The Pus-Bacteria Moustache-Marketing Milk & Disease

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The Pus-Bacteria Moustache

Marketing Milk & Disease

By John McDougall, MD

(65 references)

6-11-3

 

 

The Dairy Industry is really big business, with sales of over $11

billion for milk and $16 billion for cheese annually in the USA

alone, so you might expect hard line marketing from them, but would

you expect them to aggressively sell their products if they were

known to be harmful to people, especially to women and children?

 

The Dairy Management Inc., whose purpose is to build demand for dairy

products on behalf of America's 80,000-plus dairy producers, has just

released the Dairy Checkoff 2003 Unified Marketing Plan (UMP) with a

budget of $165.7 million. (1)

 

The United Marketing Plan explains, " This ongoing program area

(referring to the section Dairy Image/Confidence) aims to protect and

enhance consumer confidence in dairy products and the dairy industry.

A major component involves conducting and communicating the results

of dairy nutrition research showing the healthfulness of dairy

products, as well as issues and crisis management. " (1)(Most likely,

I fall under the heading of " issues and crisis management. " )

 

A significant portion of the money from the 2003 Unified Marketing

Plan is specifically targeted to children ages 6 to 12 and their

mothers. The goal is " to guide school-age children to become life-

long consumers of dairy products, 2003 activities will target

students, parents, educators and school foodservice professionals. "

(1) (Similar words and intentions have been attributed to the tobacco

industry.) All this marketing is working, too: annual fluid milk

consumption among kids 6 to 12 increased to 28 gallons per capita,

the highest level in 10 years. Children under 18 drink 46% of the

milk consumed in the USA.

 

Realize that when I say milk in this article, I'm also implicating

all dairy products that are made from milk: non-fat milk, low-fat

milk, buttermilk, cheeses, cottage cheese, yogurt, ice cream, whey,

kefir, and butter. All of them share a similar nutritional profile

(plus or minus the fat, protein, and sugar), and as a result, all of

them contribute to a wide range of health problems.

 

Will the UMP Inform You of the Contamination? E. Coli, AIDS and

Leukemia Viruses?

 

Last month I left you with some very disturbing facts about the

contamination of milk with loads of bacteria and millions of white

blood cells (pus cells) which are there to help fight off the

infections found in cows and milk (see the April 2003 Newsletter

found at http://www.drmcdougall.com ).

 

Will the 2003 Unified Marketing Plan specify money to inform you of

this upsetting information? You will never see an advertisement with

a famous movie star proudly wearing a white mustache, properly

labeled as containing 300,000 white blood cells and 25,000 bacteria.

 

Dairy products were the foods most often recalled by the U.S. Food

and Drug Administration (FDA) from the period October 1, 1993 through

September 30, 1998 because of contamination with infectious agents,

mostly bacteria. (2)

 

They are commonly tainted with disease-causing bacteria, such as

salmonella, staphylococci, listeria, deadly E. coli O1573 and

Mycobacterium paratuberculosis (4) (possibly one of the agents

causing Crohn's disease; a form of life-threatening chronic colitis),

as well as viruses known to cause lymphoma and leukemia-like

diseases, and immune deficiency in cattle.

 

AIDS and Leukemia Viruses Dairy cattle are infected with bovine

immunodeficiency viruses (BIV) and bovine leukemia viruses (BLV),

worldwide. (Bovine immunodeficiency viruses can also be properly

referred to as bovine AIDS viruses.)

 

In the United States, results show an average 40% of beef herds and

64% of dairy herds are infected with BIV. (5)

 

In Canada (6-7), the infection rate is 70% and in Argentina (8) the

rate is 84% for BLV.

 

Herds infected with the BIV are usually infected with the leukemia

virus (BLV) also. (5)

 

Both viruses can cross species lines thus infecting other animals,

like sheep, goats, and chimpanzees â* " and they develop disease. (5)

 

Nationwide and worldwide, leukemia is more common in the higher dairy

consuming populations. (9,10)

 

An increased incidence of leukemia has been found among dairy farmers

in multiple studies. (11-14)

 

BIV infection has been reported in a person. (15)

 

The bovine leukemia virus has been classified in the same group as

the Human T-cell Leukemia/Lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1), which

is known to cause leukemia and lymphomas in humans (Adult T-cell

leukemia/lymphoma). (16)

 

BIV is structurally and genetically closely related to human

immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type-1 (the virus causing human AIDS).

