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| File Name : DIABMILK.ASC | Online Date : 06/10/95 |
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The following file deals with milk as possibly causing diabetes.
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220 33324 <1995May17.142018.17579@lafn.org> article
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Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative
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Path: ix.netcom.com!netcomsv!uu3news.netcom.com!netcomsv!uucp3.netcom.com!
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From: ao966@lafn.org (Mark Graffis)
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Subject: Re: Milk Sucks
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X-Nntp-Posting-Host: lafn.org
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Message-ID: <1995May17.142018.17579@lafn.org>
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Sender: news@lafn.org
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Reply-To: ao966@lafn.org (Mark Graffis)
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Organization: The Los Angeles Free-Net
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References: <D8o3oL.32D@postoffice.ptd.net> <003370B9.fc@pop.com>
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<3ojghi$c85@nexus.polaris.net> <Ru9+TaR.paboyer@delphi.com>
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Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 14:20:18 GMT
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This was put out by PCRM 2 years ago..
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It has long been suspected that cow's milk proteins are a principle cause of
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diabetes in children, and a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine
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adds more support for this explanation.
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In comparisons of different countries, the prevalence of insulin dependent
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diabetes parallels the consumption of cow's milk. Children who are not exposed
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to cow's milk products early in their life have a dramatically lower risk of
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diabetes. In the new report, researchers from Canada and Finland, found
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evidence that implicated cow's milk in every one of the 142 diabetic children
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they studied.
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The culprit appears to be a cow's milk protein, called bovine serum albumin,
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which differs just enough from human proteins to cause the human body to react
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by producing antibodies. The antibodies later attack and destroy the insulin-
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producing beta cells of the pancreas.
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Every one of the 142 diabetic children had high levels of antibodies to the
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cow protein at the time the diabetes was diagnosed. The researchers found that
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the non-diabetic children may have such antibodies, but only at low levels.
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The form of diabetes which begins in childhood [insulin-dependent diabetes] is
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a leading cause of blindness, and contributes to medical problems including
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heart disease, kidney problems, and amputations due to poor circulation.
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The new report indicates that the combination of genetic predisposition and
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cow's milk exposure is the cause of the childhood form of diabetes. If the
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theory is correct, the antibodies can form in response to even small amounts
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of milk products.
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Diabetes becomes evident when 80% to 90% of the insulin-producing beta cells
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are destroyed. Why does this form of diabetes sometimes not manifest untill
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early adulthood? The beta cell sites which are attacked by the antibodies are
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not always present. They tend to arise after infections, which may be when the
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antibodies kill off some of the insulin-producing cells.
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Although there is evidence that a genetic predisposition may be neccessary for
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diabetes to develope, there is no way of determining which children are
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predisposed. Even identical twins, who have the same set of genes, often
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differ with respect to diabetes: one child may develope the disease, while
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while the other does not, appearently depending on their histories of milk
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exposure and the infections that expose the pancreatic cells to damage.
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The American Acadamy of Pediatrics now recommends that infants under a year of
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age not receive whole cow's milk. The Acadamy's main concern was not diabetes,
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but iron deficiency anemia, which is much more likely on a dairy-rich diet.
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First, cow's milk products are very low in iron, containing only about one-
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tenth of a milligram per eight-once serving.
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To get the U.S. Recommended Daily Allowence for iron, which is 15 mg per day
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for infants less than a year of age, an infant would have to drink more than
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31 quarts of milk per day. The iron-deficiancy caused by milk is not simply
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due to milk's lack of iron and it's tendency to push iron-rich foods out of
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the child's diet.
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Milk actually causes the loss of blood from the intestinal tract, which, over
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time, can reduce the body's iron stores. Just how cows milk causes blood loss
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is not known, but researchers speculate that the culprit may be bovine
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albumin, eliciting an immune reaction which leads to blood loss.
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Pasteurization does not eliminate the problem.
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Researchers from the University of Iowa recently wrote to the `Journal of
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Pediatrics' "..in a large proportion of infants the feeding of cow milk causes
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a substantial increase of hemoglobin loss. Some infants are exquisitely
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sensitive to cow milk and can lose large quantities of blood.
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"Milk does contain calcium. But it is not unique in that respect. Kale,
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broccoli, and other green leafy vegetables contain calcium that is readily
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absorbed by the body. A recent report in the American Journal of Clinical
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Nutrition found that calcium absorbability was actually higher for kale than
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from milk, and concluded, "greens such as kale can be concidered to be at
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least as good as milk in terms of their calcium absorbability."
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Broccoli actually contains more calcium per calorie than does milk. Beans are
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rich in calcium, and fortified orange juice supplies substantial amounts as
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well. There is no nutritional need for cow's milk in human children.
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The new report adds further confirmation that U.S. government advise that all
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children should drink cow's milk should now be reversed: There is no reason to
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recommend cow's milk.
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From SCIENCE NEWS 3/12/94
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Women who would like but have failed to conceive a child may want to review
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how big a role dairy products play in their diet, a new study suggest. A team
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of researchers in the United States and Finland now reports that where per
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capita milk consumption is highest, women tend to experience the sharpest age-
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related falloff in fertility. - With the exception of certain northern
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Europeon populations and their descendants, most adults lose the ability to
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easily digest lactose, a sugar in milk.
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Because lactose intolerance discourages high consumption of milk and other
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dairy goods rich in galactose - a sugar apparently toxic to human eggs - this
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trait may be beneficial, observe gynecologist Danial W. Cramer of Harvard
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Medical School and his coworkers. - Five years ago, Cramer linked galactose
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consumption with increased risk of ovarian cancer.
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To look for hints that this sugar might also affect fecundity, his team
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compared published data from 36 countries on on rates of fertility, per capita
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milk consumption, and hypolactasia - that adult inability to digest lactose.
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In the Feb. 1 `American Journal of Epidemiology', they now report a
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correlation between high rates of milk consumption and waning fertility,
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beginning in women just 20 to 24 years old. - The strength of that association
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- and the rate of fertiliy decline - grew with each successively older age
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group studied.
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In Thailand, for instance - where 98 percent of adults are hypolactasic -
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average fertility in women 35 to 39 is only 26% lower than peak rates [at age
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25 to 29]. By contrast, in Australia and the United Kingdom, where
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hypolactasia affects only about 5% of adults, average fertility by 35 to 39 is
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fully 82% below peak rates. - Many factors -including marriage customs,
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divorce rates, contraception use, and individual wealth - affect fertility,
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the authors concede.
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However, notes Cramer, the new analysis does offer "demographic confirmation
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of what we have observed both experimentally, when you feed a mouse high
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galactose, and clinically, in women with galactosemia [an inability to
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metabolize galactose]." Women with this disorder who have high concentrations
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of the sugar in tissue are infertile, he observes.
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--
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Mark Graffis 809-772-9025 ~That light at the end of the tunnel's a
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232 Little LaGrange freight train, folks~
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F'sted, VI
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