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The author further stresses that artificial vitamin D in milk is not a good solution, to handle bone density, but recommends sunlight. However, sunlight is not always available in sufficient quantity in many locations. Therefore direct application of vitamin D is recommended in those areas. The author also brings up researchers that have found smoking and alcohol to be a cause for the loss of bone density.
Even mineral water (Sangemini) is superior to milk as a calcium source in individual cases.
A good reference on this is the work "Calcium in Milk vs. Calcium in Bottled Water", by Dr. Robert P. Heany and Dr. MS Dowell M.D. (not McDowell as in the directory) published as part of the University of Omaha Study in November 1994.
Cohen declares on page 270 that, for example, cabbage has the same amount of calcium such as milk, but the body absorbs only 25% of the calcium in cow’s milk, while considerably more from cabbage. Quite a different variety of cabbage species exist. The cabbage also has wild species, for example, brassica oleracea.
On page 271 a statistic shows 2'598 asthma deaths in 1979 and 5'487 by 1994. In 1979 Americans drank a lot of milk with little protein but rich in fat. In 1994 however, the milk was lower in fat with a lot of protein. More African Americans were afflicted with asthma than white people. They also have more milk allergies in the same proportion. Shouldn’t this set the mental wheels in motion?
In the second to the last chapter, the author covers the problem of BSE on eight pages. That was a big problem at that time. BSE stands for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), caused by prions in the brain. It is similar to the previously known scrapie in sheep.
Both are dangerous to humans and leads to death. The author covers haw remedial measures were wrongly executed and late, as well as the mockery of people who issued early warnings. Since the problem now seems detected and corrected, I will not take it up here.
Cohen is actually an omnivore, eating both meat and dairy products. He had only dramatically reduced the cheese consumption in his family. I do not consider the alternatives he lists out to be healthy foods. See also a photo of Cohen further above in this article. Nevertheless, he propagates that excluding of milk and dairy products leads to a longer and healthier life.
Cohen gives alternatives to milk, which I will greatly expand upon here. Almond milk, for example, various types of cereal milks such as rice milk, oat milk, spelt milk, rye milk, einkorn milk and of course soy milk which I personally reject and not only for environmental reasons. Almond milk was known as amygdalate since the Middle Ages. Most of these “milks” are available as organic products.
The dairy industry in the EU was able to get legislation passed stipulating that the word “milk” may not be used with products such as rice milk, soy milk, etc. It has to be called rice drink or rice beverage, for example.
There are other milk substitutes such as kokkoh (a mixed drink from the macrobiotic) or Douzhi, i.e. mung bean milk.
When we were in the US, we drank hemp milk which is very tasty. Nevertheless, it is not raw food. After all, Wikipedia lists it as hemp milk (Italian Latte di canapa) and also mentions peanut milk. My own image: milk from flaxseed.
There is also grain milk, or more precisely fermented “grain milk” made from quinoa, spelt, oats, rice, rye, einkorn (wild precursor of emmer) barley milk, e.g. as orgeat, or wheat milk.
Not to be forgotten is sunflower seed milk and the popular coconut milk, which virtually always includes emulsifiers, stabilizers and/or thickeners.
Sesame milk (sesame seed milk) is available at least in the US. Sesame is rich in interesting ingredients and gluten-free. Flaxseed milk is especially rich in omega-3 fatty acids and in this respect flaxseed is unsurpassable.
Cashew milk, hazelnut milk and nut milk (common walnut) are also available in the U.S.
There is also vegetable-based milk such as from lupine (Lupinus) or peas.
Horchata is also a delicious milk substitute. In Spain, chufas (tiger nuts) are used. Wikipedia: “tiger nuts consist of more than 25% fat, about 30% starch and about 7% of protein. They contain a lot of unsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic acid, vitamin H and rutin and many minerals.”
Quite exotic are aguas frescas, xing ren cha or sikhye, Korea, which are slightly alcoholic. Amazake from Japan is another type of fermented milk alternative containing alcohol.
References and notes are listed by chapter starting on page 289. There are a total of 337 literature references and correspondence. Also, the index is extensive and reasonable.
List of recommended books on the subject. I don’t know them all.
Books that Robert Cohen positively mentioned in his book:
As compared to "MILK - The Deadly Poison", this book shows more accurately how the fraudulent approval of the artificial hormone came about in 1994 and pursues related disputes until 2011. See also economic crime and corruption.
Enough sleep, vitamin E, B6, B12, folate, brain training, sports, avoidance of food additives and polyunsaturated fats are the best means to keep a brain healthy. It contains approximately 75 recipes. See also the documentary "Forks over Knives" (2011) and its distinguished awards.
Using Ghana as an example, osteoporosis as a disease is practically unknown to Ghanaians who consume 1% of milk in their diet. But Ghanaians in the US, who adapted the Western diet, developed osteoporosis as easily as the Westerners!
The author provides a clear program for success which is less focused on recipes. Many recent studies are discussed in the new edition.
