Dr.T.

Jegatheesan 1
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MILK

THAT

KILLS

Dr. T. Jegatheesan
M.D., (Paed), D.C.H., M.Sc.,(Genetics)

# 52, Khana bagh Street, Triplicane,

Chennai - 600005
Mobile : 98407 68792
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MILK THAT KILLS

Dr.T.Jegatheesan ©

First Edition : July 2023

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This book is dedicated to the

immortal copies of the ancestral genes
received from my parents.
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Forward

Dr. Ananthakrishna Murthy

M.D., D.C.H.,
(Professor of Pediatric Medicine – Rtd.,)
Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai.

At the outset, I thank Dr. T. Jegatheesan for giving

me the privilege to write a foreword for his book
titled 'Milk That Kills'. The Tamil version of this
book, 'Mella Kollum Pal' (Milk Kills Slowly), was
published in November 2016, and I was delighted
to provide a foreword for that book as well. I am
pleased to learn that the Tamil edition received a
warm welcome from readers throughout Tamil
Nadu. Now, Dr. Jegatheesan has presented this
English version of the book to spread awareness
about the harmful effects of animal milk across
India and the whole world.
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It is fascinating to discover the circumstances that

motivated him to address this topic. Dr. Jegatheesan
himself suffered from severe asthma and was
critically ill in 1994. Fortunately, he recovered
and, after leaving the nursing home, began
contemplating the cause of his illness. Suspecting
the adverse effects of milk, he experimented on
himself by eliminating all dairy products from his
diet. Ever since this change, he has been free from
the burden of asthma. His intention is to convey
this message to others in the society who suffer
from similar ailments and it has lead him to write
this book.

I have known Dr. Jegatheesan for over forty years

since he joined Kilpauk Medical College as a
postgraduate student under my supervision. He
has always been a sincere, calm, unassuming, and
hardworking student. His exceptional qualities
earned him the prestigious Dr. A. L. Mudaliar
prize in M.D. Pediatrics from Madurai Kamaraj
University. He sought my opinion before pursuing
a super specialty course in Medical Genetics and
dutifully followed my advice.

During the 1970s and 1980s, pediatricians became

aware of unexplained diarrhea in children who
consumed dairy and tinned milk. The role of milk
sugar lactose as the cause of this illness was soon
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recognized. We also observed cases of anemia

in toddlers, known as "Milk Anaemia," initially
attributing it to late introduction of solid foods.
However, the author of this book has conclusively
proved that anemia in this age group is solely
caused by microscopic bleeding from the intestines
due to milk protein allergy, rather than delayed
solid foods.

Until now, the general public believed that milk is

a nutritious food providing high-quality proteins
and calcium for growing children and debilitated
adults. However, Dr. Jegatheesan has shed light on
the harmful effects of all the components of animal
milk in children and adults. He has provided
authentic evidences demonstrating that animal milk
is responsible for various serious diseases, including
insulin-dependent diabetes and malignancies.

The wrong methods of the implimentation of the

Green Revolution has left our soil arid, while the
White Revolution has made the people sick. Dairy
cows are fed with non-vegetarian cattle feed and
made to lead sedentary lives. Cross-bred cows are
injected with genetically manipulated hormones
synthesized in laboratories to yield around twenty
liters of milk per day.

The consumption of milk and milk products, such

as ice cream, cream biscuits, milkshakes, flavored
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milks, and milk sweets, has significantly increased

over the past fifty years. Learning that stomach
extracts from slaughtered male calves are used in
cheese production saddened me. Dairy cows are not
allowed to live their normal lifespan of twenty years
but are slaughtered for beef meat after reaching the
age of six, reinforcing my conviction that the dairy
industry is a cruel industry.

After reading this book, the readers (including

myself) may feel shocked, confused, and bewildered
by the glaring adverse effects of milk believed to
be a trusted and wholesome food until now. Some
readers may find it aghast and skeptical to accept
the newly exposed facts about milk. I urge all the
readers to discuss any doubts with the author to
gain clarity and conviction about the underlying
facts regarding diseases caused by animal milk.

I appreciate my illustrious student, Dr. T.Jegatheesan,

and I am proud to call myself as his teacher. I wish
him a glorious and healthy future.

- Dr. Ananthakrishna Murthy

12/16, Daniel Street,

Adambakkam,
Chennai - 600088.
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Forward

Dr. K.Dharmarajan
M.S., M.N.AM.S., M.Ch.(Uro),
(Professor of Urology – Rtd.,)
Thanjavur Medical College, Tamilnadu.

I am much delighted to write this special forward for the

book titled “MILK THAT KILLS” by Dr.T.Jegatheesan. My
friendship with him started from Madurai Medical College,
Madurai, Tamil Nadu as a classmate and continues till date
for more than 50 years.

I always appreciated his simplicity, honesty, academic

interest and courteous attitude towards patients during our
college days. Later by his hard work and curiosity in critically
analysing information in a conscientious manner made him
a successful Paediatrician and Medical Geneticist.

Healthy children are the future superpowers of a

developing Nation”.

I believe that this motto is the prime intention for him to

author this book.

In addition to that, he himself was a victim of Milk protein

allergy induced Bronchial Asthma and was critically ill in
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1994 and fortunately recovered by intensive care therapy.
I presume that was a trigger for his curiosity to critically
analyse the dangers of milk consumption from advanced
medical text books and research oriented medical literatures
and convinced him to write this book for the benefit of
similarly affected persons.

His concern over the beneficial superiority of mother’s milk

for babies up to 3 years should be appreciated. Subsequently
no need to consume animal milk of any origin is very well
authenticated by him. With his experience of about 50
years in child health medical practice, he has inferred that
the incidence of many specific diseases in children have
increased by several folds during that period. Particularly
anaemia, heart attacks in young adults, juvenile diabetes,
asthma, childhood obesity, autism and a plethora of various
types of cancers. He has substantiated the same with evidence
based explanations and references not only from advanced
medical text books and research journals but also from
ancient Tamil literatures which are quoted at appropriate
places in the text.

He clearly explains, in a simple language with evidences of

the hazards of modern revolution in milk production as a
root cause for all these diseases.

The book informatively and scientifically explains the perils

of consumption of animal milk. If followed, the future
generations can escape from the ill effects of milk.

I am much pleased and thankful to Dr.T.Jegatheesan for

giving me this opportunity. I wish him success in all his
endeavours.

- Dr.K.Dharmarajan
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Preface

All the female members belonging to the mammalian

kingdom secrete milk only for the growth of their young
ones.

Cow cannot be an exemption to this basic biologic

rule. After parturition, the cow secretes milk for about
six months which is absolutely necessary to ensure
the survival of its calf. The cows living in all over the
world were similar until about sixty years ago and had
the ability to produce three to four litres of milk per
day. This quantity of milk is completely essential for
the growth and development of the calf. An average
calf weighs about twenty kilograms at birth and its birth
weight almost doubles at the end of one month.

It is mandatory for the calf to drink a volume of milk

approximately to about twenty per cent of its body
weight.

Hence the four litres of milk secreted by the mother

cow is sufficient for the daily nutritional needs of the
calf only. It is presumed that the human race began to
drink cow’s milk about seven thousand years ago. We
can assume with certainty that in those primitive days
man had started to share the cow’s milk depriving the
calf a finite quantity of its biological food source.
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The whole scenario has drastically changed during the
past six decades and a new cruel business in the name
of the dairy industry has developed and the growth
of which is leaping beyond all bounds. Biology was
once a neglected branch of science unable to compete
with atomic physics and industrial chemistry. Once the
marvellous science of genetics began to revolutionise
biology, all the related life sciences including the dairy
technology started to grow to new heights. Genetic
principles helped to cross breed animals and the
veterinary scientists were able to develop cows with
selected qualities. These animals were trained to eat
man-made cattle feeds containing a mixture of high
proteins and vitamins. Cows were made to forget the
green pasture lands and tethered to cowsheds slowly
getting accustomed to a lazy life. The cattle feed
production has simultaneously developed as an offshoot
business of the dairy industry.
As a result of these developments many governments
in the world declared the ‘White Revolution’ as a
priority policy to boost the milk production under
the false assumption that the nutritional status of the
citizens will improve with the help of the increased milk
consumption. By the same time, genetics particularly the
molecular genetics started to develop as a new branch of
biology as a result of the cracking of the genetic code.
The technique of manipulation of any gene and
introducing it at the desired sites in the DNA of microbial
organisms led to the manufacture of many hormones on a
large scale sufficient for commercial exploitation. There
is no doubt that many beneficial medicines like insulin,
growth hormone and erythropoietin manufactured
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by genetic engineering have totally revolutionized
the treatment of many serious human diseases giving
immense relief to the suffering patients.

We all know that any scientific invention over a period

of time can prove to be a double sided cutting weapon
if not judiciously used and genetic engineering is not an
exemption for this general rule. The biological giants
namely the Monsanto Corporation started exploring
the commercial exploitation of living organisms.
Many controversies and hot debates are still going
on all around the world about the introduction of the
genetically manipulated B.T. cotton, B.T. brinjal and
B.T. maize (B.T. stands for the introduction of a gene
from Bacillus thuringiensis into these plant cells which
gives protection against certain parasites for the recipient
plants)

The same Monsanto Corporation invested heavily to

clone the growth hormone gene of cows in 1990 and
within a short period of time it successfully launched
the Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin (RBST) on the
third February 1994. Amazingly the Food and Drugs
Authority (FDA) of the United States of America gave
approval for it to be used as a medicine. The hormone
RBST when injected to the milking cows has the
potential to increase the milk secretion of those animals
by several folds.

The native breeds of the cows reared by the farmers all

over the world during the beginning of the twentieth
century had the capacity to yield four litres of milk and
the progeny of the same cows fed with the man-made
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fodder began to yield ten litres of milk per day. After
the use of the genetically manufactured RBST hormone
the modern cross-bred cows are able to yield about
thirty litres of milk per day. Manual milking is given
up and machines are used to milk these cows. This
eight fold increase in milk production is designated as
the WHITE REVOLUTION by the dairy technologists
all over the world. But in modern medical practice it is
proved beyond doubt that milk consumption is the root
cause for many common human diseases and untold
sufferings of the human populations. Hence it should
be aptly designated as the BLACK REVOLUTION.
Modern medical research going on all over the world is
slowly exposing the fact that increase in the incidence
of many human diseases is directly proportional to the
increase in the consumption of animal milk.

In my experience of fifty years after medical graduation,

I could clearly infer that the incidence of many specific
diseases have increased by several folds during the past
five decades. Particularly the incidences of anaemia,
heart attacks in young adults, juvenile diabetes, asthma,
autism, premature baldness and greying of hair, and
a plethora of cancers involving the prostate, thyroid,
ovary, breast and gastrointestinal tract are increasing
in alarming proportions. The health budget of the
Government and the quality of modern medicine has
undoubtedly increased during the past few decades
and yet the increased incidence of these milk borne
diseases is effectively nullifying the benefits of all the
developments in medicine.
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It is a pity that the biochemistry of milk and the dire
consequences of drinking animal milk are not included
in the modern medical curriculum. Naturally the medical
students and the general practitioners are mostly not
aware of the diseases caused by drinking the animal
milk. There is scattered information in some advanced
textbooks and in research oriented medical journals
to which there is little access for the young medical
graduates. The author is a living example of severe
bronchial asthma due to milk protein allergy and
once declared near dead in ICU in 1994. My quest for
knowing the truth about milk kindled by that event has
made me to write this compilation about the ill effects
of milk consumption for the benefit of the medical
graduates and the elite common public.

The author is quite aware that it is very difficult to

erase the noble status given to the milk which is deeply
imprinted in the brains of the society over the past few
decades. It is left to the free will and the analytical
approach of the readers of this book to accept the truths
provided in it or reject them altogether if not acceptable
to their reasoning and beliefs.

I am extremely grateful to the senior most practising

paediatrician in the state and nonagenarian Dr. Mrs.
Anantha Krishna Murthi who was instrumental in
guiding me to specialise in medical genetics without
whom the writing of this book could not have been
materialised. I bow down at the feet of my professor to
seek her blessings. Her forward for this book is a feather
on my cap.
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I sincerely thank my long-time friend Prof.
Dr. K. Dharmarajan from Tanjore for his valuable
guidance and suggestions to write this book in a proper
form.

I am greatly indebted to Dr. R. Virudhagiri, a senior

paediatrician from Kumbakonam and Dr. M. Valluvan,
a leading ophthalmologist from Vriddhachalam for their
continuous motivation to write this English version
of my earlier Tamil book titled ‘Milk is a slow killer’
published in 2016.

I acknowledge with gratitude my friend and a talented

book designer Mr. R. C. Mathiraj from Chennai for the
elegant design of this book.

I am extremely thankful to Mr. G.Ananda Selvam and

Mr. M.Abdulgani from Chennai for their tireless help
in collecting all the reference journals required for the
writing of this book.

I appreciate the help extended by my grandson

A. Anirudh for simplifying the text in many topics for
the easy understanding of the common public.

I am very much thankful to Mr. S.Senthilkumar of the

Kavioviya printers for his diligent efforts to print this
book in a proper form and style.

With regards
Dr. T. Jegatheesan
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Contents

1-A. An overview of milk 19

1-B. Goat Milk and Buffalo Milk 29
2. The Biochemical
composition of milk 31
3. Digestion of Milk 33
4. Diseases Caused by Milk 49
5. Milk and blood cancer 55
6. Role of milk in other cancers 59
7. Milk and Heart Attacks 63
8. Lactose Intolerance and Cataract 66
9. Memory loss and
premature ageing 71
10. Autism spectrum Disorder (ASD)
in Children 74
11. Juvenile diabetes Mellitus 89
12. Childhood Obesity 94
13. Constipation and
bed wetting in children 97
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14. Milk and Intelligence 99

15. Diseases caused by
milk protein allergy 102
16. Milk causing calcium deficiency
and osteoporosis 105
17. Milk and kidney stones 109
18. Milk and Autoimmune Disorders 112
19. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
or Cradle Death 117
20. Infectious diseases
spreading through milk 122
21. Milk and Irritable Bowel
Syndrome (IBS) 126
22. Mad Cow Disease 129
23. Milk is a non vegetarian food 135
24. Alternatives to Animal Milk 140
25. The Purpose of rearing cows 147
26. Facts in a nut shell 152
27. Reference Books and Journals 154
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CHAPTER -1A

An overview of Milk

Animal milks and particularly the cow’s milk have

gained an unavoidable position in the food habits of
all the modern societies in the world. Dieticians are
partly responsible for creating the public opinion that
milk is a complete and balanced food. Manufacturers
of milk based food products are overwhelmingly
successful in the brain washing of the population
and have led them to believe that milk is a rich
source of first class proteins and calcium. Fabulous
advertisements in the printed and electronic media
have made the people to believe that consuming
those milk based supplementary drinks are necessary
for the development of healthy bones and teeth of
the children. Some manufacturers have gone to
the extreme level of promoting their products to
pregnant mothers for the proper development of
bones and the brains of the foetuses growing inside
their wombs. They conveniently suppress the fact
that our ancestors did not consume milk or these
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milk based formulas to strengthen their bones. After
the white revolution, an average person drinks about
a litre of milk per day in the form of coffee, tea,
whole milk and other milk based drinks. This sudden
change in the food habits of the human race over the
past fifty years has led to the increased incidence of
many diseases which were hitherto considered as
rare illnesses.

By all converging evidences from different fields

of science such as archaeology, palaeontology,
comparative anatomy, and molecular genetics it is
concluded that the human race has evolved about
two lakhs years back and the modern tool making
man just fifty thousand years ago. From the day of
origin, the human race has led a hunter - gatherer
life style and by chance the domestication of cattle
was begun just ten thousand years ago. The early
man found that the farm lands inhabited by the
wild cattle had an increased yield of crops. Slowly
they tamed these animals and used them for their
agricultural purposes. At the same point of time,
probably seven thousand years ago they started
feeding young infants with cow’s milk as there
was no other alternative for orphaned children.
They must have used only fresh milk because in
those days milk could not be kept for a long time
due to the lack of storage techniques. Slowly they
must have learnt to use curdling of milk and even
then milk could not be preserved for more than
two days. Hence only a small number of pastoral
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nomadic people had the opportunity to drink animal
milk and the situation continued till 1913 when the
first commercial refrigerator was marketed in the
USA. The ability to store and preserve milk in India
literally began only after the establishment of the
AMUL dairy in the year 1946 in Gujarat though in
the western countries the commercial dairy began in
the early 1900 when pasteurisation was developed
and practiced.

The white revolution also known as ‘Operation

Flood’ was launched in India in 1970 to make India
self-sufficient in milk production and Dr.Verghese
Kurien was behind this project. He is known as the
father of the white revolution in India. So, only after
1970, dairy farming was established and milk was
available in large amounts to most of the rural and
urban populations living in India. After reading the
Tamil version of this book written by the author
and first published in 2016 many individuals from
the elite public put forth the argument that their
ancestors drank several litres of milk daily without
any ill effects and there is no justification for raising
any opposition to the habit of milk consumption. Just
to counter their ill-conceived belief, an elaborate
detail of the dairy industry is discussed above in this
book. Hence we can decisively conclude that the
habit of drinking milk and other milk products began
on a large scale only during the past fifty years and
in other words only by the past two generations. The
human body cannot tolerate any newly introduced
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food because the enzymes necessary to digest the
components of the new food will not be present in
the digestive system. The new-born child has all
the enzymes necessary to digest the human milk.
But it may not have the capacity to utilise all the
components of the cow milk. Each enzyme is a
protein and each protein is coded by a gene working
in the background. Almost all of the milk digesting
enzymes stop production abruptly around three
years of age because the genes responsible for their
production get switched off at that age. Hence small
children below the age of three years may be able to
digest the animal milk also to a certain extent while
all of the adults do not have the ability to digest
any milk after the age of three years except a few
members of the population.

