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From: " Cohen" <notmilk@...>Reply-notmilk-owner To: notmilk Subject: NOTMILK - Rehabilitating Patients with NotmilkDate: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:20:38 -0000Rehabilitating Patients with NotmilkIt is quite refreshing to find an anti-milk articleon a rehabilitation website. What a joy! The followingarticle is posted (right-side of page under FeaturedArticles) at:http://www.rehabedge.com~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Milk Can Kill by Noble, PTEducate yourself and your patients thatmilk does NOT do the body good!When I started the SOWH in the mid-seventies,osteoporosis was not the common, deadly diseaseit is today (hip fractures are the 12th leadingcourse of death). As a student in Australiaduring the decade before, osteoporosis wasdiagnosed only after a fracture caused byminimal trauma (e.g. falling from standing).Bone mineral density (BMD) scans had not beendeveloped and I am not sure we were worse offwithout them (more on that subject later).To consider the consumption of dairy products as theculprit, not the cure or prevention of osteoporosis isto attack a very sacred cow for families, and also forthe Big Business of dairy products. And osteoporosis isonly part of the problem...Those of us who have observed the food trays ofhospital inpatients can conclude that most dieticians,despite 4 years of formal education, have not keptcurrent with the medical evidence. Exceptions include Appleton, Building Better Bones (1990) who alsosells a test kit on her web site. Brown is anotherenlightened nutritionist who wrote Better Bones, BetterBodies in 1996.In 1992 Oski, Jr., who was chief of Pedatrics ats Hopkins wrote Don't Drink Your Milk: New FrighteningMedical Facts About the World?s Most Overrated Nutrient.He had already linked milk consumption with juvenilediabetes and claimed that at least 50% of all children inthe United States are allergic to milk, many undiagnosed,suffering among other ailments, constipation, diarrhea,and fatigue. Oski considered dairy products the leadingcause of food allergy and advised against drinking milkor eating dairy products for all ages. Many cases ofasthma and sinus infections, he found, were eliminatedby cutting out dairy products.Another, better known, pediatrician Spock, in the7th edition of his Child Care, admitted that "research hasforced us to rethink this recommendation...dairy productscontribute to a surprising number of health problems..."Then in 1997 Cohen, published Milk: The DeadlyPoison, an expose of Monsanto's greed in causing BovineSomatrotropin (BST-genetically engineered bovine growthhormone or rbGH) to be added to America's milk supplysince 1994. Cohen created the Dairy Education Board inthe midnineties and one could spend days exploring theextensive citations on his website: www.notmilk.comTo understand ailments ranging from cancer to childhoodobesity (many kids today even look bovine!) one must bear inmind that cows and humans share the same hormone, insulin-like growth factor, or IGF-1. Each sip of milk containsthat growth hormone. Both human and cow's milk contain70 amino acids in identical sequence. The injection ofMonsanto's government-permitted poison into the cowsincreases the growth hormone in each sip of milk by 80%.In 1998, I picked up a French book by Anne Laroche-Walter:Lait de Vache: Blancheur Trompeuse, which translates as"Cow's milk: White Trickster". following a 1994 publication,Ce Lait Qui Menace Les Femmes (This Milk that Threatens Women,by D. Rapha Nogier, who describes how drinking milk influencesthe preponderance of breast cancer. In 2001, Cohenpublished Milk: A-Z which is a book of cartoon illustrationson the right-hand page, and medical citations for theparticular malady (e.g., asthma, zits) on the lefthand page.I highly recommend this book for your waiting room sincepatients can quickly look up an ailment. Children, alwaysthe target of noxious advertising, will be entertained bythe drawings.In 2003, THE MILK LETTER : A MESSAGE TO MYPATIENTS was published in the Sunday New York TimesMagazine, October 6, 2002 by M. Kradjian, MD,Breast Surgery Chief, Division of General