by E. Manning

Created on: April 30, 2008

Milk is advertised as having nutrients that are essential to your health. The milk lobby has been instrumental in this view. On average, American adults are known to consume only half of the three daily servings of milk recommended by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Milk is advertised as a top dietary source of calcium, a mineral that's critical for helping prevent osteoporosis and keeping teeth strong. The problem is that the body is incapable of absorbing the calcium unless a sufficient amount of Vitamin D is present. Unfortunately, most containers in the market allow for the ready destruction of the added Vitamin D and other vitamins that are required to be able to absorb the calcium.

Milk is advertised as a great way to get calcium, but the truth is that other dairy products, soy proteins, beans, vegetables and some nuts are often far more valuable for good health, calcium and vitamin supplementation. To make matters worse, copious amounts of sugar are added to milk to improve the taste to the detriment of the blood-sugar impaired citizens of the U.S.

Raw milk became known as a convenient vehicle for the transmission of communicable disease because of improper handling. In older days, cows were not heavy milk producers with enormous udders. Cows were rarely ill because they were not pushed to the edge and afflicted with mastitis. Mastitis often requires the almost continuous use of penicillin to keep milk flowing freely. Special feed is used to maximize milk production. Milk production is about money over quality.

When people began moving to cities, milk became a food of commerce. Cows were bred for large udders to produce more milk. As milk production entered commerce, it became subject to contamination by bacteria. Mass production resulted in more milk, but quality faltered. Before the days of refrigeration, cows were kept in large sheds in the city, even underground, becoming distressed and diseased. Pasteurization was necessary to prevent the spread of disease.

Nowadays, milk is a remedy for nothing. Negative effects of modern products can be easily equated with the lack of food enzymes from pasteurization. Even pasteurized fruit juices provide little benefit to the average consumer. The rise of Diabetes and other immune disorders can be easily ascribed to the lack of food enzymes in processed products and the exhaustion of enzymes within the human body.

Modern nutrition condemns the old nutrition of raw fats and cholesterol. Men and women that live in

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