The evolutionary time scale required for the

development of a new gene in any living organism
is calculated to be approximately about five thousand
years except in viruses and bacteria. The human race
has domesticated cattle about ten thousand years
back and hence applying this general rule of gene
evolution we can presume that some individuals
in the present human population may possess the
new gene which confers the ability to digest animal
milk even after the age of three years. But in all
probability there is no possibility for the presence
of this milk digesting gene in the majority of the
world population. In fact many research papers have
been published confirming that ninety per cent of
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the human population cannot digest all the organic
ingredients in milk after the age of three years.
Hence milk cannot be a complete and balanced food
for the vast majority of the population.

In this modern scientific world, there are many

people still believing that God created the milk
animals to sub serve man and hence drinking the
milk of these animals is not a vice habit. Evolutionary
biologists by comparative gene analytical methods
have proved beyond doubt that the cow species has
evolved about ten lakhs of years back. The human
race has evolved only two lakhs of years ago. Is it
not irrational and absurd to believe that God created
cows and kept them ready for the use of the human
race which evolved eight lakhs years later than the
cows?

It is an ironical fact that except the humans, no other

mammal living on earth drinks the milk of other
animals. The milk of each animal has evolved in
such a way that it contains the necessary ingredients
best suited for the development of the brain and
body of the progeny of that animal species. This
is the reason behind the variation of the organic
constituents in the milk secreted by the different
mammals. The chemical constitution of the milk of
various animals is unique and it resembles or differs
from each other depending upon the evolutionary
genetic distance between them.
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There are six thousand and five hundred mammal
species living on earth according to the Journal of
Mammalogy published in 2018. Amongst them,
the human race has cleverly selected only certain
mammals for the purpose of milking. All of them
are vegetarians and less aggressive medium sized
animals which are generally not supposed to attack
humans. Among them the cow occupies the first
place in all over the world. The buffalos come next
which are reared as milk animals in India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Egypt, China, Nepal, Laos, Indonesia
and Philippines. Camels, Goats, Reindeer and Yak
are reared as milk animals in certain geographical
areas of the world which suit their habitats. Donkeys
are now commercially reared as milk animals in
Italy and Russia and is being tried in India in some
pockets only. But it is still a puzzle for the biologists
that why man has avoided drinking the milk of other
domesticated animals such as horses, dogs, and pigs.

All the mammals secrete milk for the growth and

development of their new born calves only. In the
wild and natural environment the cow yields milk
only for eight months and it is sufficient for the calf
till it learns to eat grass and green leaves. If the cow
was created for the benefit of man, then God would
have made it to secrete milk throughout its lifetime
of twenty years. Unfortunately the dairy cow is
allowed to live for only six years by the mankind
and after their full exploitation, they are slaughtered
for beef.
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In the Indian villages, the cows are held in high
esteem whereas the calves do not get their due share
of it. The new born young ones of dogs, cats, pigs and
humans can drink milk from their mothers whenever
they feel hungry or thirsty. But the calves of the
cows are allowed to drink milk from the udders of
their mothers twice a day with a gap of twelve hours
between the feeds and that even to fill up only half
of their hungry stomach. Calves with less than one
month of age do not know to drink water to quench
their thirst. They only know to drink milk from their
mothers and denial of their only natural food source
constitutes cruelty to calves. Keeping them thirsty
and hungry denying them their own mothers milk
for twelve hours in a day is atrocious.

In the Indian villages the agricultural process has

undergone a mechanical revolution and so the
farmers consider that maintenance of bulls is an
unwanted economic burden to them. They have
started disposing male calves above six months of
age to slaughter houses as a source of beef meat.
We all eat cheese, but the cruelty involved behind
the production of cheese may not be known to most
of us. The stomach of the calf has four chambers.
The calves slaughtered before full weaning secrete
the milk digesting enzyme rennet which has two
components namely rennin and pepsin. The fourth
chamber of the ruminant animals such as cows is
called abomasum and it is the place where rennet is
secreted. The stomachs of pre-weaning calves after
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slaughtering are collected, cut into pieces, dried and
from this the rennet is extracted and used for cheese
production.

The abomasum of the pre-weaning calves occupies

70% of the stomach, whereas in adult cows and
bulls, it constitutes only 15% of the stomach. This
is because pre-weaning calves consume only milk,
and the enzyme rennet is required to digest the casein
protein in it.

Cheese consumers should be made aware that it is a

non-vegetarian food manufactured with the help of
rennet obtained from slaughtered calves. Moreover
almost all the major dairies in India are keeping their
own slaughter houses to produce beef and rennet.
In fact, there are more number of slaughterhouses
than milk units in India. Hence we can authentically
come to the conclusion that the dairy industry is
not a gentle industry as believed by the common
public. As per an article published in the 'India
Today' in its January 1st issue in 2016, the number
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of registered slaughter houses in India was 1,622,
compared to only 213 registered milk processing
factories. This clearly shows that the beef industry
is hiding its cruel face by wearing the sober mask
of the dairy industry. The major source of beef meat
for these slaughter houses is the barren cows which
have been fully exploited and then discarded by the
dairy industry, as well as the male calves which are a
burden to dairy farms after the weaning period. The
dairy industry is actually one of the most gruesome
industries perpetuated by the human race.

The common public who innocently consume dairy

products and thereby encourage the dairy industry
should realize that the ultimate responsibility for the
cruelty committed on cows and male calves falls on
their shoulders only.

The proponents of the dairy industry claim that

the cow’s milk is a complete and nutritious food
contrary to the scientific evidence. The use of milk
and milk products has increased by several folds
during the past fifty years. In parallel, the occurrence
of many human diseases has also increased at least
by fifty times during the same period. The direct link
between the growth of the dairy industry and the
increased incidence of human diseases is confirmed
by research in modern medicine.

The dairy industry is now determining the economy

of many countries in the world and the corporate
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milk industrialists are controlling the political fate
of them. They are able to market milk and milk
products on a large scale with the help of misleading
advertisements in the printed and the electronic
media. The common public is totally brainwashed
by these advertisements and unfortunately many
medical practitioners and dieticians are also
carried away by these continuous bombardment
of motivated false propaganda. They are mostly
responsible for recommending milk and milk
products to pregnant mothers and children. The
purpose of this book is to eliminate the false beliefs
about milk by presenting authentic evidences from
standard medical text books and from many well-
recognised clinical journals earnestly collected over
the past twenty years.

The elite readers believing the biological fact that

the human race is also one among the multitude
of mammals living on this earth will not have any
hesitation to accept the facts written in this book.
Individuals taking a firm decision to give up milk
and milk products once for all from their diet will
certainly lead a healthy life throughout the rest of
their life time.
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CHAPTER – IB

Goat milk and Buffalo milk

In the rural India many mothers give goat’s milk to
the infants on the false belief that the goat milk is
a good substitute for the mother’s milk.

Goat milk also contains the same percentage of

lactose, fat and proteins as in the cow’s milk. Hence
there is no difference between the goat milk and
the cow milk. But the most significant finding is
that the goat milk is grossly deficient in the vitamin
folic acid 3. Hence children fed exclusively with
goat milk develop the dangerous megaloblastic
anaemia caused by folic acid deficiency. Moreover
the incidence of milk protein allergies is more
common with the goat milk than in the cow milk
and buffalo milk.

The buffalo milk 18 contains more of the protein

casein than in the cow milk and so not easily
digested. Above the age of three years the casein
in buffalo milk cannot be digested and it reaches
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the large intestine unaltered. The undigested casein
in the large intestine is acted on by the intestinal
bacteria and converted to caso-morphine which can
induce cancer in the large bowel. Hence buffalo milk
is more dangerous than cow’s milk in causing cancer.

Moreover the fat content of the buffalo milk is higher

than in that of the cow’s milk and the human milk.
Hence children fed with the buffalo milk are more
prone to develop childhood obesity.
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CHAPTER-2

The Biochemical
composition of milk
Data in percentage
Sl. Animals Fat Proteins Lactose Water Minerals

1. Human 3.6 1.8  6.8 87.7 0.1

2. Cow 4.6 3.4 4.9 86.4 0.7
3. Buffalo 6.6 3.9 5.2 84.2  0.8
4. Goat 4.5 3.5 4.7 86.5 0.8
5. Camel 3.1 4.0 5.6 86.5 0.8
6. Donkey 1.6 2.7 6.1 89.1 0.5
7. Yak 3.2 3.9 5.6 86.5 0.8
8. Reindeer 17.1 10.4 2.3 68.2 1.5
9. Elephant 19.6 3.1 8.8 67.8 0.7
10. Pig 4.8  1.3 3.4 89.6  0.9

Source: Chemistry of milk by W.L Davies - 1939

Analysing the above table we can conclude that the
human milk contains less of proteins, fat and calcium
but more of lactose than in the milk of other animals
except the elephant. The brain development of
human beings is more rapid than in other mammals
and also the brain to body ratio is the highest in
humans. Galactose which is derived from lactose is
very essential for the development of the brain and
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naturally the concentration of lactose is high in the
human milk.
The body of the humans grows less slowly when
compared to the growth speed of the body of other
mammals.
For example a new-born rat doubles its birth weight
by the end of one week and the birth weight of the
calf doubles in one month but the birth weight of the
human child doubles only after six months of age.
The proteins and fat necessary for the rapid weight
gain of the calf is present in the cow’s milk and the
lactose necessary for the rapid development of the
human brain is present in the human milk.
If new-born rats are fed with human milk they will
die soon due to protein and fat deficiency. Frequently
in the newspapers we all happen to read the news
about elephant calves separated from their mothers
and stranded in the jungles. They are usually rescued
by the officials of the forest department and handed
over to the zoo authorities where they are fed with
cow’s milk in feeding bottles. Within the next few
days, news about the death of the same elephant calf
gets flashed in the media. This is because elephant
calf needs milk containing 19.6% fat and the cow
milk with 4.6% fat is absolutely insufficient for its
survival.
All these evidences suggest that the Mother Nature
has designed and formulated the milk of various
animals to suit the growth of their own young ones
and not for the animals of other species.
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CHAPTER - 3

Digestion of Milk

This is one neglected area in dairy science where

the dieticians and the recommending physicians
do not have a proper basic understanding. Any
one recommending others to consume milk or
milk products should be first conversant with the
biochemical constituents in milk and the digestive
processes by which they are utilised or not utilised
in the human body. All the text books on dairy
technology wilfully neglect this topic which is
otherwise very essential for the readers.

Though it is a little tiresome because of the use of

scientific terminologies, the knowledge about the
digestions of milk is very essential to understand
the basic pathophysiology of the various human
diseases discussed in this book.

Digestion of the human milk is not discussed in

this book because nature has given the human child
the ability to digest and absorb the constituents
of the mother’s milk completely except in some
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genetic disorders included under the inborn errors
of metabolism which can be ignored altogether
because of their rarity.

Hence the metabolic difficulties in the digestion of

cow’s milk in the human digestive system alone are
discussed in detail. That does not mean that the milk
of other animals such as buffalo, goat and camel
are safe and harmless. Research on the ill effects of
animal milk is fairly of recent interest and most of
the research is done on cow’s milk in the western
countries where people drink only the cow’s milk.
Hence the term milk used in all the topics of this
book refers to cow’s milk unless and otherwise
specified.

The cow’s milk contains Proteins 3.4%, Lactose

4.9%, Fat 4.6%, Vitamins and other minerals -
mainly Calcium 0.7% and the rest 86.4% is water.

The digestive process of the ingredients of cow’s

milk in the human gastrointestinal tract and the
short falls in the process are discussed in detail. In
India, the dairy industries procure both buffalo milk
and cow milk and mix them together to produce the
toned milk. Hence research on buffalo milk should
be carried on a large scale in our country to know
its side effects.
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CHAPTER - 3A

Digestion of Protein in milk

To understand the protein digestion, the chemical

structure of proteins should be known first. The
proteins present in all the living organisms on this
earth are made up of twenty amino acids linked
together as a chain in varying orders in different
proteins and folded in a specific configuration unique
for each protein.

The names of the twenty amino acids are as follows.

1. Phenylalanine
2. Leucine
3. Isoleucine
4. Methionine
5. Valine
6. Serine
7. Proline
8. Threonine
9. Alanine
10. Arginine
11. Glycine
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12. Tyrosine
13. Histidine
14. Glutamine
15. Asparagine
16. Lysine
17. Aspartic acid
18. Glutamic acid
19. Cysteine and
20. Tryptophan

If a chain has less than nine amino acids it is called

a peptide and if it is more than nine amino acids, it
is called a polypeptide.

Long chains of polypeptides folded in a specific

form are called proteins. Changing the serial order
of an amino acid in a protein will result in a new
protein. Thus by shuffling the order of various amino
acids, several lakhs of proteins can be synthesised
(2020). For each protein in our body, there is a gene
behind it giving orders to arrange the amino acids
in a specific sequence.

During digestion of proteins, the amino acid chain is

broken by enzymes called peptidases and proteases
and the released amino acids are absorbed by
the intestine, taken to the liver through the blood
circulation and new proteins of the organism are
assembled.
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There are three major proteins in milk namely
casein, lactalbumin and lactoglobulin. Among them
the casein constitutes 80% and the remaining two
proteins make up to about 19%. The rest 1% is
formed by enzymes and peptide hormones present
in the milk.

Casein undergoes curdling on contact with the

hydrochloric acid present in the stomach. The same
precipitation of casein can be achieved by adding
a little of lemon juice to milk. The citric acid in the
lemon juice causes curdling of milk and the casein
protein gets precipitated. The precipitated casein
along with a little of milk fat is strained through a
fine sieve and is marketed in the name of paneer.

After the removal of casein from milk, the clear

liquid left behind contains the other two major milk
proteins namely lact- albumin and lacto-globulin.
These two are collectively called as the whey protein
widely used or in the real sense misused by the body
building young adults in gymnasiums.

The milk protein casein after reaching the stomach

gets precipitated by the hydrochloric acid in the
stomach and acted on by an enzyme complex called
rennet. As a result of this, the casein is broken
down to small units called peptides which reach
the intestine for further digestion. In the intestines
many hormones collectively called as peptidases act
upon these peptides and convert them to the basic
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units called amino acids. These amino acids are the
final end products of protein digestion and they are
absorbed by the small blood vessels in the intestine
and taken to the liver. In the liver these amino acids
are utilised for the synthesis of new proteins required
for the organisms.

The enzyme complex namely rennet has no other

function except in enabling the digestion of casein
in milk. Animals do not drink milk after the weaning
period and so there is no need for the secretion of
the rennet complex after weaning. Hence the gene
for this enzyme gets completely switched off after
the weaning period. In the humans, the weaning
period is extended up to three years and so the rennet
remains functional till this age. After the age of three
years there is no necessity for rennet and so the
gene for this enzyme is switched off. Hence eating
casein or its widely used commercial product namely
paneer will not be digested in any human being after
the age of three years. This is the reason why people
develop discomfort and bloating of abdomen after
eating any recipe containing paneer. Eating paneer
after the age of three years is equivalent to eating
pieces of cardboard or plastic sheets which can never
be digested in the human digestive tract.

The other two proteins lactalbumin and lactoglobulin

reach the intestines unaltered in the stomach. The
group of enzymes called proteases and peptidases
break them into amino acids which then get
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absorbed and taken to the liver. Unlike the rennet,

the proteases and peptidases are secreted in the
intestines throughout the lifetime to help the
digestion of proteins obtained from both vegetarian
and non-vegetarian foods eaten at any age. Hence
the whey proteins present in milk are easily
digestible and are the major constituents in all the
commercially available protein powders used by
the body building youngsters. The so called milk
based health drinks widely advertised in the media
also contain these whey proteins and these are in
fact more harmful than the casein protein present
in milk. Many of the breakdown products of whey
proteins namely the peptide fragments induce a
plethora of allergic reactions and auto-immunity in
genetically predisposed individuals. Some of these
diseases include allergic rhinitis, bronchial asthma,
rheumatoid arthritis, premature baldness and the
worst being the induction of juvenile diabetes
mellitus. The basic mechanism of causation of these
diseases is discussed in the later chapters.
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CHAPTER - 3B

Digestion of Lactose

The milk tastes sweet because of the presence of

the sugar lactose in it. The cow’s milk has 4.9% of
lactose whereas human milk has 6.8% of it. This is
the reason behind the observation that infants like to
drink the mother’s milk in preference to the cow’s
milk without added sugar.

