Food for Thought for 4/3/04

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Greetings:

 

From Robert Cohen's

http://www.notmilk.com

 

 

 

H.G. Wells once said, " Advertising is legalized lying. "

With that in mind, I have an offer to make to America's

dairy industry. I'll make a deal with all dairymen. If

they will stop telling lies about milk, I will cease

telling the truth about how milk consumption results

in disease.

 

The bigger the lie, the more people are apt to accept

that lie, and the latest diary strategy is to have consumers

believe that if one drinks milk, he or she will lose weight.

 

So, in the interest of self improvement you might consider:

 

Chopping off your toes to run faster.

Injecting heroin in order to gain clarity.

Eating pizza and ice cream for weight loss.

Smoking cigarettes for greater lung capacity.

Eating mercury-laden fish each day to live longer.

 

Whether you believe in God or mother nature or evolution, you

must accept the truth about breastfeeding. Baby humans, calves,

puppies, lambs, and piglets all must gain enormous

weight after birth. They do so by eating. The perfect

food for baby mammals is the formula given to them

from the milk glands of their own mothers. That formula

which is specific to each species, is designed to deliver

an abundance of calories, fat, and growth hormones.

Drinking milk is about gaining weight, not losing weight.

 

The most powerful growth hormone in the human body is

identical to the most powerful growth hormone in a cow's body.

That hormone (insulin-like growth factor, or IGF-1) instructs

every cell in the human body to grow. Would growth hormones

instruct your own tissues and organs to shed pounds?

 

Throughout history, obesity and wealth have been directly

proportional. Aristocracy has always benefited from the

creme de la creme of man's food supply, and overeating of

rich foods has been reserved for the rulers of both

primitive and civilized societies.

 

Today, starvation and malnutrition are directly proportional

to poverty in most world nations. America is the exception.

In the United States, being poor often means being

overweight.

 

Poor children in America's inner cities are often roly-poly

fat children. Drive by any schoolyard in America's inner

cities and overweight kids are the norm, not the exception.

 

Children, lacking in proper nutrition at home, are now the

beneficiaries of school breakfast and lunch programs.

 

What food group is the most subsidized in America? Milk and

dairy products. Milk is mandatory for school lunch programs.

 

Children are becoming overweight at an early age. By eating

growth hormones in combination with animal fat, the body has

a way of listening to the signals of those chemical

messengers: GROW!

 

Many children of color live below the poverty level. In its

wisdom, the United States Department of Agriculture provides

free food and nutritional programs for these kids. In its

lack of wisdom, USDA has chosen milk and dairy products to

be the major components of these kids' diets. These children

now receive free breakfasts of cereal with milk, free

lunches of chocolate milk with macaroni and cheese or pizza.

A free snack before they go home is more chocolate milk.

 

Ten pounds of milk are required to make one pound of cheese.

In 1970, the average American ate ten pounds of cheese.

Today, the average American eats thirty pounds of cheese.

Concentrated growth hormones in the presence of fat and

cholesterol do just what they were designed to accomplish.

Milk and dairy products represent 40% of the average

American's diet, 666 pounds per year per person.

 

Are Your Friends Fat Cows?

 

The average American women has gone from a size 8 to

a size 14 in just 20 years. What other change has

occurred in less than two decades?

 

During the 1980s, the average American woman was eating 10

pounds of cheese per year. Today, she consumes an average 31

pounds per year. It takes 10 pounds of milk to produce one

pound of cheese, so 310 pounds of saturated, fat-rich, high

calorie milk with growth hormones fuel America's obesity

epidemic.

 

Like the baby calf drinking her mother's milk, the average

American female body, more and more, is resembling that of a

bovine.

 

Charles Attwood, MD, wrote:

 

" Dietary fat during childhood may be more life-threatening

than was originally suspected... Overweight children are

usually the victims of the dietary habits of the adult

members of the family...Reducing dietary fat to levels

necessary to the control of cholesterol cannot be achieved

if a child drinks whole milk or eats cheese. "

 

In July of 2000, the Archive of Disabled Children (Volume

83) reported:

 

" From 1965 to 1996, a considerable shift in the adolescent

diet occurred...increases occurred in the consumption of

higher fat potatoes and mixed dishes (pizza, macaroni

cheese)... These trends, far greater than for US adults,

may compromise health of the future US population. "

 

It is easy to gain weight by eating pizza, ice cream,

yogurt, and milk. It is also easy to slim down from

size 14 to size 8 again. The dietary answer: NOTMILK!