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"This attachment, not incidentally, is also strongly reinforced by the aggressive marketing campaigns of the dairy industry, which generally portray milk as our society's most wholesome and harmless health food. These ads make it much harder for kids to realize that milk can be bad for them, and the ads also make it harder for parents, themselves, to actually recognize the potential for harm that dairy products hold. Milk also often causes problems because of IgE allergies." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Dairy is not only almost always pasteurized, but with the recent rise of agribusiness techniques designed solely for profit in the dairy industry, milk comes from sick cows that are pumped up with antibiotics and hormones. In fact milk is filled with pus cells from these sick cows' udders! This situation was exacerbated when Monsanto's artificial growth hormone began to be fed to dairy cattle to boost milk production. Their milk began to routinely exceed FDA guidelines for pus cell content." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Remember, if you want to increase your calcium intake, dairy is hardly the only way to do it, though the dairy industry would have you believe it is the best way. It's not. Adding more dairy to your diet opens up a whole other can of worms that you may not want to open (see the section on dairy in my book The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth), and it may even aggravate PMS symptoms. Green leafy vegetables, sardines, and seeds (such as sesame or pumpkin) are full of calcium, and there are always supplements (be sure to take magnesium at the same time)." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"In 1990, the USDA allowed the dairy industry to increase the one part per hundred million antibiotic residue standard for milk by 10,000% to one part per million. The problem is that at this level of constant intake, the antibiotics actually destroy the probiotic colonies normally found in the intestinal tract, which then allows harmful bacteria to flourish and develop resistance to a whole range of antibiotics.' If you must have dairy, use organic. Avoid homogenized milk at all costs. Also, there are a number of grain and rice-based milk alternatives, some of which are spectacular." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"This is the dairy industry's dirty little secret: tell Americans to eat three servings of dairy a day, but don't tell them to avoid cheese. The truth is, cheese has no redeeming qualities; I call it the king of junk food. Unfortunately, cheese is the only dairy product with growing sales. The average American diet contains about 30 to 50 points of excess acid a day. How quickly you can discard this acid in your urine depends on how well hydrated you are and how much kidney function you have. The older you are, the less acid you can handle because your kidney function declines with age." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"This is more a triumph of marketing on the part of the dairy industry than anything else. Don't get me wrong, calcium is very important, but it's fairly useless without a supporting cast of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that help calcium be absorbed and utilized and stay where you want it to be (in the bones, not the arteries). This supporting cast is led by magnesium (and of course vitamin D)." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Rather than ban the growth hormone, the FDA simply increased the allowable pus cell content to match what the dairy industry was producing. Dr. Cousens cites studies that show a correlation between an increased incidence of leukemia in cows and in children who drank these cows' milk. He also cites a study in which 100% of the chimpanzees drinking milk from leukemic cows for one year also developed leukemia themselves (Spiritual Nutrition, pp. 261-262)." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Politics and Food The government food pyramid is always an interesting commentary on the politics of our time. The dairy industry has gained new lobbying power, relative to the grain industry. The dairy lobby did quite well in this round of the pyramid power struggle. We are now supposed to have three glasses of low-fat milk a day. I have nothing against quality milk, but it's not for everyone. People with digestive problems can't process milk well; it simply makes their digestive problems worse. Many Americans don't have the family heritage that supports this much milk consumption." - Byron J. Richards, The Leptin Diet: How Fit Is Your Fat? (Get the book.)

"The dairy industry touts its products very highly with support from nutritionists and physicians, but they never mention in their advertisements that many people are made sick by milk. We are unique as individuals and our needs for nutrients vary, as do other biochemical and physical attributes. There will be a narrow range of variation for some nutrients and a wide range of variation for others. Each nutrient will have its own range." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.) "This is good news for the dairy industry, for if milk consumption can be maintained long enough, no matter what the cost, most groups will have developed the ability to retain lactase production. It is now possible to swallow lactase tablets before the milk is drunk or to drink lactase treated milk and thus avoid most of the symptoms of lactase deficiency. However, this will not solve the problem for the milk allergic individual." - Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.)