Bio chemically lactose belongs to the class of

disaccharides meaning that it has two units of mono
sugars linked together. Lactose in the milk does not
undergo any digestion in the stomach. After reaching
the intestines, it is acted on by the intestinal enzyme
lactase and is broken down into the two constituent
manosugars namely galactose and glucose. Both
of them get absorbed in the intestine and taken to
the liver for utilisation. Among these two sugars,
glucose is directly utilised by all the cells of the body
as a source of energy. A portion of the galactose is
converted to glucose in the liver and the rest is used
as building blocks of the tissues in the brain, ovary
and eye lens.

The brain of the human child is more rapidly

growing than that of the calf and this is the reason
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why nature has devised the human milk to have more
lactose than in the cow’s milk.

The enzyme lactase which is necessary for the

digestion of the milk sugar lactose is not secreted in
90% of the human population living in all over the
world due to the switching off of the lactase gene
around three years of age. But the enzyme lactase
may be secreted throughout life in their intestines
in 10% of the world population. These individuals
can tolerate drinking of milk without developing
abdominal discomfort or loose motions.

The scientific basis for the switching off the lactase

gene after three years of age is that the human brain
development is almost complete by the age of three
years. The sugar galactose derived from lactose is an
essential nutrient for the development of the brain.
After the age of three years the brain grows very
slowly up to fourteen years of age and later only
the functional capacity of the brain increases up to
twenty five years of age. Afterwards the brain cells
start to degenerate and by about the age of seventy
five one tenth of the nerve cells present at birth are
lost.

The milk sugar lactose and its derivative galactose

are very essential for the brain development and so
the ideal duration for breastfeeding is up to three
years of age.
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CHAPTER - 3C

Digestion of fat

The weight gain of the calf is much more rapid

than the human child and so nature has formulated
the cow’s milk to contain more fat. The fat content
of cow’s milk is 4.6% and that of the human milk
is only 3.6%. The elephant and wales have 19.6%
fat in their milk and are proportional to the faster
weight gain in their young ones. Because of the high
fat content in the cow milk and buffalo milk those
children fed with these milks from early infancy gain
weight much faster and become obese in childhood
itself.
The fat in milk does not undergo any change in
the stomach. After reaching the small intestine, the
pancreatic enzyme lipase with the help of the bile
acids from the liver, converts the fat globules in milk
into smaller pieces called micelles and fatty acids.
These digested products are absorbed by the lymph
vessels around the intestine and taken to the liver.
In the liver they are used to synthesise cholesterol,
triglycerides and the steroid hormones necessary
for the individual.
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The enzyme lipase is secreted throughout the lifetime
of healthy individuals and hence the fat in milk is
effectively digested and absorbed throughout human
life. When milk is converted to curd or yoghurt the
fat in milk does not undergo any alteration. Hence
the belief that yogurt and buttermilk will not cause
weight gain is false. The milk fat or fat from any
source is not properly digested only in individuals
suffering from severe pancreatic or liver diseases
resulting in fat mal-absorption and the resultant
diarrhoea called as sprue.
The milk fat mostly contains saturated fatty acids
which constitute 62% and the monounsaturated
fatty acids 30%. The saturated fatty acids can raise
the bad cholesterol namely the LDL cholesterol
which can lead to clogging of the blood vessels and
strokes in the brain and heart. On the other hand fats
obtained from the vegetarian source contain mostly
poly-unsaturated fatty acids which are essential for
health and are relatively harmless.
Ghee and butter are rich sources of saturated fatty
acids and consumption of ghee raises the LDL
cholesterol very much. Moreover ghee is a rich
source of calories which can lead to obesity if
consumed in a significant volume. One teaspoon or
five millilitres of ghee provide forty calories which
no other food can give and hence sedentary people
consuming ghee will have significant weight gain.
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Cheese is a product of milk which contains

35% fat, 25% protein and 40% moisture. Milk
is precipitated with the enzyme rennet collected
from the stomach of pre weaning calves killed for
beef in slaughterhouses. Every 100gm of cheese
contains 0.25gm of rennet (25ml of rennet in 100
litres of milk) and hence those claiming to be pure
vegetarians should be aware of the non-vegetarian
basis of cheese.
Since cheese contains partially digested casein it is
little more easily digestible by humans than curd
or yoghurt.
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CHAPTER - 3D

Utilisation of the minerals

in milk

The minerals in milk mainly include calcium,

phosphorous and iron. Here again the cow milk
has more minerals than human milk consistent with
the rapid bone growth of the calves. The cow milk
contains 0.7% minerals whereas the mother’s milk
contains only 0.1% minerals.

The calcium and phosphorus are present in the right

ratio in human milk and are sufficient for the growth
of bones and teeth of the infants. Unfortunately
during the past five decades the printed and the
electronic media carry massive advertisements
promoting milk products in the name of health
drinks and have completely brainwashed the
common public. They are made to believe that the
animal milk and the so-called vitamin fortified health
drinks are very essential for the proper growth of
bone and teeth in children. Some of these beverage
manufacturers go to the extreme level of claiming
that the height of the children gets improved by using
these drinks. They conveniently hide the fact that the
colour and height of the individuals are hereditary
and determined by their genes. As a result of this
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false propaganda it has now become extremely
difficult for many knowledgeable physicians to
remove the false notions about milk and the vitamin
fortified milk products from the minds of the general
population.

We all know that when Germany was ruled by

the Nazi government, a politician by name Paul
Joseph Goebbels was functioning as the minister
of propaganda in the ministry of Adolf Hitler
from 1933 to 1945. He successfully launched the
propaganda of ‘false reality’ and the psychological
influence of this on the minds of the people were
really amazing. It was named after him as the
‘Goebbels Phenomenon’. The mechanism of the
process is very simple. When a lie or false perception
is repeatedly advertised and preached through all
the means of communication, then over a period of
time, the people will start believing the lie as truth.

The present day bombardment of continuous

advertisements about health drinks and milk
products in the mass media can be perceived as
an attempt to establish the Goebbels phenomenon
in the modern times and to a great extent that the
manufacturers of these products have succeeded in
their mission.

Cow’s milk containing abundance of calcium is true.

But the tall claim that this milk calcium is essential
for the health of the human bones is a big myth. The
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calcium present in animal milk is absolutely useless
for the development of the human bones and teeth.
Two substances namely magnesium and vitamin D
are very essential for the proper utilisation of calcium
in the body. Vitamin D is essential for calcium
absorption from the intestines and magnesium is
important for the deposition of calcium in the bones.
Both vitamin D and magnesium are not present in
adequate quantities in cow’s milk and hence the
calcium in cow’s milk is not at all fully absorbed or
utilised by the human body.

Contrary to the popular belief about cow’s milk, the

human body gets most of its calcium requirements
from green leafy vegetables only. Green leaves and
vegetables contain chlorophyll and the central core
of chlorophyll is rich in magnesium. Vitamin D is
abundantly synthesised in our body by the exposure
to sunlight. Hence the calcium obtained from the
vegetarian source can be aptly designated as the
first class calcium because it is properly utilised in
the body.

It is really painful to face a question from the public

whenever they are advised to stop drinking of milk.
They immediately retort by saying that if we stop
taking milk where from we will get calcium. Just for
an argument sake these protagonists of milk should
explain where from a cow gets its calcium? If cow’s
milk serves as a source of calcium for the humans,
then where from the cow meets its calcium needs.
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They do not go and drink the milk of other animals
to get calcium. In India, Africa and Australia, several
lakhs of aboriginal populations are living in the
deep jungles and they never get a chance to taste
animal milk. Yet, the calcium deficiency disorder
namely osteoporosis is never seen in these aboriginal
populations.

All other animals except man drink their mother’s

milk for a few months after birth and afterwards
they never drink milk from any source. We should
answer the question where from these animals get
their calcium requirements in adult life. Elephants
are several times bigger than the man and how they
meet their calcium needs. Human beings are also
one among the members of the animal kingdom
living in this world and they need not drink the
milks obtained from other animals for the sake of
getting calcium.

Utilising the public image and profile of leading

sports heroes in the advertisements of milk based
drinks is only a futile act to falsify the reality
and an attempted re-enactment of the Goebbels
phenomenon in the modern times.

In fact, drinking of animal milk causes calcium

loss from the bones and leads to the disorder called
osteoporosis. The scientific mechanism behind milk
causing osteoporosis is discussed in a later chapter.
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CHAPTER - 4

Diseases Caused by Milk

Anaemia

Anaemia is defined as reduced oxygen carrying

capacity of the blood due to either reduced number
of red blood cells or due to the reduced iron content
in them. More than ten million people in India suffer
from this disorder annually.

For practical purposes, a blood haemoglobin level

below 13 gm% in males and below 12gm% in
females is considered as the laboratory evidence for
anaemia. It commonly occurs due to the deficiency
of iron, vitamin B12 or folic acid. The other major
cause for anaemia is either a sudden or a long
standing slow blood loss from the body mostly from
the digestive tract.

Our body contains several billions of red blood cells

and the life span of an individual red cell is about
100 to 120 days. In other words, about 1% of the
red blood cells get destroyed per day and the same
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is restored every day in healthy individuals. The
proteins and iron released from the destroyed red
cells are recycled and utilised for the production
of new red cells. The destruction and regeneration
are nearly well balanced and so the majority of
normal individuals do not develop anaemia. A small
amount of iron is lost from the body daily through
the motion and urine. It is replenished by the iron
getting absorbed from the foods like green leaves
and vegetables which we eat.

Hence a healthy person need not take any iron

supplementation for the prevention of anaemia.

In a very few individuals the lifespan of the red

blood cells is reduced due to the presence of genetic
defects or systemic diseases. In some others, a small
quantity of blood is lost daily from the intestines
due to micro bleeding and these are the individuals
prone to develop anaemia.

The milk contains three major proteins and several

other minor proteins in small quantities such as
hormones and enzymes. Many individuals drinking
cow’s milk develop allergy to any one of the proteins
present in it. The development and severity of allergy
to milk proteins differ in different individuals. It has
been clearly established that milk protein allergy
is the commonest among all the childhood food
allergies5. Milk protein allergy manifests commonly
as small bleedings in the intestines and is technically
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called as microscopic haemorrhage 6. A direct
relationship between the volume of milk consumed
and the amount of blood loss from the intestines
has been established. If a person consumes hundred
millilitres of milk he is likely to lose one ml of blood
through the intestinal bleeding. Hence a person
consuming one litre of milk in a day is sure to lose
about ten ml of blood per day and collectively this
amount to 3500 ml or 3.5 litres of blood loss in a
year. Hence individuals consuming more amount of
milk will lose proportionately more blood through
the intestinal blood loss and are prone to develop
anaemia. This is the scientific reason behind the
paediatric medical books insisting that infants below
one year of age should not be fed with cow’s milk or
any formula milk manufactured from cow’s milk 7.

Pregnant women have to supply blood for their body

and for the developing foetus. Also they have to store
iron in the liver for future use during lactation. Hence
all the pregnant women develop some anaemia
which is designated as the physiological anaemia
of pregnancy. Throughout pregnancy and lactation,
women are compelled to drink milk at least to a
minimum volume of 750 ml to 1000 ml of milk per
day. By applying the above calculation of the blood
loss as ten ml per day, a pregnant woman is likely
to lose about two to three litres of blood through
intestinal micro bleeding at the end of ten months. It
is undisputedly proved that milk consumption during
pregnancy aggravates anaemia. The commercially
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available and well-advertised brands of health drinks
are all manufactured from milk powder and hence
pregnant women should completely avoid cow’s
milk and the so called health drinks throughout
pregnancy and lactation to ensure good health.

There is a false belief in the villages that goat’s milk

is good for infants and children. Scientific studies
show that the milk of goats is grossly deficient in
the vitamin folic acid. Infants fed exclusively with
goat’s milk develop a more dangerous disease called
megaloblastic anaemia or pernicious anaemia.
Mother’s milk contains 50 micrograms of folic acid
per litre whereas the goat’s milk contains only 6mg
of it which is grossly insufficient for the infants.
Goat’s milk is also deficient in Vitamin B12 and
Vitamin D. Deficiency of vitamin D in the growing
children leads to rickets.

Goat milk is also known to cause more of allergic

diseases than cow’s milk or buffalo milk and hence
children suffering from skin allergies and asthma
should completely avoid consuming goat’s milk. In
the rural areas freshly milked raw goat’s milk is used
as a remedy to arrest loose motions in children and
adults. It is a dangerous practice because it can lead
to the development of milk borne diseases namely
brucellosis and bovine tuberculosis and the most
dangerous prion disease which is discussed in detail
in a later chapter.
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During the past one decade some awareness against
the consumption of milk has developed among
the public. This is being exploited by the tea
manufacturers and they have started promoting the
idea that drinking green tea instead of milk is good
for health.

Some research workers receiving funds from the

vested interests of tea manufacturers are shamelessly
publishing articles in second class medical journals
claiming that drinking green tea protects against
heart attacks and cancers. The truth is whether black
tea or green tea both of them contains the same
astringents, tannins, catechins, caffeine and theo-
bromine which are all harmful brain stimulants. The
claim that tea contains antioxidants is no wonder
because all green leaves contain antioxidants and
there is nothing special with tea leaves.

The habit of drinking tea was introduced to the Indian

population by the British rulers in 1820 and Coffee
was cultivated much earlier in 1670 in Mysore. The
Tea Board of India was established in 1954 with the
headquarters in Kolkata and only afterwards the
practice of drinking tea has increased by several
folds. Whether green tea or black tea, both of them
contain the same astringent tannin which chelates the
iron in our food and prevent its absorption. Hence
drinking tea will cause iron deficiency anaemia and
aggravates the existing anaemia in pregnant women.
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There is a genetic disease known as haemochromatosis
in which excess of iron is absorbed from the intestines
and as a result of this the liver gets affected. The
simplest medicine advised to prevent this excessive
iron absorption is to drink a cup of strong tea after
each meal. The tannins in the tea interfere with the
iron uptake from the food and helps in the treatment
of this rare disease. Hence it is very well proved
that tea prevents iron absorption and is harmful for
everybody and particularly for pregnant women.

Declaration of tea as the national drink of India is

a retrograde step reminding the colonial rule of the
British imperialists which was solely interested in
the earning of the revenues and least bothered about
the health of the Indian population.

Drinking coffee by pregnant women may harm the

growing foetus. The chemical substance caffeine
present in coffee is structurally identical to the
nucleic acid base ‘adenine’ which is a building
block for the DNA. The developing foetus has
rapid proliferation of DNA and hence the caffeine
circulating in the maternal blood can compete
with the adenine and get integrated with the foetal
DNA leading to minor foetal anomalies. Hence the
pregnant women should avoid drinking milk, coffee,
tea and all the so called health drinks promoted by
the media advertisements.
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CHAPTER-5

Milk and blood cancer

Abnormal proliferation of the white blood cells

and the release of these immature cells in the
bloodstream are the main features of blood cancer.
This disease was quite rare about fifty years ago and
has increased by more than hundred times at present.

The white revolution began in 1970 exactly fifty

years back and the increased milk production and
consumption has a direct link to the increased
incidence of blood cancer. Milk can induce blood
cancer by two mechanisms8. Almost eighty per cent
of the modern crossbred cows all over the world
are infected with the ‘Bovine Leukemia Virus’
(BLV). This does not mean that 80% of crossbred
cows suffer from blood cancer. The BLV belongs
to the category of DNA viruses and it can multiply
in the body of the cows and in humans only if they
integrate with the host cell DNA. It cannot integrate
anywhere it likes to do. There are certain sites for
integration which are genetically determined and if
the integration of the virus takes place near any of
the proto oncogenes, then there is the possibility of
the proto oncogenes becoming oncogenes or cancer
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producing genes. Even if the BLV induces blood
cancer, many individuals have an effective array of
factors to fight against the cancer cells and destroy
them at the earliest development. Particularly
the non-specific killer white cells (N.K.Cells)
circulating in the host body identify the cancer cells
and fight against them. The humans and animals
have one more protective mechanism in the form of
anti-oncogenes which help to suppress the formation
and proliferation of cancer cells. Only because of
the presence of these protective mechanisms all
the cows possessing the BLV do not develop blood
cancer. Though these animals do not suffer from
the disease, they can transmit the virus through the
blood and milk to the human beings.

In the modern dairy industry, milk from several

thousand cows are collected and mixed together
before being processed for sale. This bovine
leukaemia virus will definitely be present in the
pooled milk and it cannot be killed by the process of
milk pasteurisation. Boiling of the milk is the only
way to inactivate this virus. Unfortunately some
individuals have the bad habit of drinking the raw
milk from the cold storage directly without knowing
the consequences. In almost all the fruit juice centres
cold raw milk is directly mixed with fruit juices to
make milk shakes which enables the direct entry
of the BLV into the human body. Similarly raw
pasteurised milk is used in the manufacture of ice
creams and it need not be stressed again that all the
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ice creams whichever may be brand have abundant
BLV in them. Against the rules of the temple agamas,
many individuals carry out milk anointment for
the idols with the packed, toned dairy milk which
is a mixture of pooled cow’s milk, buffalo milk
and skimmed milk powder with added water. It is
distributed to the devotees standing around and this
practice is another one source of spreading milk
borne diseases.