This very expensive technical book mainly shows the problem of homogenized milk. It led to violent attacks by the dairy industry against him. However, recent research by nutritionist McCarty confirmed his results.
nothing undermines health as much as milk and dairy products.
Some places in the book sound outright naive and much is simply invented. However, the public seems to like something as mundane. Fit for Life II was published in 1989 and another edition in 2011. A correspondence course is provided where one can “acquire” a doctorate, which is obviously not recognized.
And to say it again, even mineral water (Sangemini, calcium 333 mg/l, sodium 19.8 mg/l) is superior to milk as a calcium source in individual cases.
Wikipedia: The ingredients of mineral waters have a similar bioavailability as that of other foods. Calcium from mineral water has a similar absorbability as calcium from milk (about 37-49%), the rate of absorption of magnesium is around 50%.
Some of the books recommended in customer reviews miss the point entirely, or even recommend dairy:
Raw milk is sun-drenched grass transmuted into liquefied nutrition.Even the foreword by Sally Fallon contains unfounded claims. The book is full of them and easy to refute.
Excerpt from a customer review at Amazon: Devoted to shattering popular myths about saturated fats and their role as disease promoters. Not mincing any words, Enig methodically demonstrates the faulty data and reasoning behind the ideas that saturates either cause or contribute to heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, mental illness, obesity, and cerebrovascular disease.
No mention about milk, but extends one’s view.
bacteria-ridden swill milk production (milk from cows fed grain mush runoff from distilleries) to white ‘pure’ pasteurized ‘perfection-in-a-bottle’...This pure God designed (page 37) white cow's milk has even freed women from food production (Page 47).
... its recommended avoidance of dairy products is an invitation to osteoporosis.Comment by Dr. Stephen Barrett M.D. That says it all.
| Title | \t\t\tMILK The Deadly Poison | \t\t
| Author | \t\t\tRobert Cohen (with a long letter from Dr. Robert Kradjian M.D.) | \t\t
| Publisher | \t\t\tArgus Publishing, Inc.; Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA. | \t\t
| Publication | \t\t\t1998 | \t\t
| Pages | \t\t\t317 | \t\t
| ISBN | \t\t\t0-9659196-0-9 | \t\t
| Note | \t\t\tA large part of the book is concerned with genetically modified "growthhormones" in milk, which is currently only applicable to the US. | \t\t
The short description at Amazon would be a highly condensed summary of the cover copy. More interesting are the 55 reader reviews, of which 28 gave the highest rating with 5 stars (followed by 5x ****, 5x ***, 4x ** star), while 13 reviews tear the book apart with a 1 star rating. The average rating is 3.5 stars.
One woman writes about her 20-year-old daughter with breast cancer, another reader recommends the book "Beyond Beef" by Jeremy Rifkin. Another recommends "The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity" by Daniel Reid because the book confirms that milk neutralizes stomach acid which results in bacteria and other undesirable substances reaching the intestine.
Another person mentioned the disappearance of various problems after eliminating milk from their diet, including acne. Book recommendation: Dr. Robert Young, The pH Miracle and Anthony Robbins, "Unlimited Power" (1986).
Another person healed themselves from Type 2 diabetes by complete abstinence from any and all dairy products within 3 years. One reader, Patricia Joy, refers to the rat experiments in the book The "China Study" by Dr. T. Colin Campbell, which showed how with no milk consumption cancer also disappeared. This link leads to my book review, keyword aflatoxins (see also under 2.1.3).
The worst reviews were either blanket condemnations without good reason or a criticism of the replacement product soymilk, which Cohen recommends. Another, that he does not address raw milk from "the old days," or the Maasai, who drew blood and mixed it with milk. One of the reviews with a 1 star rating against soy recommends "The Untold Story of Milk" by Ron Schmid. Another, points out that milk processors now offer soymilk and recommends "The Whole Soy Story" by Dr. Kaayla Daniels M.D. As far as soymilk is concerned I would add my voice to the criticism.
Some critics say they would have preferred the book to also address kefir, etc. One Canadian suggests Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price, Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig and Know Your Fats.
One person recommended the book "Nature's Perfect Food: How Milk Became America's Drink" (February, 2002, 304 pages, only 3 reader Reviews) from E. Melanie DuPuis. Some of the 1 star ratings come from people who live off milk. And there is another important point, pus in the milk is supposed to only occur at the farm, but not in the finished product.
Prof. Dr. RP Heany M.D. (FACP, FASN, and Creighton University) is considered an excellent expert concerning calcium and vitamin D in connection with the absorption ability of the human body. You can find some of his publications in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. I found 399 that were written by him in PubliMed.
He stressed for example, that for the absorption of calcium, both types of vitamin D, i.e. 25(OHD) and 1,25(OH)2D, are needed as well as proteins and phosphorus. Heany condemns calcium additions in beverages. There are authors who recommend 40-60 ng/mL plasma-25(OH)D, as has been seen with the Maasai.