Skip Milk? 5 Reasons Why

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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New G.

10:02PM PST on Jan 10, 2012

Thank you.

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Michele L.

5:31AM PST on Jan 2, 2012

Yasmin, try using coconut milk in your lassi, coconut milk is delicious and has many benefits not found in other dairy alternatives.

Yasmin K.

5:08AM PDT on Jun 14, 2011

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...

Ioana B.

5:17AM PST on Feb 27, 2011

hmm...i read a lot of bad things about milk...in my country people drink a lot of it...guess i should only drink my tea and stop with the milk

Sonny H.

1:53PM PST on Feb 15, 2011

Good news.

Brenda T.

6:40AM PST on Feb 5, 2011

I'd be happy to switch to soy milk, but we keep getting warnings that is not safe either!!
So I will use soy milk on my porridge and in tea at home, but have decided that if I am elsewhere milk will have to suffice!! Otherwise it becomes too complicated!!

Raluca A.

3:21AM PST on Jan 7, 2011

good to know, thanks!

Sumiko K.

12:57PM PST on Nov 18, 2010

8th continent soy milk may contain genetically modified ingrdient but silk soy milk is listed as Non-genetically modified according to Center For Food Safety org.
Links below are helpful for people who are concerned about genetically modified foods and want to avoid buying them.
info@responsibletechnology.org
info@wellnessuncovered
infor@truefoodnow.org

Christina L.

12:22PM PST on Nov 18, 2010

Thanks that was helpful....I just switched to Silk Soy Milk, and was wondering what the pros and cons of that are, and what digestive changes I should expect. If anyone knows this please email me! Thanks!

Zuzanna B.

8:38AM PDT on Sep 20, 2010

Very useful article!!!