In the dairy industry, the pooled milk is now

homogenised before packaging for sale.
Homogenisation means breaking down of large fat
molecules into uniformly small globules. Cow milk
contains the growth hormone of the cow known as the
Insulin like Growth Factor (IGF1). The IGF1 of the
cows and the IGF1 of human beings have identical
chemical structure and action. The IGF1 promotes
the growth of normal cells and also the cancer cells.
The diary technologists are claiming that the IGF1 in
the packed milk is a peptide hormone and hence will
be degraded in the digestive tract of the consumers
and destroyed. Unfortunately their claim is proved
wrong and it is well established that the process of
homogenisation of milk protects the IGF1 molecules
by carrying them safely inside the small fat globules
similar to the new drug delivery system of packing
medicines within liposomes. Hence the IGF1 packed
safely inside the homogenised fat globules get easily
absorbed from the intestines of the consumers.
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The Bovine Leukaemia virus and the hormone IGF-1
present in the cow milk are two independent factors
promoting blood cancer. The BLV acts as a causative
organism and the IGF-1 acts as a promotional factor.
Four factors are involved in the development of
blood cancer namely 1) the presence of BLV, 2)
defective nonspecific killer white cells 3) defective
anticancer genes and 4) the presence of excess of
the growth stimulating hormone namely the IGF-1.
Among these four factors two major factors namely
the BLV and IGF-1 come through the consumed
dairy milk. Luckily the majority of the population
possess effective N.K.Cells and good expression
of the anti-oncogenes which protect them from the
development of blood cancer.

This is the scientific basis behind the incidence

of several fold increase in blood cancer after the
launching of the white revolution fifty years ago.
Hence, it is true that the dairy milk is a killer for
some susceptible individuals.
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CHAPTER-6

Role of Milk in other Cancers

In the previous chapter, the role of Bovine Leukemia

Virus in causing blood cancer in susceptible
individuals was discussed. Statistical analysis shows
that the incidence of many other cancers has also
increased by several folds after the launching of the
white revolution in 1970.

The IGF-1 hormone present in the cow’s milk has

the inherent ability to induce cell division10. It has
been well established that the level of IGF-1 is
very high in all rapidly growing tumours and the
modern medical treatment of most cancers aims at
reducing the level of IGF-1 in tumours or blocking
the IGF-1 receptors. A recent study11 in the Loma
Linda University, California, USA has established
that drinking dairy milk daily as small as 250 ml
per day can increase the risk of breast cancer in
women by about 30%. Dairy milk consumption
has been proved to increase the incidence of
many other cancers including prostatic cancers,
colorectal cancer, ovarian cancer, breast cancer and
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thyroid cancer. According to recent research, some
deleterious mutations occur daily somewhere in the
body in the cells of all human beings above the age
of thirty years. As age advances, the rate of these
mutations increases steadily, thereby increasing the
risk of developing cancer. But all these mutated cells
cannot survive and proliferate into cancer cells in
all the human beings. The nonspecific killer cells
(N.K.Cells) circulating in our blood have the capacity
to identify the cancer cells and destroy them as and
when they are formed. In the unfortunate event of
high IGF1 levels in the blood, the cancer cells will
proliferate without any control and the N.K.Cells
of our body become helpless silent spectators. The
milk of all animals including human beings has a
small quantity of IGF1. But the cows injected with
the genetically synthesised growth hormone are
producing milk with high levels of IGF1. These high
levels of IGF1 in dairy milk promote the growth of
cancer cells in the milk consumers.

The close association of galactose derived from

the milk sugar (lactose) with increased incidence
of ovarian cancer14,15 was published in the Lancet
magazine as early as in 1989 and it caused a
sensational panic in the medical world. The same
finding was again confirmed by another group of
research workers and published in the journal of
cancer epidemiology in the year 2000. Since then
many medical publications have confirmed that
galactose can induce and aggravate ovarian cancer.
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Galactose has a tendency to get deposited in the
ovarian tissues which induce premature ovarian
failure in young females. Hence consumption of
milk at all ages and at all circumstances is injurious
to health.

The popular belief that cancer is a disease of old

age and it attacks only one in a hundred persons
in the population is not true. The New-york Times
newspaper published an article in its science
magazine in November 1994 which made a
sensational revelation about cancer.

The article was written by the cancer biologist Gina

Kolata17 and it was made known that all human
beings above the age of thirty years will have cancer
cells in some tissues somewhere in the body and are
termed as micro tumours. All the micro tumours are
not allowed to proliferate by the immune system of
the body and also by the anticancer genes present
in the cells. But these micro tumours can develop
into cancerous growths when favourable growth
conditions exist in the host. The presence of excess
IGF-1, is the single largest factor promoting growth
of micro tumours into large tumours. The other
mutagenic substances like the chemicals used for
colouring, flavouring and sweetening of food stuffs,
and the carcinogens present in the cigarette smoke
and exposure to radiations can also induce the
growth of micro tumours.
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A most recent research paper published in 2014 has
confirmed that the casein protein present in milk
is indigestible after the age of three years18 and
this undigested casein turns into a cancer causing
substance (carcinogen). The recipe paneer is actually
made from the precipitated casein from milk. Cheese
contains partially digested casein and some milk fat.
Hence people consuming paneer and cheese are at
a greater risk to develop cancer. Beware of these
foods and avoid them altogether to prevent cancer.
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CHAPTER-7

Milk and Heart Attacks

Almost five decades ago, coronary artery disease

resulting in heart attacks was known to affect
mostly men above the age of fifty years. But the
whole scenario has completely changed and now
heart attacks are known to occur at any age above
twenty years and even pre-menopausal women are
not spared.

Increase in milk production and increased per capita

consumption of milk and milk based beverages have
a close relationship with the increased incidence of
heart attacks. Milk, Curd, Cheese, Butter, Ghee and
Ice Creams have high levels of saturated fats which
can raise the level of Triglycerides and low density
cholesterol. (LDL or bad cholesterol in the blood).
Milk has an enzyme by the name xanthine oxidase
belonging to the group of peptides. As already
discussed, the peptide hormones can safely enter the
circulation as a result of the homogenisation process
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in the modern dairy industry. This exogenous
xanthine oxidase releases free radicals which
damage the endothelial lining of the arteries. As
a result of this, the smooth inner surface of the
blood vessels becomes rough and small linear pits
appear in it. Immediately the circulating low density
cholesterol and triglycerides get deposited on these
damaged sites and form a thick layer called plaques.
The calcium present in the blood gets trapped on
these plaques which makes the condition worse. The
deposition of cholesterol and calcium over and over
on these plaques make the diameter of these arteries
smaller day by day. The narrowing of the arterial
lumen impedes the circulation to all the organs and
particularly the heart.

It is true that hypercholesterolemia is a familial

disease determined by genes and the ill effects of
the gene usually manifest only after the middle age.
If the genetically predisposed individuals consume
excess of dairy products, they are more likely to
suffer from heart attacks at a younger age.

It is a pitiable situation in the modern society in

which the grandparents are living a healthy life
and the grandchildren undergoing blood vessel
repair surgeries in the heart. The early onset of
heart attacks during the past three decades is
certainly the consequence of the operation flood
scheme popularly known as the white revolution
implemented five decades ago.
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Recent research on the chemical caffeine present
in coffee shows that the action of xanthine oxidase
is potentiated by caffeine. Hence combining coffee
with milk will speed up narrowing of the arteries
everywhere in the body. Caffeine is chemically a
methyl xanthine and for its degradation, the liver
has to produce more of xanthine oxidase which is
also harmful to the arterial inner lining.
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CHAPTER-8

Lactose Intolerance and Cataract

The lens which focuses the outside light on the retina
of the eye slowly becomes opaque with advancing
age. The light cannot pass through it easily and at the
later stages of cataract, the vision becomes totally
lost. This process of causing opaqueness of eye lens
is called cataract formation.

There are many causes for the development of

cataract and the list is lengthy. In some genetic
diseases, cataract appears early in life and in some
very rare diseases the infants are born with cataract.
One such genetic disease is galactosemia. As already
discussed earlier, the enzyme lactase breaks down
the milk sugar lactose into glucose and galactose.
Glucose is used for energy production while the
galactose is used for the development of the brain,
eye lens and ovaries. The excess of galactose is acted
on by an enzyme called galactase and is used for
energy production like glucose. In some unfortunate
individuals the enzyme galactase is not produced
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due to a defect in the gene for its production. In
these infants after consuming milk the galactose
accumulates in the blood leading to the deposition
of this substance in the eye lens, brain and many
other organs and this disorder is known as congenital
galactosemia. Fortunately this familial disorder is
relatively rare.

In the chapter on lactose digestion, it was made clear

that ninety per cent of the world population do not
produce the enzyme lactase after the age of three
years and hence do not have the ability to digest
lactose in adult life. Lactose is a major constituent
of milk and so individuals consuming milk after
three years of age are really wasting the milk sugar
unutilised and is equivalent to eating saw dust or
cotton pieces which cannot be digested.

The undigested lactose is pushed out of the small

intestines and reaches the large intestine. The large
intestine harbours a plethora of harmless bacteria
and generally they have a peaceful co-existence in
the human host and are referred to as commensal
bacteria.

They have a self-controlled proliferation of never

over-growing or under- growing in a healthy person.
In altered states of the bowel, these bacteria can
sometimes exert a harmful effect on the host. One
such altered state is consumption of milk in adult
life in which the excess of lactose reaching the large
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intestine serves as a good fuel for the commensal
bacteria living there.

They multiply in large numbers and ferment the

lactose into lactic acid and carbon dioxide. This
will lead on to the bloating of the abdomen and
irritation of the bowel due to the lactic acid present
in the stools. Passage of noisy gas through the anus
and sometimes pungent loose motions can occur.
In normal individuals the motion is alkaline but in
lactose intolerant persons it becomes acidic. In the
words of the common man, this state of abdominal
discomfort is designated as ‘gas trouble’ and in
technical terms as ‘Lactose Intolerance’.

Rarely in ten percent of the world population19,

the enzyme lactase is secreted throughout their
lifetime. This is due to the presence of a mutated
gene called ‘Lactase Persistence’ gene or Lac-P
gene. In the majority of the world population the
gene for lactase gets switched off after the weaning
period around three years of age and this gene is
designated as Lactase Restriction gene or Lac-R
gene. The Lac-R gene is normal whereas the Lac-P
gene is an exception.

The minority of individuals possessing the Lac-P

gene can consume any volume of milk without
developing any adverse effects on the intestine20.
But these are the people prone to develop early
cataract. This is because of the persistence of the
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enzyme lactase which goes on converting the
milk sugar lactose into galactose. But the next
stage of digestion of galactose does not take place
because of the inactivation of the gene for the
enzyme galactokinase by about the same three
years of age along with the lactase gene. A little
of this accumulating galactose enters the alternate
pathways of galactose metabolism and is converted
to a chemical called galactitol. Both galactose and
galactitol are very essential for the development of
the growing brain, retina and eye lens in the infants.
But these organs complete their development by
the age of three years and hence galactose and its
derivative galactitol are no more necessary for the
brain and eye lens after this age.

This is the biological reason behind the process

of inactivation of the genes for lactase and
galactokinase after the age of three years. If
galactose and galactitol are continuously produced,
then these unwanted chemicals get deposited in the
liver, eye lens, the brain, ovaries and the inside of
the blood vessels particularly in the heart interfering
with their normal function. Hence in the ten per cent
of the world population in whom the lactase enzyme
is persistent due to the presence of the Lac-P gene,
early development of cataract will occur if these
individuals continue to consume milk in adult life.

This can be easily understood by a simple analogy.

A person constructing a house will buy bricks and
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cement daily for the use in the construction process.
Once the construction is completed, the building
materials will not be purchased any more. If he goes
on accumulating bricks and cement even after the
completion of the construction, what will happen
to the house. The same building materials once
considered as very essential for the building of the
house will now become an unwanted burden for
the house. Lactose in the milk similarly becomes
an unwanted poison and burden for the cells of the
body after three years of age.

Fortunately, more than 90% of the world population

do not tolerate the consumption of lactose after the
age of three years and hence do not develop the
complications caused by lactose. Hence lactose
intolerance popularly known as milk intolerance is
a blessing in disguise.
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CHAPTER-9

Memory loss and

premature ageing

In normal individuals the brain development is

complete by about fourteen years and afterwards
the functional development takes place up to twenty
five years of age.

Afterwards the brain cells slowly start dying and

by about seventy five years 10% of the neurons are
lost. This is the natural process of ageing and slow
memory loss. But this natural process is speeded up in
individuals consuming milk in adult life. As already
discussed in the previous chapter, accumulation of
galactose and galactitol in the hippocampus of the
brain is responsible for the premature memory loss.
Similar to the development of premature cataract
in the minority of the population tolerating lactose,
memory loss is also speeded up in these individuals.
The name Alzheimer disease is now popular and the
incidence of it was a rare occurrence even at 80 years
of age till the beginning of the white revolution.
Now it has become fairly common even at the age
of fifty years. The milk born prion infection causing
Alzheimer disease is discussed in a later chapter.
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The milk sugar galactose causing premature
senility21 is proved by experiments conducted in
rats. Experimental rats were fed with hundred
milligrams of galactose per kilogram of body weight
(Equivalent to six grams for a man weighing sixty
kg) daily for seven weeks. After this period, it was
observed that these rats suffered from severe memory
loss. Autopsy reports of these rats showed that the
cells in the hippocampus area of the brain were
significantly shrunken. As an additional finding,
other features of premature senility were observed
in these rats characterized by muscle atrophy and
stiff joints. Some of the readers may take this
experiment in a lighter sense thinking that galactose
may affect the brain of the rats and argue that there
is no proof for galactose damaging the human brain.
Human experiments using a poisonous chemical are
unethical and not permitted. Hence the researchers
use the laboratory rats to test any chemical which is
intended to be used as a medicine in human beings
before properly recommending it for human use.
A chemical which is proved to be a poison for the
rats will also be a poison for human beings. Only
the volume and the amount of the poison differ in
different organisms depending on their body weight.
Senility is a warning sign of fast approaching death
and this experiment proves that excess of galactose
derived from milk predisposes to early death.

Recently it has been found that some peptides

generated in the intestine during the digestion of
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whey proteins can get absorbed into the circulation
of some individuals having the familial disorder
known as leaky intestines. These peptides are
recognised by the immune system of the human
body as foreign substances and start producing
antibodies against them. Some of these antibodies
act against the hair follicles in the head and damage
them. Damage to the hair roots causes hair loss and
leads to premature baldness.

Another disturbing factor is that milk proteins

particularly the whey proteins induce the excessive
production of a male hormone known as dihidro-
testosterone (DHT)22. Increase in the DHT level in
blood leads on to the appearance of pimples in face
and loss of hair on the head.

It is a common sight that young adults regularly

attending gymnasiums and consuming whey proteins
to develop their muscles tend to lose their hair on
the head much earlier than their contemporaries.

Hence it is undoubtedly proved that consumers of

animal milk or its products in adult life develop all
the features of premature ageing.
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CHAPTER - 10

Autism spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and

Hyperactivity disorder are closely interlinked and
overlapping diseases collectively called Autism
spectrum Disorder. This disorder is increasingly
raising its ugly head during the past five decades and
all the specialists of child health practising for the
past fifty years are well aware of this phenomenon.
At present, the incidence of Autism alone is one per
every hundred live births23.

Children affected with autism spectrum disorder

have borderline retardation of the intellectual
functions and the severity varies between different
individuals. Very rarely some of the children are
extraordinarily talented in specific areas of academic
performance such as music and drawing. The
majority of these children have subnormal school
performance more particularly in mathematics.
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These children avoid social contact and have
inherent difficulties in adjusting with the peer group.
They like to play with specific friends and also prefer
some specific toys only. The most important finding
is that they avoid eye contact with the people sitting
just in front of them. The most consistent features
of ASD are inattention and impulsivity. All these
symptoms fade slowly during adolescence but never
disappear completely. Their problems persist in
adult life to a smaller extent in some way or other.
Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder and hyperactive
behaviour put together have a collective incidence
of one in fifty live births.

The exact reason for the causation and the increase in

the incidence of ASD is not clearly established. But
there is some evidence to show that the milk protein
casein consumed by the mothers during pregnancy is
mainly responsible for causing autism in the child.

The chemical structure of casein varies slightly

in the milk of different animals. Three types of
casein proteins are identified in the milk of animals
classified under the mammalian kingdom. They are
designated as alpha, beta and kappa caseins. Among
these three types of casein, the beta casein is the most
common in the milk of mammals all over the world.
The beta casein again has eight sub-types depending
upon the variations occurring in the sequence of
amino acids present in casein. Among the eight sub
types of beta casein only the two variants namely the
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A1-beta casein and the A2 beta casein24 are the most
commonly prevalent types of casein. According to
the updated biochemical research, the milk of the
humans, goats and buffalos have A-2 beta casein and
the milk of most varieties of the cows has A1 beta
casein. The human race domesticated cows most
probably some ten thousand years back and at that
time almost all the cow breeds probably had A2 beta
casein in their milk.