Surgery atSeton Medical Centre in Daly City, CA. This comprehensivereview of the many dangers associated with milk consumptionappearing in a weekend newspaper indicated to me that thetopic had become mainstream. This information has been inprint for almost two decades yet uninformed and misinformedhealth providers continue to tout the benefits of dairyproducts!While writing the third revision of my book, Having Twinsand More (with a large chapter on nutrition), I had moreconversations with my publisher's attorney concerning myNews for Milkaholics than any other topic in the book.The publisher feared litigation since more than a dozenstates have a Agricultural Libel Law allowing prosecutionfor disaparaging agricultural products. This growinglegislation was a result of the suit against OprahWinfrey by the Texas Cattlemen's Association after shevowed on her TV show she would never eat another hamburger.Of course, if one sticks to the medical evidence (and thereis plenty of it?and growing) there is no libel.Latest to come along in 2005, is The Milk Imperative(www.milkmperative.com) by Eaton in the UK with 60pages on how to make alternative milks from various nuts.Eaton's contribution is a theory that bone-making cells(osteoblasts) are eroded by too much exercise, dietarycalcium and Vitamin D. I have been puzzled for many yearsby the evidence that greater bone density does not meanless risk of osteoporosis. As a PT, I know that the BMDscans do not measure collagen, muscle strength nor balance.Fluoride, for example, makes bones denser but also morebrittle leading to more, not fewer fractures.Dr. Steve Cummings and Dr. Warren Browner at CaliforniaPacific Medical Center in San Francisco are researchingosteoprotegerin, a hormone involved in digesting thecalciumcontaining mineral of old bone in need of repair.Perhaps it is be involved with or a marker for, vascularcalcification that leads to hardening of the arteriesand cardiovascular mortality. Cummings has pointed outproblems with BMD scans including inaccuracies and thecavalier creation of the term 'osteopenia'. He also notedthat inability to rise from a chair without use of armsequalled maternal history as a risk factor for a hipfracture. Imagine if we could rise from a squat as we didin childhood, and Asians still do? With far fewer osteoand ortho problems as a result!The latest 'study' I have read, I am ashamed to say, isfrom my home country, Australia. Title: Calcium- andVitamin D3-Fortified Milk Reduces Bone Loss at ClinicallyRelevant Skeletal Sites in Older Men: A 2-Year RandomizedControlled Trial by Robin Daly, et al was published inJ Bone Miner Res, (March 2006;21:397-405).I dispute their claim that a short-term increase inbone density translates into a "nutritionally soundstrategy to reduce agerelated bone loss." It is thelong-term that is important. Furthermore, there aremany additional problems caused by lowfat milk thatwere not addressed at all. (Farmers fatten their hogswith low-fat milk, and humans consume more of it sincethey feel they are safe from fat, but actually ingestmore calories from the carbohydrates!).For ischemic heart disease, milk carbohydrates werefound to have the highest statistical association formales aged 35+ and females aged 65+. In the case ofcoronary heart disease, non-fat milk was found to havethe highest association for males aged 45+ and femalesaged 75+, while for females 65-74, milk carbohydratesand sugar had the highest associations. (AlternativeMedicine Review, 1998 Aug, 3:4). The Townsend MedicalLetter, Harvard School of Public Health, and nWhitaker, MD have all admitted that milk causes manyhealth problems. Of course, if milk is a problem, thencheese (12 pints are needed to make one pound) andice-cream (10 pints to make one pound) are worse forbeing more concentrated.Cow's milk is for calves. Humans need breast milk tothrive, indeed they will develop 10 more IQ points.The challenge is to create opportunities for Americanmothers to breastfeed, especially while working, asScandinavia has done. Few epidemiologists take a historyof breastfeeding when looking at adult diseases; anexception to this is the work of Michel Odent, MD, whosedatabase can