Biochemist claims milk damages bones and causes cancer
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The dairy industry is big business, and globally is ‘expected to generate revenues worth USD 442.32 billion in 2019,’ while the U.S. dairy industry spends up to a billion dollars a year in advertising. With so much money on the line and the continual push by dairy advertisers, it’s difficult to convince people that drinking milk is another one of the false promises of the modern food problem.
So, does milk really do a body good, as the popular advertising campaign suggests?
According to American biochemist Dr. T. Colin Campbell, milk is one of the most harmful foods we are consuming, and he has the scientific research to back up this claim. Warning people that milk ‘turns on cancer’ and ‘leeches calcium from your bones,’ Dr. Campbell is well-known for his influential book, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health.
Based on a 20-year long study conducted by the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Cornell University, and the University of Oxford, The China Study documents serious negative implications of consuming milk.
“The China Study examines the link between the consumption of animal products (including dairy) and chronic illnesses such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and bowel cancer.[3] The authors conclude that people who eat a predominantly whole-food, plant-based diet—avoiding animal products as a main source of nutrition, including beef, pork, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese, and milk, and reducing their intake of processed foods and refined carbohydrates—will escape, reduce, or reverse the development of numerous diseases.” [Source]
The study is exceptionally damning to the dairy industry, and while some would like to dismiss Dr. Campbell’s work, his prestigious and influential career gives us good reason to pay attention. Here’s a short snippet from his bio:
For more than forty years, Dr. T. Colin Campbell has been at the forefront of nutrition research. His legacy, the China Project, is the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted. Dr. Campbell is a professor Emeritus at Cornell University and is most well-known for co-authoring the bestselling book The China Study with his son, Thomas Campbell, MD. In addition to his long and outstanding career as an author, scientific researcher, and Cornell professor, Dr. Campbell has been featured in several documentary films. He is the founder of the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies and the online internationally-recognized Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate. [Source]
Honing in the main protein found in cow’s milk, casein, Campbell makes the case that it is a serious carcinogen which is having major consequences for public health in America and around the world. Casein
“Casein is the most relevant chemical carcinogen ever identified, make no mistake about it.” – Dr. Colin Campbell
What does he base this on?
“What I did during the early part of my career was nothing more than what traditional science would suggest. I made the observation that diets presumably higher in animal protein were associated with liver cancer in the Philippines. When coupled with the extraordinary report from India showing that casein fed to experimental rats at the usual levels of intake dramatically promoted liver cancer, it prompted my 27-year-long study The China Project, of how this effect worked. We did dozens of experiments to see if this was true and, further, how it worked.” ~Dr. Colin Campbell, The China Study
It’s interesting to note that the dairy industry has been telling us for decades that milk is good for the bones because it is full of calcium. But, not unlike the water fluoridation scam, which claims to prevent dental fluorosis but is actually causing it, Campbell says that milk actually makes your bones weaker by leaching calcium from them.
“One thing animal protein does is trigger metabolic acidosis. This happens when the body produces too much acid and becomes very acidic, which can be caused by multiple things, including the absorption of casein found in animal protein. Casein makes up almost 90 percent of the protein in a cow’s milk. When the body experiences this type of acidosis, it actually forces the body to compensate by leaching calcium from the bones to help neutralize the increased acidity. Over time, all of this can have severe and detrimental effects on bone health, and studies have shown this.” [Source]
Regarding casein, along with whey it is one of the two proteins found in milk, although the body digests each in very different ways.
“There are two types of protein found in dairy products: casein and whey protein. Thirty-eight percent of the solid matter in milk is made of protein. Of that total protein, 80 percent is casein and 20 percent is whey. Cheese is made mostly of casein, where most of the liquid whey found in milk has been filtered or strained out. But all dairy products contain casein, not just cheese. The difference between whey and casein is how they’re digested and how they react in the body.