Approximately around eight thousand years back a

sudden point mutation must have taken place in the
gene for casein in one of the cows somewhere in
the world as suggested by the molecular geneticists
using the time scale of gene evolution. If two genes
with equal significance for a single trait exist in an
organism, then both of them will be propagated
equally and persist in the future generations. The
typical example for this phenomenon is the blood
group A gene and the blood group B gene in the
human race which have specific advantages in
different ecological situations and so persist till
now. But if one gene has a better advantage over the
other gene, then the stronger gene will proliferate
and persist eliminating the weaker gene from the
population. The doctrine of Charles Darwin that the
“Fittest will Survive” is exemplified in this situation
at the gene level. In the cow population, the A1 beta
casein gene exhibited some environmental advantage
over the A2 beta casein gene and as a consequence
of that, the A2 beta casein gene has been eliminated
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or brought down in the cow populations. Now in
some of the cow breeds in the world particularly
the Afro - Asian ‘Zebu’ breed seen in some parts of
Africa and the native breeds living in most parts of
India have the A2 beta casein gene still persisting.
The steps taken to propagate the western cross-bred
cows as an attempt to speed up the white revolution
may soon eliminate the native breeds of the cow
population and the A2 beta casein gene present in
them altogether.

To achieve rapid success in the ‘Operation Flood’

scheme, the government is encouraging the import
of high yielding breeds of cows and bulls from the
western world particularly the Friesian, Jersey, the
Norwegian red, Dunlop and the Brown Swiss cattle.
All these breeds carry the A1 beta casein gene. The
pollution of the native gene pool of cows with this
aggressive A1 gene is expected to eliminate the
passive A2 beta casein gene completely which will
aggravate the human suffering in the near future.

Both the A1 and A2 beta casein proteins are made

up of two hundred and nine amino acids linked
together as a chain and they differ in the sequence
of amino acids in only one place. In the A1 beta
casein at position number sixty seven the amino
acid Histidine is present. But in A2 beta casein it is
replaced by the amino acid proline. The whole of the
chemical properties of a protein will change even if
one amino acid is substituted.
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Unlike children, adults have only a limited capacity
to digest the casein protein. During the digestion
of that limited quantity in the intestine the A1 beta
casein gets broken down just before the amino
acid histidine resulting in the production of a small
broken piece containing seven amino acids which
is as follows.

Tyrosine - Proline  - PhenylAlanine  - Proline  -

Glycine - Proline - Isoleucin //break point //
Histidine.

T h i s c h a i n o f s e v e n a m i n o a c i d s 24 j u s t
before the break point is a small peptide and
is designated as Beta Caso-Morphine -7 or
BCM-7.

In the A2 beta casein, the amino acid proline is

occupying the sixty seventh position instead of the
amino acid histidine and so the chain of amino acids
do not break at this point and hence the BCM-7 is
not formed from A2 beta casein. The BCM-7 peptide
has pharmacological properties similar to that of
the opioid chemical morphine and for this reason
the peptide is named as caso-morphine (morphine
derived from casein)

During pregnancy, women are generally advised

to consume more milk under the false notion
that milk provides the necessary calcium for the
growth of the foetus. Now, most of the dairies
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are marketing milk obtained from cows secreting
A1 beta casein. As a result of this, the consumed
milk is converted to BCM-7 in the intestine of
the mother and absorbed into the circulation. Till
recently it was asserted that peptides cannot be
absorbed from the intestine unless they are further
broken down to individual amino acids. But now
it is well proven that twenty per cent of the world
population has the genetic predisposition called
leaky intestine. The foods we eat in the modern
times contain many unwanted chemicals like
preservatives, flavouring agents, sweetening agents
and food colours. In the majority of the population,
these chemicals are unabsorbed and get expelled in
the faeces. In the individuals with leaky intestines,
some of these chemicals get absorbed and cause
side effects. A simple example is the food flavouring
agent called ajinomoto (Monosodium glutamate
or M.S.G.) In the majority of the population, this
chemical is not absorbed from the intestines. But
in individuals with leaky intestines, it gets absorbed
and produces many side effects such as a feeling of
chest compression, sweating, itching and sometimes
collapse and this condition is clinically known as
the Chinese Restaurant Syndrome (CRS). Similar
to ajinomoto, the BCM-7, gets absorbed from the
intestine in twenty per cent of the world population
and produces adverse effects. Like morphine, the
BCM-7 increase pain tolerance and also has mild
sedative action.
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Till about forty years back, morphine was widely
used in the maternity hospitals to relieve labour
pains in women. Later it was banned from use in
labour wards because of its ill effects in the mother
and the child.

The BCM-7 derived from milk has sedative action

similar to morphine. One bowl of cow’s milk
(300ml) yields thirty mg of beta casomorphin-7.
The medicinal dose of morphine in human beings
is fifteen mg by injection and thirty mg as an oral
tablet. Hence it becomes obvious that drinking one
bowl of cow’s milk is equivalent to swallowing one
tablet of 30mg morphine.

Many individuals say that they cannot have a

peaceful sleep at night without drinking a bowl of
cow’s milk. It is scientifically true because cow’s
milk produces the morphine like sedative chemical
BCM-7 in twenty per cent of the population.
Indirectly it can be presumed that anybody getting
a sound sleep after consumption of cow’s milk is
suffering from the genetic disorder known as the
‘Leaky Intestine’ because the sleep inducing peptide
BCM-7 cannot be absorbed from the intestine of
normal individuals.

As already discussed, the drug morphine is banned

for use during delivery. But it is very unfortunate
that pregnant women are advised to drink more milk
by their consultant physicians and the affectionate
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family members without knowing the fact that
drinking milk is equal to consuming the morphine
tablets.

The BCM-7 produced from milk is a small peptide

and so can easily cross the placental barrier and reach
the circulation of the foetus. The BCM-7 is a narcotic
psychedelic chemical and has a strong potential to
affect the developing brain of the foetus. The most
important cause for the Autism spectrum disorder in
children is due to the minor insults to the developing
brain by noxious chemicals like BCM-7 during their
foetal life. The foetal brain starts developing in the
sixth week after conception and proceeds rapidly
up to the sixteenth week of intrauterine life. Then it
develops fairly rapidly till about three years of age
and more slowly up to fourteen years of age. Any
insult to the developing brain in this period will
result in minimal brain dysfunction.

The incidence of autism and minimal brain

dysfunction is more common in the higher economic
groups of the population which is baffling the
epidemiologists to explain. Once the causative role
of milk is understood, it is very easy to explain its
higher incidence in rich families because of their
increased per capita milk consumption. The Indian
families living abroad have a genetic trait to carry
the gene for leaky intestine as in other Indians
living in India. But they freely consume more of
milk and milk products because of their affluence
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and easy availability of milk. In most of the western
countries only the A1 milk is marketed. Excessive
consumption of A1 milk is the most probable
explanation for this paradoxical phenomenon of
increased incidence of autism in these rich families.

Similarly autism gets aggravated in children

consuming cow’s milk or formula milks manufactured
from cow’s milk. All the available formula milks
popularly sold in the market are manufactured from
the milk powder obtained from the cow’s milk and
so they also contain A1 beta casein which can induce
the formation of BCM-7 in the intestines of these
children. Moreover the intestines of children below
two years of age are immature and behave like leaky
intestines. This means that noxious chemicals like
BCM-7 can get easily absorbed from the intestine
of children.

All mothers are aware of the fact that their infants

do not have a sound sleep after taking breast milk
and the same infants sleep well after consuming the
cow’s milk or formula milk. This is simply because
of the sedative chemical BCM-7 generated from the
cow’s milk and is not due to the insufficiency of the
breast milk. Mothers feeling happiness when their
bottle-fed children sleep for a longer time actually
have a misconceived satisfaction, because they
are not aware of the ill effects of BCM-7 which is
responsible for the abnormally deep sleep in their
children.
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In the rural India, some mothers feed their children
with the milk of goats and native cow breeds
containing A2 - beta casein and hence the prevalence
of Autism spectrum disorder and minimal brain
dysfunction has a lower incidence in the villages.
Anyway the other side effects of consuming goat’s
milk and cow’s milk can occur in them with equal
incidence as in the urban population.

Hence all pregnant women should avoid taking the

cow’s milk and other milk based drinks to prevent
the Autism spectrum disorder in their children.
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A1 Casein cows
Friesian cow

Norwegian Red
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A1 Casein cows
Jersey cow

Brown swiss cow

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A2 Casein Animals
Camel

Native South Indian Cow

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A2 Casein Animals
Goat

Buffalo
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Human Milk A2 Casein

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CHAPTER-11

Juvenile diabetes Mellitus

Diabetes mellitus is a universal disease prevalent in

all the countries of the world and this is probably the
only disease the incidence of which is leaping like
an epidemic followed closely by cancer.

The meaning of the word diabetes mellitus is

siphoning out sugar from the body (Dia = siphon
and betes = sugar). Two broad varieties of diabetes
mellitus are known.

They are

1. The Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus now

renamed as Type 1 DM (or T1 DM)

2. Non- Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus or Type

2 DM (T2 DM)

The second type of diabetes can affect humans at

any age above the age of fifteen years. This disease
is mainly determined by the genetic constitution of
the individual. Sedentary lifestyle and wrong food
habits in the genetically predisposed individuals are
prone to develop this type of diabetes. Hence Type
2 DM is not discussed in this book.
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In some unfortunate children, diabetes mellitus may
be detected from the next day after birth and all these
diseases are purely determined by defective genes
and are also not discussed in detail in this chapter.

The cow’s milk and its metabolic product play

a major role in the development of the juvenile
diabetes or Type1DM. This type of diabetes can
occur at any time after three years of age. As on
date fifteen million children below fourteen years
of age are affected with this disease throughout
the world. This insulin dependent diabetes can
affect adults also at any age. Individuals suffering
from non-insulin dependent diabetes can also get
converted to insulin dependent diabetes any time
in their life. This is the reason behind changing the
name of juvenile diabetes to T1DM. The incidence
of T1DM in the United States of America is one in
three hundred children and one in hundred adults.
Moreover yearly four lakhs of newly detected T1DM
patients are reported from all over the world. The
real incidence in India is not known precisely and
we can presume that it may be a little lower than
as reported in the affluent countries where milk is
abundantly available.

Milk protein allergy is proved as the most important

single cause for the increased incidence of T1DM.
The abdominal organ pancreas contains islet cells
which secrete insulin on demand. Insulin was
discovered by Frederic G.Banting as early as 1921
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and the molecular researches on the insulin secreting
cells are still continuing. The outer cell membrane of
the pancreatic islet cells are studded with a protein
receptor called P69. The P69 receptors are the main
modulating organelles through which the chemical
commands for the secretion of insulin are passed
into the islet cells. In other words, the amount of
insulin secretion and the time of insulin release into
the circulation are controlled by the P69 receptors.

Cow milk contains a protein called lactalbumin.

During the digestion of it in the intestine, lactalbumin
is broken down into small units called peptides. These
peptides are further broken down into amino acids
and are absorbed. In the general population some
individuals have the defect called leaky intestine
and in most children below two years of age the
intestine is leaky and can absorb noxious chemicals.
When lactalbumin is broken down into smaller
peptides, a seventeen amino acid chain nicknamed as
ABBOS25 peptide is formed. ALBUMIN BOVINE
SEVENTEEN is the full expansion for the word
ABBOS. When the ABBOS peptide enters the
circulation, the immune system of the human body
recognises this peptide as a foreign substance and
triggers the production of antibodies to destroy the
ABBOS peptide molecules. Unfortunately the P69
receptor molecules surrounding the surface of the
pancreatic insulin secreting islet cells have antigenic
resemblance to the ABBOS peptide. Hence the
antibodies developed against the ABBOS peptides
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mistakenly attack the P69 receptor protein particles
also and destroy both the foreign ABBOS peptide
and the P69 receptors of the self. This phenomenon
is known as autoimmunity due to the mimicry
antibodies26 produced against the ABBOS peptides.
The destruction of the P69 receptors on the islet cells
completely paralyses them and as a consequence
they stop secreting insulin permanently.

These individuals need an external supply of insulin

to maintain their blood sugar level. This is the reason
behind for the naming of the juvenile diabetes as
insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM)

Children not consuming cow’s milk or formula milk

do not suffer from this kind of diabetes mellitus.
Continuation of breast feeding and avoidance of
animal milk up to three years of age helps to avoid
the development of IDDM.

At present, the highest incidence of IDDM is seen

in the children of Finland, Sweden and Denmark34.
Incidentally these are the countries having the
highest per capita consumption of milk in the world.
According to the WHO reports, the incidence of
IDDM is 1 in one lakh children in the city of Karachi
in Pakistan. But it is 35 in one lakh children in
Finland. It has to be noted that all the women in
Finland begin to feed formula milk to their children
at the age of four months whereas the Pakistani
mothers breastfeed their children up to the age of
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two years. This extended breastfeeding protects
their children from developing the IDDM disease.
The same situation exists in India, Bangladesh,
Nepal and Myanmar which are under the category
of poor developing countries. In these countries,
poverty prevents the mothers from purchasing the
expensive formula milk products. Hence poverty
is paradoxically beneficial to the children of these
developing countries. It is an astonishing fact that
the children of the jungle tribes do not suffer from
IDDM as they have no chance to drink cow’s milk
or formula milk.

After knowing the above scientific facts, the readers

need not be scared altogether because the tendency
to develop antibodies to any foreign substance
called atopy and autoimmunity are a little rare
in the population. These diseases have a strong
genetic predisposition. Similarly the incidence of
leaky intestines is rare although small children
have an increased incidence of it due to the relative
immaturity of the intestines. Hence IDDM may
occur in a minority of the susceptible population
and the probability of being one among them always
exists for all of us. Hence avoiding the cow’s milk
and all the formula milks for children is advisable.

The insulin dependent diabetes mellitus is an

authentic evidence to support the title of this book
that cow’s milk kills the people.
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CHAPTER-12

Childhood Obesity

The economy of India is the sixth largest in the

world as assessed by nominal GDP and is praised
for having a fast developing mixed economy. But
the per capita GDP has given India 139th position in
the world and it reflects the real status of the people
in India. The richest of the rich and the poorest of
the poor are living in India. The two remarkable
achievements after independence in our country
are the self- sufficiency in food production and the
over-production of milk as a result of the green and
white revolutions.

The other ugly side of these two revolutions are now

slowly getting exposed. The steps taken for the green
revolution without improving the water resources
have brought irrecoverable disaster to the villages
and the agriculture. The white revolution has played
havocs in the health status of the whole population.
Before five decades, the incidence of obesity in
children was almost unknown even in affluent
families. This does not mean that the Indian children
were partially starved before the introduction of
these revolutions. The whole pattern of the eating
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behaviour of the children is totally turned upside
down after the introduction of the white revolution.
Consumption of milk and milk products such as
biscuits, cream cakes, milk shakes, milk sweets,
cheese, butter, ghee, milk chocolates and ice creams
has increased by several folds not only in the big
cities, but also in the rural villages. Brainstorming
advertisements with many fake claims appear in
the social media and the parents are led to believe
that drinking milk and the so called health drinks
are essential for the growth of their children. These
drinks provide an abundance of calories which gets
converted to fat in the body. Added to this calamity
is the sedentary lifestyle of these children spending
most of their leisure time on cell phone games.
Almost all the private schools begin by 8 am in the
morning and the employed mothers have very little
time to prepare a healthy breakfast for their children.
These children sleep late at night after too many
tuition sessions and wake up late in the morning
and have no time to sit and eat a proper breakfast.

In most families they skip the morning food, hurriedly

swallow a cup of the so called energy drinks and a
few pieces of cream biscuits before rushing to the
school. This type of food gives abundant calories
and fat and does not form a balanced diet required at
this growing age. The dual combination of milk and
biscuits is the worst type of fast food contributing
to childhood obesity.
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Cow’s milk contains a hormone called insulin
like growth factor (IGF-1) which induces rapid
cell division in the fat tissues leading to obesity.
In most families children are forced to drink milk
at least twice a day and hence the parents have to
be directly blamed for the development of obesity
disease in their children, Additional intake of dairy
chocolates, cream cakes and ice creams add more
fuel to the development of obesity. Obese children
develop many abnormalities in the regulation of their
sex hormones because of the process of peripheral
conversion of progesterone and testosterone in the
fat tissues to extra oestrogens. In the male children
it will lead to features of hypo-gonadism such as
over development of breasts clinically known as
gynaecomastia and small sized genitalia. In the
female children, symptoms of precocious puberty
will occur.

Paradoxically milk can also cause weight loss in

some children. Allergy to milk proteins is the major
cause of childhood asthma leading to recurrent
episodes of hospital admissions. Some other children
may develop lactose intolerance from early infancy
resulting in protracted loose motions followed by
under nutrition and weight loss.

Thus milk can cause obesity in most children and

emaciation and weight loss in some children both of
which are caused by the ill effects of animal milk.
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Chapter-13

Constipation and
bed wetting in children.

