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The Dairy Industry and milk processors invest hundreds of millions of

dollars each year to guarantee that Americans will continue to drink

milk and eat dairy products, investing their money to continually let

Americans know that milk tastes good and the intake of milk and dairy

products must be continued to insure good health.

 

Milk mustaches are stylish. Drink milk and you're beautiful! Gorgeous

models, actors, actresses, sports heroes, even President Clinton and Bob

Dole have posed for milk advertisements.

All have asserted by the milky white goo artificially applied to their

upper lip that drinking milk is healthful and wholesome. Who would argue

with such an overwhelming endorsement?

 

Billboards spanning America ask the question, " Got milk? " Cal Ripken of

the Baltimore Orioles broke Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive major

league baseball games played. Ripken, holding a baseball bat, smiles

from inside the front cover of a " GOT MILK " brochure proclaiming, " With

all the skim milk I drink, my name might as well be Calcium Ripken, Jr. "

 

Common knowledge of osteoporosis is based upon false assumptions.

American women have been drinking an average of two pounds of milk or

eating the equivalent milk in dairy products per day for their entire

lives.

Doctors recommend calcium intake for increasing and maintaining bone

strength and bone density which they call bone mass.

 

According to this regimen recommended by doctors and milk industry executives,

women's bone mass would approach that of pre-historic dinosaurs.

This line of reasoning should be equally extinct. Twenty-five million

American women have osteoporosis. Drinking milk does not prevent osteoporosis.

Milk contains calcium. Bones contain calcium too.

 

When we are advised to add calcium to our diets we tend to drink milk or eat

dairy foods.

 

In order to absorb calcium, the body needs comparable amounts of

another mineral element, magnesium. Milk and dairy products contain only small

amounts of magnesium. Without the presence of magnesium, the body

only absorbs 25 percent of the available dairy calcium content.

 

The remainder of the calcium spells trouble. Without magnesium, excess

calcium is utilized by the body in injurious ways. The body uses calcium to

build the mortar on arterial walls which

becomes atherosclerotic plaques. Excess calcium is converted by the kidneys into

painful stones which

grow in size like pearls in oysters, blocking our urinary tracts. Excess

calcium contributes to arthritis; painful calcium buildup often is

manifested as gout.

 

 

The USDA has formulated a chart of recommended daily intakes of vitamins and

minerals. The term that FDA uses is Recommended Daily Allowance

(RDA). The RDA for calcium is 1500 mg. The RDA for magnesium is 750 mg.

 

Society stresses the importance of calcium, but rarely magnesium.

Yet, magnesium is vital to enzymatic activity. In addition to insuring

proper absorption of calcium, magnesium is critical to proper neural and

muscular function and to maintaining proper pH balance in the body.

Magnesium, along with vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), helps to dissolve calcium

phosphate stones which often accumulate from excesses of dairy intake.

 

 

Good sources of magnesium include beans, green leafy vegetables like

kale and collards, whole grains and orange juice. Non-dairy sources of

calcium include green leafy vegetables, almonds, asparagus, broccoli,

cabbage, oats, beans, parsley, sesame seeds and tofu.

 

Osteoporosis is NOT a problem that should be associated with lack of

calcium intake. Osteoporosis results from calcium loss.

The massive amounts of protein in milk result in a 50 percent loss of

calcium in the urine. In other words, by doubling your protein intake

there will be a loss of 1-1.5 percent in skeletal mass per year in

postmenopausal women.

 

The calcium contained in leafy green vegetables is more easily

absorbed than the calcium in milk, and plant proteins do not result in

calcium loss the same way as do animal proteins. If a postmenopausal

woman loses 1-1.5 percent bone mass per year, what will be the effect

after 20 years?

When osteoporosis occurs levels of calcium (being excreted from the

bones)in the blood are high.

 

Milk only adds to these high levels of calcium which is excreted or

used by the body to add to damaging atherosclerosis, gout, kidney

stones, etc.

 

Bone mass does not increase after age 35. This is a biological

fact that is not in dispute by scientists.

However, this fact is ignored by marketing geniuses in the milk industry who

make certain that women this age and older are targeted consumers for milk and

dairy products.

 

At least one in four women will suffer from osteoporosis with fractures

of the ribs, hip or forearm. In 1994, University of Texas researchers

published results of an experiment indicating that supplemental calcium

is ineffective in preventing bone loss.

 

Within 5 years of the initial onset of menopause, there is an

accelerated rate of loss of bone, particularly from the spine. During

this period of time,the correct estrogen/progesterone ratio is most

effective in preventing rapid bone density loss.

 

For much more on the subject of calcium visit

http://www.notmilk.com/dairy

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Oh my goodness.......all my life I have been looking for an article

like this to PROVE to people how milk caused my asthma issues!!!!!

 

Magnesium! Yes, that is the key. I supplement it in electrolyte form

(along with watching my milk intake) and have had dramatic effects on

preventing asthma attacks. Yes, milk causes inflammation and now we

know why!!! Thank you.

 

Also, I have been telling folks for years that milk does not prevent

osteoporosis. This is a wonderful article which I will share with

everyone!!!!

 

At one point in my life, I was a strict vegetarian (no meat, dairy,

wheat, or processed sugars, and all my food was organic) and the

effect it had on my life was unbelievable. My hair grew 18 inches in

2 years and I couldn't keep up on cutting my nails either. My skin

smoothed out (no acne). The asthma/allergies went away. My moods

dramatically improved and I walked around with a perma-grin. I would

go out in the summer time, be surrounded by mosquitos, but NONE would

bite me (they bit everyone else though).

 

If milk supposedly makes you beautiful, then why didn't my hair grow

fast or my acne go away while I was drinking it? It was only AFTER I

removed the milk products from my life that I got such dramatic

improvements.

