Guest guest Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Dear Vicki, An interesting question! Certainly people with wheat intolerances are often ok with organically grown wheat, or with older varieties of wheat such as spelt. Why do we have so many problems with milk products when they have been considered beneficial in Ayurveda for thousands of years? It could be genetic differences between Europeans and Indians, but milk was considered healthy in Europe until recently too. I think it is artificial hormones and other chemicals contaminating the milk as you suggested, but also the fact that milk here and now is always pasteurized and usually homogenized as well. It feels very different to drink raw milk. Then there is the whole issue of antibiotic use leading to candida overgrowth, and how that creates intolerances and allergies. I¹m sure you are right about effects of breastfeeding and babies being introduced to foods too early as well, and I¹ve always thought that bringing children up in an overly sterile environment is bad for healthy development of the immune system. Perhaps all of these factors have a big role in CFS and other immune disorders which seem to be so prevalent now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 Dear , There is also the issue in ayuvedic medicine that the milk is not always bovine. From listening to an Sri Lankan doctor talking about milk it is obvious that they use the milk of many different animals for its therapeutic properties so you don't have the same degree of exposure. Allshorn Food intolerances Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 Hi Benn, At 18:34 13/02/2004, you wrote: >Milk - rearing cattle is now a different science that in history; again >husbandry and production from the milk are the issues. In the USA cattle >are bred then passed to feedlots where they are fed grains and pellets >to fatten them before slaughter; both are unnatural to cattle diets, >particularly where the pellets contain protein from pig, dog, cat, >horse, chicken, sheep and sometimes cattle, flesh; I can't help thinking >there may be similar practices in the UK. If that were so, it would be completely illegal. Feeding of meat and bone meal to ruminants was banned in 1988 at the height of the BSE epidemic. >One of the concerns about BSE > & CJD variant is the crossing of scrapie to cattle and so humans. The scrapie theory hangs on, even though countless attempts to generate BSE in cattle experimentally, including feeding and injecting scrapie brain tissue into cow brains, have failed. All the best, Krystyna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 >>Milk - rearing cattle is now a different science that in history; again >>husbandry and production from the milk are the issues. In the USA cattle >>are bred then passed to feedlots where they are fed grains and pellets >>to fatten them before slaughter; both are unnatural to cattle diets, >>particularly where the pellets contain protein from pig, dog, cat, >>horse, chicken, sheep and sometimes cattle, flesh; I can't help thinking >>there may be similar practices in the UK. > >If that were so, it would be completely illegal. Feeding of meat and bone >meal to ruminants was banned in 1988 at the height of the BSE epidemic. Hi Krystyna, Thank you for the correction to my surmise; the situation in the USA I gathered from " Fast Food Nation " and was up to date in 2001. Re: BSE, also thanks for the comments; another theory I've come across centred on the effects of agrochemicals on cattle rather than (just) foodstuffs. Benn -- Benn Abdy- MCPP Medical Herbalist Windsor, Newquay, London 0 or 07957 65 88 90 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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