Fw: MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND MILK

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From: " Cohen " <i4crob@...>

Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 3:04 AM

Subject: MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND MILK

> Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a common neurological disease,

> affecting approximately 300,000 Americans. Two-thirds

> of those diagnosed with MS are women.

>

> Most researchers believe that MS is an auto immune disease.

> Auto means " self. " The body's reaction to a foreign protein is to

> destroy that antigen-like invader with an antibody. The antibody

> then turn upon one's own cells. That is an auto-immune response.

> In the case of MS, the body's response is to attack the outer

> membrane-protecting nerve cells, or the myelin sheath.

>

> Symptoms of MS include tingling or numbness of the limbs,

> paralyses, and vision problems. Sometimes MS patients

> experience slurred speech accompanied by chronic pain.

>

> MS costs approximately $2.5 billion each year in America.

> MS is found in milk-drinking populations. It is interesting to note

> that Eskimos and Bantus (50 million living in East Africa) rarely

> get MS. Neither do those native North and South American

> Indian or Asian populations that consume no dairy products.

>

> Many physicians have noted a dairy link to MS.

> Many little clues have been reinforced by one

> very large clue, just published. Each clue provides

> a piece of the puzzle.

>

> Norway has the highest rates of milk and dairy

> consumption in the world. Dr. Ashton F. Embry

> analyzed geogrphical regions, and provides this dairy clue:

>

> http://www.DIRECT-MS.org/

>

> He writes:

>

> " ...In Norway MS is up to five times more

> common in the inland farming areas than in the

> relatively nearby coastal fishing areas. "

>

> McDougall, M.D., cites the British medical journal

> Lancet in pointing out that a diet filled with dairy

> products has been closely linked to the development of

> MS. (The Lancet 1974;2:1061)

>

> Dr. Luther Lindner is involved in clinical MS experiments

> at Texas A & M University College of Medicine. Lindner,

> a pathologist, writes on his website:

>

> " It might be prudent to limit the intake of milk and milk products... "

>

> http://www.sky.net/~dporter/MSCFSABX.htm

>

> A worldwide study published in the journal Neuroepidemiology

> revealed an association between eating dairy foods (cow's milk,

> butter, and cream) and an increased prevalence of MS.

> (Neuroepidemiology 1992;11:304-12.)

>

> The April 1, 2001 issue of the Journal of Immunology will contain

> a study linking MS to milk consumption. 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 auto immune 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. "

>

> In October of 1996, The Lancet reported:

>

> " Antibodies to bovine beta-casein are present in over a third

> of IDDM patients and relatively non-existent in healthy individuals. "

>

> Two months later (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

>

> Dosch, M.D., and his team of researchers have 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. "

> (Journal of Immunology, April, 2001)

>

> Cohen

> http://www.notmilk.com

>

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