Milk and Skin Complexion
Friday June 09th 2006, 7:30 am
Filed under:
DiseaseSKIN PROBLEMS
courtesy of Robert Cohen
What? Your skin is not as soft and beautiful as a baby’s
tush? Check out the skin of a vegan today, and be jealous.
In May of 1998, the European Review of Medical and
Pharmacological Science reported one reason for America’s
billion dollar cosmetic industry:
“Allergic asthma and rhinitis, atopic dermatitis
(AD)urticaria…are common diseases of infants and children.
Cow’s milk appears to be the most common offending food…in
cutaneous manifestations of atopic disease. It was recently
estimated that 14% of children suffer from AD and about 25%
from adverse reactions to cow’s milk.”.
If you are a teenager, or the parent of one (I have three
living in my home), then you know that one word capable of
striking fear in the hearts of all high school kids:
ZIT!
Frank Oski, M.D., author of Don’t Drink Your Milk, and once
Director of the Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, wrote:
“As pointed out by Dr. Jerome Fisher, ‘About 80 percent of
cows that are giving milk are pregnant and are throwing off
hormones continuously.’ Progesterone breaks down into
androgens, which have been implicated as a factor in the
development of acne…Dr. Fisher observed that his teenage
acne.
Acne from Milk and Dairy Products
Wednesday June 07th 2006, 12:35 pm
Filed under:
Diseasecourtesy of Robert Cohen, NotMilk.com
Acne occurs when steroids (androgens) stimulate the sebaceous glands within the skin’s hair follicles. These glands then secrete an oily substance called sebum. When sebum, bacteria and dead skin cells build up on your skin, the pores become blocked, creating a zit.
What do you expect? When teenagers combine their own surging hormones with dietary saturated animal fat, cholesterol, steroid hormones, dead white blood cells, and cow pus, they’re gonna get zits. The good news: The cure is an easy one: NOTMILK!
“As pointed out by Dr. Jerome Fisher, ‘About 80 percent of cows that are giving milk are pregnant and are throwing off hormones continuously.’ Progesterone breaks down into androgens, which have been implicated as a factor in the development of acne…Dr. Fisher observed that his teenage acne patients improved as soon as the milk drinking stopped.”
Don’t Drink Your Milk, by Frank Oski, M.D. (Director, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
“Acne usually begins at puberty, when an increase in androgens causes an increase in the size and activity of pilosebaceous glands….if a food is suspected, it should be omitted for several weeks and then eaten in substantial quantities to determine if acne worsens.”
MERCK Manual, Merck & Company, 2000
“Acne is an end-organ hyper-response to androgens…These data show that sebaceous glands are stimulated by androgens to varying degrees and support the theory of an end-organ response in acne.”
British Journal of Dermatology, 1998 Jul, 139:1
“Acne vulgaris is a self-limiting skin disorder seen primarily in adolescents, whose etiology appears to be multifactorial. The immunologic response involves both humoral and cell-mediated pathways. Further research should clarify the role of complement, cytotoxins, and neutrophils in this acne-forming response.”
Postgrad Med J, 1999 Jun, 75:884
“Hormones found in cow’s milk include: Estradiol, Estriol, Progesterone, Testosterone, 17-Ketosteroids, Corticosterone, Vitamin D, insulin-like growth factor, growth hormone, prolactin, oxytocin…”
Journal of Endocrine Reviews, 14(6) 1992
“We studied the effects of growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factors (IGFs), alone and with androgen, on sebaceous epithelial cell growth…IGF-I was the most potent stimulus of DNA synthesis. These data are consistent with the concept that increases in GH and IGF production contribute in complementary ways to the increase in sebum production during puberty.”
Endocrinology, 1999 Sep, 140:9, 4089-94
“…serum IGF-I levels increased significantly in the milk drinking group…an increase of about 10% above baseline-but was unchanged in the control group.”
Journal of the American Dietetic Association, vol. 99, no. 10. October 1999
Crohn’s Disease and the Dairy Link
Tuesday June 06th 2006, 6:33 am
Filed under:
Diseasefrom Robert Cohen of NotMilk.com
The most serious bacterial disease of cows is caused by mycobacterium paratuberculosis.
Mycobacterium paratuberculosis causes a bovine disease called “Johne’s.”
Cows diagnosed with Johne’s Disease have diarrhea, and heavy fecal shedding of bacteria. This bacteria becomes cultured in milk, and is not destroyed by pasteurization. Occasionally, the milkborne bacteria will begin to grow in the human host, and irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn’s results.
“It is reasonable to conjecture that M. paratuberculosis may be responsible for some cases of Crohn’s disease.”
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1992;30(12):3070-3073
“Johne’s disease and Crohn’s disease are remarkably similar in clinical signs and intestinal pathology.”
Hoard’s Dairyman, January 24, 1995
“Of 77 milk samples (taken from cows with Johne’s disease), 11.6% were culture-positive (contained M. paratubercolosis).”
Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1992;30(1):166-171
“Mycobacterium paratuberculosis was isolated from tissue taken from patients with Crohn’s disease and is implicated in the etiology of this disease.”
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 1993, May 31(5)
“Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis crosses the species barrier to infect and cause disease in humans.”
J Hermon-Taylor, British Medical Journal, Feb 1998.315
“Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is capable of surviving commercial pasteurization, when there are more than 10 bacteria per millilitre in raw milk.”
N. Sung, Applied and Environmental Microbiology: 64(3), Mar 1998.
“Mycobacterium paratuberculosis RNA was found in 100% of Crohn’s disease patients, compared with 0% of controls.”
D. Mishina, Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA :93: September, 1996
Read what Dr. Greger has to say about Paratuberculosis And Crohn’s Disease (211kb)
“Please use the Internet Resource Guide to learn more about Crohn’s and its association with Mycobacterium paratuberculosis.”
Chris Piromalli - Crohn’s Research Coordinator
http://www.shafran.net/crohns/Introduction.htm