A Delicate Balance: The Truth Page #6

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in saturated fats, that is,

an animal based diet,

died of multiple sclerosis.

Most auto immune diseases

are significantly more

common in colder climates.

The further people live from the

equator, the higher the incidence

of multiple sclerosis and the

other auto immune diseases.

This geographical localization is

linked to the reduced sunlight needed

to form vitamin D in the skin.

As well as the high

animal based food consumed.

More milk and other dairy products

are consumed at the higher latitudes.

The consversion of vitamin D, made

in the skin in response to sunlight,

into the crucially important active

vitamin D, is inhibited by foods

that are high in calcium as well

as acid-producing animal proteins.

This supercharged vitamin D, not

only stops cells from becoming sick,

it also helps to repress the

development of auto immune diseases.

There is a multitude of

other auto immune diseases.

The mechanism for their causation

is similar to multiple sclerosis.

They include dementia, Alzheimer's

disease, Parkinson's disease,

diseases affecting the eyes,

the thyroid gland, joints,

resulting in rheumatoid arthritis,

muscles and just about

every tissue in the body

can be the target of the

immune system going awry

and resulting in 1 of the

40 auto immune conditions.

Animal protein, specially milk and

other dairy products, cause osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis is a disease in which

the body takes calcium from its bones.

This leaves the bones

thinner and more fragile.

The resulting weakness

leads to bone fractures.

It fact, hip fractures are often

used as a reliable indicator

of the severity of osteoporosis.

This bone disease affects

women more frequently than men,

specially after menopause.

Countries that consume

cow's milk and its products

also have the highest fracture

rates and the worst bone health.

If milk is so good for our

bones, as we are lead to believe,

then people who consume

milk should have better,

stronger and healthier

bone structure than others

who do not drink as much

milk or eat dairy products.

The fact is:
this is not so!

Studies have shown that American

women aged 50 years and older

have one of the highest rates

of hip fractures in the world.

The rates of bone fracture are

exceeded only in Europe, Australia

and New Zealand, where the

milk consumption is even higher.

Researchers at Yale University's School

of Medicine summarized information

on osteoporosis taken from 34

separate surveys in 16 countries

that were published in 29

peer-reviewed research publications.

The study found that 70%

of the bone fracture rate

was related to the

consumption of animal protein.

The reason for this is that

animal protein is acidic.

The body does not like

an acidic environment

and begins to neutralized

it as soon as possible.

To do this, the body uses calcium,

present in the blood stream.

If not enough calcium is present in

the blood, more is taken from bones.

This loss results in bone thinning

and eventually leads to bone fractures.

It has been well known as early as 1880

that animal protein causes

excess metabolic acid.

Unlike plant protein, which does

not cause this acidity in the body.

When animal protein consumption is

increased from 35g to 78g per day,

the loss of calcium through

the kidneys increases by 53%.

This 53 % increase of calcium of leaving

our body is not only desastrous to bone,

but also increases the incidence

of stones forming in the kidneys

and, of course, stresses the kidneys

by forcing them to get

rid of all this calcium.

Anyone who cares for the welfare

of others and their own health,

needs to look squarely and rationally

at this avalanche of evidence.

Even if they are a farmer or work

for the industry that processes

and supplies theses products to

their fellow human beings at large.

Doctor Greger is a phisycian

with a degree in agriculture.

He is also the director of Public

Health and Animal Agriculture

at The Humane Society of the US.

The reason we're told to

drink milk is for strong bones,

at least that's what the advertising

campaigns would have us believe,

but, over and over, in fact, the

latest review was in a journal

called The Osteoporosis

International, October 2004,

(?) which was a med ??? analisys,

reviewed all the studies done today

and found, this was done by The

World Health Organization, found

that low milk drinking was not at all a

risk factor for osteoporotic fractures,

for breaking a hip, for

breaking a forearm later in life.

So, one certainly doesn't need to

eat or drink dairy for their calcium.

The best absorbed calcium on the planet,

really is dark green leafy vegetables,

(?) these low oxidated ???

dark green leafy vegetables,

like kale, collards, bak choy, etc.

These are loaded with calcium and

are absorbed even more than milk

and, instead of getting the

saturated fat and the cholesterol,

potential for growth hormones,

antibiotics in the dairy milk,

by getting your calcium from plant

sources, the kind of baggage you get then

is the fiber and the foliage and

all the wonderful vital nutrients,

these anti-aging, anti-cancer,

anti-inflammatory compounds

found exclusively in the plant kingdom.

In 2000, the Department of Medicine at the

University of California, San Francisco,

piblished a summary

of 87 separate surveys,

which showed that high

intake of vegetables

and low intake of animal protein

resulted in virtual

disappearance of bone fractures.

Another study followed

1,000 women for over 7 years.

Women with the highest animal-to-plant

protein content in their diet

had 3.7 times more bone fractures

than women with the lowest ratio.

The women on an animal protein

diet also lost bone 4 times faster

than women on plant protein.

Calcium Supplements

Taking extra calcium is an accepted

and well-established practice.

Recommended for people

who have osteoporosis

or are at risk of developing it.

(?) Professor Mark ???,

at Harvard University,

commenced studies on

calcium in the 1950's.

He showed that excessively high

intakes of calcium over a long time

impair the body's ability to control

how much calcium it uses and when.

Our body is a perfectly balanced system.

Into this perfect system, we

introduce additional factors

and the system copes...

and copes... and copes... and copes...

until it cannot cope any longer.

Continuous abuse leads

to inability of our body

to control the finely tuned mechanisms.

This is a well-established

phenomenum in biology.

"If a little is good, more must be better. "

Is the way our minds tend to think.

Taking excess calcium in the form

of dairy food or calcium suplements

has been found to destroy the body's

finely tuned ability to regulate calcium.

This disruption of the

regulation of calcium absorption,

retention and use for bone maintenance

can be temporary or permanent.

Instead of concerning

ourselves to calcium suplements,

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