(17)

 

Pasteurization kills many types of microorganisms, but it is not

foolproof. There is also concern that pasteurization may break the

viruses into fragments that may become even more dangerous. (18)

 

Has it been shown that the bovine AIDS and/or leukemia viruses will

infect you and cause disease? No. Nor has it been proved that they

will not. Compared to the efforts to try to convince you of the bone-

building benefits of milk, almost nothing has been spent to establish

whether or not it is safe to feed your family dairy products teeming

with bovine immunodeficiency and bovine leukemia viruses (and/or

viral fragments). Some countries take this matter very seriously. For

example, in many European countries, health officials have conducted

programs to eradicate infected herds; Finland' program has

successfully eradicated BLV from its cattle. (19)

 

If you live in a region with a high incidence of herd infection with

these viruses you can be pretty sure you will be consuming dairy

products containing whole viruses or fragments of these viruses,

since the milk from many dairy farms is mixed in large vats at the

dairy factory before processing and packaging. Since the industry

will not act responsibly in many countries, consumers are left with

one choice: eliminate all dairy products from their diet. If

eliminating dairy products would prevent even a small risk of human

disease, it would be well worthwhile, especially since, as you

learned in the April 2003 McDougall Newsletter, they are completely

unnecessary for excellent health.

 

Will the UMP Market the Pain and Suffering Caused Children?

 

The Dairy Management Inc. has specifically targeted children in their

campaign. (1) This will raise no public concern, because most people

consider cow's milk the healthiest of all food choices, especially

when it comes to children. Over 25% of children are overweight in

Western countries and cow's milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream, butter,

and sour cream, with all their fat and calories, contribute greatly

to this deadly epidemic. Many of these overweight children are now

developing type-2 diabetes. However, the most common variety of

diabetes found in children is still type-1 or insulin dependent

diabetes (IDDM).

 

Type-1 Diabetes The evidence incriminating cow's milk consumption in

the cause of type-1 diabetes is sufficient to cause the American

Academy of Pediatrics to issue these warnings, " Early exposure of

infants to cow's milk protein may be an important factor in the

initiation of the beta cell (insulin-producing cells of the pancreas)

destructive process in some individuals. " (20) " The avoidance of

cow's milk protein for the first several months of life may reduce

the later development of IDDM or delay its onset in susceptible

people. " (20)

 

Exposure to cow's milk protein early in life, when the intestinal

tract is immature, sometimes results in the milk protein entering the

blood stream where antibodies to this foreign substance, cow's milk,

are made by the immune system. Unfortunately, these same antibodies

also attack the insulin- producing cells of the pancreas. By glassful

of milk after spoonful of ice cream, over a period of about 5 to 7

years, the child destroys his or her own pancreas â* " and is left

with a lifelong, life-threatening, handicap: diabetes. The pancreas

is forever destroyed and the child will have to take insulin shots

daily. Complications, such as blindness, kidney failure, and heart

disease will be a real threat during his or her shortened lifespan.

(See my July 2002 McDougall Newsletter for a discussion of type-1

diabetes).

 

Constipation Not as life-threatening as diabetes, but for some as

mentally and physically distressing, is chronic constipation. As a

doctor who has cared for hundreds of children, I can tell you they

suffer with pain, bleeding, hemorrhoids, and embarrassment. The

causal effects of cowâ*s milk were clearly demonstrated in a study of

65 severely constipated children published in the New England Journal

of Medicine. (21)

 

These boys and girls complained of only one bowel movement every 3 to

15 days and many didn't even respond to strong laxatives (lactulose

and mineral oil). Forty-four of the 65 (68%) found relief of their

constipation when taken off the cow's milk. Evidence of inflammation

of the bowel was found on biopsy, and anal fissures and pain were

commonly associated with the constipation " elimination of the cow's

milk solved these problems. "

 

When cow's milk was reintroduced into their diet 8 to 12 months

later, all of the children developed constipation within 5 to 10

days. For constipation alone, cow's milk should be banned from the

School Milk Programs, worldwide.

 

Rhinitis and Otitis Media The multitude of snotty-nosed kids

frequently visiting the pediatrician's office for ear infections is

much more obvious than the constipated crowd, and these problems less

devastating than type-1 diabetes, but these complaints also can be

due to consuming the foreign proteins intended for calves. (22-25) In

addition, these same children are likely to suffer from

gastroesophageal reflux, asthma and/or eczema from their unnatural

habit of drinking cow's milk.

 

Diseases of Foreign Protein Many conditions can be traced back to

reactions to cow's milk. Milk contains more than 25 different

proteins that can induce adverse reactions in humans. (26) Our immune

system perceives these foreign proteins as alien invaders, like a

virus or bacteria, and launches an attack in response, as in the case

of type-1 diabetes discussed above and many other allergic and

autoimmune diseases.

