Hormones are
injected to cows to boost milk production. We should not forget that these
hormones get into our body too through the cow's milk. There are lot
of research showing alarming rates of pesticide residues even in mother's
milk. Imagine then the chemicals in cow's milk that are fed with GMO crops and feed grown
using chemical fertilizers and pesticides. These chemicals naturally are
concentrated in the cow's milk and enter into our body.
Milk is the essence
of mother's body. Nature has planned in such a way to concentrate all
nutrients in milk to give nourishment to the baby. If the mother cow or
human mother eats all these toxic foods, naturally the toxins would go to
the baby's body in a concentrated form. The chemistry of the body is that
fat soluble compounds get dissolved into the fat of the milk. Unfortunately
most of the chemical toxins are fat soluble and so are rich in fat.
Naturally, toxic levels of these pesticides are high in butter and cheese.
Remember to buy only organic and organic cheese to avoid toxic chemicals
getting into your body.
Should we boil milk or not?
According to
Ayurveda, milk should be boiled and used. Pasteurization is only heating to
58 to 60 degrees and not boiling and so only partially kills the microbes.
It is also unhealthy to use stored half warmed milk. The best is to use
un-pasteurized milk, but boil it and then use it. Boiling not only
kills microbes but also inactivates hormones and also alters the structure
of milk ingredients and might be not unhealthy to the body.
Milk
should be boiled and used especially children. Boiling milk de-activates
many hormones of the cow’s milk which is meant only for the calf’s body and
not human body. We use diary for its protein and fat and not for the animal
hormones.
We see many Indian families who gave given up
the traditional Indian practice of boiling milk out of ignorance and
laziness. We have progressed in a such a way of losing holistic view.
Several studies now show that
Conjugated Linolenic acids (CLA)
(click- I accept to the link in the end of the page) to read
Linolenic acids (CLA)
has many health benefits, most important being
an anti-cancer agent. CLA is content increases by
heating milk rather decreases, which
supports the traditional Indian way of boiling milk and
using. This research publication shows that boiling milk by
microwave significantly
(click download when
you click) reduces CLA
content and also the milk powder reconstitution also reduces CLA content.
We suffer from
diseases more by ignoring traditional holistic view and adopting
modern fragmented knowledge
.
Click here to
read more about
un-homogenized milk.
