(excerpted from www.thedoctorwithin.com)
PASTEURIZED MILK
The absence of enzymes in modern dairy products exists by definition: milk is pronounced 'pasteurized' only when all the enzymes have been removed by heating. From pasteurized milk we then get butter, ice cream, cheese, yogurt, and milk chocolate. Problem is, all these foods can't be digested. Undigested food goes all over the body and causes chronic low-grade inflammation. And blockages. That is why holistic nutritionists generally agree that milk is the #1 cause of allergies. Don't believe it? Take away all dairy for 60 days from the allergy or asthmatic patient. The operative word here is all. See what happens to the allergies.
Yes I know what you're thinking - where will we get our calcium from then? Big surprise: milk is not a good source of calcium because the enzyme phosphatase, which is necessary to absorb calcium, was destroyed by pasteurization! The only reason we think we need milk for calcium is that we've heard it all our lives - on TV, in school nutrition programs, from dieticians. But guess who paid for all that advertising and promotion?
Starting way back in the 1950s, the American Dairy Association spent millions providing 'educational' materials for American grade schools in which dairy products are presented as one of the Four Food Groups. This never had anything to do with science - this is marketing. There's no such thing as the four food groups. They made it up!
So, as for the calcium requirements of children: " ... pasteurized milk is incapable of rebuilding or maintaining bones and teeth." - Royal Lee, 1955
And as for digestion: "...commercially modified milk and baby foods are all foreign to the baby's liver digestion and may produce diarrhea, milk allergies, and constipation." - H. Bieler, 1965
It is not just Africans who have lactose intolerance - all humans have lactose intolerance when it comes to pasteurized milk. But it's still a word game: lactose is milk sugar. We're not allergic to milk sugar; we're allergic to milk. No enzymes = junk food. Milk is a junk food. Think your baby needs it? Think again. Pasteurized cow's milk is sensitizing your baby to an unnatural non-food allergenic protein.
Consider this: man is the only animal who figured out how to remove enzymes from milk
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The above comments about milk refer only to pasteurized milk. Raw milk from cows living in a natural mineral-rich environment is another story. Dr. Price thoroughly documents the health of Swiss Alpine villagers, isolated from processed foods. Some of these healthy people lived on a diet centered around raw butter and raw cheese, from cows and goats. Their health was far better than most of ours today. The point is that natural, unprocessed, unpasteurized dairy products could be a superlative nutritional staple, because it is loaded with the fat soluble vitamins A, D, and E, minerals and enzymes.
What destroys milk is civilization: killing the enzymes by heat, adding antibiotics and hormones to the cows' diet, keeping the cows in a mineral deficient environment, and artificially preparing it for long periods of storage.
