| One of the first things you learn in the | | | | than women who follow a plant-based diet. |
| Hippocrates health lifestyle is that dairy products | | | | Along with IGF-1, another cancer-causing |
| are not designed for the human body. Think | | | | substance in milk is a protein called casein. Casein |
| about it for a moment: the milk of the dairy cow | | | | represents 80 percent of the protein in milk. This |
| is for a calf to grow into a one thousand + pound | | | | protein is a powerful binder and is used as a glue |
| creature. | | | | to make sturdy furniture and to hold beer-bottle |
| Imagine walking up to a cow in an old barn, | | | | labels in place. Casein is also a polymer used to |
| kneeling and drinking directly from the teat. The | | | | make plastics. In his book The China Study, Dr. |
| only reason billions of people do it is because they | | | | Campbell tells about one of his studies, funded by |
| have been brainwashed by traditional beliefs that | | | | a research grant from the National Institutes of |
| today are reinforced by the media and marketing | | | | Health. In the study, he administered aflatoxin, a |
| special interest groups. | | | | known carcinogen, to rats. One group he fed with |
| "Got milk?" We see it all the time, on T-shirts, | | | | a diet of 20 percent casein and the other group |
| television commercials and advertisements. "Milk...it | | | | he fed with a diet of 5 percent casein. After 100 |
| does a body good," we are told by the media and | | | | weeks, all of the animals fed 20 percent casein |
| the dairy industry. If you don't drink milk, where | | | | were dead or near death from liver tumors. The |
| are you going to get your calcium? Will you end | | | | group that was fed 5 percent casein was alive, |
| up with osteoporosis? What about vitamin D? | | | | active and healthy. The same results were found |
| These are the kinds of questions that immediately | | | | when mice were dosed with HBV, another known |
| pop into most people's minds when it is suggested | | | | carcinogen. These implications in rodents apply to |
| that they or somebody else stop consuming milk. | | | | humans because of the almost identical protein |
| You many even feel angry to hear that milk is | | | | requirements in rats and humans and because |
| not the great health food you believe it is. | | | | protein operates in humans almost the same way |
| Consider SOME facts: All cow's milk, including | | | | it does in rats. |
| "organic" milk, contains more than 50 active | | | | Another protein present in milk is whey protein. |
| hormones, scores of allergens, and loads of fat | | | | Whey is made up of bovine blood protein. The |
| and cholesterol. The recommended three glasses | | | | body's reaction to this foreign protein often |
| of milk per day contains the same amount of | | | | causes an auto-immune response, as the antibody |
| cholesterol found in 53 slices of bacon! | | | | used to destroy the invader turns against the |
| Another noteworthy constituent of cow's milk is a | | | | body's own cells. The New England Journal of |
| growth hormone called Insulin-like Growth Factor | | | | Medicine reported in 1992 that insulin-dependent |
| One (IGF-1). IGF-1 is the hormone responsible for | | | | Type 1 diabetes is linked to the body's production |
| causing a 60-pound calf to rapidly grow into a | | | | of antibodies to cow's milk. And diabetes is one of |
| 600-pound cow. No wonder that 50 percent of | | | | the fastest growing diseases among children. |
| Americans are obese! Contrary to what the dairy | | | | This is one of the few areas that are painful to |
| industry tells us, milk does not promote weight | | | | see how our children are misled by the special |
| loss; instead, it promotes weight gain. | | | | interest groups and lobbies that influence public |
| Not only does IGF-1 cause our waistlines to grow | | | | policy. |
| by inches, it also causes the rapid growth and | | | | If you don't yet realize the dangers of consuming |
| proliferation of breast, prostate, and colon | | | | milk and milk by-products keep researching all the |
| cancers. Data from Dr. T. Colin Campbell's | | | | information available. You and your children |
| landmark scientific study, the China-Oxford-Cornell | | | | deserve to know the truth. Follow the |
| Study, indicates that women, who derive their | | | | Hippocrates Health Lifestyle and you will steer |
| protein from animal products, including milk, are | | | | clear of the dangers of milk. |
| five times more likely to die of breast cancer | | | | |