"Cow's milk is heavily advertised by the dairy industry as a health-promoting food—one that "does a body good." However, while dairy products are a good source of protein, calcium, and some other nutrients, there are a number of important concerns about the safety of this food group. Research suggests that drinking milk may increase the risk of developing type 1 (juvenile onset) diabetes,15 although not all of the studies agree." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"Calcium, as you probably know, is also important for bone strength. The dairy industry has for many years engaged in what I consider to be a completely distorted propaganda campaign to try to convince people that milk is the best source of calcium. Personally, I think it's a very poor source of calcium for a number of reasons, such as the fact that it doesn't contain other minerals that are necessary as complementary minerals for bone density formation. That would include things like magnesium and trace minerals such as strontium." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Washington state's fertile Yakima Valley, famous for apples, cherries and a thriving dairy industry, gets precious little rainfall - and its irrigation systems depend almost entirely on vanishing snowmelt. Even far to the north in western Canada, where one might imagine that the winter cold would protect the seasonal snows, this situation will be repeated. One Canadian river stands to lose 40 per cent of its water. The Rockies could become virtually snowless across vast areas, with only the highest peaks retaining a winter covering." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"I realize this goes against generations of amazingly effective public-relations campaigns from the dairy industry, including the one with beautiful, healthy-looking, sexy, milk-mustachioed models smiling "got milk?" and warnings about how we will all get osteoporosis if we don't drink a quart of the stuff a day (not true), but this book is about facts, not about spin." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.) "All I can do is point them out in the hope that they will at least cause people to reflect on whether the "all milk all the time" mantra of the dairy industry ought to be taken with a grain of salt. Or two. Or three. It's also worth pointing out that in all these studies it's very unlikely that the majority of the milk drinkers were drinking the raw, organic, unpasteurized, and non-hormone-treated milk I recommend. Does that make a difference? It's anyone's guess—my personal belief is that it probably does." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"The dairy industry would disagree, of course...) Ban fast food restaurants at schools and hospitals We should also ban junk foods and fast foods at schools and hospitals. I think it's crazy that some schools have fast food chains right in the cafeteria where children can buy disease-promoting foods for lunch. It is just as crazy that our hospitals, which are supposed to be institutions of health and healing, also serve the same junk foods." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"These areas include the data base on s-BGH; efficacy and benefits to the dairy industry; veterinary effects; public health effects; Food and Drug Administration approval; and the FDA review process. Natural bovine growth hormone (n-BGH) is a protein hormone that controls bovine growth and lactation. Synthetic bovine growth hormones (s-BGH) are manufactured by recombinant DNA biotechnology by the Agriculture chemicals Division of Eli Lilly and Company (Elanco) in conjunction with the Dow Chemical Company, the Upjohn Company, American Cyanamid, and Monsanto." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"Well, it made economic sense for the dairy industry to wax lyrical about the tremendous health benefits of consuming their products. And then there 65 were certain members of the medical profession who got quite worked up about the need for dairy products in the diet. Perhaps they were just misguided, or perhaps they saw themselves losing a lot of revenue from those poor people suffering from ear infections, tonsillitis, asthma, and sinusitis. Then I looked at those suggesting that I eliminate dairy products from my diet. What did they have to gain? Nothing!" - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.) "TARTRAZINE (E 102) ANNATO (E 160 [B]) This is a natural yellow coloring extracted from the Annato tree and used to color cheese and butter. The dairy industry may claim that it is harmless, but there is evidence that it can provoke symptoms of intolerance in people who are susceptible to urticaria (hives) or angioneurotic edema (a severe condition of hives or a bad skin rash). Used as a silver colorant, aluminum is also found in Ceylon (black) and green tea (though not herbal teas)." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.) "According to the dairy industry, the amount of salt in butter is about 2 percent. Occasionally annatto (a natural coloring extracted from a tree) is used. The body is capable of handling this fat quite comfortably. Whereas the same cannot be said for margarine, which is heated several times before it eventually reaches our tables. Here is a brief summary of how oils and margarines are manufactured. This method is approved internationally, according to the oil companies. However, they neglect to mention that this approval does not necessarily mean that these products are good for you!" - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.) "Within a few years the dairy industry became more powerful and wanted their own food group and a few years later so did the fat industry. Did our health improve? Absolutely not. In fact, since WWII heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, autoimmune diseases, and digestive diseases increased. As research started to show how our health had deteriorated and that we needed to be eating simpler with less protein and less processed fats, the food industry attempted to change things by introducing the food pyramid." