Thought for Today - Milk and Female Cancer

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Please pass on to friends and family.Robert Cohen <notmilk wrote:

notmilk From: "Robert Cohen" Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:14:22 -0000NOTMILK - Milk and Female CancerMilk and Female Cancer A September, 2004 publication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry contributes significant scientific support for the milk/cancer connection. It can take up to twelve years for a cancer to progress and mature from a one-cell beginning into a tiny million-cell nightmare that can be detected by a woman upon self examination. The healthiest untreated milk from organically raised cows naturally contains powerful growth hormones. One of those cow hormones, insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), is identical to that same hormone produced by the human body. Both contain 70 amino acids in the same sequence. Hundreds of landmark studies

relating to every type of human cancer have referred to IGF-I as a key factor in cancer's growth and proliferation. One such example was published in the Lancet (vol. 351) in May of 1998. Doctor Kurt Hankenson wrote: "IGF-I has been identified as a key factor in breast cancer." Thirteen years ago, the Journal of the National Institutes of Health (Dr. Scott Lippman, et. al., 1991, 3) reported: "IGF-I is critically involved in the aberrant growth of human breast cancer cells." The September, 2004 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry (17;279,38:40017-40025) contains a study in which the authors conclude: "Our results indicate that...IGF-I plays an important role...to promote growth and spread of gynecological cancers." This combined effort of scientists at Harvard Medical School, Oxford University, and the College of Medicine in Taiwan explored the biological and chemical

mechanisms by which cellular metabolism is stimulated by a series of events initiated by IGF-I. They found that IGF-I accelerates and intensifies the exchange of potassium-chloride ions through cell walls, which they determined led to cellular proliferation of human ovarian cancer and cervical cancer cell cultures. Does drinking milk increase levels of IGF-I in the human bloodstream? Two studies have confirmed that worst fear for milk drinkers. The first, performed by Robert Heaney and published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association in October of 1999 (vol. 99, no. 10), determined: "Serum IGF-I levels increased significantly in milk drinkers, an increase of about 10% above baseline but was unchanged in the control group." A more recent European study published in the September, 2004 issue of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Volume 58,9:1211-6) found that blood levels of

IGF-I increased by a factor of 19% in a group of milk-drinking children and was unchanged in the control group. Summary: IGF-I has been identified as a key factor in the growth of cancer. IGF-I is identical in human and cow. Drinking milk increases IGF-I levels. Robert Cohen http://www.notmilk.com Good Health to You

Elaine