Chinese Health And Healing
Some excerpts from Daniel Reid's "Complete book of Chinese Health and healing" about milk and diary.
Dairy:
Cow's milk is meant for calves, and babies are meant to drink mother's milk until weaned from it. Nature has designed both types of milk and digestive systems accordingly. It is a scientifically documented fact that calves fed on pasteurized milk from their own mother cows usually die within six weeks, so it stands to reason that pasteurized cow's milk is not a wholesome, life-sustaining food for calves, much less for humans. Yet not only do adult humans feed this denatured animal secretion to their own infants, they also consume it themselves.
Cow's milk has four times the protein and only half the carbohydrate content of human milk; pasteurization destroys the natural enzyme in cow's milk required to digest its heavy protein content. This excess milk protein therefore putrefies in the human digestive tract...
Many women, as well as men, consume dairy products because their doctors tell them it's a good source of calcium. This is fallacious advice. True, cow's milk contains 118mg of calcium in every 100 grams, compared to 33mg/100g in human milk. But cow's milk also contains 97mg of phosphorus/100g, compared to only 18mg/100g in human milk. Phosphorus combines with calcium in the digestive tract and actually blocks its assimilation. Dr Frank Oski, chairman of the Dept of Pediatrics at the State University of New York's Medical Center, states: "Only foods with a calcium-to-phosphorus-ratio of two-to-one or better should be used as a primary source of calcium.' The ratio in human milk is 2.35 to 1, in cow's milk only 1.27 to 1. Cow's milk also contains 50mg of sodium/100g, compared with only 16mg in human milk, so dairy products are probably one of the most common sources of excess sodium in the modern Western diet. (Russ's note: Oski died at age 64 of prostate cancer, so once again science does not necessarily mean truth, though if you are gung-ho about science it seems to conflict with drinking cow's milk based on this, yada yada).
Besides, cow's milk is not nearly as good a source of calcium as other far more digestible and wholesome foods. Compare the 118mg calcium /100g cow's milk to 100 grams of the following foods: Almonds (254mg), broccoli (130mg), kale (187mg), sesame seeds (1,160mg), kelp (1,093 mg), and sardines (400mg).
As for osteoporosis, it is caused no so much by calcium deficiency in the diet as it is by dietary factors which leach calcium from bones and teeth, especially sugar. Sugar, meat, refined starch, and alcohol all cause a constant state of acidosis in the bloodstream, and acid blood is known to dissolve calcium from bones. The best way to correct osteoporosis is to consume the non-dairy calcium rich foods mentioned above, while simultaneously cutting down or eliminating acidifying calcium robbers from the diet. A daily supplement of 3mg of the mineral boron also seems to help bones assimilate and retain calcium.
From the traditional Chinese medical point of view, milk is a form of 'sexual essence'. For the human species to drink the sexual essence of another species can only lead to trouble, especially for females, because the hormones it contains will upset the sensitive balance of the human endocrine system.
If you insist on consuming dairy products, your best bet is goat's milk , which approximates the nutritional composition and balance of human milk. The only safe products made from cow's milk are fresh butter, which is a digestible fat, and fresh live-culture yogurt, which is predigested for you by lactobacteria, but even these should be consumed in moderation and preferably prepared from raw unpasturized milk
Dairy:
Cow's milk is meant for calves, and babies are meant to drink mother's milk until weaned from it. Nature has designed both types of milk and digestive systems accordingly. It is a scientifically documented fact that calves fed on pasteurized milk from their own mother cows usually die within six weeks, so it stands to reason that pasteurized cow's milk is not a wholesome, life-sustaining food for calves, much less for humans. Yet not only do adult humans feed this denatured animal secretion to their own infants, they also consume it themselves.
Cow's milk has four times the protein and only half the carbohydrate content of human milk; pasteurization destroys the natural enzyme in cow's milk required to digest its heavy protein content. This excess milk protein therefore putrefies in the human digestive tract...
Many women, as well as men, consume dairy products because their doctors tell them it's a good source of calcium. This is fallacious advice. True, cow's milk contains 118mg of calcium in every 100 grams, compared to 33mg/100g in human milk. But cow's milk also contains 97mg of phosphorus/100g, compared to only 18mg/100g in human milk. Phosphorus combines with calcium in the digestive tract and actually blocks its assimilation. Dr Frank Oski, chairman of the Dept of Pediatrics at the State University of New York's Medical Center, states: "Only foods with a calcium-to-phosphorus-ratio of two-to-one or better should be used as a primary source of calcium.' The ratio in human milk is 2.35 to 1, in cow's milk only 1.27 to 1. Cow's milk also contains 50mg of sodium/100g, compared with only 16mg in human milk, so dairy products are probably one of the most common sources of excess sodium in the modern Western diet. (Russ's note: Oski died at age 64 of prostate cancer, so once again science does not necessarily mean truth, though if you are gung-ho about science it seems to conflict with drinking cow's milk based on this, yada yada).
Besides, cow's milk is not nearly as good a source of calcium as other far more digestible and wholesome foods. Compare the 118mg calcium /100g cow's milk to 100 grams of the following foods: Almonds (254mg), broccoli (130mg), kale (187mg), sesame seeds (1,160mg), kelp (1,093 mg), and sardines (400mg).
As for osteoporosis, it is caused no so much by calcium deficiency in the diet as it is by dietary factors which leach calcium from bones and teeth, especially sugar. Sugar, meat, refined starch, and alcohol all cause a constant state of acidosis in the bloodstream, and acid blood is known to dissolve calcium from bones. The best way to correct osteoporosis is to consume the non-dairy calcium rich foods mentioned above, while simultaneously cutting down or eliminating acidifying calcium robbers from the diet. A daily supplement of 3mg of the mineral boron also seems to help bones assimilate and retain calcium.
From the traditional Chinese medical point of view, milk is a form of 'sexual essence'. For the human species to drink the sexual essence of another species can only lead to trouble, especially for females, because the hormones it contains will upset the sensitive balance of the human endocrine system.
If you insist on consuming dairy products, your best bet is goat's milk , which approximates the nutritional composition and balance of human milk. The only safe products made from cow's milk are fresh butter, which is a digestible fat, and fresh live-culture yogurt, which is predigested for you by lactobacteria, but even these should be consumed in moderation and preferably prepared from raw unpasturized milk