 

Peace,

Kristin

, JoAnn Guest

<angelprincessjo> wrote:

> The Dairy Industry and milk processors invest hundreds of millions

of

> dollars each year to guarantee that Americans will continue to

drink

> milk and eat dairy products, investing their money to continually

let

> Americans know that milk tastes good and the intake of milk and

dairy

> products must be continued to insure good health.

>

> Milk mustaches are stylish. Drink milk and you're beautiful!

Gorgeous

> models, actors, actresses, sports heroes, even President Clinton

and Bob

> Dole have posed for milk advertisements.

> All have asserted by the milky white goo artificially applied to

their

> upper lip that drinking milk is healthful and wholesome. Who would

argue

> with such an overwhelming endorsement?

>

> Billboards spanning America ask the question, " Got milk? " Cal

Ripken of

> the Baltimore Orioles broke Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive

major

> league baseball games played. Ripken, holding a baseball bat,

smiles

> from inside the front cover of a " GOT MILK " brochure

proclaiming, " With

> all the skim milk I drink, my name might as well be Calcium Ripken,

Jr. "

>

> Common knowledge of osteoporosis is based upon false assumptions.

> American women have been drinking an average of two pounds of milk

or

> eating the equivalent milk in dairy products per day for their

entire

> lives.

> Doctors recommend calcium intake for increasing and maintaining

bone

> strength and bone density which they call bone mass.

>

> According to this regimen recommended by doctors and milk industry

executives, women's bone mass would approach that of pre-historic

dinosaurs.

> This line of reasoning should be equally extinct. Twenty-five

million

> American women have osteoporosis. Drinking milk does not prevent

osteoporosis. Milk contains calcium. Bones contain calcium too.

>

> When we are advised to add calcium to our diets we tend to drink

milk or eat dairy foods.

>

> In order to absorb calcium, the body needs comparable amounts of

> another mineral element, magnesium. Milk and dairy products contain

only small amounts of magnesium. Without the presence of magnesium,

the body

> only absorbs 25 percent of the available dairy calcium content.

>

> The remainder of the calcium spells trouble. Without magnesium,

excess

> calcium is utilized by the body in injurious ways. The body uses

calcium to build the mortar on arterial walls which

> becomes atherosclerotic plaques. Excess calcium is converted by the

kidneys into painful stones which

> grow in size like pearls in oysters, blocking our urinary tracts.

Excess

> calcium contributes to arthritis; painful calcium buildup often is

> manifested as gout.

>

>

> The USDA has formulated a chart of recommended daily intakes of

vitamins and minerals. The term that FDA uses is Recommended Daily

Allowance

> (RDA). The RDA for calcium is 1500 mg. The RDA for magnesium is 750

mg.

>

> Society stresses the importance of calcium, but rarely magnesium.

> Yet, magnesium is vital to enzymatic activity. In addition to

insuring

> proper absorption of calcium, magnesium is critical to proper

neural and

> muscular function and to maintaining proper pH balance in the body.

> Magnesium, along with vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), helps to dissolve

calcium phosphate stones which often accumulate from excesses of

dairy intake.

>

>

> Good sources of magnesium include beans, green leafy vegetables

like

> kale and collards, whole grains and orange juice. Non-dairy sources

of

> calcium include green leafy vegetables, almonds, asparagus,

broccoli,

> cabbage, oats, beans, parsley, sesame seeds and tofu.

>

> Osteoporosis is NOT a problem that should be associated with lack

of

> calcium intake. Osteoporosis results from calcium loss.

> The massive amounts of protein in milk result in a 50 percent loss

of

> calcium in the urine. In other words, by doubling your protein

intake

> there will be a loss of 1-1.5 percent in skeletal mass per year in

> postmenopausal women.

>

> The calcium contained in leafy green vegetables is more easily

> absorbed than the calcium in milk, and plant proteins do not result

in

> calcium loss the same way as do animal proteins. If a

postmenopausal

> woman loses 1-1.5 percent bone mass per year, what will be the

effect

> after 20 years?

> When osteoporosis occurs levels of calcium (being excreted from the

> bones)in the blood are high.

>

> Milk only adds to these high levels of calcium which is excreted or

> used by the body to add to damaging atherosclerosis, gout, kidney

> stones, etc.

>

> Bone mass does not increase after age 35. This is a biological

> fact that is not in dispute by scientists.

> However, this fact is ignored by marketing geniuses in the milk

industry who make certain that women this age and older are targeted

consumers for milk and dairy products.

>

> At least one in four women will suffer from osteoporosis with

fractures

> of the ribs, hip or forearm. In 1994, University of Texas

researchers

> published results of an experiment indicating that supplemental

calcium

> is ineffective in preventing bone loss.

>

> Within 5 years of the initial onset of menopause, there is an

> accelerated rate of loss of bone, particularly from the spine.

During

> this period of time,the correct estrogen/progesterone ratio is most

> effective in preventing rapid bone density loss.

>

> For much more on the subject of calcium visit

> http://www.notmilk.com/dairy

> _________________

> JoAnn Guest

> mrsjoguest@s...

> DietaryTipsForHBP

> http://www.geocities.com/mrsjoguest

>

>

The complete " Whole Body " Health line consists of the " AIM GARDEN

TRIO "

> Ask About Health Professional Support Series: AIM Barleygreen

>

> " Wisdom of the Past, Food of the Future "

>

> http://www.geocities.com/mrsjoguest/AIM.html

>

> PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER

> We have made every effort to ensure that the information included

in these pages is accurate. However, we make no guarantees nor can we

assume any responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or

usefulness of any information, product, or process discussed.

>

 

>

> SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!

>

>

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