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Loading...Skip Milk? 5 Reasons Why
- Dr. Frank Lipman
- May 22, 2010
- 5:01 pm
- 781 comments
There do not appear to be any other benefits of dairy (apart from being the source of whey protein) and to make matters worse, dairy seems to have detrimental effects to your health. Milk should be for calves (baby cows), most humans have a problem digesting it. I cannot tell you how many patients I have seen over the years whose chronic constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, arthritis, chronic sinusitis and allergies cleared up when they stopped eating dairy. When people come to see me in my practice and I put them on a diet, I almost always remove dairy.
1. Dairy cows are fed the wrong food, which not only changes the nature of the milk but causes health problems for the cows. They are fed soy, corn, cottonseed meal or other commercial feeds, which contain all sorts of things including chicken manure and citrus peel cake, laced with pesticides. These foods are not appropriate for cows, who are ruminants and should be feeding on green grass in the spring, summer and fall and on green feed, silage, hay and root vegetables in the winter. Unfortunately most dairy cows are kept in confinement, given antibiotics and hormones, and never see green grass their entire lives.
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Dr. Frank Lipman
Frank Lipman MD is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of Integrative and Functional Medicine. A practicing physician, he is the founder and director of the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in NYC, where for over 20 years his personal brand of healing has helped thousands of people reclaim their vitality. To bring his approach to a wider audience, he created Eleven Eleven Wellness, Guided Health Solutions. He is the author of Revive (previously called Spent) and Total Renewal. To hang with Frank, visit his blog, follow him on Twitter or join his Facebook community today.
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+ add your ownThis is why I only drink 100 percent Organic, grassfed, raw, and unhomogenized milk!
It depends on individual difference
Unfortunately i have to stuck with cow's milk
Never really cared for milk. I hate the taste and the concept freaks me out. I like almond milk much better. I do eat cheese and ice cream though, but only organic.
Cow's milk is linked to all manner of health ailments and diseases. Have a look at the 'Not Milk' website.
Read up too about Professor Jane Plant who survived a 'terminal' breast cancer diagnosis by changing her diet and lifestyle, centred on giving up all dairy produce.
Numerous healthy, nutritious plant milks are available - soya, almond, hazelnut, coconut, rice, oat and others....
Milk is very tasty when it comes from non-factory farm dairy...organic is wonderful.
Thank you.
Yasmin, try using coconut milk in your lassi, coconut milk is delicious and has many benefits not found in other dairy alternatives.
Oh boy, there goes the mango lassi;)p...but thank you so much for the information, it is good to be at least informed of in order to make better choices for our and our family's health...
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