Milk contains three major proteins namely casein,

lactalbumin and lactoglobulin and in addition more
than twenty minor proteins in the form of hormones
and enzymes such as alkaline phosphatase,
lactoperoxidase, lipase, xanthine oxidase and
catalase. Any one of these proteins can be recognised
as a foreign substance by the human immune system
and antibodies may be synthesised against them27.
These antibodies are mostly mimicry antibodies
which have the capacity to react with the milk
antigens as well as the host antigens particularly
those present in the nerve terminals around the large
intestine, colon and rectum damaging them which
affect their mobility. Moreover, children consuming
abundant milk have reduced appetite and as a result
they avoid eating other foods and fruits leading to
the lack of enough fibre in the diet. This leads to
emptiness in the colon which fails to stimulate its
mobility resulting in constipation.
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Many children taking milk maintain their body
weight and yet their parents complain about their
lack of appetite and refusal to eat normal food.
Milk takes a long time for digestion and induces
a feeling of fullness in the stomach which reduces
the appetite. In these children, once the milk is
withdrawn completely from their diet, the appetite
improves and they start taking normal food. One
more distressing problem occurring in these children
drinking milk at bed time is bed wetting. There
are many other causes for bedwetting but the most
common cause is drinking milk at night. Milk
produces an opium like sedative substance called
BCM-7 which induces an unusually deep sleep.
In the deep sleep, the sense of bladder fullness is
blunted and it fails to awaken the child at the correct
time. Beyond a particular threshold, the urinary
bladder empties itself spontaneously. Bedwetting is
a major cause for the avoidance of social contacts
and development of inferiority complex in children.

Hence stopping the practice of drinking milk at

bedtime can cure most children suffering from this
psycho-social disorder.
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Chapter-14

Milk and Intelligence

Intelligence is determined by multiple factors

besides the innate genetic constitution. Generally
children born with the birth weight of less than
1.5 kg will have slight delay in the future brain
development and function. Now it has been proved
that this delay is not due to any inherent defect in
the brain cells but due to the adverse effect of milk
based supplementary foods given to these infants
for rapid weight gain. If all the low birth weight
infants are fed exclusively with breast milk, a catch
up growth occurs in the brain and no difference can
be seen between the low birth weight infants and the
normal infants at the end of one year of age.

In an another study, the intelligence of children born

with low birth weight and fed with formula milk was
compared with that of children born with low birth
weight and fed with mothers milk exclusively up to
two years of age. Their intelligence quotient tests
(I.Q tests) were carried out at the age of eight years
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and a comparative analysis was done. The startling
conclusion was that the IQ of the exclusively breast
fed children was 10.2% higher than in the children
fed with formula milk 6. It is an important finding
because that even a difference of one percent
in intelligence will influence the later school
performance significantly. One more observation
in this study was that the group belonging to the
formula milk category had higher weight gain almost
nearing the obesity criteria. Hence we can infer that
breast milk is absolutely necessary for infants during
the developmental stages of the brain.

Many students and their parents have the false notion

that drinking more cow milk during the examination
seasons will improve endurance and memory
enhancement. As we have already discussed, a
bowl of (300ml) of cow’s milk will contribute to the
formation of thirty milligram of beta caso-morphine
and within one hour it will induce sleep. The beta
caso-morphine is a brain suppressing noxious
chemical which can reduce the memory power also.

The capacity of the breast milk to increase the brain

development and intelligence of children are known
to the western medical world only in the twenty first
century. But it is really awesome to know that a
great poet by name ‘Nallathanar’ who lived in the
Tamil-Nadu in the fifth century has made known the
importance of breast milk in his literary work called
‘Thirikadugam’. His poem states that “a lake without
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a perennial water source, an infant deprived of breast
milk and a student not trained by a good teacher are
the three categories going to suffer permanently”

It is really astonishing to know that our ancestors

recognised the importance of breastfeeding 1500
years back itself whereas the modern medicine is
aware of it only now.
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Chapter -15

Diseases caused by
milk protein allergy

As already stated, milk contains three major proteins

and a number of minor proteins in the form of
peptide hormones and enzymes. Any one of the
above proteins or their intermediate products of
digestion can act as an antigen and provoke the
production of antibodies against them by the human
immune system.

The allergy provoking proteins and the response to

allergy varies in different individuals.

The proteins present in breast milk and those present

in various animal milks have some biochemical
similarity and yet they are not hundred per cent
identical. The number of amino acids and their
sequence vary in the proteins of different animal
milks. The human immune system diligently
identifies these animal proteins as foreign substances
and starts producing antibodies against these foreign
proteins. Over a period of time, these antibodies
reach a maximum threshold level and beyond which
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the human body starts to react violently whenever
it is challenged with the intake of animal milk. The
milk proteins and the antibodies against the milk
proteins form an immune complex and trigger
the release of allergy mediating chemicals such
as histamines, serotonin and bradykinins. These
mediators of allergy will induce itching in the skin,
watering from the nose, recurrent sneezing, itching
in the eyes and narrowing of the air passages in the
lungs which leads to asthma.

Many food components can cause allergy in specific

individuals but the milk protein allergy is recognised
as the single most common cause of all childhood
allergies. All persons with milk proteins allergy
will not have identical clinical manifestations.
The manifestations differ in different individuals
depending upon their genetic constitution. Atopic
eczema, bronchial asthma and allergic rhinitis are
the three common diseases in children induced by
cow milk protein allergy.

According to the recent research, milk protein

allergy can cause inflammatory responses in the
synovial membrane of any joint. The occurrence
of rheumatoid arthritis has risen by several folds
after the introduction of the white revolution. The
incidence of rheumatoid arthritis in India at present
is 0.75% and almost seventy lakhs of people are
affected by it leading to the opening up of a new
speciality in medicine called Rheumatology. Long
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standing back pain due to inflammation of the
ligaments of the spine and thinning of the bones
of the spine due to osteoporosis are becoming a
common problem in the adult population. The
mechanisms of milk causing rheumatoid arthritis
and osteoporosis are discussed in the next chapter.

Milk protein allergy is a major cause of rheumatoid

arthritis and many spondylo-arthropathies and hence
complete avoidance of milk and milk products will
benefit all the suffering individuals having milk
protein intolerance.  
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Chapter 16

Milk causing calcium deficiency

The most perplexing false belief about milk is

the impression that it provides enough calcium
necessary for the bone growth and health. This is
probably due to the planned propaganda in the form
of advertisements in the press and televisions by the
vested interests of the milk cartel. Contrary to this
popular belief, it is now scientifically well proved
that the calcium in the milk has no biological value
and it is really harmful to the consumers. For the
absorption and utilisation of calcium, there should
be enough vitamin D and magnesium. These two
factors are not present in the cow’s milk in the
optimum concentration and this is the reason for
the mandatory regulations to fortify the so called
health drinks with added vitamin D. Milk and milk
products do not contain enough magnesium which is
absolutely essential for the deposition of calcium in
the bones. The richest source for magnesium is green
leaves and vegetables. As iron molecules form the
central core of haemoglobin in animals, magnesium
forms the core of chlorophyll in plants. In green
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leaves and vegetables, calcium and magnesium are
present in the right proportion which is necessary
for the optimal utilisation of these two minerals.
Calcium obtained from the vegetarian source is
better absorbed from the intestines and optimally
deposited in the bones. Hence the calcium present
in the plants is considered as the first class calcium
and the calcium from milk is categorised as the
second quality calcium. Therefore recommending
the consumption of milk for the prevention of bone
thinning (osteoporosis) is absolutely absurd and
unscientific. Milk contains several proteins which
on breakdown produce acidic amino acids such as
aspartic acid and glutamic acid. The normal PH of
the blood is 7.4 which is more towards alkalinity.
Within one hour of consumption of milk, the acid
base balance of blood is tilted towards acidity due
to the release of acidic amino acids from milk. The
normal PH of the blood is maintained by certain
factors called buffers and the calcium phosphate
is the most important neutralising buffer in blood.
After consuming a bowl29 of milk (300ml) the PH
of the blood is lowered from 7.4 to 7.39. The human
body cannot tolerate even this 0.01 reduction in
the PH value of blood. Hence the first line buffer
namely the calcium phosphate is released from
the bones to restore the blood PH to 7.4. In other
words, consumption of milk dissolves the calcium
phosphate from the bones and releases it into the
blood to maintain the alkalinity of blood. Release
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of calcium phosphate from the bones leads to the
clinical condition called osteoporosis or thinning of
the bones. Osteoporosis predisposes to easy fractures
in bones. The small amounts of calcium absorbed
from the dietary milk and the calcium released from
the thinning process of bones lead to a rise in blood
calcium and phosphorus. This excess of calcium and
phosphates circulating in the blood is also harmful.
The excess of calcium and phosphorus in blood is
filtered by the kidneys and excreted in the urine.
Presence of this excess phosphate in urine is known
as phosphaturia. Infants consuming breast milk do
not excrete phosphates in the urine.

It is now statistically confirmed that the thinning

of bones and the consequent fractures are more
prevalent in the countries of Norway, Sweden,
Denmark and New Zealand where the per capita
milk consumption is higher than in any other country
in the world. In our country also, bone thinning, back
aches, joint pains and degeneration of hip joints are
more prevalent in the affluent city populations where
the per capita milk consumption is much higher than
in the poor rural populations not having enough
financial resources to buy milk. Tribal people living
in the deep jungles do not keep cowherds and also do
not drink milk. Osteoporotic fractures are unknown
in these tribal populations.

Hence we can conclude that consumption of milk

will cause the bones to become weaker and make
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them prone for fractures. The so called energy drink
manufacturers recommend their products for the
development of strong teeth in children. All the
dental practitioners know that drinking cow milk
and milk products cause the childhood disease
called milk bottle caries. Children fed exclusively
with mother’s milk do not develop this pathetic
degeneration of teeth. This confirms that cow’s milk
and the so-called health drinks cause decay of teeth
and weaken them.

Hereafter, never believe the words of any popular

sports star appearing in television advertisements
and claiming that drinking a particular brand of
the energy drink is responsible for his strength and
stamina.

Eating enough of vegetables and green leaves and

getting exposed to sunlight for 15 minutes in a day
are sufficient to keep the bones and teeth strong and
healthy.
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Chapter -17

Milk and kidney stones

The incidence of kidney stones30 in the lifetime of a

person in India is 12% and it is reported to be a little
higher in the milk belt of India namely Gujarat and
Rajasthan where it is 15%. The incidence of kidney
stones in the USA is 10 to 15% and the prevalence
of kidney stones has increased by several folds
in the USA after the year 1962 and incidentally it
coincides with the era of increased milk production
in that country.

There are many causes for the formation of stones

in the kidney and the urinary passage. Certainly,
hereditary factors play a major role but we cannot
explain the sudden increase in the occurrence of
kidney stones during the past 50 years due to any
alteration in the genes. The change in the dietary
factors is certainly responsible for the increased
incidence of kidney stones. We all know that the
dietary pattern of humans all over the world has
drastically changed during the past fifty years and
it exactly coincides with the several fold increase in
milk production and consumption of it during the
same period.
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As it has been elaborately discussed in the previous
chapter, we know that consumption of animal
milk causes thinning of the bones. It also results
in the increase in the blood level of calcium and
phosphorous by dissolving the calcium phosphate
matrix of the bones to maintain the acid base balance
of the blood. Hence it is obvious that consumption
of milk increases the blood levels of calcium and
phosphorous by dissolving the bones and not by
enhancing the absorption of calcium and phosphorus
from the intestines. In fact, a small amount of
milk calcium is absorbed from the intestines and
it worsens the malady of elevated blood calcium
occurring after the consumption of milk due to the
bone thinning.

The continuously raised blood calcium is harmful

to the whole body and hence the excess calcium is
filtered by the kidneys and pushed out through the
urine. This calcium reacts with the oxalic acid in the
kidneys and leads to the formation of calcium oxalate
which is a sparingly soluble chemical in water and
so gets crystallized and deposited in the kidneys
and the urinary tract. The deposition of calcium
oxalate in layer after layer leads to the formation
of bigger stones. More than 90% of kidney stones
are constituted by calcium oxalate stones admixed
with a small amount of calcium phosphate30. Uric
acid stones form only a minority of overall kidney
stones and may be influenced by abnormalities in
the uric acid metabolism which is determined by
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genes and an increase in the consumption of non -
vegetarian food.

If left untreated, kidney stones cause obstruction to

the flow of urine followed by infection, and scarring
of the kidneys leading to the damage of them.

The majority of small kidney stones get expelled

through the urine without causing any symptoms.
Rarely, they become big enough to cause
complications. There is a clear association that the
individuals suffering from osteoporosis (thinning of
bones) also suffer from a higher incidence of kidney
stones. This indicates that the calcium dissolved
from the bones due to milk consumption gets
eliminated through the kidneys. Therefore people
suffering from kidney stones should avoid drinking
milk and milk products throughout their life time to
prevent thinning of bones and recurrence of stones.
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CHAPTER - 18

MILK AND AUTOIMMUNE

DISORDERS

Autoimmune diseases are caused by the attack

of the immune system on the healthy cells of its
own body. The term auto-immunity appears to be
biologically paradoxical and is against the laws of
the Nature. The immune system is evolutionarily the
oldest and the most advanced system in all the living
organisms. Even the primitive micro-organisms
like the bacteria which lack specialised organs,
still possess the immune system. When a foreign
organism tries to invade the bacterial body, then
the bacteria immediately oppose it and destroy the
DNA of the invader by producing specific enzymes
called restriction enzymes. The restriction enzymes
produced by the bacteria are unique to that species
and so they are now used as the cutting tools in
genetic engineering. All the restriction enzymes
have ardent specificity and they will not cut the
DNA or RNA of the same species. In other words,
the restriction enzyme will not act against its own
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body and so there in no self- destruction. In the
human beings all the organs work in unison with
full co-operation between them. The liver will not
act against the kidneys and the kidneys will not act
against the brain or heart of its own body. Then
how can we expect the most specialised immune
system of the humans to act against the organs
of its own body. Hence using the terminology of
‘auto- immunity’ is irrational and is against biologic
principles.

Several diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus

erythematous, psoriasis, eczema, alopecia totalis
etc. are considered to be autoimmune diseases.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a typical example in this
group of diseases. It is a long standing inflammatory
disorder affecting many joints including the minor
joints. The exact cause predisposing to this disorder
is not yet fully known. The most probable cause is
milk protein allergy.

Any protein on earth is a potential allergen for

somebody and there are thousands of protein
molecules in the nature. When a foreign protein
molecule enters the human body by way of ingestion,
injection or inhalation, then the immune system of
the person gets activated to neutralise the allergenic
proteins by producing specific antibodies. But the
incidence and the quality of the antibody production
differs in different persons. A substance which is
allergic to one person may not be allergic to another
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person. The typical example is the drug penicillin
which can cause allergy only in a few individuals
and not in all the persons.

Many of the protein molecules existing in the nature

can be structurally identical to the protein molecules
existing on the cell surface of the organs which
are called receptors. These environmental proteins
which mimic the cellular proteins are called mimicry
proteins. When a foreign mimicry protein enters the
human body, it induces an immune response and
produces an antibody to destroy the foreign protein.

Unfortunately this antibody not only destroys the

foreign protein but also the identical self-proteins
present on the surface of cells by mistaken identity
and destroy them.

Hence the destruction of the cells of the own body

by its immune system is a biologic mistake due
to the antigenic similarity of the foreign antigens
which mimic the cellular antigens. So, the resultant
antibodies should be better called as mimicry
antibodies and not auto antibodies .Any of these
proteins or their peptide breakdown molecules can
act as an allergen and provoke antibody production
in genetically susceptible individuals. Cow’s milk
contains several antigens in the form of proteins and
any one protein can provoke antibody production in
the susceptible human individuals at any time of life.
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The milk protein antibodies can act as mimicry
antibodies because our body organs possess almost
similar antigens as milk protein breakdown products.
Hence the milk protein antibodies accidentally
destroy our own healthy cells which have surface
protein receptors having structural similarity to the
milk proteins.

This will induce an inflammatory reaction28,36

particularly in the joints and skin and produce
diseases like Rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, eczema,
asthma, lupus and many more diseases. Milk alone
cannot be blamed as the sole cause of these mimicry
antibody diseases but it is undoubtedly the major
cause for them. Many other allergens such as egg
protein, fish proteins and rarely some vegetable
proteins can also induce the production of mimicry
antibodies and allergic reaction. But as stated earlier
that milk contains more than twenty proteins in the
form of enzymes and peptide hormones and hence
it is potentially several times more allergenic than
any other food materials.

Hence a conscious and complete avoidance of

animal milk and milk products including chocolates,
ice creams and biscuits can cure many of these
diseases caused by mimicry antibodies wrongly
designated at present as auto-immune disorders.

