Daily Requirement of Calcium
The body requires only as much calcium as is lost in the urine and through the loss of cells from the skin. This is usually about 10-15 mgm per day, and can in illness, increase to a maximum of 50-60mgms/day. Osteoporosis is most often caused by lack of exercise, or by the use of corticosteroids for treatment of chronic skin conditions, asthma, auto immune diseases, arthritis etc. It is rarely a result of a deficiency of calcium in the diet. It often results from the malabsorption of calcium due to milk or other allergies which irritate the intestines & interfere with absorption of calcium.
In areas where drinking water is hard, the hardness is usually due to dissolved calcium and magnesium salts in the water. In these areas, drinking water is enough to meet the daily requirements of calcium. For example, Municipal water in Delhi contains 300-400mgm of calcium per litre, as opposed to the daily requirement of a maximum of 50-60mgms/day. Tube well water in Delhi may contain 1200-1500 mgms/Litre. Similarly European cities like Paris and London are built on limestone (calcium carbonate) and the water, soil and food are rich in calcium. Osteoporosis. is rarely caused by a deficiency of calcium in the diet as calcium is usually abundant in the diet.
Cows Milk can make you Fat.Milk contains hormones to promote quick growth and weight gain of the calf to enable it to survive on it's own at the earliest. A baby calf triples in weight within the first year of life so cow's milk has a high content of fat and hormones like insulin promoting growth factor (IGF). Because of this milk has been used for centuries as an invalid food to promote appetite and weight gain. It is an easily digestible, high protein food for those people who do not have a milk allergy or are not lactose intolerant. As it promotes weight gain, it predisposes to obesity, hormonal problems like diabetes, arteriosclerosis, hypertension and paralytic strokes. People with any of these conditions should avoid taking milk and other dairy products. Insulin promoting growth factor (IGF) has been implicated in many studies as a cause for breast & prostate cancer. MIlk is associated with an increase in Type1 & Type 2 diabetes.
Stopping milk & milk products can help you lose weight.
Mother's milk is the perfect food for a human baby, and the milk of a cow is the ideal food for a calf.It is well known that feeding a baby with cow's milk from birth predisposes to problems like diarrhoea, indigestion, colic, colitis, constipation, anorexia, eczema, asthma, ear infections, tonsillitis and developmental problems. According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (part of the National Institute of Health) cow's milk is the leading cause of food allergies in children.
The high fat content in cow's milk causes colic in human babies when given undiluted. The hormones present in cow's milk can cause obesity and weight gain. This has implications in later life as new fat cells in the body are formed at only 2 periods in life; from 6-18 months and at puberty. So obese babies & obese teenagers are more likely to be obese as adults. As a result of increased fat cells, these people will struggle to loose weight and maintain this weight loss throughout their lives. Parents who push their children to consume milk products, should consider the health hazards and suffering they are inflicting on their children in later life.
This led to a strong movement worldwide, spearheaded by pediatricians, promoting breast feeding as the perfect and only food necessary for babies until they are weaned onto solid foods. This weaning usually commences at 6 months and is more or less complete by about a year. However mothers are encouraged to continue breast feeding for the psychological health of the baby for as long as the baby may deem necessary (even up to 5-6 years).
Cow's milk also contains higher quantities of salts than human milk and when given undiluted to babies can cause kidney problems. Hippocrates was one of the first western writers to discuss the association of milk consumption and disease especially with kidney stones.
The closest commercially available milk to human milk in composition is goat milk. If a mother is unable to breast feed, and is unable to procure milk from another breast feeding mother (the old concept of a wet nurse), then goat's milk is a safer substitute for the baby than cow's milk.
The new born baby's intestine is very porous allowing proteins to be absorbed intact without being broken down. This is beneficial for the baby's immunity as it is able to absorb immunoglobulins from it's mother milk and thus boost it's own immunity. This is called acquired immunity and protects the baby until it's own immune system is sufficiently developed usually by about 6 months. This absorption is the maximum at birth and gradually reduces over the next 6 months. This gives breast fed infants widespread immunity to illness, acquired from its mother and so breast fed infants rarely suffer from colds and diarrhoea. A human baby is able to digest and absorb a high proportion of nutrients from human milk.
Cow's milk does not give this same protection to bottle fed babies. When cow's milk is given to a baby, the baby absorbs the protein from the cow's milk directly into it's bloodstream. The introduction of foreign proteins into the bloodstream causes allergic reactions.
Cow's milk is usually contaminated with bacteria and has to be boiled to kill the bacteria which are present in milk in large quantities. If cow's milk is given to baby, the milk should boiled and diluted with water in the ratio of 2:1. This process also denatures (breaks down) the protein making it easier for the baby to digest, and deactivates the immunoglobulins in cow's milk which could cause an instant, often fatal allergic reaction when given to a human baby.
When cow's milk or infant formulas are introduced into the baby's diet prior to the age of 6 months these babies are far more likely to develop an allergy to milk products in later life. If one or both parents are allergic to milk then their children will be more likely to have a milk allergy.
The pharmaceutical industry has tried to deal with this problem by introducing a range of modified cow's milk feeds & soya based feeds. Unfortunately, while these feeds are more digestible than unmodified cow's milk, they are still unable to provide a safe & perfect mix of nutrition for a growing baby. Each tin of baby food carries a mandatory warning that breast milk is the best and only food necessary for a human baby.