Because casein digests so slowly, natural morphine-like substances in casein known ascasomorphins, act like opiates in the body as they enter the bloodstream. Just minutes after you eat a dairy-based food, the casein protein begins to break down. This releases the drug-like casomorphins, which attach to opiate receptors in the brain and cause severe addictions to dairy products (hence the reason they keep people coming back for more.) Casomorphinstrigger such an addictive response that they’ve been compared to heroin in terms of their strength to cause food addictions and mood disorders.
Casein’s slow digestion rate also puts great strain on the digestive system. Dr. Frank Lipman (an Integrative and Functional Medical expert), explains that the body has an extremely difficult time breaking down casein. Dr. Lipman says that common symptoms of dairy sensitivity due to casein are: excess mucus production, respiratory problems and digestive problems like constipation, gas, bloating, and/or diarrhea. Dairy intolerance is also known to cause skin issues like acne, rashes, and redness or irritation.” [Source]
According to Dr. Campbell’s research, the consumption of casein appears to act almost like an ‘on switch for cancer,’ perhaps contributing in a major way to the cancer epidemic we see today.
“What we learned along the way is that we could turn on and turn off cancer. Turn it on by increasing casein consumption, turn it off by decreasing it or replacing it with plant protein. That was a really exciting thing that we could take nutrition and turn cancer on and off, I mean that, that was pretty startling.” ~Dr. Colin Campbell
The primary reason for this, as Dr. Campbell states, is that the consumption of casein protein tends to create an acidic condition in the body, known as metabolic acidosis, which is widely known to be a primary driver of a litany of diseases and poor health conditions, and has even been called a precursor to cancer. Informed nutritionists and holistic physicians have for years been highlighting the importance of eating alkaline foods and working to eliminate the consumption of acidic foods.
A clip from the documentary Forks Over Knives discusses the link between excessive casein consumption, acidosis and disease.
Is human health is dependent on the consumption of dairy products, or are we better off without them? With as big as the dairy industry is, it is not at all difficult to understand that information countering the narrative milk does a body good would be unwelcome to those who make their living on dairy.
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Hubert
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One doctor says its beneficial, one says its not… who to trust…
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Charles Higley
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There is too much to unravel in his work and too many variables. Just as they made a god of Anzel Keyes, and adopted the terrible American diet, we should be very wary of argument from authority.
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Mark Tapley
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There are two issues here that need to be separated. Campbell’s book “The China Study” and the issue of milk consumption. The book which was used as sort of a guide for the vegan movement has been shown to be a fraud. Campbell refers to lots of studies but they do not infer what he claims. He knew that very fee people would wade through all those technical papers. He claims in the book that people on the vegan diet don’t get cancer. This is false. Through out history there has never been a successful society of vegans. There have been several occasions when top vegan promoters were caught eating animal products. Even the famous vegetarian Dr. McDougall finally had to recommend that all his potato eating followers start supplementing with B12 which only comes from animal products. McDougall finally had to hang it up when he fell and broke his hip. He retired after this event. He must have been about 69-70 when this occurred. Not too good huh doc? Plant diets are basically high carb low nutrient diets that stimulate lots of insulin (inflammation) and are low in nutrients. There is no B12 which is critical and it is a diet also low in vitamins A,D,K, and E. Plant protein is hard to digest and much inferior to animal sources. If we had four stomachs like a cow instead of the much more simple digestive system of a mostly carnivore plants could be processed a lot better. In fact lots of the plant material that vegans advocate can not even be digested unless cooked extensively or fermented.
The pasteurized, homogenized watered down crap sold as milk should never be consumed. Casein protein is hard to digest and many people that lactose intolerance. Concentrate on a diet of high quality protein and saturated fats while limiting carbs. This will keep insulin low while giving the body the nutrients it needs. For those who are over weight, when you limit the carbs, (no more than 50 grams per day)the weight will fall off. Carbs drive hunger. After cutting them back for a week or so you will be able to get off the carb roller coaster,
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DB
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Raw milk is the way to go! Pasteurization destroys the beneficial vitamins, minerals, proteins and enzymes in milk. Like Mark said, what’s sold in stores is not real milk.
