Milk Does a Body Good. REALLY?

[Diana Young, RD, LD/N, CDE]

Your Milk on Drugs

Got Milk? What brand do you drink? Were the cows given rBGh?

[Diana Young, RD, LD/N, CDE]

Check the list here.

[Mark Salinas]

Organic milk in this family...good for the bones?

[Taneem]

Drink soymilk!

[Alyssa]

Organic milk when we drink it, normally soy, rice, or hemp milk.

What we're doing to our food is REALLY creepy!

[Paul Eilers]

I have never been a big milk drinker. I had always read that because of the things cows consume, milk does NOT do a body good. Plus, so many people are allergic to dairy products.

Then I hard a woman, Dr. Heidi Dulay, teach that raw milk is in fact good for you. She said that 95% of dairy farmers drink their milk raw. She also had a little tidbit that runners from Kenya, who dominate the Olympics and other long-distance events, have an unusual competitive edge. What's their secret?

Well, part of it is their unusual diet.

"Kalenjins...obtain over half their calories from a soft cheese-like fermented raw milk product called mursik...basically raw milk, which they ripen and ferment for up to a year..."

Bottom dietary line for these super performers:

HALF of their calories come from raw milk products they grow and make themselves on their farms.

And that's not all...

Have you heard of the total raw milk diet? It's a therapeutic method that was used in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century, says professor Heidi Dulay.

Some people do the total raw milk diet today as a serious therapeutic method.

But, cautions professor Dulay, don't try any big raw milk diet at home. Because, she told the class:

"You need access to high quality 100% grass-fed clean raw milk - only available from local farmers who do NOT sell their milk to pasteurization plants or other conventional milk distribution companies (and sometimes, Whole Foods)."

I had no idea what a role quality raw milk could have in peak performance or health. You?

Now, to make it more easily available. One way, check your local farmers here for clean raw milk, among other things.

[summergirl]

very informative; thanks! I too buy organic milk and organic soymilk for my son as he has exzema...... which is aggravated by dairy. Although I need to be far more cautious when buying some milk-based products... like cheese and cottage cheese. I became quite leary of RBGH when I heard of girls getting their menstrual cycle at the age of 8 as "common". I'm in my 30's and when I was growing up... it was unheard of for a girl to have that occur so young... and now it's 'common'! I'm surprised this was not mentioned in the documentary.

[Diana Young, RD, LD/N, CDE]

Part 2 Your Milk on Drugs

[Eve]

I've had occasional problems with milk for several years. Sometimes I can drink it with no effects and other times it gives me a stomach ache. Recently I started using organic milk - no hormones or antibiotics - I don't have the problems with it. I don't know if it's the rBGH or some other substance, but it seems obvious that there is something that upsets my digestion in regular milk that is not in the organic milk.

[Lynn]

Thanks for posting this. Great information. Organic and rice milk are the two types we purchase in our home. I have never been a big milk drinker and have had a hard time encouraging my pre-teen to drink milk. I have often wondered just how nutritional milk is. After all, it is vitamin d enriched and calcium enriched. So what is natural about it?