The Pros And Cons Of Cow Milk

Cow Milk, known as the “sacred drink” might not be so perfect. With many people being taught that milk is healthy and the way to go when giving their kids a drink, people cannot really go wrong with milk can they? Well many may be surprised that a lot of prominent doctors are saying that the consumption of milk is now a huge factor in many diseases in children and adults with health risks ranging from acne and diarrhea to heart disease and even cancer. With all these drawbacks, people still simply keep drinking milk and with that all, false advertising and people not being educated right is certainly to blame. The problem with cow’s milk is that it has a multi million dollar advertising budget to provide false facts about itself. It’s

“Doctors say cow's milk can lead to iron deficiency anemia, allergies, diarrhea, heart disease, colic, cramps, gastrointestinal bleeding, sinusitis, skin rashes, acne, increased frequency of colds and flus, arthritis, diabetes, ear infections, osteoporosis, asthma, autoimmune diseases, and more, possibly even lung cancer, multiple sclerosis and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma” (Dye) One of these professionals being Frank Oski, “Director of the Department of Pediatrics of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center” (Dye). He states in the first chapter of one of his books "The fact is: the drinking of cow milk has been linked to iron-deficiency anemia in infants and children; it has been named as the cause of cramps and diarrhea in much of the world's population, and the cause of multiple forms of allergy as well; and the possibility has been raised that it may play a central role in the origins of atherosclerosis and heart attacks."While many proponents of milk praise the protein factor of milk the main type of protein in milk is casein which is very hard to take in and when this can’t be broken down, it causes the immune system to not function properly and causes allergies. In this note,

Calcium is known as the miracle mineral and with today’s world being rigorous and filed with demanding jobs and sports, calcium is needed to stay on top of the game. What milk is trying to sell when they bring up calcium is they help strengthen your bones but in reality they don’t. But the irony is the person consuming the milk barely absorbs the calcium and to make it even worse, milk actually promotes calcium loss in your bones, which is completely outrageous considering the fact milk is supposed to be one of the leading carriers of the miracle mineral, well around 300mg per cup. How it works is the calcium in our bones is used to neutralize the acidifying effects of milk and once the calcium is pulled out the bones it can never go back and you have to urinate it out. So in the end if this happens too much (drink a lot of milk), you actually go on a calcium deficit and not a surplus which is expected. A calcium deficit can correspond with headaches, irritability and can lead to muscle spasms and cramps and the most serious problem, osteoporosis. “12 year long Harvard Nurses’ Health Study found that those who consumed the most calcium from dairy foods broke more bones than those who rarely drank milk. This is a broad study based on 77,761 women aged 34 through 59 years of age” (Goldschmidt) There are many of other ways to get calcium besides cows milk and it’s foods like