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  Posted by Cheryl R Fri May 30, 2008 9:26pm PDT

  I have been completely dairy free for almost a year and a half. Not until I did

  some serious research, did I finally give it up for good. I was raised on a dairy

  heavy diet and the thought of giving it up completely horrified me.

  Fast forward to today... I am 60lbs lighter and I have never felt better.

  My digestion works like a clock and I don't have that weird bloating

  ever. The fact is my body spent so much time trying to get rid of the dairy I was

  consuming, it never had time to do anything else.

  After digging (hard) for research about dairy I found some extremely scary things.

  Take your pick- The corruption of the dairy industry, the environmental desruction

  of having 20 billion cows too many on this planet, the truth about the chemicals and

  drugs found in cheap dairy foods, or the flat out lies told to the public by the

  health care/pharmaceutical industries. I have yet to find ONE clinical study about

  dairy that didn't find it extremely harmful to humans. How about the food pyramids

  that started being handed out in the 1950's to school children? Those were printed

  and paid for by the US meat and dairy council. Milk has never done our bodies good.

  No one has yet to prove it anyway.

  We don't need another species breast milk. No where else in nature have they found

  animals that consume other species milk. Even our own newborns only need breast

  milk for a minimal amount of time. Surely a 14 year old doesnt need 4 glasses a day!

  No one can even prove that our bodies can process or absorb the nutrients in cow's

  milk, let alone the "Calcium". We absorb more calcium from a crown of broccoli than

  we do processed cow's milk, ask the scientists at the AJCN.

  I urge everyone, most importantly women with children, to really look into what we are

  pushing our kids to consume. I feel strongly that mothers are being purposely fed

  untruths about milk, ice cream, yogurt, etc. Look into industrial dairy farming. Find

  out about the road your skim milk travels before you pick it up in that pretty, clean container

  at the market. These animals are not taken care of and their milk is full of infection and blood

  before it's processed. You would never want your children to smoke or use drugs but look

  at what is being fed and injected into these animals, the toxins in highly processed,

  factory farmed dairy products hold more PROVEN carcinogens than any conventional

  cigarette. It's not nutritious, it's not full of bone hardening calcium, and it's not clean.

  I can only add that I really believe the truth is being hidden so men can line their pockets.

  They have SO much money to fight any negative or anti- dairy research that it seems

  hopeless. It's overwhelming. The bright side is, the US meat and dairy council don't

  have any control over studies coming from other countries. Research going on in Sweden,

  Germany, and the Netherlands is so concrete. They are at least trying to save their own

  children.

  Let's find the truth and let's save our kids.

  www.milksucks.com - or, if you don't like PETA, then just google your way to the truth.

  It's out there! I found it and I pray that other mothers do too!

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  Posted by mmk Sat May 31, 2008 11:47am PDT

  Ugh, this article and post made me think hard about my own body and what I feed it... I have stopped drinking milk for several years now, and no longer eat ice cream, thinking I was lactose-intolerant because of the gas and bloat I would feel afterward. I have continued with yogurt, thinking that I needed to consume some sort of dairy for the calcium, and thinking I needed the good bacterias from the yogurt. I have not eaten red meat for many years, and am healthy and fit...maybe it's time to look at whether I really need dairy at all. Thanks for the info.

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  Posted by Sarah C Sat May 31, 2008 8:22pm PDT

  I too am making the change to becoming a vegan. I never really got along with milk, & I think that well, its common sense, cows milk is made for cow's offspring...I dont think that our bodies are desined to consume meat & milk & meat products. It shows that people that are vegan, are healthier, more energetic. I am happy about this book, it looks like a good one! (;

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  Posted by daishonintt Thu Jun 5, 2008 2:14pm PDT

  Seven months ago, i stopped using skim milk, which was the only milked i"ve used for years, and started using almond milk, which fulls me up very quickly, without the acid and mucous build up in my stomach. Is this a safe choice in the long run?

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  Posted by sweta_rajgarhia2002 Mon Jun 9, 2008 10:59pm PDT

  self help is the best help...prevent temptation...eat but in little quantity...slowly n graually you will loose weight...nothing in life happens with a instant mouse click(example of a pc mouse)...

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  Posted by alphai57 Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:55pm PDT

  Thank you so much for a well thought out review! Since the nineties, I have focused primarily on blood type diet and recently, genotype by Dr. D'Adamo. He does divide the blood types into genotypes, then says in his book, The Genotype Diet, that there are not six genotypes among people, but over seven billion, the number of people on Earth. The biggest turnaround in my life, emotionally and physically, was learning to trust my own wisdom. I still read about a few diets, but in my opinion it boils down to believing and accepting our own "body and spiritual" truths. I congratulate you for doing the emotional work necessary for you to heal. Most of the people I know want a pill or a diet to take care of their weight problems. Getting to the heart of the emotional problems and then treating your body and your spiritual self like they matter is the key.

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