be searched at www.birthworks.comMost formula fed infants developed symptoms of allergicrejection to cow milk proteins before one month of age.About 50-70% experienced rashes or other skin symptoms,50-60 percent gastrointestinal symptoms, and 20-30percent respiratory symptoms. The recommended therapyis to avoid cow's milk.Epidemiological and Immunological Aspects of Cow's MilkProtein Allergy and Intolerance in Infancy.Pediatric-Allergy-Immunology, August, 1994, 5(5 Suppl.)"Overall, about 75% of the world's population, including25% of those in the U.S., lose their lactase enzymesafter weaning. Lactose malabsorption and lactasedeficiency are chronic organic pathologic conditionscharacterized by abdominal pain and distention,flatulence, and the passage of loose, watery stools.Once correct diagnosis is established, introductionof a lactose-free dietary regime relieves symptoms inmost patients...who remain largely unaware of therelationship between food intake and symptoms."Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 1999 Apr, 28:3More than 50 diseases have been linked to theconsumption of dairy products and lately there is muchinterest in the fact that those who suffered a previousheart attack are more likely to have osteoporosis thanthose who did not report a heart attack.The common link is harmful calcification that canresult from regular consumption of dairy products. Kidneystones are another example, and most PTs have treated bonespurs, tendinitis and bursitis, perhaps withoutconsidering dietary causes. Breast and prostate cancerare known to begin as microcalcifications. The role ofnanobacteria in such calcification is the latest theoryand summarized in The Calcium Bomb www.calciumbomb.comThe authors present research linking arthritis and heartdisease, and review the role of excess calcium in manydiseases, including osteoporosis. Nanobacteria arepostulated as the cause of the inflammation and althoughtetracycline can destroy them, first their calciumcoating must be dissolved.How can people, especially women, accept that theyprobably have too much calcium (typically in the form ofdairy products) when they are being told on all sides toadd supplements as well?The 12-year Harvard study of 78,000 adult women foundthat those who drank milk three times a day actuallybroke more bones than women who rarely drank milk. Incountries like the the US, Australia, Scandinavia and Europe where dairy product consumption is among thehighest in the world, osteoporosis and fracture ratesare also among the highest. By the same token theincidence is low among the Chinese and Japanese whosetraditional diets contain no dairy products at all.(Sadly, that is changing, in Tokyo, I saw Haagen Dazsice cream for sale and bottled coffee milk in automatson train station platforms). Prior to the US occupationof Japan after the war, breast cancer was conspicuousby its absence among the Japanese, but is now increasingevery year. The benefits of the Chinese diet wererevealed during the China-Cornell-Oxford project byT. Colin . He grew up on a dairy farm, studiedveterinary science and thus had every reason to believethat milk was 'Nature's perfect food' until his researchproved that wrong.We eat more than we exercise, all of us. Thus while bothare important for health, diet (what we eat) and nutrition(what we absorb) is critical. Our weapons of massdestruction are the knife and fork!According to the US Department of Agriculture, the averageAmerican consumes more than 550 pounds of dairy productsannually; 40% of the diet and providing 52% of daily caloricintake.Sadly, our degenerative diseases are increasing indeveloping countries as they copy our bad habits. Ipersonally have observed these changes since I firsttravelled in Asia in the sixties. During my recenttravels in francophone West Africa, I Was dismayed bylarge billboards on the dirt roads exhorting thebenefits of dairy products.The ads even depict boyswith more muscles, like some of the Milk Mustacheposters. However, noone in Africa received the $25,000to pose with the white smear Like the US celebrities,such as Donna Shalala who apparently didn't regard thatas a conflict of interest!)In January of this