The body requires only as much calcium as is lost in the urine and through the loss of cells from the skin. This is usually about 10-15 mgm per day, and can in illness, increase to a maximum of 50-60mgms/day. Osteoporosis is most often caused by lack of exercise, or by the use of corticosteroids for treatment of chronic skin conditions, asthma, auto immune diseases, arthritis etc. It is rarely a result of a deficiency of calcium in the diet. It often results from the malabsorption of calcium due to milk or other allergies which irritate the intestines & interfere with absorption of calcium.
In areas where drinking water is hard, the hardness is usually due to dissolved calcium and magnesium salts in the water. In these areas, drinking water is enough to meet the daily requirements of calcium. For example, Municipal water in Delhi contains 300-400mgm of calcium per litre, as opposed to the daily requirement of a maximum of 50-60mgms/day. Tube well water in Delhi may contain 1200-1500 mgms/Litre. Similarly European cities like Paris and London are built on limestone (calcium carbonate) and the water, soil and food are rich in calcium. Osteoporosis. is rarely caused by a deficiency of calcium in the diet as calcium is usually abundant in the diet.
Cows Milk can make you Fat.Milk contains hormones to promote quick growth and weight gain of the calf to enable it to survive on it's own at the earliest. A baby calf triples in weight within the first year of life so cow's milk has a high content of fat and hormones like insulin promoting growth factor (IGF). Because of this milk has been used for centuries as an invalid food to promote appetite and weight gain. It is an easily digestible, high protein food for those people who do not have a milk allergy or are not lactose intolerant. As it promotes weight gain, it predisposes to obesity, hormonal problems like diabetes, arteriosclerosis, hypertension and paralytic strokes. People with any of these conditions should avoid taking milk and other dairy products. Insulin promoting growth factor (IGF) has been implicated in many studies as a cause for breast & prostate cancer. MIlk is associated with an increase in Type1 & Type 2 diabetes.
Stopping milk & milk products can help you lose weight.
Mother's milk is the perfect food for a human baby, and the milk of a cow is the ideal food for a calf.It is well known that feeding a baby with cow's milk from birth predisposes to problems like diarrhoea, indigestion, colic, colitis, constipation, anorexia, eczema, asthma, ear infections, tonsillitis and developmental problems. According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (part of the National Institute of Health) cow's milk is the leading cause of food allergies in children.
The high fat content in cow's milk causes colic in human babies when given undiluted. The hormones present in cow's milk can cause obesity and weight gain. This has implications in later life as new fat cells in the body are formed at only 2 periods in life; from 6-18 months and at puberty. So obese babies & obese teenagers are more likely to be obese as adults. As a result of increased fat cells, these people will struggle to loose weight and maintain this weight loss throughout their lives. Parents who push their children to consume milk products, should consider the health hazards and suffering they are inflicting on their children in later life.
This led to a strong movement worldwide, spearheaded by pediatricians, promoting breast feeding as the perfect and only food necessary for babies until they are weaned onto solid foods. This weaning usually commences at 6 months and is more or less complete by about a year. However mothers are encouraged to continue breast feeding for the psychological health of the baby for as long as the baby may deem necessary (even up to 5-6 years).
Cow's milk also contains higher quantities of salts than human milk and when given undiluted to babies can cause kidney problems. Hippocrates was one of the first western writers to discuss the association of milk consumption and disease especially with kidney stones.
The closest commercially available milk to human milk in composition is goat milk. If a mother is unable to breast feed, and is unable to procure milk from another breast feeding mother (the old concept of a wet nurse), then goat's milk is a safer substitute for the baby than cow's milk.
The new born baby's intestine is very porous allowing proteins to be absorbed intact without being broken down. This is beneficial for the baby's immunity as it is able to absorb immunoglobulins from it's mother milk and thus boost it's own immunity. This is called acquired immunity and protects the baby until it's own immune system is sufficiently developed usually by about 6 months. This absorption is the maximum at birth and gradually reduces over the next 6 months. This gives breast fed infants widespread immunity to illness, acquired from its mother and so breast fed infants rarely suffer from colds and diarrhoea. A human baby is able to digest and absorb a high proportion of nutrients from human milk.
Cow's milk does not give this same protection to bottle fed babies. When cow's milk is given to a baby, the baby absorbs the protein from the cow's milk directly into it's bloodstream. The introduction of foreign proteins into the bloodstream causes allergic reactions.
Cow's milk is usually contaminated with bacteria and has to be boiled to kill the bacteria which are present in milk in large quantities. If cow's milk is given to baby, the milk should boiled and diluted with water in the ratio of 2:1. This process also denatures (breaks down) the protein making it easier for the baby to digest, and deactivates the immunoglobulins in cow's milk which could cause an instant, often fatal allergic reaction when given to a human baby.
When cow's milk or infant formulas are introduced into the baby's diet prior to the age of 6 months these babies are far more likely to develop an allergy to milk products in later life. If one or both parents are allergic to milk then their children will be more likely to have a milk allergy.
The pharmaceutical industry has tried to deal with this problem by introducing a range of modified cow's milk feeds & soya based feeds. Unfortunately, while these feeds are more digestible than unmodified cow's milk, they are still unable to provide a safe & perfect mix of nutrition for a growing baby. Each tin of baby food carries a mandatory warning that breast milk is the best and only food necessary for a human baby.