 

DISEASES CAUSED BY, OR LINKED TO, DAIRY PROTEINS General: Loss of

appetite, growth retardation. Upper Gastrointestinal: Canker sores

(aphthous stomatitis), irritation of tongue, lips and mouth, tonsil

enlargement, vomiting, gastroesophageal reflux (GERD), Sandifer's

syndrome, peptic ulcer disease, colic, stomach cramps, abdominal

distention, intestinal obstruction, type-1 diabetes. Lower

Gastrointestinal: Bloody stools, colitis, malabsorption, diarrhea,

painful defecation, fecal soiling, infantile colic, chronic

constipation, infantile food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome

(FPIES), Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis. Respiratory: Nasal

stuffiness, runny nose, otitis media (inner ear trouble), sinusitis,

wheezing, asthma, and pulmonary infiltrates. Bone and joint:

Rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, Beheta's

disease, (possibly psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis).

Skin: Rashes, atopic dermatitis, eczema, seborrhea, hives (urticaria)

Nervous System (Behavioral): Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease,

autism, schizophrenia, irritability, restlessness, hyperactivity,

headache, lethargy, fatigue, " allergic-tension fatigue syndrome, "

muscle pain, mental depression, enuresis (bed-wetting). Blood:

Abnormal blood clotting, iron deficiency anemia, low serum proteins,

thrombocytopenia, and eosinophilia. Other: Nephrotic syndrome,

glomerulonephritis, anaphylactic shock and death, sudden infant death

syndrome (SIDS or crib or cot death), injury to the arteries causing

arteritis, and eventually, atherosclerosis. References are available

through the National Library of Medicine, http://www.nlm.nih.gov -

Search cow's milk and any of the diseases listed above.

 

All dairy products contain milk proteins, including skim milk,

yogurt, cheese, and butter, and many butter substitutes. Milk

proteins are listed in packaged food products with a variety of

names, such as milk solids, skim milk powder, casein, caseinates,

whey, and albumin. Milk is also often put into packaged foods and not

declared on the label - this is illegal and punishable by FDA action.

 

Even with all of this disease in children the American School Food

Service Association and the dairy industry have developed a School

Milk Pilot Test to demonstrate that kids will drink more milk in

school if certain product enhancements are made. (27)

 

The result was milk sales increased by an average of 18 percent and

consumption increased by 35 percent when schools provided flavored

milks and other package enhancements. (28)

 

The UMP Will Try to Deceive You about the Fattening Nature of Dairy

Foods.

 

" Independent research confirming dairy's role in weight reduction is

mounting, " said Dr. Greg Miller, senior vice president of nutrition

and scientific affairs for the Dairy Checkoff. (29) " This helps to

position dairy foods as part of the solution to America's growing

obesity epidemic. " And Miller added, " Informing the public about

dairy's role in the fight against obesity will help increase

consumption of milk, cheese and yogurt, among other dairy products. "

 

Shouldn't the idea of milk acting as an " antiobesity " food strike you

as fundamentally contradictory? After all, the biologic purpose of

cow's milk is to provide large amounts of energy and nutrients to

grow the young animal from 60 to 600 pounds. So how does milk become

a weight loss product in the 21st century? This idea began with the

observation that underprivileged people, who have poor diets in

general, are often obese, and also consume few dairy products. (30)

Some experiments that followed showed people and animals on calorie-

restricted diets lost a small amount of extra weight when calcium or

dairy foods were part of their diet.

 

The " antiobesity " effects of dairy are difficult to explain, but may

be due to calcium binding fat in the intestine, preventing its

absorption. (30)

 

A thorough search of the literature for properly designed studies

shows only one of 17 randomized studies found weight loss in people

taking calcium pills, and of the nine randomized studies where fluid

milk was added, two showed significant weight gain, and none showed

significant loss. (31)

 

In one study funded by a grant from the International Dairy Foods

Association, 204 healthy men and women were asked to increase their

intake of skim or 1% milk by three cups a day for 12 weeks; those

consuming the extra milk gained an average of 1.32 pounds (0.6 Kg).

(32) Can you imagine what their weight gain would have been if they

had been asked to add whole milk, cheese, butter, and ice cream to

their diet, instead of skim and low-fat 1% milk?

