Milk, Is It Good or Is It Bad?

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For a very long time everyone was saying how good milk is, how healthy it is for our health. There are comercials on TV saying how healthy it is to drink milk. When you see these comercials do you view it as public servise? raising awareness? Or do you view it as an advertisement sponsered by companies that produce milk and dairy products? Here is what some doctors think. Frank Oski, M.D., author of Don't Drink Your Milk! is the Director of the Department of Pediatrics of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of 19 medical textbooks and has written 290 medical manuscripts. In the first chapter of his book, Dr. Oski states, "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." Dr. Oski comments, "Being against cow milk is equated with being un-American," but still he notes, "Among physicians, so much concern has been voiced about the potential hazards of cow milk that the Committee on Nutrition of the prestigious American Academy of Pediatrics, the institutional voice of practicing pediatricians, released a report entitled, "Should Milk Drinking by Children Be Discouraged?' Although the Academy's answer to this question has (as of this writing) been a qualified 'maybe,' the fact that the question was raised at all is testimony to the growing concern about this product, which for so long was viewed as sacred as the proverbial goodness of mother and apple pie." Hundreds of doctors agree with him and note that after they advise patients to eliminate dairy these patient's health improves, they have less flus, asthmas, headaches and many other diseases. Another outspoken critic of cow's milk is Dr. William Ellis, a retired osteopathic physician and surgeon in Arlington, Texas, who has researched the effects of dairy products for 42 years. Dr. Ellis is listed in Marquis' Who's Who in the East, Leaders of American Science, the Dictionary of International Biography and Two Thousand Men of Achievement. Dr. Ellis says dairy products are "simply no good for humans... There is overwhelming evidence that milk and milk products are harmful to many people, both adults and infants. Milk is a contributing factor in constipation, chronic fatigue, arthritis, headaches, muscle cramps, obesity, allergies and heart problems." In Washington D.C. based pediatrician Dr. Russell Bunai was asked what single change in the American diet would produce the greatest health benefit, his answer was, "Eliminating dairy products." Dr. Christiane Northrup, a gynecologist in Yarmouth, Maine, states, "Dairy is a tremendous mucus producer and a burden on the respiratory, digestive and immune systems." Dr. Northrup says when patients "eliminate dairy products for an extended period and eat a balanced diet, they suffer less from colds and sinus infections." So how can all these medical statements be explained in light of what we have been taught all of our life about milk? Remember "Milk is the Perfect Food"... "Milk is a Natural"... "Everybody Needs Milk." Are we talking about the same food here? Is cow's milk really natural for us? we are humans after all, not cows, milk that is natural for us is human breast milk. How many animals other then humans drink milk after they grow out of breast milk? I must say i used to love milk, i could drink a few glasses every day, but was i healthy while drinking milk? I did have asthma after all. I haven't had any darry in over half a year and my asthma is gone, even now in the hottest days of the summer i feel great, i can breeth, before i had to use my inhailer on days like that and even inhailers didn't always help. I think all these doctors who are against milk have some very good information that should be shared with the world, I know it helped me. To drink milk or not is something everyone has to choose for himself. Interestingly though people who choose to drink milk do it for health reasons because milk is healthy, those who choose not to drink milk do it for health reasons too, because milk isn't healthy. So who do we belive when it comes to our health?