You like Top 10 Lists, eh? Okay, here’s another…
Top 10 Reasons To Give Up Eating Dairy Foods
- The price of dairy products has skyrocketed over the past few years
- Milk has been linked to thyroid cancer, which is found in approximately half of adults over 50. Comes from iodine used to treat mastitis. Also hormones, antibiotics, etc.
- All dairy products cause weight gain—cheese is at the top of the list
- Dairy foods have enormous amounts of bacteria, stressing our immune system. Pasteurization has consistently been found to be inadequate
- Any woman, and especially any mother can tell you that being milked several times per day for months at a time is extremely taxing. Misery loves company
- Dairy cows have a lifespan of just a 4-5 years, vs. 20 year normal lifespan.
- While milk is touted as good for your bones, milk drinkers have the most osteoporosis
- Milk has been linked to breast cancer, SIDS, Asthma, Allergies, leukemia, & diabetes
- Dairy products promote air, land and water pollution
- The U.S. Government, The Dairy Council and Big Pharma say milk is part of a healthy diet. They make huge profits while we sneeze and wheeze and choke down tons of addictive but harmful cheese!
What Do You Want From Me?
I like to blog. It helps me focus my thoughts for more success in my life. But I also want to help you.
Today, I have three thoughts. Please let me know which is most helpful or interesting to you. Thanks.
1. I just had a call with one of my men (from The Surround), who is getting together with his (grown) son today. He told me he is committed to accepting his son exactly as he is today, with no judgement and expectations. I did not ask him if he would be sharing this thought with his son, but I wish I had. I did however ask him to consider that he may receive the same gift from his (passed on) father. That blew him away. Imagine the healing power.
2. I found this graphic today on my desktop, and thought I would share it, as Obama was talking about ending subsidies for oil companies. Wouldn’t it be great if we did the same for sugar, meat and dairy industries.
3. Here are the results from a LinkedIn Poll I did perhaps a year ago, in regards to our own standards on % of animal food in our diet. T. Colin Campbell (pre-eminent researcher, professor and author) among others (including Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the Surgeon General) say we eat far too much animal protein (not necessarily fat), ~35% of our calories. A reduction to 12.5% or less, matching the proportion of our teeth that can cut meat, would save billions of dollars annually, and drastically reduce suffering and early death from obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
Big difference between men and women. I think my goal should be to help the 45% of men who responded who by their own judgement would like to decrease their intake of animal foods. Where do you stand on this poll?
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