year, an extensive study by the NationalInstitute for Research in Reproductive Health showed thatan estimated 61 million Indians suffer from osteoporosis.The World Health Organization (WHO) states that one outof eight males and one out of three females in Indiasuffer from osteoporosis. This has resulted from therecent and dramatic increase in milk consumption in India;it is the fastest growth market in the world in milkproduction and consumption. What should we do about thissacred cow?Firstly, ask all patients about their diets in general,and consumption of dairy products in particular. If youare treating them for one of the 50 plus conditions(see www.notmilk.com for an alphabetical list), thensuggest they give up all dairy products for a couple ofweeks. Not even a drop in tea or coffee! It is the bovineproteins that are usually more troublesome than the lactose.I found it strange that during the Mad Cow disease scare inEurope that citizens drank the milk and other dairy productsof these cows, apparently unconcerned about the path thoseprions might take!Fortunately, in the USA today there are many milksubstitutes since most recipe, it seems, s call for a dairyproducts. Soy milk sales are huge (and the dairy companiesare part of this growing market, too). Make sure you haveorganic soy milk from non-genetically modified soybeans.You can substitute rice milk, amasake (also made from rice)and many other kinds of "milk" you can make yourself fromnuts. Or you can simply eat a healthy diet without dairyproducts or their substitutes, as does the world's mostpopulous country (China) and my family. Bon appetit!References:Appleton, , Building Better Bones. Wayne, NJ: Avery, 1990.Brown. , Ph.D. Better Bones, Better Bodies. New Canaan, CT:Keats,1996., Colin T and M , II, The ChinaStudy: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition EverConducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Lossand Long-Term Health. Dallas,, TX: Benballa, 2005Cohen, . Milk A-Z Argus Publishing, PO Box 229,Oradell, NJ 07649, (201-967-7001).2001______________Milk: The Deadly Poison. Oradell, NJ: Argus,1997.Colbin, AnneMarie. Food and our Bones. New York: Plume, 1998.____________ Food and Healing. Ballantine Books, NY1996. Cummings SR,Nevitt MC, Browner WS, et al. Risk factors for hip fracture in whitewomen.N Engl J Med 1995; 332: 767-773.Eaton, . The Milk Imperative. Deliveredonline.com,2005 (www.milkimperative.com)Kradjian, M. The Milk Letter : A Message To My Patients.Sunday NewYork Times Magazine, October 6, 2002 Laroche-Walter, Anne. Lait deVache:Blancheur Trompeuse, Geneva: Editions Jouvence, 1998.Mulhall , and Katja Hansen. The Calcium Bomb, TheWriters Collective, Cranston, RINoble, E. Having Twins?and More, 3rd edition, Boston:Houghton Mifflin, 2003.Nogier,D. Rapha묬 Ce Lait Qui Menace Les Femmes, 28, rueComte-F鬩x-Gastaldi, Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1994Oski, , M.D. Don?t Drink Your Milk: New FrighteningMedical Facts About the World?s Most Overrated Nutrient.TEACH Services, Inc, Route 1, Box 182, Brushton, NY 12916.1996.Resourceshttp://www.birthworks.com/primalhealth/keywords.html (thedatabase of Michel Odent, MDhttp://www.notmilk.comhttp://www.calciumbomb.comhttp://www.milkimperative.comhttp://www.milksucks.comhttp://www.nancyappleton.comhttp://www.nutrition.cornell.edu/ChinaProject/Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 5100Wisconsin Ave. N.W.Suite 404, Washington, D.C. 20016. (202)686-2210.Much good information about diseases caused by dairyproducts can be found in their publication Good Medicine andthe books of Neal Barnard, MD, one of the founders.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cohenhttp://www.notmilk.com----------------------------------------------------THE NOTMILK NEWSLETTER:SUBSCRIBE: send an empty Email to-notmilk-subscribe UNSUBSCRIBE: send an empty Email to-notmilk-unsubscribe Forward this message to your milk-drinking friends:MILK from A to Z: http://www.notmilk.com/milkatoz.html2O QUESTIONS: http://www.notmilk.com/notmilkfaq.htmlWhat is an excellent alternative for NOTMILK?http://www.soytoy.com ... make your own grain and nut milks!SoyToy recipes forum: soytoy-subscribe