For the last few years, there is been a controversy around homogenized milk and dairy consumption in general. Myself, I read a number of articles and medical research reports, which either support or dismiss the need of dairy in our diet.

Many vegan-living advocates and many medical and nutritional experts support the idea that we are better off without dairy due to the following facts:
- conventional cattle farming exposes cows to heavy treatment with antibiotics and growth hormones.
- we can get all the calcium we need from a healthy, balanced plant-based diet
- homogenized milk has been associated with heart disease and cancer


Let’s take a brief look at homogenization process.

The homogenization process breaks up an enzyme in milk (xanthine oxidase), which in its altered (smaller) state can enter the bloodstream and react against arterial walls causing the body to protect the area with a layer of cholesterol. There is some very compelling research demonstrating clear associations with this absorbed enzyme and increased risks of heart disease.

Robert Cohen, Executive Director of the Dairy Education Board, wrote in his article "Homogenized Milk: Rocket Fuel for Cancer," accessed Nov. 28, 2007.

"Homogenization is the worst thing that men did to milk. Simple proteins rarely survive digestion in a balanced world. Milk is a hormonal delivery system. With homogenization, milk becomes a very powerful and efficient way of bypassing normal digestive processes and delivering steroid and protein hormones to the human body (both your hormones and the cow's natural hormones and the ones they were injected with to produce more milk). Through homogenization, fat molecules in milk become smaller and become 'capsules' for substances that bypass digestion. Proteins that would normally be digested in the stomach or gut are not broken down, and are absorbed into the bloodstream…Homogenized milk, with its added hormones, is rocket fuel for cancer."

What about calcium?! – Indeed, this question makes me want to ask another question. Where do cows get calcium for their huge bones?! I doubt it comes from human milk consumption, please pardon my sarcasm. Well, let’s see…may be plant based diet is the answer! Many researches have shown that celery, spinach, broccoli and other plants and vegetables have few times more absorbable calcium than a glass of milk. All we need to do is to learn how to bring these plants back into our diet. Leafy greens, nuts, fish and soy foods contain impressive amount of absorbable calcium along with other minerals that are easy for our body to assimilate.

So what are the options of individuals who are not ready to give up their dairy? My advice is to look into buying organic non-homogenized sheep, goat or cow dairy products. Goat and sheep dairy is known to be a little easier to digest even by people who are unable to digest cows milk.

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Can I drink coffee during my 21 day detox plan? Thank you.

A: As for caffeine, coffee will contribute to much slower detoxification, and will make it as twice as hard to get rid of excess water in the body. How about gentle transition to black tea and then green tea? It also has caffeine but is not so acidic to our system. Or may be you could try have coffee every other day and slowly reduce it to 3-2-1-0 cups per week.

I noticed there are no soy products (tofu, soy milk etc) in my 21 day detox plan. I had a salad for lunch and I was not sure whether I can use those in my salad. Thank you.

A: During detox all the common allergens like wheat, dairy, soy, peanuts should be eliminated. However, you can start adding SOY (tofu, tempeh) if you feel your body needs additional protein. Soy milk in general
is hard for human digestion, so your best choice is Eden Soy Milk, it¹ s made with kelp and Koji ferment to help digestion. Other brands could be made from genetically modified crops, so I wouldn't advise eating those, especially to anyone who had a history of hormonal cancer as soy products are a source of phyto estrogen.

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In our next newsletter I will share with you few facts about antibiotics and growth hormones in conventional dairy produce and how to prevent it from harming our children and us.

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Got Milk?! - Seeing little Mia drinking such huge amounts of milk daily (even though organic) inspired me to write milk and dairy consumption.

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Next Issue - Facts about antibiotics and growth hormones in conventional dairy produce.

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