In a bizarre twist of irony, not only do milk products not provide a form of calcium that is easily digested by humans, they do contain animal-based proteins that raise the acidity levels of the human body, thereby forcing our bodies to actually take calcium away from our bones and remove it from our system in our urine … Plant-based proteins, in case you were wondering, do not have this effect. In essence, animal milk don’t make stronger bones – they actually make more brittle ones!

Quite a number of studies have shown this to be true — one of them, performed at and published by the University of California, showed that older women with a high intake of animal, rather than vegetable, proteins had a significantly higher risk for hip fractures than those in a control group. Indeed, even the USDA recently admitted that the nutrition claims of the famous “milk mustache” ads are completely false — that milk consumption does not improve athletic performance in any way, and that milk consumption does cause digestive difficulties and does decrease bone strength.

So, my Friends, it would be worth it to keep in mind that milk (or cheese, or yogurt, or sour cream etc) does not “do the body good” — and that the best way to keep this in mind; the best way to care for your own health as well as the health of those you Love (not to mention the health of all dairy cows), is to keep animal dairy completely out of your diet.

 

Current status of this Myth: Sanitized
Justification it provides for eating animals: NONE

Filed under: Minimizing the Myths of Meat by Scaughdt