We hear it every day, drink your milk, and make sure you have two glasses per day and so on. We are not as dumb as we look, are we? Do we really believe that this stuff is good for us? Think about it, we are taking milk from another species and drinking it. What do you think it would look like if cows drank human’s milk and dogs drank raccoons’ milk or goats drank cats’ milk? I think it would look bizarre to say the least.

I want to shed some light on this subject. Among children the problems that are generally associated with milk consumption are allergies, ear and tonsil infections, bedwetting, asthma, intestinal bleeding, and colic and childhood diabetes. In adults, the problems are centered more around heart disease, arthritis, allergies, sinusitis, and the more serious questions of leukemia, lymphoma and cancer.

The harmful components of cow's milk include all the major parts of it, as well as some minor elements. Lactose is a sugar meant for babies, but it is generally harmful to adults. The proteins in cow's milk are different from human milk proteins and cause problems of digestion, intolerance, impaired absorption of other nutrients, and autoimmune reactions. Few of the proteins meant for baby cows are found naturally in human mother's milk, and none is found in any natural adult human food. Even the high protein content in cow's milk creates problems. Human babies need the saturated fats and cholesterol in mother's milk. Bovine milk fat is not appropriately composed for human babies and is only deleterious to the health of children and adults.

Many nutrition experts such as Harvard's Dr. Walter Willett, suggest dairy products should not even be a featured on the food group pyramid at all. We hear it every day, we need to drink milk so we will have strong bones. It is true that it may be better to drink than the most consumed cola drink on the market but not by much. In the end, milk can actually start deteriorating your bones and cause the very same osteoporosis the experts were telling you for years it was going to prevent.

Dr. T. Colin Campbell, PhD, a prestigious nutritional biochemist at Cornell University, with some of his research has concluded that cow's milk may not even do what it is supposed to do best - build strong bones, since recent studies suggest that humans may need less calcium for strong bones than was once believed. Additionally, other foods, including various vegetables and legumes, may be a better source than cow's milk. If you think about it, adult cows do not drink milk and they have strong bones.

Doctor Campbell also found links to liver cancer in persons getting more than 10% of their daily protein from milk protein. This alone should get you to pour what you have left sitting in your refrigerator, down the sink.

Let us face it, if something has been marketed as being a good thing to the point where there is hundreds of millions in advertising dollars put into the marketing campaigns, that should tell you right there that there is something amiss. I have never seen or heard an advertisement for bean sprouts or lima beans.

I am constantly being asked what will my children drink if I do not give them milk. To this, I answer, water, not distilled or reverse osmosis water but good spring water with the minerals still intact. I will tell you that is all they require everything else is just for taste.

I have witnessed repeatedly how well children can overcome certain diagnosed “diseases” to the point of it almost being miraculous just by discontinuing drinking milk. What I am discussing here is the actual drinking of milk, eating cheese, yogurt, or ice cream occasionally does not have the same effects unless you are allergic to it.