Susan Carmack wrote:
> The following article by Thomas Cowan, MD is from the Summer issue of the
> "The Health Journal" put out by the Price Pottenger Nutritional
Foundation
You seem to be missing my point. When I requested citations, I was looking
for something from the peer-reviewed, scientific literature. This appears
to be a lay magazine, published by a special interest group. I do not find
it among the holdings of the library at my university. Nor do any other
the other universities to which I have access carry it. Examples of
legitimate medical journals would include such publications as the Journal
of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of
Medicine.
> It's called "Don't Drink Your Milk". In it Oski pins just about every
> health problem in children to the consumption of milk, everything from
> acute and chronic ear infections, constipation, asthma, eczema, and so
on.
This is almost funny. It reminds me of what I said previously about
zealots who are willing to pin all the world's problems on consumption of a
particular food. Is this really supposed to lend credibility to anything
that this person has to say?
> Perhaps the experiments of Dr. Francis
> Pottenger in the 40's can help to solve this mystery.
Please provide a full citation for this work from the peer-reviewed,
scientific literature. Also, any cites that are a little more recent than
the 1940's would be useful. Science, particularly medicine, has come very
far in the last half century.
> Those cats on pasteurized milk suffered
> from acute illnesses ( vomitting, diarrhea) and succumbed to every
> degenerative disease now flourishing in our population, even though they
> were also getting raw meat and cod liver oil.
I asked have asked you this previously. What are all these diseases that
you claim are caused by milk? If they are so rampant as to be
"flourishing", surely you must be able to give some examples.
> Studies have shown that
> before heating, milk is a living food...
What studies? Once again, please provide citations for these studies.
> Milk has a cortisone like factor
>which is heat sensitive (i.e. destroyed by heat) in the cream that
prevents
> stiffness in the joints.
And what is the full name of this "cortisone-like factor" and what is its
mechanism of action? Also, since cortisone is a hormone, would I be
correct in assuming that this "cortisone-like factor" is also a hormone?
How is it that this hormone is destroyed by heating, yet you indicated in
a previous message that other hormones in milk are not?
> Once heated, milk becomes
> rotten, with precipated minerals which can't be absorbed (hence
> osteoporosis), with sugars which can't be digested (hence allergies),
The sugar in milk which cannot be digested by some people (myself included)
is lactose. Lactose is not formed by pasteurization. It is a natural
constituent of milk. Also, the author appears to have confused lactose
intolerance with milk allergy. They are not the same, as I am sure
everyone reading this message is aware.
> Rarely is anyone truly
> allergic to grass-fed cow's milk.
Based on what evidence? Again, I need to see a citation of a double-blind
peer-reviewed study to accept this as fact.
> The Pottenger cat studies provide a simple but profound lesson for all
> Americans:
Again, this is a conclusion with no evidence or data. Please provide a
citation of the original work from the scientific literature.
Now, think about this before you hit that reply key. Rather than posting
more pseudo-science, written by some "expert" who doesn't even know the
difference between lactose intolerance and milk allergy, try to answer the
questions I have posed and provide the information I have requested. In
the absence of that, I will not be burdening the list with another response
to you.
Amanda H Ackerman
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