Calcium Conspiracy?!?
I have never liked dairy milk. The truth is, it grosses me out. Ever since I was a child I always viewed milk as something babies drank during the nursing process and something human adults drank because of some strange twist of fate when one day, someone was bored, looked at a cow’s teets and said to himself:
“Ya know what I’m gonna do?? I’m gonna go over there, bend down and start yanking at those hanging thingies- and whatever comes out- I’m gonna drink it!”
This simply seems to me to be proof that the triple-dog-dare was invented long before my time.
But other than that, I have been doing lots of research about dairy milk and have found some very interesting facts that are usually kept quiet probably due to the fact that the dairy industry is so huge and profitable.
The majority of people—about three-quarters of the world’s human population—are lactose intolerant: that is, they genetically lack the enzymes needed to break lactose down into the simpler forms of glucose and galactose and thus absorb these sugars into the bloodstream. (1) As a result, drinking milk or consuming dairy products causes these individuals to experience gastrointestinal pains, indigestion, gas, diarrhea and other unpleasant symptoms.”
Forty years ago, it was widely believed that almost everyone possessed the enzymes needed to digest lactose, but research done in the mid-1960s and afterward confirmed that most humans lose them after being weaned (usually between the ages of two and five). Studies since then have shown that significant numbers of many racial and ethnic groups (approximately 90% of Asians, 70% of African Americans, 50-80% of Latinos, and so on) are lactose intolerant. (2-5) Those who retain the ability to digest lactose beyond early childhood (i.e., about 85% of Caucasians and much smaller fractions of other racial groups) are only able to do so because of an inherited genetic mutation. (6)
Even though about one-quarter of adults in the U.S. are lactose intolerant (1), the federal dietary guidelines used as the basis for all public nutritional programs (such as subsidized school lunch plans) recommend two to three 8-oz. servings of milk a day. Disclaimers about lactose intolerance notwithstanding, such recommendations give the false impression that milk is a necessary part of a healthy diet when in fact it is making people sick. Unfortunately, as a result of the shared economic interests of federal agencies and the dairy industry, government policy continues to reflect the cultural and racial prejudices of bygone eras rather than sound science.
Coca-Cola anyone? That’s exactly what this reminds me of. You remember how there used to be cocaine in Coca-Cola? I feel like some truths will be revealed within the near future to bring some facts to the forefront.
I just stick to soy milk anyways, not just because of my aversion to dairy milk, but because as I have said before-
Farting ain’t sexy.
