Is milk a food that can lead to obesity, cancer, rickets and diabetes?

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In order to understand the milk problem, I carefully analyzed the views against drinking milk in the book "Life-saving Diet" (The China Study) published by a retired professor of biochemistry at Cornell University in 1990. Subsequently, I studied the views that support milk consumption. Here, I try to summarize what I have learned about milk.

It can be said that the pros and cons have one thing in common: they all believe that the ability of human beings to digest milk is a "new" thing, which has a history of no more than 9,000 years.

In the study of nine Neolithic and Middle Stone Age human bone fossils unearthed in Europe (7800-7200 years ago), the researchers concluded through genetic analysis that these people do not yet have the ability to digest milk. Before that, humans-like other mammals-could only digest mother's milk. During lactation, babies can produce a digestive enzyme called lactase, which is used to break down lactose in milk. After a few months of weaning, the baby will soon be unable to secrete enough lactase.

The so-called "lactose intolerance" is not a disease or genetic defect, but is currently prevalent in 70% of adults around the world. If people are compared to cars, then people who can't digest milk are mass-produced standard cars, while those who still have the "special function" of decomposing lactase in adulthood are equivalent to a limited edition of a special configuration-lactase.

For most people, this function makes no sense because they have already switched to "mature" foods, that is, solid foods, as adults. Therefore, only those ethnic groups that have a history of animal husbandry for thousands of years have this physical function. In Africa, 90 per cent of people cannot digest milk; in East Asia, the proportion is 98 per cent, while the remaining 2 per cent are probably not in the habit of drinking milk; however, in Germany, people who can digest milk, cheese and skim milk are as high as 75-85 per cent of the population, and the rest are often unaware of their inability to digest milk, but often feel unexplained abdominal pain.

According to the website of the German Dairy Federation, Germans currently consume an average of 130 litres of milk or other dairy products a year. According to the Federal Institute of Nutrition and Food, we should drink more milk, preferably up to one liter a day. Especially for children who are developing, they need to supplement calcium through milk.

When milk opponents hear this, they will shout, "Oh, my God, aren't those babies fat enough?" In children in Europe and the United States, many people are found to have excessive blood lipids, which is directly related to high intake of saturated fatty acids, and milk is officially one of the culprits of the problem. As early as 1984, Sir Doug Black, president of the British Medical Association, said in response to a question on how to prevent heart disease: "Milk is the biggest killer. It is nonsense to supply milk to children in school."

The Federal Institute of Nutrition and Food has confirmed that science has shown that adequate milk intake can prevent heart attacks and obesity. In my opinion, this view is too bold, especially about drinking a liter of milk per person per day, which is even more suspicious. Even if this liter of milk is all low-fat milk (1.5% fat), it contains 600 calories. Where should we save so much heat? Vegetables? You know, there are only 230 calories per kilogram of spinach. Should we eat 2600 grams less spinach every day?

It is said that milk can not only prevent obesity, but also prevent cartilage formation. In this regard, the Federal Institute, medical staff and milk manufacturers are of the same view.

On this question, I can't help but ask: if milk is really an irreplaceable healthy food (as 88% of Germans said in the questionnaire), then 75% of the people in the world cannot digest milk and therefore cannot drink milk. What should we do? For example, the Japanese. 94% of them suffer from lactose intolerance. Without milk and enough calcium, don't they all have to become disabled people without arms and legs? Oh, my God, how terrible it is that all the Japanese are sitting on wheels! Of course it's not true.

We only have to think about it: nine thousand years ago, human beings survived without milk, but today there are still 3/4 people in the world who do not have the habit of quoting milk. This fact alone proves that we have every reason to suspect that milk is a kind of dispensable food. What is even more surprising is that the incidence of rickets in Japan is even lower than that in Germany. Even in countries that drink little or no milk, the incidence of modern diseases is significantly low. Dr. Campbell, who studies the relationship between meat consumption and diseases such as cancer, diabetes, obesity, osteomalacia, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, even believes that the more dairy products you eat, the higher the risk of developing rickets....

If this view is true, it can be screened to make people break their glasses. This means that what we have heard over the years is a lie: milk not only does not prevent osteomalacia, on the contrary, it is also the culprit. Can it be said that milk manufacturers are liars who sacrifice human lives for the sake of economic interests? The experts at the Federal Institute of Nutrition and Food are incompetent idiots? This is really hard to believe. Since the Hesse State Milk Federation dares to say that "drinking more milk every day can significantly increase the bone density of teenagers," this statement must be based on strict scientific basis and cannot be taken for granted. But how do we explain Dr Baker's view that the incidence of rickets is well above the world average in Europe and the US, especially in Sweden, Finland and the UK, which are keen on milk consumption?

In addition to rickets, cases of diabetes have been relatively rare in Asian countries in the past. With the popularity of the Western way of life-preference for meat and dairy products-the situation has changed rapidly. At present, 40 million people in India and China each have diabetes. According to the 2010 Diabetes report, diabetes is likely to become a "21st century epidemic". In the past 20 years, the number of people with diabetes worldwide has increased sevenfold to 250 million.

Medical scientists in northern Europe and North America do not believe that there is a link between diabetes and milk consumption. In their view, Asians are becoming more obese, leading to an increase in diabetes.

If someone asked me if it was conceivable that the food industry might know that milk is a food that can cause obesity, cancer, osteomalacia and diabetes, but still aggressively promote it to consumers, I would probably say, "although there is no vomiting evidence, but, damn it, I will believe it right away."

If anyone asked me if it was conceivable that our politicians might connive at this practice, I would certainly reply: I believe that too!

But maybe I was fooled by a few cunning or irresponsible vegetarians who used fabricated data and false information to win my trust. Maybe milk is really a great food, as marketers have advertised for decades. Maybe if we separate the mother and son of the cow and take the baby food that originally belongs to the calf as our own, we can really get great health benefits.

I really don't know what the truth is. But if someone asks me, what exactly do I believe? I will say, I believe that I will eat as little dairy products as possible in the future.

Source: "should you eat me? "

Author: Karen Duff