 

The result of all this research was well summed up by one of the

dairy industry's frequent spokespersons at the Dairy Management Inc.

sponsored Symposium: Dairy Product Components and Weight Regulation,

held April 21, 2002 in New Orleans, with this statement, " In

conclusion, the data available from randomized trials of dairy

product or calcium supplementation provide little support for an

effect in reducing body weight or fat mass. " (31)

 

Yet the consumer will hear from Dr. Miller and the rest of the

industry, eat more dairy products and you will lose weight.

 

Dairy products are loaded with fats that are easily stored under your

skin as " body fat. " The fats in the cold glass of milk, the little

bite of cheese, and that small bowl of ice cream will move from your

lips to your hips effortlessly. In fact, it moves with so little

effort that the chemical structure of the fat isn't even changed.

Cow's milk contains a unique kind of fat with double bonds located at

the C-15 and C-17 position on the fat's carbon chain. Examination of

a person's fatty (adipose) tissues following a biopsy will show the

amount of this kind of fat present, which will be in direct

proportion to the amount of dairy products the person consumes. (33)

 

All that fat the dairy industry asks us to eat is associated with

higher risks of heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and breast,

prostate, uterine and colon cancer. Yet, as a marketing scheme, the

dairy industry has teamed up with the National Medical Association to

write articles about " the role of dairy in helping reduce the risk of

heart disease, hypertension, and other serious health issues. " (34)

 

The National Medical Association promotes the collective interests of

physicians and patients of African descent. Please explain to me how

this association came about when the vast majority of people of

African descent (80% to 90%) cannot drink milk because of lactose

intolerance; causing them diarrhea, stomach cramps and gas. (35)

 

Not only is this dairy fat unattractively worn and a health hazard,

but it is also a source of large quantities of environmental

chemicals, like dioxins and DDT, that affect your health and the

health of a mother's offspring during pregnancy and nursing. (36) One

reason a young girl needs to start thinking about a healthier diet

early is because the accumulation of these chemicals in her own body

fat occurs over her entire lifetime.

 

The UMP Will Try to Confuse You about Bone Health and Animal Protein

 

Osteoporosis is caused by several factors; however, the most

important one is diet; especially the amount of animal protein and

acid in the foods we eat. (37-39 0 The high acid foods are meat,

poultry, fish, seafood, and hard cheeses, parmesan cheese is the most

acidic of all foods commonly consumed. " (40)

 

Once consumed, this food-derived acid must be neutralized in the

body. Fruits and vegetables can do this neutralizing (these foods are

alkaline in nature). However, because the diet of the average

Westerner is so deficient in fruits and vegetables and so high in

acid foods, the primary neutralizer of dietary acid becomes their

bones. The bones dissolve to release alkaline materials.

 

Worldwide, the highest rates of hip fractures are among populations

that consume the most animal food (including dairy products) like

people from the USA, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand,

etc. (41,42) The lowest rates are among people who eat little or no

dairy foods (these people are on lower calcium diets) like people

from rural Asia and rural Africa. (41,42)

 

The basic experiments published in the 1980s clearly show protein

causes bone loss, and calcium offers little or no protection. (43)

Even the foremost scientists hired by the dairy industry know protein

is harmful to the bones. (44) In my April 2003 Newsletter I explained

there was only one properly designed study testing the effects of

fluid milk on the bone health of postmenopausal women, and the

results were: those who received the extra milk for a year lost more

bone than those who didn't drink the milk. (44) The authors, funded

by the National Dairy Council, explained in their paper, " The protein

content of the milk supplement may have a negative effect on calcium

balance, possibly through an increase in kidney losses of calcium or

through a direct effect on bone resorption. " Trying to explain why

those receiving the milk were in worse calcium balance, they

said, " this may have been due to the average 30 percent increase in

protein intake during milk supplementation. "

 

Unfortunately, all this damning information does not sit well with

the powerful dairy industry, so they have started the " 3-A-Day of

Dairy " program to battle the calcium crisis in America by promoting

milk, cheese and yogurt for " stronger bones " and they have been busy

doing their own research to prove protein is good for the bones. (45-

48)

 

Regrettably for them, their designing means were just revealed in the

May 2003 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. (49)

The article in this journal exposed the way they made the results

show protein is good for the bones. To devise research that appears

to contradict hundreds of articles published over the past 35 years,

you only have to provide sufficient alkaline material in the diet of

the people being studied to neutralize the acid from the animal

foods. This was accomplished by studying populations that have diets

high in neutralizing fruits and vegetables; the other approach

employed was to add a strong alkali source to the experiment, such as

an antacid pill (wafer), calcium citrate (like Citracal).