The author of this book is a standing proof for milk

protein allergy and severe bronchial asthma which
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developed in his early middle age and lasted for
twenty long years. Complete abstinence from milk
and milk products has completely eliminated this
disease and is remaining asthma free for the past
thirty years. Hence persons suffering from any of the
auto-immune diseases (mimicry antibody diseases)
are advised to try this simple suggestion and get
relieved from these otherwise debilitating diseases.
Complete avoidance of milk and milk products for at
least six months is required to bring down the level
of the milk protein antibodies already circulating
in the blood of the affected patients to produce any
significant clinical improvement.
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CHAPTER-19

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

or Cradle Death

As the name itself implies, sudden death of

otherwise healthy infants from birth to one year of
age is a mysterious puzzle all over the world and
this condition is designated as Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome (SIDS). To certify SIDS in an infant, all
other causes for death should be excluded without
any doubt. The SIDS was widely known to the
medical practitioners only after the year 1950 which
coincides with the increased milk production and
consumption all over the world. Even in medically
advanced countries like the United States, United
Kingdom and Sweden, four healthy infants out of
ten thousand live births die annually without any
identifiable cause.
The curiosity to know about this peculiar malady
increased suddenly all over the world after the year
2014. The sole cause for this awareness among the
public was the screening of a popular Iranian cine
film by the name ‘Melbourne’. The story of this film
goes like this. A young graduate from Iran migrates
to the Melbourne city in Australia along with his
newly wedded wife for higher education. After some
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days, once the husband left for the college, the wife
at home suffered from boredom and depression. She
decided to spend her time usefully and hence took up
a part time job as a babysitter to look after the new
born child of her neighbour. On one unfortunate day,
she fed the child with some formula milk in a bottle
and made the child to sleep in a cradle. The infant
died in sleep in the cradle unnoticed and the couple
were prosecuted for the heinous crime of suspected
infanticide. The film vividly described in detail the
emotional upheavals and the ordeals undergone
by the couple during the case trial. Finally it was
confirmed by the court that the child died of SIDS
otherwise known as CRIB death or cradle death. The
young Iranian couple was finally acquitted and they
safely returned back to their country. This cine film
undoubtedly created a worldwide awareness about
this peculiar disease of SIDS.
The SIDS or cradle death mostly affects infants
belonging to three to six months of age. No definite
cause is given for this miserable disease in any of
the reputed textbooks of Paediatrics even now.
Uncertain causes like the smoking habits of the
parents, the sleeping pattern of the child and some
unknown genetic factors are vaguely discussed
without any valid scientific explanation.
An article published in the Lancet medical magazine31
in the year June 1994 is probably the most appropriate
one to explain the mechanism behind SIDS.
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Cow’s milk contains three major proteins and
many minor proteins in the form of enzymes and
hormones. Any one of these proteins can cause
some form of allergic manifestations in more than
fifty per cent of the world population. The clinical
manifestations of allergy and the severity of the
symptoms vary in different individuals according to
their genetic constitution. In fact, cow’s milk protein
is the single most important causative agent among
all the allergic factors in children.
Infants fed with breast milk are generally started
with some weaning food from the fourth month
onwards. In most of the world populations, cow
milk or some formula milk is introduced as the first
weaning food depending upon the financial status
of the parents. It is a shocking coincidence that the
SIDS also is having its maximum incidence during
the fourth month to the sixth months of age.
As already discussed in the chapter 10, the casein
present in the A1 cow’s milk leads to the formation
of beta-casomorphin (BCM-7’) which has an opioid
like action on the brain33. In infants fed with cow’s
milk or any formula milk manufactured from cow’s
milk powder, the chemical substance BCM-7 is
generated which induces an unusually deep sleep.
All mothers are aware of the fact that infants can
be easily aroused from sleep if they drink breast
milk and the same infants have a deep sleep if they
consume bottle milk. Infants drinking cow milk
or a formula milk sleep longer and deeper than
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those children consuming mother’s milk. Infants
having milk protein allergy develop stuffy nose
and difficulty in breathing due to the excessive
secretion of the mucus in the respiratory tract. Milk
protein allergy also leads to the narrowing of the
bronchial structures in the lung clinically known
as bronchospasm. This bronchospasm aggravated
by the excessive collection of mucous inside the
bronchi in an infant with an unusually deep sleep
leads to choking and sudden death.
This scientific explanation published in the Lancet
magazine is now accepted as the plausible cause for
SIDS. Infants fed exclusively with breast milk do
not produce BCM-7 and also do not develop milk
protein allergy and hence do not suffer from the
mysterious Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
There is no doubt that the Iranian film ‘Melbourne’
created a worldwide awareness about SIDS among
the common public in the twenty-first century. But
it is really amazing to know that one among the five
major epics in the ancient Tamil literature namely,
‘SILAPATHIKARAM’ written by the saint-poet
Elanko in the second century has given a vivid
narration of SIDS in a small link story.
A woman by name Malathi was entrusted to take
care of the male child born to her husband and his
second wife. When the parents of the child had gone
to a nearby village to attend a function, Malathi fed
her step child with cow’s milk and allowed the child
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to sleep in a cradle. Unexpectedly the infant died
in sleep and her step mother Malathi was in great
distress. She was terrified to face her angry husband
and the biological mother of the child because the
whole blame for the death of the child would be put
on her shoulders. She immediately took the body of
the child to all the nearby temples and none of the
deities came forward to alleviate her agony. Finally
she entered the sanctum of a village deity called ‘
Pasanda Sathan’ who himself appeared as a male
infant in the hands of Malathi and relieved her from
her ordeals.
The whole real credit for the first written evidence
for SIDS caused by cow’s milk should go to the great
Tamil poet Elanko of the second century who lived
much before the era of the Iranian film ‘Melbourne’.
The moral of both these stories is that baby- sitters
should not feed infants under their care with cow’s
milk and allow them to sleep in a cradle immediately
after the feed.
All the diseases discussed in this book are ample
evidences to substantiate that cow’s milk is a slow
killer to human beings and in this chapter on SIDS,
we can conclude that cow’s milk can also prove to
be an instant killer for some children. The title of
this book ‘Milk That Kills’ is fully authenticated by
the frequent news reports of the occurrence of this
instant killer disease namely SIDS.
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Chapter 20

Infectious diseases spreading through

milk

Milk is a good culture medium for the growth of many

pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria. Disease
causing bacteria such as Coliforms, Salmonella
Typhi, Brucella, Streptococcus Scarlatina, Anthrax
bacteria and Tuberculosis bacteria can be present
in the raw milk besides many viruses which can
easily spread to the consumers. Among them the
streptococcus scarlatinae and the anthrax bacteria
are a little rare. Pasteurisation of milk can partially
destroy the majority of these bacteria but it can
never eradicate all the bacteria from milk. The most
important point to remember is that pasteurised milk
is not a bacteria free sterile milk. If a commercially
available pasteurised milk packet of any brand
from any country is kept outside a refrigerator for
six hours, then the small number of bacteria which
have escaped pasteurisation will start flourishing
and completely spoil the milk.

Hence ice creams, milk shakes, cheese and cream

topped cakes manufactured from the pasteurised milk
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are not safe foods. Moreover pasteurisation cannot

destroy one type of tuberculosis bacteria named as
mycobacterium avium and also the most dangerous
prion particles in milk. In villages many individuals
drink the raw milk from goats and cows and they
are certainly at high risk of developing milk borne
diseases. According to the Hindu Agamas, milk
obtained from a single cow fed with natural grass
and reared under healthy conditions should only be
used for anointment (abhishekam) in temples. But
it is a distressing sight to witness devotees pouring
the commercially available toned milk marketed in
polythene packs over the idols of the sacred deities.
People are not aware of the fact that toned milk is
a mixture of cow milk, buffalo milk and dried milk
powder with added water. Using buffalo milk in
temples is forbidden by the temple rules and it is
completely flouted by the public and the priests due
to their ignorance about the toned milk.

Devotees drinking this unsafe milk offered to them

are prone to develop all the milk borne infections
particularly brucellosis, typhoid and diarrhoea.
Brucellosis causes a long drawn fever with chills
which is very difficult to identify and cure.

If the cow is suffering from bovine leukaemia, then

the causative bovine leukaemia virus excreted in
the milk can also infect the people and induce blood
cancer (leukaemia) in susceptible individuals.
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The milk industry in India has grown by leaps
and bounds after the year 1970 when the Indian
government ventured into a scheme called ‘operation
flood’ headed by Mr Verghese Kurien celebrated as
the father of dairy industry in India. High yielding
cross bred cows are imported and distributed to
the villagers under grants and subsidies. As a
consequence of this, many humble farmers have
transformed themselves as milk producers leaving
the agriculture in the doldrums. The milk produced
in remote villages is collected and brought to the
common collection centre and then shifted to the
dairy branches where pasteurisation and packaging
facilities are available. This pooled and mixed milk
has a higher chance for the presence of many types
of bacteria. A minimum of four hours is necessary
for the milk procured from the producers to reach
the pasteurisation centres.

During this time gap, the bacteria present in the milk

multiply by several folds and during the process of
multiplication they produce poisonous substances
called ‘toxins’. Pasteurisation can control further
bacterial growth but cannot destroy the toxins which
are already produced by the bacteria before the milk
reaches the pasteurisation centre. Hence people
consuming pasteurised milk products such as milk
shakes, ice creams, cheese and cream cakes are
likely to develop symptoms of food poisoning due
to the presence of bacterial toxins and some bacteria
which escaped pasteurization.
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Nowadays newspapers frequently publish articles
reporting that milk producers in the villages have
started adding a few drops of some chemical
preservative to the milk to prevent spoilage before
sending it to the pasteurization centres.

Ice cream manufacturers do not boil the milk before

cooling it to make creams. The flavoured milk sold in
the market by the different dairies is also made from
pasteurised raw milk. They have a great potential to
cause vomiting and loose motions which are signs of
food poisoning. Hence complete avoidance of milk
and milk products is the best way for a healthy life.
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Chapter 21

Milk and Irritable Bowel Syndrome

(IBS)

Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a disorder with a

group of symptoms which includes abdominal pain,
changes in bowel movements and gaseous bloating
of abdomen particularly in the evening hours. The
bowel changes may be either loose motions with
passage of mucus or constipation or both alternating
with each other.

The incidence of IBS is 10 to 20% with a higher

incidence in females in the western countries.
In India it is 4.5% to 7.5% and there is no sex
difference. The exact cause for this disease is not
clearly known and some researchers consider it to
be a psycho-somatic disorder affecting the colonic-
brain axis with mental stress influencing the colonic
nerve endings. Specific diagnostic tests for this
disorder are not available and mostly it is a clinical
diagnosis. But universally the patients with IBS are
advised to avoid the milk products from food which
really gives good relief from the clinical symptoms.
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The scientific basis of the health benefits of avoiding
the dairy products in IBS is well documented. Milk
contains the sugar lactose and 90% of the world
population cannot digest it after the age of three
years. The undigested lactose reaches the large
bowel and is fermented by the colonic bacteria to
lactic acid and carbon di-oxide. The normal colonic
environment is alkaline and the presence of lactic
acid converts it to an acidic state which causes
painful defecation. The accumulation of carbon
di-oxide causes bloating of the abdomen and the
passage of excessive gas through the anus.

Casein is a milk protein which is not digested in all

the human beings after the age of three years. This
casein on reaching the large intestine is broken down
by the colonic bacteria and fermented to a noxious
chemical called caso-morphine. The caso-morphine
in most individuals is not absorbed and is excreted
as such in the motion. In some individuals the caso-
morphine can cause inflammation of the bowel wall.

A similar condition can occur by taking wheat and

oats. Gluten is a protein present in these cereals.
Gluten is undigested in the intestines and it enters
the large bowel unaltered. It is also broken down by
the colonic bacteria to a peptide called gliadin from
which an opioid substance called gliado-morphine is
formed and is mostly excreted. In some individuals
with leaky intestines, it gets absorbed by the lymph
vessels around the bowel and reaches the regional
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lymph nodes which get inflamed and enlarged. The
reactive enlargement of the regional paracolic lymph
nodes causes discomfort and vague abdominal pain.

The gluten content of wheat is 10 to 20% and it varies

with the different strains of the wheat plants. Total
avoidance of milk and wheat will greatly relieve the
general symptoms of the patients suffering from IBS.

Ingestion of paneer and cheese which are prepared

from casein protein are well known to aggravate the
symptoms of IBS.

Most people are under the wrong impression that

curd, buttermilk and cheese are non-irritating foods
for the digestive tract. During loose motions they
freely take curd and buttermilk. In fact, curd also
contains the same casein present in milk. Only the
lactose present in milk is absent in curd and so it
is less harmful than milk. But the casein present in
curd and cheese can get converted to casomorphine
in the large intestine and cause bowel inflammation.

Avoidance of all the dairy products is the best option

for those suffering from Irritable bowel syndrome.
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Chapter 22
Mad Cow Disease

Mad cow disease is an infectious disease discussed

separately because of its unique peculiarity and the
incurable ruins caused by it.

Cows living in the wild conditions in the jungle

eat only green leaves and grasses and are truly
vegetarian animals. But the modern domesticated
cows reared in the villages and in dairies have been
trained to eat foods of non-vegetarian origin. The
cattle feeds manufactured by the agro-industrial
institutions incorporate cereal husks, cotton seeds,
slaughterhouse waste materials, powdered egg shells
and crushed bone meal to make small pellets. Hence
we cannot categorise the domestic and dairy cows
as vegetarian animals any more. The majority of the
public with a callous attitude may not worry about
the non-vegetarian nature of the cattle feed given
to the domestic cows. But what is most worrying
is the rapid spread of a contagious disease called
‘Mad Cow Disease’ to the cattle caused by this non
vegetarian food. The causative organism of this
disease is a tiny particle smaller than viruses and is
given the name ‘virino’ by some biologists. These
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tiny particles are now widely known as prions. The
prions defy all the presently existing biological laws.
According to the science of biology, an organism can
be considered as a living entity only if it possesses
the nucleic acid either the RNA or the DNA which
can be transmitted to the progeny. But the prions do
not have either RNA or DNA but still they are able to
multiply in the brain tissues of the affected animals
and kill them. It can also be transmitted from one
animal to another animal.

Recently they are identified as protein crystals

and are named as PrP( Prion Protein)32. In fact
this PrP is a natural protein very essential for the
growth and maintenance of the brain tissues in all
living organisms possessing the nervous system.
The normal prion protein present in the brain is
designated as PrPc (Prion Protein- cellular). A small
point mutation taking place in the PrPc gene totally
changes the conformation structure of the PrPc
protein. As a result of this mutation, the tissues of the
brain slowly get destroyed and appear as a spongy
material. This degenerative disease caused by the
prions is called as spongiform encephalopathy or
‘mad cow disease’. This mutated version of the PrPc
gene is designated as PrPsc .(PrPsc represents prion
protein in scrapie) . This abnormal gene product
namely the PrPsc protein cannot multiply itself like
other living organisms. But they have the ability to
combine with the normal PrPc protein in the brain
and convert them all to the abnormal PrPsc protein
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which cannot sustain the normal brain function
and shape. This disease was first identified in goats
and was named as ‘Scrapie’. In cows it is known
as ‘Mad Cow Disease’. The same pathogen causes
a degenerative brain disease in humans known as
modified Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease or CJD.

This Prion disease is spread from goats or cows to

human beings by eating the brain or flesh of the
infected goats, sheep and cows. Now it has been
established that the milk of the diseased animal
can also spread the disease to humans. These
prions cannot be destroyed by pasteurisation, by
the addition of any antimicrobial chemical or by
boiling the milk. The most frightening truth is that
even subjecting the prion contaminated materials
to even 1000 degree centigrade heat cannot destroy
the prion particles.

In the year 1996, this mad cow disease spread

like a wildfire among the dairy cows in the United
Kingdom creating a panic among the public. People
in the UK totally avoided eating beef. Milk and milk
products were completely excluded from their diet.
The dairy industry faced a disaster and the economy
of the country itself was shattered. As a result of this,
the dairy industrialists in the country pressurised the
British government to find an immediate solution
to tide over the crisis. Consequently the British
government passed an order to kill and burn thirty
lakhs of prion infected cows in their country24. This
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created a false sense of security among the public as
they were led to believe that all the prion affected
cows were destroyed in their country. But in reality,
the prion disease was not eradicated in the U.K.
and it is not at all possible to eradicate the prion
particle because no force on earth can prevent the
occurrence of a natural mutation in the PrPc gene
which is universally present in the nervous tissues
of all the organisms. The dairy bigwigs not only
made the public to forget the disease, but also totally
blocked the reporting of the incidence of the disease
in the public media anymore. The publication and
reporting of fresh cases of CJD in the medical
journals also mysteriously disappeared since then.

Anyway, the USA recognised the seriousness of this

disease and enacted a law to prevent the import of
beef and dairy products from the European countries
particularly from Italy where the mad cow disease
was rampant. Unfortunately the import of cheese,
creams and butter from Italy, New Zealand and
China are permitted in India because of their cheaper
price.

The health implications of this disastrous activity

will be known in India only in the near future.
The mad cow disease when it spreads to human
beings will cause a slow degenerating disease of the
brain called ‘Modified Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease’
(Modified CJD). The prions entering the human body
through the flesh or milk of an infected animal will
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take about thirty years to cause symptomatic CJD.
It is a very slowly progressive disease classified in
medical textbooks as a slow viral disease (though
it is not really a virus). Initially tremors in the
hands, loss of memory, extreme body weakness and
inactive behaviour resembling a mental disorder
occurs in modified CJD. These symptoms slowly
progress over many years and in the final stages
total paralysis of the body and the brain takes place
leading to death. During the decade following 1990s,
this mad cow disease was reported in England and
other European countries like Italy and Germany.
Now in spite of stringent preventive measures,
occasional occurrence of the disease is reported in
USA also. Neuroscientists have begun to suspect
that the PrPsc may be the causative agent for other
degenerative diseases like Alzheimer disease and
senile dementia occurring all over the world. Both
of these diseases are alarmingly increasing after the
explosive growth of the dairy industry.

