these hormones.  In other words, there is a high correlation between the hormones found in cow’s milk and many cancers, such as breast cancer, prostate cancer, and ovarian cancer.
• Antibiotics – Because cows are artificially forced by extra hormones to produce more milk than nature intended, they often get udder infections.  They are then given antibiotics for these infections.  Did you know that all milk is allowed to contain a certain percentage of pus for it to meet government regulations?

With all the fat, cholesterol, milk sugar, milk protein, and contaminants that come in a glass of milk, why drink it?

Does it not make more sense to drink pure water or, even better, homemade fresh fruit and vegetable juices?  And for all you cheese lovers out there, cheese is the same thing as milk only worse.  Cheese contains a whole bunch more fat (cheddar cheese is about 70% fat) and more chemicals than milk.  Just as a reminder, yogurt is not a health food.  It too is made from milk.

There is only one reason to drink milk or eat cheese or yogurt, and that is because you like it and choose to consume it, not because it is necessary or even good for, the promotion of human health.

                                  E-mail Dr. Leslie at Dr.Leslie@DrLeslieVanRomer.com

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