Milk is for Calves
I guess everyone has seen the commercials about “Milk does a body good”. The message goes even further: the commercial product known as cow’s milk has somehow been embedded into America’s subconscious as wholesome. Children are forced to drink cow’s milk as a beverage at school meals and at home. Some children have even been given cows milk in bottles. Adults assume that it prevents disease like osteoporosis and is healthy.
Here’s the problem We are not cows. We are humans.
Please notice a little law of nature. No other mammal nurses from another mammal. That is because IT ISN’T NORMAL. Mammals (that would include us) give birth to their young and nurse them for some short period of time. At that point in time, they stop nursing and wean their young off their own milk.
Please notice that the act of consuming lactation (milk) is known as NURSING. If you are a human and can read this, you need to be WEANED. Continuing to nurse past preschool age is just a little weird….. not to mention the species thing.
Laws of nature are meant to preserve us. How could we have broken such a law and gotten away with it?
Well, we didn’t. The health statistics are in: According to American Heart Association “1,200,000 new and recurrent coronary attacks per year.” Deaths from heart disease is getting higher and higher…. The latest numbers are from 2003: 479,305 US deaths.
American Heart Association
How is this related to milk consumption? The World Health Organization did a study to find correlation between food consumption and death. It found a perfect correlation between milk protein consumption and coronary mortality. That’s right, it will kill you. There are many theories about how that happens over time http://www.tbkfitness.com/milk.html but my opinion is that is isn’t meant to be consumed by humans because it is COW’S MILK. IT IS MEANT FOR BABY COWS.
The commercialization of milk and milk products is a marketing work of genius. How did we ever convince people to consume this stuff? Even more amazing is how did people learn to associate disease prevention with milk consumption? Marketing works.
But does it make sense? We are told that drinking milk prevents bone disease. (remember the “milk does a body good” thing?). Cows don’t have bone disease, and they don’t drink milk. They eat grass. The largest bones found in a mammal on the face of the earth today, is in the blue whale. It grows to over 100 tons, gives live birth, nurses their young for approximately 7 – 8 months, weans them, and lives on krill, small fish and plankton. These massive bones do not have holes in them, and this animal NEVER consumes any milk from a COW.
Milk only does small calves bodies good, and then for only a small period of time. I guess we need to be clear about WHOSE body we are talking about in the commercial. It must be a “fine print” thing.
Bottom line: We are humans, and should consume human milk until we are weaned. Then we should consume water, tea, coffee, and fruit juices. It is just that simple. To read more about the dangers associated with milk consumption please check out No Milk.
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