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roughly 70%

of Native Americans,

and about 53% of Hispanic

Americans are lactose intolerant.

Our government is encouraging

Americans of color

to eat foods that it knows

is going to make them ill.

Ultimately,

what that boils down to

is the government is telling

me as an African American

to eat food that's gonna make

me ill for no health benefit

so that it will

benefit dairy farmers.

That's a form of

institutionalized racism.

Yeah, milk is a risky

food for human consumption.

As a pediatrician,

I see on a daily basis

children suffering from

conditions that are linked

or associated to

dairy consumption

such as eczema, acne,

constipation, acid reflux,

iron deficiency, anemia.

Cow's milk protein is

the most allergenic food.

People think, "Well, no,

I want hormone-free,

not injected with

bovine growth hormone."

But milk is

this hormonal fluid,

so it's just packed

with sex hormones

and natural sex steroid hormones like

estrogen, progesterone, in fact,

doesn't matter if it's conventional milk,

doesn't matter if it's organic milk.

Milk without hormones,

that's an oxymoron.

Organic dairy has just

as much saturated fat

and cholesterol and galactose, all

the things that you don't want,

as conventional dairy.

Dairy products, in general,

have a lot of other

products associated with it,

not the least

of which is pus.

They actually

have laws limiting

how much pus you can actually have

in the milk and still sell it,

I believe it's like

750,000 pus cells per CC.

Because you wouldn't want too much

pus and then it'd be like pure pus,

people might object.

In fact,

you could think of cheese

as kind of coagulated

cow pus, if you would.

[Kip] But, I was always told that

we need milk for strong bones.

I'm Jane Chapman,

and not too long ago,

I finally got some x-rays

of the hips and back,

severe bilateral

osteoarthritis of the hips.

And actually, I'm scheduled

for two hip replacements.

That's bone on bone.

It's the grinding

of the joints.

My stability is scary.

I hold on to the walls

when I'm at home.

I've been told

to use a walker.

I'm only 61.

This is not how you're supposed

to live when you're this old.

I have a really hard time

believing that

that's all that's left.

Researchers have studied

bone development in kids

and whether they get stress

fractures and that kind of thing.

And the kids who drink the most

milk have zero protection.

Milk does not

build strong bones.

Harvard researchers have looked

at a large group of older women,

over an 18-year period,

the milk drinkers had zero

protection from fractures.

So, this old notion that somehow

milk is gonna build strong bones

or protect your bones

later in life, it's a myth.

People that drink milk have

higher rates of hip fractures,

have more cancer

and live shorter lives.

[Kip] Turns out that

countries with the highest

dairy consumption also

have the highest rates

of osteoporosis, so clearly, drinking

more milk doesn't protect your bones.

Doing more research,

I found that dairy was linked

to many different types of

cancer as well.

Just like many of us, I thought that the

majority of cancer was due to genes,

but, only five to 10% of

cancer is actually genetic.

Any cancer is caused by DNA

mutation, but, that's not enough.

So, that can cause that first cancer cell,

but, one cancer cell never killed anyone.

Two cancer cells

never killed anyone.

But, a billion cancer cells, now

we're running into problems.

So, we need to reduce the

growth factors in our body,

like IGF-1, insulin-like

growth factor one,

it's this cancer-promoting growth hormone

involved in every stage of cancer cell

growth and spread

and metastases.

Any animal protein boosts

the level of IGF-1.

Dairy products

increases your risk for

various forms of cancer, especially

those related to your hormones.

So, breast cancer, prostate

cancer, ovarian cancer.

So, this is not a product

even in its most pure state

you wanna be consuming because

it does come with risk.

[Kip] I found out that dairy

can increase a man's chance

of getting prostate cancer

by 34%.

And for women who've had breast cancer,

just one serving of whole dairy a day

can increase their chance of

dying from the disease 49%

and dying from anything 64%.

Why weren't breast cancer

sites like Susan G. Komen

warning everyone about this?

[woman] Thanks for calling Susan G.

Komen,

this is Jocelyn,

how may I help you?

Yes, so we're wondering why

you don't have a huge

warning about the dangers

of consuming dairy

on your website

when there's a direct

link to breast cancer.

There was a study

published in the Journal

of the National Cancer

Institute that found out

women consuming dairy

who has had breast cancer

increases their risk of

dying of breast cancer 49%.

I was wondering why it's

not on your website.

[woman] We cannot answer

these types of questions.

[Kip] Once again, another

health organization rep saying

someone else would have

to answer my question.

Rather than risk

being stood up again,

I went straight to the

local Susan G. Komen chapter

to see if they would answer

my questions.

They didn't want to answer my questions in

person either and told us to stop filming

but, promised they would connect me

to the national office directly.

Susan G. Komen's

pink ribbon campaign

had done a lot to raise

awareness for breast cancer.

Although, it was confusing

to see pink ribbons

on dairy yogurt containers.

Breast cancer can be prevented

with a healthy diet and

lifestyle, but, we're not.

We're talking about pink ribbons

and putting all the money

into research for the cure.

I, for one, know that I would

want my daughter, my mother, me,

I want to focus on not

getting to that point.

And that's where I would like to

see more energy and effort put.

[Kip] I had been

a hardcore cheese-aholic

virtually my entire life,

despite the risks.

But, like so many others, I seem

to have been addicted to it.

It turns out that the casein protein,

that's the main protein in dairy products,

and particularly in cheese, it

breaks apart in the human digestion

to create what are called

casopmorphins.

Casein-derived, morphine-like

compounds that go to the brain

and they attach to the very same

receptor that heroin attaches to.

Don't get me wrong, they're

not as strong as that,

but, they are strong enough

to make you come back

again and again and again

despite the fact that

you're gaining weight,

you're more unhealthy

than you've ever been,

but, that cheese

just calls out to people.

Casomorphin may play a role in SIDS,

in sudden infant death syndrome,

may play a role in autism.

This is one of the reasons why

we don't want infants

drinking milk from cows.

[Kip] Human breast milk has 2.7

grams of casein per liter,

compared to 26 grams per

liter for cow's milk.

That's practically 10 times more.

No wonder it's so addictive.

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