Another Good Reason Not to Drink Milk

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Another Reason Not to Drink Milk

 

 

Many medical doctors and scientists have suggested a link between

milk consumption and heart disease. The scientific literature is so

filled with supportive references for that ideology that one wonders

why it is not universally accepted. One doctor has just suggested a

new milk factor. This new theory may very well earn its author a

Nobel Prize in medicine.

 

I could not have imagined this missing link, so meticulously

researched, so brilliantly presented between heart disease and a

substance in milk that had not been previously considered. The

following detective story blossoms into the story of the century,

and David Gordon's new book will soon be hailed as one of the

monumental achievements of the twentieth century.

 

THE AUTHOR

David Gordon, Ph.D., considers himself a cardiovascular

physiologist by profession and a medical historian by avocation. In

his 81 years, Dr. Gordon has worked with some of the great names in

medicine, particularly in the field of hypertension research.

 

He has written and edited numerous scientific papers and books. His

most well known and respected work is one volume of a landmark

series called " Benchmark Papers in Human Physiology. " That book is

titled, " Hypertension: The Renal Basis. "

Dr. Gordon is now retired and lives with his wife in Livermore,

California, a suburb of San Francisco. For the past ten years he has

devoted his life energy to studying the correlation between milk

drinking and coronary heart disease.

 

His new book arrived on Tuesday of this week and I read it that

evening. I re-read the book on Wednesday and am now on my third

reading. I sent Dr. Gordon a fax consisting of just one symbol, an

exclamation point. Today I spoke with the doctor and have never

before been so much in awe of a man and his work then I now am.

 

The book: MILK AND MORTALITY

 

Dr. Gordon's 207 page book cites 428 scientific papers,

published in the most respected of peer reviewed journals. His book

includes thirteen charts and illustrations consisting of

meticulously prepared data.

 

Most impressive of these charts are the ones on page 32 and 112. The

first chart correlates coronary heart disease mortality rates with

the consumption of milk in twenty-three countries.

 

The second chart

correlates milk consumption versus serum cholesterol level in 15

countries.

 

Each graph illustrates a convincing straight-line

correlation that provides an empirical relationship between milk and

heart disease.

 

THE MISSING LINK

 

 

 

Got milk? Got lactose? Lactose is broken down into glucose and

galactose. Even people who are lactose intolerant experience a

breakdown of lactose in the lower gastro-intestinal tract resulting

from bacterial action.

 

Galactose is toxic to the human system.

 

Gordon carefully takes the reader through 50 studies in his fifth

chapter: The Galactose Hypothesis: Natural Galactosemia.

 

In that chapter, we read reference after reference of how galactose

causes cataracts in laboratory animals and in humans. Gordon erects

the pyramid of each theory from the ground up, documenting the

chemistry, then physiology of each event.

 

There is little debate as to the toxicity of galactose, and its

etiology in cataract formation. Gordon pieces together pieces of a

puzzle that point to galactose as being a key factor in coronary

heart disease as well.

 

THE REFERENCES

 

There is so much scientific evidence in this book linking milk

consumption to heart disease, that any overall review would be a

disservice. The book should be a textbook for medical students. It

reads more like a scientific journal article. Every single page,

without exception, contains documented facts.

 

I merely take a small piece of information from page two of each

chapter to illustrate the profound nature of this Gordon's work. To

read the entire book is to be overwhelmed.

 

CHAPTER 1 - A MISSING RISK FACTOR (page 2)

 

 

 

" Twice as many men in Northern Europe died from coronary heart

disease as those in Southern Europe, in spite of starting out with

equivalent levels of the major risk factors. " (Northern European

countries consume the highest per capita rates of milk and dairy

products.)

 

(Keys, Seven Countries: a Multivariate Analyses of Death and

Coronary Heart Disease. Harvard University Press, 1980)

 

CHAPTER 2 - EPIDEMIOLOGY, EARLY STUDIES, MILK AND SUGAR (page 2)

 

" Significant atherosclerosis is rare in peoples whose diet over the

life span is predominantly vegetarian and low in calories, total

lipids, saturated lipids and cholesterol. "

 

(Nutrition and Athersclerosis by Louis Katz. Lea & Febiger, Phil.,

1958)

 

CHAPTER 3 - LATER STUDIES - MILK & CHEESE (page 2)

 

" In 1981 Stephen Seely... obtained mortality data from the World

Health Organization... and calculated correlation coefficents for

various foods and food components... comparing quantity consumed

with mortality rates from different countries...

