52 Reasons To Avoid Milk & Dairy Products
       Part IIl 

by Robert Cohen

R is for RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS 
"Rheumatoid arthritis is more severe than osteoarthritis, is most common in the hands and feet, and is characterized by swelling of joints. Since this type of joint pain can be a symptom of a food allergy, dietary change sometimes has a profound effect. Dairy products, the most common food allergen, are one likely candidate as a contributing causative factor." VEGETARIAN AND VEGAN NUTRITION BY GEORGE EISMAN, M.A., M.SC., R.D.

"In the case of the eight year old female subject, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis was a milk allergy. After avoiding dairy products, all pain was gone in three weeks." JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, 1985, 78

S is for SUDDEN INFANT DEATH 
"Hypersensitivity to milk is implicated as a cause of sudden death in infancy." THE LANCET, VOL. 2, 7160, NOVEMBER 19, 1960

"Those who consumed cow’s milk were fourteen times more likely to die from diarrhea related complications and four times more likely to die of pneumonia than were breastfed babies. Intolerance and allergy to cow’s milk products is a factor in sudden infant death syndrome." THE LANCET, VOL. 344, NOVEMBER 5, 1994

T is for TUBERCULOSIS
 "A Mycobacterium bovis-infected dairy herd of 369 Holstein cows with lactation duration between 200 and 360 days was tested…170 cows had positive tuberculin test results, and 199 had negative results. Cows with positive test results produced less milk than did cows with negative test results…In this herd, tuberculosis was associated with a 4% decrease in milk production." J AM VET MED ASSOC, 1998 SEP, 2136

"Many diseases such as tuberculosis are transmissible by milk products."

JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE 1988; 71 U is for UTERINE & OVARIAN CANCER "The uterus and ovary, like the breast, are hormone-sensitive organs. Not surprisingly, uterine and ovarian cancers are both linked to fatty diets in epidemiological studies." CANCER 1966;19

"IGFs may be important in carcinogensis, possibly by increasing the risk of cellular transformation by enhancing cell turnover. These emerging epidemiologic data indicate that high levels of IGF-I are associated with an increased risk of at least several types of carcinoma that are common in economically developed countries." HORM RES, 1999, 51 SUPPL 3

V is for VITAMIN D-EFICIENCY 
"Exposure to sunlight provides most humans with vitamin D requirement." JOURNAL OF NUTRITION 1996;126(4 SUPPL)

"Testing of 42 milk samples found only 12% within the expected range of Vitamin D content. Testing of 10 samples of infant formula revealed seven with more that twice the Vitamin D content reported on the label, one of which had more than four times the label amount. Vitamin D is toxic in overdose." NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, 1992, 326

W is for WISCOWSINITIS 
"I have run into patients who undergo marked alterations in behavior patterns when ingesting dairy products, and whose behavior is totally changed by withholding them." LETTER, PEDIATRICS 1979;64(5) JOHN J. MURRAY, M.D.

"These dairymen are organized, they’re adamant, they’re militant, and they — they’re massing an enormous amount of money that they’re going to put into political activities, very frankly." SEC. OF TREASURY, JOHN CONNALLY TO PRES. RICHARD NIXON, FROM WATERGATE TAPES, MAR. 23, 1971

X is for XANTHENE OXIDASE 
"Bovine milk is presently under investigation by this laboratory since it has been shown that milk antibodies are significantly elevated in the blood of male patients with heart disease." PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, 163 1981

"Bovine milk xanthenes oxidase (BMXO) may be absorbed and may enter the cardiovascular system. People with clinical signs of atherosclerosis have greater quantities of BMXO antibodies. BMXO antibodies are found in greater quantities in those patients who consume the largest volumes of homogenized milk and milk products." THE X-O FACTOR, BY KURT OSTER, M.D., AND DONALD ROSS, PH.D.

Y is for YIN/YANG 
"Significant atherosclerosis is rare in peoples whose diet over the life span is predominantly vegetarian and low in calories, total lipids, saturated lipids and cholesterol." NUTRITION AND ATHERSCLEROSIS, BY LOUIS KATZ

"Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for several chronic degenerative diseases and conditions, including obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION, NOVEMBER 1997, 97(1)

Z is for ZITS 
"Acne is an end-organ hyper-response to androgens…These data show that sebaceous glands are stimulated by androgens to varying degrees and support the theory of an end-organ response in acne." BRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY, 1998 JUL, 1391

"We studied the effects of growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factors (IGFs), alone and with androgen, on sebaceous epithelial cell growth…IGF-I was the most potent stimulus of DNA synthesis. These data are consistent with the concept that increases in GH and IGF production contribute in complementary ways to the increase in sebum production during puberty." ENDOCRINOLOGY, 1999 SEP, 1409, 4089-94

Robert Cohen
author of MILK — The Deadly Poison Exec. 
Director (notmilkman@notmilk.com  ) 
Dairy Education Board http//www.notmilk.com 
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