FOODS TO AVOID:
DAIRY PRODUCTS
Avoid dairy products when on a
detox program. They are like
POISON to your system, causing
excessive catarrh.
 Dairy products include milk, buttermilk, cream, butter, cheese, sour cream and yogurt. Lactose is the primary sugar in dairy products. To digest lactose, we need the enzyme lactase. At three or four years old, most people would have stopped producing this enzyme, thus beginning to be lactose intolerant. However, yogurt is the only dairy product that is safe to be consumed by this lactose intolerant group of people, though yogurt must never be given to babies under 12 months old. Pasteurized milk (UHT - ultra-heat temperature) is the heating of milk to temperatures of 160 degrees or higher. This changes the milk protein (casein) content to an inorganic form, which cannot be assimilated by the body. When this protein cannot be broken down, it weakens the immune system, causing allergies and many other problems, like asthma, nasal congestion, skin rash, chest infections, higher blood cholesterol, increased risk of heart disease and stroke. Crib deaths have even been attributed to cow's milk allergy. You are better off pouring this poison down the drain than feed it to your baby. Do you realize that when you consume cow's milk, it causes excessive mucus or catarrh to be formed in your lungs, sinuses and intestines? The mucus also hardens to form a coating on the inner wall of the intestines that leads to poor absorption of nutrients. It causes constipation and can lead to many ill problems. Imagine then, what havoc formula (cow's) milk does to an infant? No wonder asthma and bronchitis are so rampant in our young children! Sally Fallon of the Weston Price Foundation in the States said it like this: "Pasteurization destroys enzymes, diminishes vitamin content, denatures fragile milk proteins, destroys vitamin B12 and vitamin B6, kills beneficial bacteria, promotes pathogens and is associated with allergies, increased tooth decay, colic in infants, growth problems in children, osteoporosis, arthritis, heart disease and cancer." God has designed mothers to feed babies with breast milk. But in these modern days, mothers are too busy that we have resorted to formula milk, bringing up a generation of sickly children who have weak immune systems. If we are going to cow's milk for calcium, we are mistaken. Cow's milk is not a good source of this mineral. The ideal calcium to magnesium ratio should be 2:1. Milk's ratio is 10:1. By relying on cow's milk for calcium, you will have magnesium deficiency and imbalance. For alternative sources of calcium and magnesium in almost correct ratio, choose seeds, nuts, and crunchy vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, carrots and cauliflower. Substitute milk products with raw seed and nut milks or goat milk cheeses. For infants, if breast milk is not available, substitute with goat's milk instead, or rice milk, or almond milk.
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