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Don't Drink Your Milk!: New Frightening Medical Facts About the World's Most Overrated Nutrient

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At last someone has written an entire book dedicated to this subject! I started finding out about the disadvantages of drinking pastuerized milk in 1999 from a book called "The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity" by Daniel Reid (available from Amazon).Reid concluded that milk actually curdles in the stomach and makes other food indigestible, and also pasturization destroys all enzymes and nutrients in it. Since that book, I stopped drinking milk and my complexion got better,and the acne disappeared. Also i used to have stomach problem (keeps having diarrhoea after drinking milk), and that disappeared as well.

And now more and more doctors are coming out with the same infomation on milk. Dr RObert Young, a microbilogist (author of "The pH Miracle") says from his study, says the biggest misconception of society is that milk, being a calcium product, will give us calcium. It has been concluded now that this is not the case. <b>Milk, is actually bleaching calcium from our bones, not putting calcium into it.</b> Dr Young says milk contains lactose, which is a sugar in the body, and when sugar is released into the bloodstream, calcium is used by the body from our calcium reserves in our body (eg the bones), to neutralize the acids of the sugar. Moreover, <i>Dr Young does real live blood analysis, and he says if you look at your red blood cells after drinnking milk, you wont be happy,</i> as it makes the red blood cells stick together and fill them with bacteria and toxins. And studies done in the 1980s already showed that people who drink milk each day, have the weakest bones of all, while people who drink less or avoid it altogether invariably have stronger bones. Anthony Robbins in his first book "Unlimited Power" also cited the same research result in 1986.FOr those who are interested, read the other books as well as they support the information the author is saying.

The western countries who drink a lot of milk have the highest cases of osteo and weak bones in the world, compared to Asian countries. This should already give you a clue.

I already owned this book (I'm a gynecologist), but I bought this copy to give to my daughter's pediatrician. At our annual visit, she asked my daughter "Have you been drinking your milk?" just like the American Dairy Council wants her to do and I felt a need to educate her. Much of what doctors are taught about the "value" of milk products is supported by Dairy Council funding in one way or another and is certainly not based on science. Our country's "recommended requirement" for calcium is more than twice that of the rest of the world. (Most doctors don't know this.) (Check out the WHO website). Why is that? In order to help sell more milk perhaps? Think about it and definitely read this book. It's full of very interesting data.

Humans beyond the age of weaning don't need to drink milk. My doctor has been telling me that for years. If you want to know all the reasons why we don't need it, buy this book. I was expecting some sort of fanatical rantings, but the information is well balanced and researched.

Oski's book has not been popular mainly because people are simply turned off by the title. Why should we not drink something that has been ingrained into our heads since childhood that milk is the best thing we can put into our bodies? You will be surprised at the looks you will get from people who happen to hear you repeat what you will learn from this awesome book. Learn the truth about milk's non-absorbable calcium and osteoporosis. One need not be a doctor to understand this book either. Some people undoubtedly will read this book and continue to consume milk because they don't like change and it is like taking away part of their heritage and no amount of truth will convince them. This book is a must read!

This is a well-written book with good information and extensive sources. The chapters are concise and pretty well-composed, just really short. The whole thing would be better compiled in essay-format, since this is a pretty short book.

As a vegan, I still hand this over to friends and family when they ask me what I'm doing about my calcium intake, and it usually keeps them quiet.

This is a good referance to have, but you'll probably find the same information in any "Complete Vegan Guide" dairy-chapter. Buy it if you have the extra six bucks.

I found this book to be extremely informative. The information will definitely make you think twice before you consume any dairy products. The only negative to the book is that a list of alternative substitutes to dairy wasn't really listed except for soy which has it's own drawbacks. It's important to get Vit.D and calcium in your diet but no list was provided thus I was left hanging. Otherwise, the book was very informative and easy to understand.

Drink milk, it is high in protein, and calcium, good for your bones. Doctors in England have found a link between Nations that are highly dependent on dairy, and the high rates of breast, and ovarian cancer. Other studies have shown elimentating dairy improves the symptom of arthritis, as well. One thing the author here explains is what calcium is good for, to neutralize acids, and sugars, we consume daily. He may also have mentioned it, and may have missed it but calcium is also used to neutralize protien, specifically animal protien. As for milk, the lower the fat content, the higher the protien content. I mention this because animal protien is the biggest cause of calcium leeching. Not to mention caffine. Calcium leeching leads to osteoporosis.

So we march marrily along to the doctor's office to get some supplimental calcium. But we continue to consume dairy products, and animal protien further weakening our bones. Akin to trying to fill a bucket with a hole in the bottom. As yet another reviewer has mentioned we do not need milk once we are weaned, and even before that we certainly do not need the milk from an animal.

This book is loaded with good information for the health conscious, and the uninformed. Educate yourself, your family and friends about how milk does a body bad.

Oh and did I mention the growth hormones, the steroids, and the anti-bacterial agents found in dairy products, and how some years back girls as young as 8, and 9 years of age were begining to develope breasts, and grow pubic hair. All of this traced to the consumption of dairy products loaded with growth hormones.

Do your body good read this very well written,and informative book, and question the habit we have of consuming dairy products.

Dr. Oski wrote this book at a time when only those "on the fringe" spoke out against cow's milk. This book coined the phrase "Resume' of a Cow's Lunch" to describe the real ingredients in cow's milk as being a function of what the cow has eaten or been injected with. Dr. Oski's message is clear - there's NO reason for ANY human to EVER drink cow's milk.

This is a very good option for those who want to know about the dangers of milk. It is clear even for those who aren't familiarized with scientific language, because it uses our day-by-bay language (I can say that, I'm foreign). The chapters are the right size and the reading doesn't bother. It may seem like a too thin book, but it's not, it's full of information. Frank A. Oski really has experience with problems envolving milk. This is an upadated version with an appendix in the end (this may seem a little complicate to read by those who aren't doctors). This book really worked for me, because I drank lots of milk by the time I read it and I decided to make an experince: I moderated on milk for some weeks and I noticed improvement on my digestal functions. Buy it, it's really worth of it.

While it is true that the pasteurized, homogenized, milk from grain-fed, confinement-raised cows (organic or not) that we can buy in grocery stores is bad for us, this book fails to demonstrate anything about organic, raw, grassfed milk, which is a completely different substance. What most of us know as milk is NOT milk. I highly suggest reading "The Untold Story of Milk" by Ron Schmid, which describes the history of pasteurization and talks about the profoundly positive qualities of healthy un-pasteurized, un-homogenized, organic milk from healthy cows eating grass. REAL milk IS good for us. See also http://www.realmilk.com