According to Brit professor milk is just as harmful for us as cigarettes.

Pravda ^ | 03/19/2004 | Utro

[yankeedame]

Milk & Cigarettes: what is worse?

03/19/2004 15:43

According to British professor Jane Plant, milk is just as harmful for us as cigarettes.

All dairy products should be excluded from one's diet, because they are known to cause breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men.

The professor is widely known for her anti-dairy radical views. Her book entitled "Your Life-In Your Own Hands" which has been published last year ponders this exact issue. Nowadays, Plant is getting ready to publish another opus: "Prostate cancer: how to diagnose, prevent and cure the illness."

Such hatred towards milk products is not without reasons. When nine years ago she had her fifth recurrence of breast cancer, doctors had told her she would live for a few months. The persistent woman however did not wish to give up so easily. She was able to draw certain correlation between the Chinese diet which involves very small dairy intake, with a very low rate of breast cancer patients there. She also decided to completely exclude milk products from her diet. After about five weeks, Plant's tumor started to decrease. Today, this 60-year-old woman is a tumor-free person.

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face=Verdana>According to the professor, one of the ever-present hormones in milk is carcinogenic. In addition, the amount of it tends to increase and reach inadmissible high concentrations due to animal's hormone treatment.

There exists a clear correlation between concentration of this particular hormone in man"s blood and the amount of specific prostate's antigens in his body. Aside from this hormone, excess amount of calcium in one's body can also trigger development of tumors as it blocks vitamin D.

Milk is not the only product that has been declared to pose certain health risks. Eggs and butter for instance can lead to heart attacks, while cheese turns out to be a real narcotic. At the same time, some traditional food products are being attributed rather nontraditional therapeutic qualities: apparently, coffee prevents Alzheimer's and raw fish helps to cure bronchial asthma.

Basically, all of these suggestions make one's head spin. In the meantime, before you decide to refrain from milk and other dairy products, it would be nice to remember that even the most famous professionals make mistakes. Take for example Dr. Atkins, who as it turns out, has suffered from obesity.

Source: Utro

Read the original in Russian: (Translated by: Anna Ossipova)

[codyjacksmom]

I must really be screwed. Everyday while on FR... I smoke my cigarettes and drink my chocolate milk. Both at the same time!!!! Hmmmm...I wonder if chocolate milk even qualifies for this....

[Rudder]

I think the hormone would be Bovine Growth Hormone, which indeed does promote certain neoplasm growth.

[New Horizon]

...and raw fish helps to cure bronchial asthma.

I think I'd rather live with the bronchial asthma.

[TheBigB]

Got...um, milk?

[Fiddlstix]

.....because they are known to cause breast cancer in women.....

Oh My Lord! The glands that produce the substance now are endangered by same........
Sounds like Phoney Phacts.
(Junk Science once again)

[PrincessB]

Cheese is a narcotic?

That explains a few things.

Is this woman some how connected with Physicians for Responsible Medicine (I think that is the name of the doctors connected to PETA)

[Becki]

Pinging Shelion!

I wonder the reverse is true?

Becki

[Wolfie]

All dairy products should be excluded from one's diet, because they are known to cause breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men.

Wow. The good Professor must have access to some scientific research that nobody else has ever seen.

[LibWhacker]

She's not going to be so happy with her dietary choices when she grows up and her bones start snapping like flimsy little toothpicks. But I'll feel less sorry for her than the people who follow her advice without taking care of their calcium intake.

[Seruzawa]

This is scary. I'll have to switch to beer and cigarettes right away!

[IronKros]

wow... we are about to have our first child. I will have to let my wife know that her breast milk will be harmful to our baby girl. I guess I better start stocking up on bean curd.

[conserv13]

You don't like sushi or sashimi?

[StAnDeliver]

"while cheese turns out to be a real narcotic"

Behold the Power of Cheese.

[codyjacksmom]

Yes, definitely do...This must surely overrules all the studies done that describe the health benefits of breast milk.

P.S. Best wishes with the new FReeper-to-be!!!!

[New Horizon]

You don't like sushi or sashimi?

Does Lox count?

[Mackey]

I stopped drinking milk in 1981, and I've remained alive ever since.

[kaktuskid]

Well calcium (which is dairy foods) is supposed to reduce chances of colon cancer!

[GovernmentShrinker]

I'm a lacto-ovo vegetarian who has been addicted to chocolate milk since age 2. I consume colossal amounts of dairy products (and none of this "low fat" or "fat free" nonsense for me). I'm 43 and absolutely, perfectly healthy, with no signs of incipient anything (except several more decades of excellent health).

[Chewbacca]

Since cheese is a milk product does this doctor also recommend not eating cheese?

My moose is hungry.