Why Cows Milk is Dangerous.

Blood Cells: The USDA allows up to 1.5 million white blood cells per milliliter of commonly-sold milk.

Antibiotics: cows are continually being injected with antibiotic medicines, and rubbed down with chemical-laden ointments to deal with their chronic infections. Cows are only tested for 4 of the 85 drugs used dairy cows. 81 drugs in cow’s milk are coming directly into your glasses. Estimates show that 38% of milk in the U.S. is “contaminated with sulfa drugs or other antibiotics,” according to a study by the Centre for Science in the Public Interest and published in the Wall Street Journal on December 29, 1989. A study from the FDA data showed that over half of all milk was laden with traces of pharmaceuticals.

Cortisol: Often times the conditions in which cows live cause dairy cattle to live in a permanent state of stress as well as adrenal overload.. When our adrenal glands are overworked for long periods of time, there is a overload of cortisol in the blood. When we drink milk, we are then exposed to the millions of stress-response cells in the milk of cows. It is no wonder that we are a chronically stressed society!

Calcium : Without magnesium you can not absorb calcium. Milk has one third of the magnesium needed to absorb the the calcium. Plus protein blocks the absorption of Calcium. The countries that drink the most milk and milk products have the most osteoporosis. Cows get their calcium from eating plants. We should too. Plants have plenty of magnesium. Actually, the consensus among leading medical researchers is that the best way for most people to increase their calcium level and strengthen their bones is to reduce their protein intake .    

Death: So, how much of a difference is there between a human baby drinking the milk of its mother versus drinking the milk of a cow? A study of over twenty thousand infants conducted in Chicago as far back as the 1930s... The overall death rate for the babies raised on human milk was 1.5 deaths per 1,000 infants while the death rate in the babies fed cow milk was 84.7 per 1,000 during the first nine months of life. The death rate from gastrointestinal infections was forty times higher in the non-breast-fed infants, while the death rate from respiratory infections was 120 times higher. An earlier analysis involving infants in eight American cities showed similar results. Infants fed on cow milk had a twenty times greater chance of dying during the first six months of life."

Lactose the majority of the world's adult population is "lactose intolerant," meaning they cannot digest lactose, the sugar in milk. An enzyme known as lactase is required to digest lactose, Between the age of one and a half and four years most individuals gradually lose the lactase activity in their small intestine. This appears to be a normal process that accompanies maturation.... Most people do it. All animals do it. It reflects the fact that nature never intended lactose-containing foods, such as milk, to be consumed after the normal weaning period."

Xanthine oxidase: Three reasons that dairy products contribute to heart disease are their high content of cholesterol and fat, along with an enzyme in cow's milk called xanthine oxidase. This enzyme, which creates problems only when milk is homogenized, causes heart disease by damaging arteries.

Juvenile diabetes:  A 1992 report in The New England Journal of Medicine also notes that cow's milk can contribute to juvenile diabetes and autoimmune diseases by impairing the ability of the pancreas to produce insulin.

Cancer: The Natural Health article also states a 1989 study published in Nutrition and Cancer found a link between consumption of cow's milk and butter with the risk of developing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system. The article adds, "High levels of the cow's milk protein beta-lactoglobulin have also been found in the blood of lung cancer patients, suggesting a link with this cancer as well."

Saturated fat: Dairy products—including cheese, ice cream, milk, butter, and yogurt—contribute significant amounts of cholesterol and are the number one source of saturated fat in the diet. Diets high in fat and saturated fat can increase the risk of heart disease, among other serious health problems. In two studies, hypertension—a known risk factor for heart disease.

Estrogens: Dairy products account for approximately 65 percent of estrogens consumed. Estrogens are a risk factor for breast, ovarian, and prostate cancers due, in part, to their ability to influence cell proliferation.20 A study suggesting that milk consumption may contribute to breast cancer risk reported that 15 different estrogen metabolites were found in various milk products. Cutting fatty foods is priority No. 1 when you endeavor to lower your risk for breast cancer.

Galactose: Ovarian cancer may also be related to the consumption of dairy products. The milk sugar lactose is broken down in the body into another sugar, galactose. Research suggests that the dairy sugar galactose might be toxic to ovarian cells. In a study conducted in Sweden, consumption of lactose and dairy products was positively linked to ovarian cancer Additionally, a study conducted in Denmark—where the incidence of ovarian cancer is one of the highest in the world—found that women who consumed more than two servings of milk per day had nearly two times the risk of developing ovarian cancer than women who drank less than half a serving per day.

Iron Deficiency: Children who drank Cow's milk have had a increased chance of getting Iron Deficiency Anemia due to the extremely low amount of Iron in milk.

My mother use to get upset with my grandmother because she would discourage us from drinking milk. She use to say “ Milk is for cows”. After all these years I realize grandma was right.