 

Once the acid from the food is neutralized, then any bone building

factors that might be present in meat and dairy can exert their

effects. High protein foods, and especially dairy foods, raise the

levels of a powerful growth-stimulating hormone in the body, called

insulin-like growth factor-1 or IGF-1. Stimulation of bone growth by

this hormone is now being offered as the reason dairy products build

strong bones. It has long been necessary for them to find a more

scientifically supportable explanation, because the bulk of the

research shows the calcium in dairy foods has little or no benefit

for bone health. (50-52)

 

The UMP Will Not Promote the Fact that IGF-1 is a Powerful Cancer

Promoter

 

Consumption of animal products increases the levels of insulin-like

growth factor-1 in your body. However, modern dairy technology has

made dairy products an even more potent source of this growth

stimulant. Since 1985, U.S. dairy farmers have been allowed to inject

cows with recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbGH), a genetically

engineered bovine growth hormone that increases milk production. RbGH

treatment produces an increase in IGF-1 in cow's milk, by as much as

10-fold. (53,54) IGF-1 is not destroyed by pasteurization. (53) The

overall effect is that milk seems to raise IGF-1 levels in people

more than any other component of our diet. (55)

 

The direct evidence of the effects of cow's milk on IGF-1 levels in

people has been provided by the dairy industry's own efforts. Two

recent studies, one on adolescent girls and the other on post-

menopausal women, showed increasing milk consumption actually raises

plasma levels of IGF-1 in the person's body by an average of 10%.

(56,57)

 

Their take on this is, " this is a beneficial effecT " because IGF-1

stimulates bone growth. But, the actual lasting consequences should

deliver the final deathblow to dairy products: IGF-1 promotes the

growth of cancer. This growth promoter has been strongly linked to

the development of cancer of the breast, prostate, lung, and colon.

(58) Excess IGF-1 stimulates cell proliferation and inhibits cell

death - two activities you definitely don't want when cancer cells

are involved. (58)

 

There is more to cancer promotion by dairy foods than IGF-1. Most

dairy products are high in saturated fat - and fat is the number one

suspect when it comes to the cause of most common cancers in Western

societies (for example, breast, prostate, colon, kidney, pancreas).

Recent studies have linked the sugar (lactose) and fat in milk with

ovarian cancer, (59,60) and the calcium in milk lowers concentrations

of a specific form of vitamin D that protects against prostate

cancer, raising men's overall risk. (61,62) (See my February 2003

Newsletter for more information on diet and prostate cancer.)

Hormones (estrogens) are also involved in cancers of reproductive

organs, like breast and uterine cancer. There are several reasons

dairy products raise a woman's hormone levels causing a variety of

hormone-dependent problems from early onset of menstruation

(menarche) to PMS and uterine fibroids - but one is unique to cow's

milk. Cows are milked even while they are pregnant. As a result of

the pregnancy, cows secrete high levels of estrogen into their milk.

(63)

 

Will the UMP Advertise that Dairy Is Simply Liquid Meat?

 

Red meat has become a " dirty word " when it comes to health. At the

opposite end of the spectrum of opinions on food is cow's milk - one

of the world'S most trusted foods. Do you remember the " Basic Four

Food Groups? " Dairy was usually placed first in this chart which was

hung in every schoolroom (and by no coincidence the dairy industry

also provided the chart).

 

Dairy products are deficient in iron and beef is deficient in

calcium; both contain too little dietary fiber, essential fat

(linoleic acid), and vitamin C and B3 (niacin) to meet human

nutritional requirements. (64) Heavy consumption of either of these

food groups - loaded with fat and cholesterol - will result in the

diseases common to affluent societies, such as obesity, heart

disease, strokes, type-2 diabetes and cancer, to name just a few

serious problems. (65)

 

If a patient bargained with me, " I'll give up only one of the first

two food groups " meat or milk " - hopes of getting well, " my

recommendation for almost all common health problems in Western

society would be, " You're likely to get the most benefits if you give

up the dairy products. "

 

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From Robert Cohen

notmilk

6-10-3

 

Each year, just as white strawberry blossoms transform into

tiny green berries, and as spring days grow longer and warmer,

the milk industry declares June to be " National Dairy Month. "

 

This year, one of America's most respected physicians, Dr.

John McDougall, honors the milk marketers with his own

very special tribute. I enjoy receiving Dr. John McDougall's

Internet newsletter. You can too. To , go to:

http://www.drmcdougall.com

 

Thank you, Dr. McDougall!

 

Robert Cohen

http://www.notmilk.com

 

 

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