(Seely) found that

milk and milk products gave the highest correlation coefficient,

while sugar, animal proteins and animal fats came in second, third,

and fourth, respectively. "

 

(Seely, Diet and Coronary Disease, A Survey of Mortality Rates and

Food Consumption Statistics of 24 Countries, Medical Hypothesis

7:907-918, 1981)

 

CHAPTER 4 - THE VILLAIN IN MILK - (page 2)

 

" The idea that proteins in milk may somehow be damaging to

coronaries…received a boost when Davies showed that more patients

who had suffered a myocardial infarction had elevated levels of

antibodies against milk proteins

than was found in a comparable

group of patients without coronary heart disease. "

 

(Davies, Antibodies and Myocardial Infarction, The Lancet, ii: 205-

207, 1980)

 

CHAPTER 5 - THE GALACTOSE HYPOTHESIS: NATURAL GALACTOSEMIA (page 2)

 

 

 

" The damage can be prevented if galactose restriction is instituted

very early in life... another example of organ damage which has been

well documented is ovarian damage... with galactosemia. "

 

(Kaufman, Hypergonatdotrophic Hypogonadism in Female Patients with

Galactosemia, New England Journal of Medicine, 304:994-998, 1981)

 

CHAPTER 6 - EXPERIMENTAL GALACTOSEMIA WITH LESSONS FROM CATARACTS

AND FROM DIABETES (page 2)

 

" One of the early studies, reported by Day in 1936 showed that, in

young rats fed a diet containing 60% carbohydrate, a comparison

between glucose, galactose, sucrose, and starch revealed that rises

in blood sugar were greatest with galactose feeding,

next highest

with lactose and blood sugar was slightly elevated with

sucrose. Starch and glucose diets yielded an approximately normal

level of about 120 mg per 100 cc. "

 

" An important additional fact, discovered by Day, was that after a

short (one hour) consumption of the high galactose diet by rats,

their blood sugar reached very high levels (e.g., 500 mg/dl) and

then fell rapidly over time but was still above normal levels five

hours after feeding. "

 

(Day, Blood Sugar in Rats Rendered Cataractous by Dietary

procedures. The Journal of Nutrition, 12:395-404, 1936)

 

CHAPTER 7 - GALACTOSE IN THE BLOOD (page 2)

 

 

 

" There is only one paper which reports galactose levels in the blood

of human beings after milk drinking! The only one! This study is

concerned with a comparison between the effects of milk intake

versus yogurt intake on galactose levels and not with the question

which I have raised - that is how high do galactose levels go after

milk drinking? "

 

David Gordon

 

CHAPTER 8 - A MILKY WAY TO LOOK AT THE LIPID HYPOTHESIS (page 2)

 

 

 

" Milk consumption correlates positively with cholesterol levels in

blood as well as coronary mortality.

 

In comparisons between 17

countries, there is a good correlation between national cholesterol

levels and mortality from ischaemic heart disease. "

 

(Law, An Ecological Study of Serum Cholesterol and Ischaemic Heart

Disease between 1950 and 1990. European Journal of Clinical

Nutrition, 48:305-325, 1994)

 

CHAPTER 9 - ALCOHOL AND YOGURT - (page 2)

 

" Although studies point out strong negative correlations between

wine consumption and heart disease... six countries with the highest

mortality show no correlation at all. Finland ranks highest of all

in milk consumption, wine consumption and mortality from heart

disease. "

 

(Leger, Factors associated with cardiac mortality in developed

countries with particular reference to the consumption of wine. The

Lancet,I, 1017-1020, 1979)

 

CHAPTER 10 - DO INDIANS FROM INDIA DRINK MORE MILK? - (page 2)

 

 

 

" Shaper and Jones published a report comparing coronary heart

disease and serum-cholesterol in native Africans living in Kampala,

Uganda and migrant Asian Indians living in the same community. The

first few sentences of that publication state:

 

'In the African population of Uganda coronary heart disease is

almost non-existant. In the Asian community, on the other hand,

coronary heart disease is a major problem.' "

 

(Sharper & Jones, Serum Cholesterol, Diet and Coronary Heart

Disease, The Lancet, I:534-537, 1959)

 

MILK AND MORTALITY

 

Milk and Mortality (ISBN 0-9671605-0-2 $35) is published by:

 

Gordon Books (925-443-6213)

567 Amber Court

Livermore California 94550

 

Robert Cohen author of: MILK - The Deadly Poison

(201-871-5871)

Executive Director

Dairy Education Board

http://www.notmilk.com

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