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The
Vitamin and Mineral Content of Milk
From The
Whole Kernel, Book I, pp. 21-24, by Dr. Ede Koenig, Ph.D.
As
a principal food, the vitamin-mineral balance is not ideal for
children or adults. There is too much sodium, too little vitamin C
and almost no iron. Under some conditions, milk interferes with the
absorption of iron, and can cause anemia. It is believed to bind zinc
in a way that reduces its utilization by the body. Zinc is an
important substance in the nutrition of man, keeping the skin smooth,
strengthening the memory function, and is a component of insulin.
Milk is low in zinc. Nuts, dry legumes and whole grains contain up to
ten times more zinc than milk. Any degree of lactose intolerance can
be expected to enhance the problem of low zinc content in milk.
The
mineral imbalance of milk is not the only matter to cause concern
but the total number of waste produces non-metabolizable dietary
components, especially electrolytes which are spoken of as the
"renal solute load, can be greatly increased by milk.
Electrolytes taken in excess of the needs of the body and nitrogenous
which result from the digestion and metabolism of protein can put
quite a load on the kidneys. This matter becomes especially important
when there is a low appetite for water and in infants and elderly
people with a low fluid intake. This group is often being fed
calorically concentrated diets, particularly if there is an
abnormally high loss of water either through the kidneys, the skin,
or the bowels as in fever, elevated environmental temperature,
diarrhea, or in the use of medicinal diuretics or in cases of
hyperventilation. Overconcentrated formulas for infants and children
are risky and may permanently injure the kidneys or cause death.
Formulas prepared from improperly diluted - evaporated milk or
various powdered milk formulas or supplements that may be added
represent a hazard to infants who have functionally immature kidneys.
Vitamin
D (which is added to commercial milk) in too great a quantity causes
loss of magnesium from heart muscle. Some authorities believe that
magnesium loss is what precipitates heart attacks. Rats fed five
times the usual magnesium in the diet are protected from the heart
attacks they could get from excess Vitamin D. Adding potentially
toxic substances such as Vitamin D to milk is not wise. The American
Academy of Pediatrics recommends no more than 400 units of Vitamin D
from all sources to be consumed daily. Hardening of bones, renal
calcification, and severe mental retardation in offspring have all
been reported from a high Vitamin D intake.
Babies
who have diarrhea, hair loss, weight loss, and who develop red
lesions in the diaper area - spreading to the limbs, face and body
orifices, may be suffering from zinc deficiency. Human milk contains
a protein which assists in the absorption of zinc in newborns. All
kinds of nuts and seeds are relatively good sources of zinc. Dairy
milk is a poor source of both zinc and iron. Further, a high calcium
intake , especially in the presence of phytic acid, depresses the
absorption of zinc. Since milk is both a poor source of zinc and a
high source of calcium, it would be wise to avoid milk and to give
foods that contain a good zinc level to babies. Since refined foods
also generally contain low levels of zinc, these articles should also
be avoided.
The
use of milk increases the need for Vitamin A, and probably also
iron, calcium, zinc and Vitamin B-12. The objective in nutrition is
to obtain the most safe, reasonable and economical foods in their
most natural possible state, prepared in a simple yet tasty way and
served in a pleasant and nice manner.
More Dangers
of Milk
In
the Spring, 1984, edition of Moneysworth,Drs. Kurt A. Oster and
Donald J. Ross of Fairfield University assert that drinking
homogenized milk may start hardening of the arteries in infancy,
making milk drinking even more dangerous than smoking. Smokers choose
their habit, notes Oster, "but you are almost ambushed into
drinking milk. I think the treacherousness of this is more
dangerous." Oster and Ross recently released the results of 20
years of research with a blistering attack on the dairy industry.
They are urging changes in milk processing to minimize the presence
of the enzyme "xanthine oxidase", or X0, which they say
starts arteriosclerosis--hardening of the arteries--long before
cholesterol and cigarette smoking become factors. Ross says the
enzyme is responsible for an estimated 500,000 deaths each year in
the United States, and that it may have caused "millions of
deaths" worldwide. The death rates due to arteriosclerosis in
Finland and the United States--where almost all milk is
homogenized--were far higher than in other nations.
Ross and Oster later concluded that the homogenization of milk and derived products, such as some ice creams and cheese, allows small quantities of X0 to pass into the bloodstream. ROSS, director of the chemistry lab at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, Corm., says X0 can be eliminated by using higher temperature and longer holding times during milk pasteurization. "But the dairy people claim that produces a cooked taste to milk."
In
Puerto Rico, a puzzle has been unraveling having to do with the
early physical development of children. The symptom is alarming to
parents and bewildering to the affected children: breast development
in girls six months to seven years old, and sometimes in young boys.
Ordinarily, premature thelarche, as doctors call the condition, is a
rare disorder, occurring in less than one out of 1,000 children. But
in recent years doctors in Puerto Rico have reported more than 700
cases, mostly in children under two. Some slightly older patients
display a fuller range of adult sexual traits, including menstruation
at age seven. "When you see four cases a day of an uncommon
condition, ,then you know something is very wrong," declares
Pediatric Endocrinologist Carmen A. Saenz de Rodriguez of San Juan.
The
villain, according to Saenz and other Puerto Rican doctors, could be
the local food--beef, chicken and that fundamental childhood staple,
milk. These physicians suspect that meat and milk producers are
unlawfully using estrogen and related compounds, including the
federally banned carcinogen diethylstilbestrol (DES), to add heft to
their animals. High consumption of such chemicals has been known to
cause premature thelarche, and, say the doctors, when patients are
withdrawn from the suspect foods, nearly all recover within six to
eight months.
In
a study on bed-wetting, fully 50% of the children studied stopped
bed-wetting when milk was removed from the diet. The investigators
speculate that milk acts on the inhibitory center of the brain stem
to lower the voiding reflex threshhold. Clinical Trends in Family Practice,
- September-October, 1978.
Dr.
William Dreamer of San Francisco reports that many musculoskeletal
pains called "growing pains" in children are related to an
allergy to milk. (Oski, Frank, M.D., Don’t Drink Your Milk,
Wyden Books, 1971, p. 23)
The
lactose in milk facilitates the absorption of lead, which is toxic
to the human body. Laboratory animals were given normal doses of
lactose, and as the lactose intake was increased, more lead was
absorbed and retained in their tissues. Science 221 [4477] : 61-63,
January 2, 1981.)
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