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"Until these concerns are addressed, FDA approval of the product is not in the general public's, or dairy industry's best interest. As you know, I and several of my colleagues have asked the General Accounting Office to do a thorough evaluation of FDA's review of BGH. The evaluation is designed to uncover any deficiencies in FDA's analysis of BGH, should they exists, as well as help determine what changes, if any, may be needed in FDA's review process to ensure public confidence in the safety of future biotechnology products." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"I give you several books that I highly recommend in relation to the meat industry as well as the dairy industry. This problem is more prevalent than you realize. The fact is, the only safe meat products in America are organic, kosher products. You want 100 percent organic beef. Ideally, you want both 100 percent organic and kosher. This way you are assured that the meat and poultry you're eating is disease free. I can guarantee you, if you continue to eat meat on a regular basis, you will continue to get sicker and sicker and sicker." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Let's go back to the dairy industry. How would you define milk? We hear a lot about milk. The dairy association obviously wants you to drink more milk. Remember, they don't care about you, they only care about the profits of its members that it represents, which in this case is all the people in the dairy industry. There have been thousands of studies on milk. Some say milk is good, others say milk is bad. Is there only one kind of milk? What kind of milk was used in the studies? If I were to tell you "milk" is good for you, do you think milk is milk is milk?" - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"At one time the government provided subsidies, which have since expired, to the dairy industry to encourage milk production. At the time they were introduced, there was a great push to communicate the health benefits of milk, particularly with regards to its central role in providing calcium for healthy bones. The government aided the dairy industry in these promotions, advising Americans to eat dairy products for the calcium they contain. The dairy industry soon learned that health messages don't sell milk, and haven't had any better luck with the "white mustache" and "Got milk?" - David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., What Color is Your Diet? (Get the book.) "The ups and downs of the dairy industry are a good example. At one time the government provided subsidies, which have since expired, to the dairy industry to encourage milk production. At the time they were introduced, there was a great push to communicate the health benefits of milk, particularly with regards to its central role in providing calcium for healthy bones. The government aided the dairy industry in these promotions, advising Americans to eat dairy products for the calcium they contain." - David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., What Color is Your Diet? (Get the book.)

"Peter Hardin, who monitors the dairy industry, in his highly influential The Milkweed monthly, believes that many farmers had to wean their herds off Posilac use during the short supplies in 2004 and 2005. Others he reports are turning to a Posilac "black market" to keep cows from crashing from drug withdrawal. In California, following the 50% cutback in Posilac supplies in early 2004, theft of Posilac shipments to farms became a serious problem." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"Financed by the meat and dairy industry and backed by nutritional scientists on the payroll of the meat and dairy industry, this promotion ignored science.20 This program could be more accurately labeled "the four food myths." It was taught in every classroom in America, with posters advocating a diet loaded with animal protein, fat, and cholesterol. The results of this fraudulent program were dramatic ?in more ways than one. Americans began eating more and more animal foods." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"This is a service to lactose-sensitive people who like dairy foods and miss eating them, but it is an even greater service to the dairy industry, which now has a new "value-added" product to sell —and at a premium price. Lactose is the sugar in milk, and an 8-ounce glass of milk contains about a tablespoon of this substance. Lactose is a "double" (two-sugar) sugar made of the single sugars, glucose and galactose, linked together. Double sugars are too big to be absorbed into your body from the intestinal tract." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "The dairy industry accomplished these so-called miracles of efficiency by doubling the amount of milk obtained from each cow from 9,700 to 19,000 pounds per year-just since 1970. The only way to get more milk out of fewer dairy farms and fewer cows is to push the cows to produce more. But the more milk a cow produces, the greater the chance that her udders can become infected and that she will need antibiotics. To stimulate greater milk production, dairy cows also are treated with hormones." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

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