{"id":964,"date":"2020-04-01T14:11:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T18:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=964"},"modified":"2021-02-16T14:37:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T19:37:40","slug":"milk-and-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"Milk and Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not to be outdone by Johns Hopkins, Harvard Medical Group\nalso published a review in the <em>New England Journal of Medicine <\/em>about\nmilk and health.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They start out by \u201cstating the obvious\u201d that the natural\nfunction of milk is to nourish and promote the growth of young mammals, not\nmature ones.&nbsp; They go on to question the\ncurrent dietary recommendation of three 8-ounce servings of milk\/milk product\nper day.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because cows are bred for high milk production and\nbecause they are pregnant during most of the time they are milked, they produce\nhigh levels of insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) and high levels of estrogen\nand other hormones.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exposure to IGF-1 and other hormones has been linked to a\ngreater risk for certain cancers: breast, ovarian, uterus and prostate.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cow milk intake has been correlated with the development\nof diabetes, especially type 1 diabetes owing to cross reactivity between dairy\nproteins and pancreatic islet cells.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A long-standing rationale for promoting lifelong milk\nconsumption is to meet calcium requirements for bone health.&nbsp; The concept is good but the practical outcome\nis the opposite.&nbsp; Hundreds of scientific\nstudies show that countries with the greatest milk intake have the poorest bone\ndensity.&nbsp; Yes, milk is rich in calcium,\nbut it also contains certain proteins that leach away the mineral content of\nour bones.&nbsp; Countries with the lowest\nmilk intake paradoxically have the best bone health.&nbsp; Cow milk is also the most common cause for\nfood allergy, at least in Western countries.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, there is the \u201cfart\u201d issue.&nbsp; As hard as it seems to believe, the methane\nproduced due to the large industrial scale of milk production is having a\nmeasurable effect on green house gases.&nbsp;\nThe Harvard group calculated that obtaining our protein from alternative\nsources such as soy, legumes, and grains rather than from milk would reduce\nglobal greenhouse gases by 10 percent.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to be outdone by Johns Hopkins, Harvard Medical Group also published a review in the New England Journal of Medicine about milk and health.&nbsp; They start out by \u201cstating the obvious\u201d that the natural function of milk is to nourish and promote the growth of young mammals, not mature ones.&nbsp; They go on to question the current dietary recommendation of three 8-ounce servings of milk\/milk product per day.&nbsp; Because cows are bred for high milk production and because they&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/?p=964\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-milk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allergy-associates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}