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Mark Tapley
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Hello DB:
Campbell’s fake “China Study” and the Hollywood whores of the Jew entertainment industry launched lots of idiots into the fake vegan movement. If we look back over a hundred years ago at recipes and cook books we see that the main ingredients were high quality animal protein cooked in saturated lard or bacon grease with lots of real butter. Heart disease in this country was very rare until the food industries shill Ancil Keys advocated the so called Lipid hypothesis. This led to the disastrous low fat high carb (glucose) diet promoted by the food companies shill the Amer. Heart Association and the American Diabetes As. and the government. I believe the Diabetes As. still ok’s consuming 180 grams of carbs per day. Thats insane for someone with diabetes who is already insulin resistant.
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Andy
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This sounds to me nothing more than more alarmist propaganda to try and stop us having dairy products. Claim milk causes cancer then the eco loonies will want to ban milk.
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Charles Higley
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Remember, they want all animal husbandry to disappear because their farts are burning the planet. They never consider the foul gases emitted by politicians and eco-extermists.
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Andy
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Well said Charles.
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Guido FORRIER
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Dutch people drink Lots of milk , eat tons of cheese , grow very healthy , have strong bones and the Dutch woman are the tallest in de world …. stop these nonsense !
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Moffin
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If a multi ton stainless steel vat of milk collapses on top of you it will in fact damage bones.
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Artelia
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Fake science. The quality of milk from grazing animals is different from the quality of milk of GM fed and even grain fed ones. Raw milk from grass silage and hay fed animals is best.
Organic grass fed cows produce great milk. Casein is a healing protein.
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Ash
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Sweden and the Netherlands have the highest milk and cheese consumption world wide (coincidentally tallest people in the world)
China and Japan are lactose intolerant societies and have some of the shortest people (and it’s quite common for +60 year olds to hunch forward and have bone problems)
I think I will stick to milk and animal protein
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very old white guy
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My family genetics augers well for life into my late nineties. My family diets did not have the vast variety of foods available today. Seasonal vegetables, meat, fish, and chicken, as protein, eggs, bacon, fat foods were in abundance. Milk was a regular drink at times we had homemade churned butter. My dietary tip is don’t eat junk food.
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Mark Tapley
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This will all change when the gov. moves your old carcass to the high rise shit hole of Agenda 2030-21. Forget about high quality animal protein, critical saturated fats and vitamin K rich butter. You will be on the whole grain vegan diet of the poor and malnourished. “bon a petite.”
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Binra
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Good comment.
Loaded article.
remember that a name is not a thing in and of itself.
Raw grass fed milk is not pasteurised is not fat skimmed from factory farmed cattle milk.
Then we have different metabolisms.
Some digest it fine.
Other do not.
Pasteurized milk does not have the bacterial and enzymatic context for life.
You can take things out of context and run with them, but that has qualitative differences.
Now days – why not ignore claim to authority and see is it fear and guilt inducing?
If so then it is not a wise decision to swallow it.
If there may be truths woven into the narrative, keep them in brackets so as not to run as code/opinion/currency of belief unless and until more has been made clear as more perspective comes in.
Claims to authority include association with terror symbols such as cancer.
This site is often a mix of bunk and actual information.
The current drive to MAXIMISE FEAR operates via any and every willingness to feed it as a source of power or authority.
If you suckle on fear narratives you are pathologically primed for an enhanced fear response that means to passively accept toxshit as inevitable and adapt your normal before it ever hit the fan.
Fighting or flight from fear is not choosing what you love or truly supports and renews you. Mudslinging smear can also wear a white coat, and key proponents can earnestly believe their cause as a mission to save others.
We have to watch out for that!
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