In India there is very little awareness of this mad

cow disease and the implications of it on human
health. Facilities are not made available anywhere
in India for the research about prion disease in cows
or man. We are freely importing dairy products from
the European countries, particularly from Italy. The
import of costly cross-bred cows and frozen semen
to fertilize the native cows is freely taking place
without any screening for the presence of the prions.
Moreover it is a common practice in rural India that
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when cattle suffer from any disease, they are secretly
slaughtered and sold without giving information to
the public health authorities.

Performing post-mortem studies in prion infected

cattle is categorized under the high risk class IV
along with the recent corona viral disease. Because
the corona viral disease causes immediate disastrous
effects, people are more afraid of it. The prion
disease kills a person after thirty years of infection
and hence the public and the health officials are
lethargic to take steps to prevent this killer disease.

It is a perplexing entity in the medical world because

this prion disease is till now the only known disease
which can be inherited through mutated genes and
also acquired from an infected animal. Hence it can
be categorised under the group of genetic diseases
as well as grouped under the class of infectious
diseases.

Complete avoidance of animal flesh and animal milk

is the only solution to escape from this disastrous
prion disease to a great extent. Unfortunately we
cannot avoid new mutations occurring in the PrPc
genes present in all of our body. The only solace
to us is that the possibility of occurrence of these
natural mutations is very remote.
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Chapter 23

Milk is a non vegetarian food

The controversy over milk whether it is a vegetarian

or non-vegetarian food is going on for a long time.
Most vegetarians consume milk and milk products
like curd, cheese and ice creams and arbitrarily claim
them as vegetarian foods according to their personal
whims and fancies. But vegans brush them aside
altogether as non-vegetarian foods.

During the evolutionary process, the female

animals belonging to the mammalian kingdom
converted their sweat glands in the mammary area
into specialised milk secreting mammary glands.
Hence sweat is modified blood and milk is modified
sweat in mammals. By all biological standards, milk
is a non- vegetarian drink and all milk products
manufactured from milk including biscuits are non
-vegetarian foods.
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Milk has three major proteins namely casein,
lactalbumin and lactoglobulin and more than
20 minor proteins in the form of hormones and
enzymes. These proteins are unique to the animal
kingdom and are not produced by any plant in the
world. Individuals allergic to animal flesh are also
allergic to the milk proteins strongly suggesting the
chemical similarity between them.

All the bacteria and viruses circulating in the blood

of the infected animal are excreted in its milk
with the same virulence and infectivity. If the cow
suffers from diseases like tuberculosis typhoid and
brucellosis, then their milk also contain the same
organisms in large numbers. Viral organisms like
the bovine leukaemia virus and prion particles also
get excreted in milk with the same concentration as
in the blood of the animal. Scientifically milk is the
modified blood of an animal.

Some proponents of milk argue that while milking

the animals, the donor animals do not lose their
life and hence milk is a vegetarian drink. It is to be
remembered that in some parts of East Africa37 the
native tribal people puncture the neck veins of cows
and collect about a litre of blood and then securely
seal the punctured wound. An average cow weighs
800 kg and a bull 1100 kg and their blood volume
is 55ml per kg of body weight. Hence the volume
of blood in a cattle weighing 1000 kg is about 55
litres and loss of just one litre of blood is not going to
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endanger the life of the animal. They use this blood
to make delicious drinks and also eat the fried blood.
Will anybody dare to claim that this fried blood made
from the blood collected from the animal without
killing it is a vegetarian food?

Also, is it acceptable for anybody to claim that the

soup made out of crushing the horn and hoof of the
animal is a vegetarian drink? In West Bengal fish
and crabs or eaten as vegetarian foods. Whether the
vegetarians living in the other parts of the country
will dare to accept these foods as vegetarian? The
human race is notoriously selfish to assert that their
own misdeeds are always the righteous ones.

The food safety and standards authority of India

(FSSAI) has permitted the presence of 30000
microorganisms in 1 ml of milk as normal. It means
that one litre of good quality milk can contain thirty
millions of bacteria. Hence when a person consumes
one bowl (300ml) of milk, he is inadvertently
swallowing about 10 millions of bacteria dead or
alive floating in the milk. Will it be acceptable to
the so called vegetarians still longing to drink milk?

The milk of any animal will contain traces of blood

from the animal, pus cells and all the bacteria from
the udder of that animal. The assertion that milk
is not part of the animal is not a tenable argument.
Milk remains stored inside the udder of the animal
till it is milked. Is it justifiable to claim that the udder
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of the animal itself is not a part of that animal. It is
equivalent to the claim that the blood of the animal
stored inside the blood vessels of that animal is not
part of it.

Cheese is a milk product consumed by both

vegetarians and non -vegetarians as a delicious
food. Vegetarians do not hesitate to eat the Italian
recipe “pizza”. Pizza is lavishly smeared with
cheese to prevent drying. Cheese is partially
digested milk casein and it also contains some fat
and fermented lactose. To digest the casein protein
in the milk, cheese manufacturers add an enzyme
called rennet. Rennet is obtained from the fourth
chamber of the stomach of calves (cows have a four
chambered stomach). Pre-weaning male calves are
slaughtered and the fourth chamber of the stomach
synonymously called as the rennet bag is isolated,
cut into pieces, dried and filtered after dissolving it
in an enzyme solvent. This crude extract of rennet
is added to the cow’s milk to prepare cheese. After
knowing this manufacturing process of cheese, will
any vegetarian dare to accept that cheese and pizza
are vegetarian foods? It is a great mystery how the
manufacturers of cheese are permitted to sell their
products without the depiction of the brown non-
vegetarian symbol on their sales packet .

Now it has become a customary fashion to serve ice

creams in both vegetarian and non-vegetarian social
parties. Many vegetarians are not aware of the fact
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that the yellow of the eggs is mixed with the ice
creams to increase its whipping ability. Moreover
gelatin obtained from animal bones is added to ice
creams as a stabilizer. Now it is left to the discretion
of the vegetarians to decide whether ice-cream is a
vegetarian or non- vegetarian food.

With all the available evidences, milk and milk

products should be categorised as non-vegetarian
foods by the competent authorities. This awareness
will help at least the vegetarians constituting a
minority of the population to escape from the ill
effects of milk.
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CHAPTER-24

Alternatives to Animal Milk

The awareness about the adulterated and spurious

milk is increasing in the population due to the
reporting of many news articles in the popular
newspapers. As a result of this, the public is very
much confused because they are under the strong
conviction that they must drink something hot in the
morning. This gullible population is carried away
by the catchy advertisements in the media claiming
the health benefits of the so-called health drinks.
All these health drinks are manufactured from the
dried milk powder and hence all of them have the
same potential as milk to cause human illnesses. It
appears that we have forgotten the food habits of
our ancestors before the British invasion in India.
Our fore-fathers inhabited this country for more
than thirty thousand years and within a short span
of slavery for three hundred years we have given
up the tradition and food habits of our ancestors.
Though coffee and tea estates came into existence
in India in 1873 itself, the products were initially
meant for the use of the British rulers only. They had
come from a cold country and hence liked to drink
a hot tea or a coffee in the morning. They slowly
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started selling the surplus tea to the Indians. It was

popularised first among the rail passengers around
the year 1853 when the first train was run in India.
Within a short span of one hundred and fifty years
this habit has spread to two thirds of the Indian
populations like a wildfire. Now there are hundred
crores of people in India habituated to these drinks
and are unable to stop drinking them even for a day.
Tea and coffee contain the same chemical caffeine
and in addition to it, the tea contains the chemicals
theobromine catechin and tannin

Caffeine is classified under the noxious psychedelic

chemicals having the ability to stimulate the brain.
It has a chemical structure similar to the naturally
occurring adenine which is a part of the DNA.

Structure of Adenine Structure of Caffeine

Adenine circulating in the blood on combining

with the ribose sugar becomes adenosine and it
induces natural sleep by getting attached to the
adenosine receptors in the brain. Caffeine because
of its structural similarity to adenosine, competes
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with it for receptor attachment. The left out
natural adenosine circulating in the blood of coffee
consumers cannot exert its sleep inducing effect and
so the coffee consumer gets a sense of freshness and
relief from sleepiness. Caffeine also activates the
release of another one chemical called dopamine
in the brain which gives a sense of elevated mood.

The stimulatory effect of caffeine on the brain will

last for three to nine hours depending upon the
genetic constitution of the individuals. Caffeine in
blood is removed by the kidneys by the degradation
process of acetylation. Genetically two types of
acetylators namely the fast acetylators and the
slow acetylators exist in the populations. The fast
acetylators drink coffee more frequently. Some of
them repeatedly drink coffee or tea every two hours
to keep the brain active and it is equivalent to the
repeated whipping of a tired horse. If excess of coffee
or tea is consumed, the brain will get irritated and
nervousness will occur. A normal cup of coffee or tea
contains 100mg of caffeine and if it exceeds 1000mg
in a day (ten cups a day) it is toxic to the brain and
will induce irritability and nervousness. A dose
exceeding 10000mg (10gm) is fatal. Coffee or tea
mixed with milk is a paradoxical drink with caffeine
causing stimulation of the brain within thirty minutes
after its consumption. Milk on the other hand after
reaching the intestines produces a chemical called
beta casomorphin (BCM7) which suppresses the
brain and induces sleep. Hence mixing coffee with
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milk forms an un-holistic combination each one
pulling the brain in opposite directions.

The modern belief of drinking green tea on the

assumption that it contains many antioxidants which
have the capacity to prevent heart attacks and cancer
is false. It is not possible for the chemical caffeine to
prevent two unrelated diseases namely heart attacks
and cancer. The mechanisms of causation of both
the diseases are entirely different. Moreover caffeine
being a methyl xanthine is harmful to the heart and
is already discussed in detail in chapter number 7.
Vested interests involved in tea manufacture are
responsible for the publication of such dubious
research articles in some substandard medical
journals. Amusingly this type of information
somehow finds a place in the news bulletin of the
media within a day of their publication.

Both the green tea and the black tea contain the same
chemicals namely the flavonoid catechin, tannin and
caffeine in different compositions. Catechin is an
astringent and it causes prevention of iron absorption
in the intestine and caffeine is a brain stimulating
psychedelic drug. In the long run, people frequently
drinking tea in whichever form will develop anaemia
and a neurotic behaviour in the form of restlessness
and sleeplessness. The so-called antioxidants
claimed to be present in the black tea or green
tea is also present in all the green leaves which we
eat normally in our food.
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Finally, it is a sad truth that the habit of drinking
coffee and tea introduced by the British rulers in
India is responsible for the present day water shortage
and drought prevailing in most parts of our country.
Lakhs of acres of evergreen rainforests which had
lofty trees in the mountain slopes of Assam and the
western-Ghats were felled down indiscriminately to
cultivate coffee and tea which belong to the botanical
class of shrubs. As a result of this, rainfall became
erratic. In the rainy seasons water is not stored
between the roots of the big trees under the soil. Tea
and coffee plants have superficial roots which cannot
store water and prevent soil erosion. The rocky soils
of the mountain slopes become loose and susceptible
for frequent landslides. The recent landslides in the
Wayanad district of Kerala state is a vivid proof for
this phenomenon. Due to the lack of storage of water
in between the tree roots, the perennial rivers have
become seasonal rivers and the plains fed by these
rivers have become near deserts.

It is disgusting to understand that our country is

still following the policies of the British rulers
encouraging tea and coffee plantations just for
the sake of the meagre export earnings by these
products. The Coffee board and the Tea board of
India funded by the governments are encouraging
steps for more production of coffee and tea by
expanding the cultivable area of these shrubs which
is possible only by felling down more number of big
trees on the hill slopes.
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If we assume that a person consumes two cups of
coffee or tea in a day, it accounts for seven hundred
cups in a year which is provided by five coffee plants
or tea plants. A big tree will be able to grow in the
area occupied by five coffee plants. Hence to supply
coffee and tea for the hundred and odd crores of the
population drinking these beverages in India, an area
occupied by twenty crores of big trees have to be
diverted for these shrubs.

The declaration of Tea as a National drink of India

in the year 2013 is a retrograde step harming the
whole of the Indian population.

The slogan advising ‘plant trees to get rains’ appears

amusing and less practical. The majority of the
Indian population do not have even one square
feet of land as their own. If it is the real status of
affairs, where to plant trees and when to get the
rain? Instead of this empty slogan, the new phrase
‘stop tea to get rains’ should be popularised. To
save the trees on the hilly slopes which form the
catchment area for the rains, the public should be
ready to make a small sacrifice. They should stop
drinking coffee and tea once for all. This small
sacrifice has to be done by the patriotic citizens for
the welfare of our future generations. Leaving the
habit of drinking coffee and tea is not impossible
for us. The benevolent government should declare
that the present day coffee and tea estates are out of
bounds for human entry. The human race need not
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have to bear the unwanted burden of planting trees
in these abandoned estates. Nature has its own tree
planters namely the bats, birds, and the fruit eating
mammals. Within a short period of fifteen years, the
mountain slopes will be covered by lofty trees due
to spontaneous reforestation.

The human race should always remember the

biological fact that they are one among the multitude
of animals living in this world. All animals drink
only water when they feel thirsty. Human beings
belonging to the same animal kingdom can also
easily follow the other animals. But those individuals
longing for a hot drink in the morning may drink any
one of the following drinks at their option. Almond
milk, Soy milk, Coconut milk or Cotton seed milk
can be taken depending upon their affordability. The
simplest and safest hot drink is dry ginger boiled
with native jaggery which is the cheapest among
all the hot drinks. Each one has its own limitations
and on the whole they are less harmful than animal
milks, coco drinks, coffee, tea and the so called
health drinks.

Instead of the old slogan 'Plant trees to get Rains',

the new slogan ‘Avoid beverages to save the Trees’
may be popularised.
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Chaptet - 25

The Purpose of rearing cows

In all the chapters of this book, cow’s milk is

depicted as a causative agent for many human
diseases. After perusing them, the readers should not
be led to the conclusion that rearing cows have no
role in the modern human society. In fact, the author
was motivated to write this treatise after reading a
book in Tamil titled ‘Agonies of white revolution’
authored by a senior veterinary scientist Dr.A.
Kasipitchai, a retired Deputy Director of veterinary
medicine in Tamil Nadu Government Service. He
has unequivocally established that the sole purpose
of having cattle is to help the agriculture and not for
leading a livelihood by selling milk obtained from
them. Being brought up in an agricultural village, I
am also whole heartedly endorsing his views.

The cows have evolved ten lakh years back and

domesticated by humans only during the past ten
thousand years. The beginning of agriculture and the
domestication of cows coincide perfectly. In those
early days man did not rear cows for the purpose of
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getting milk from them. They must have observed
that the lands manured by the excreta of these
animals gave a better yield of grains. Using bulls
for the purpose of ploughing the lands was a later
development. Slowly they learnt to feed orphaned
infants with cow milk and that is how milk found a
place in the human food chain. In those days, keeping
milk for more than six hours was not possible due
to the lack of preservatives. The use of sour milk
or buttermilk slowly came to be known to them.
During the Mahabharata period, women were said
to carry pots of buttermilk and there is no reference
anywhere claiming people drinking cow milk. Some
critics arguing that their ancestors drank milk for
several generations without getting any illness is not
true. Their contention is baseless as milk is available
in abundance and adults started drinking it only
after the implementation of the white revolution
in 1970. Before that period cattle were reared only
for the agricultural purposes. Chemical fertilizers
were not made available and hence cow dung and
urine were the only available manures for farming.
Hence the farmers supported the cows and bulls till
their natural life span of twenty years. Now these
animals are mercilessly sold to the slaughter houses
at six years of age thinking that the cow dung and
urine given by them are not essential for manuring
the agricultural lands. Keeping the old farm animals
and feeding them is considered as uneconomical by
the farmers. The innocent farmers are completely
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misled by the immediate rewards given by the
chemical fertilizers offered to them under subsidy as
a part of promoting the green revolution. Now they
have started to realize that the benefits given by the
chemical fertilizers are temporary and their fertile
lands are becoming slowly arid and non-cultivable
due to their overuse.

At this juncture, the enactment in some states

of India banning cow slaughter has to be openly
lauded. It is criticised by some ignorant people as
a retrograde step to appease religious sentiments. In
fact, it is a progressive step taken to safe guard the
fertility of our agricultural lands. The disgraceful
earning of some meagre foreign exchange for the
country by the export of beef is comparable to the
heinous act of some alcoholic addicts selling their
own blood to buy a peg of liquor.

Some half-baked economists claim that banning of

cow slaughter will cause a fall in the population of
cows in villages leading to their slow extinction.
It is foolish to believe that the human race which
evolved only two lakhs years back is protecting
the cows which have inhabited the earth for more
than ten lakhs of years. If by chance that the human
race becomes extinct in the future, all other animals
including the cows will happily flourish in large
numbers on earth. The truth is that the human race
depends on the cows for survival and not the vice
versa.
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The cows and bulls are necessary for natural farming
and these animals provide natural manure till their
death. The question put forward by some people
that what to do with the old age cows and bulls is
absurd if they come to understand the real purpose
of rearing the cattle.

The green revolution which was on its peak during

the 1990’s is losing its charm and the farmers are
now prepared to keep their lands barren instead of
getting losses on agricultural farming. Due to the
overuse of chemical fertilizers, weedicides and
pesticides, the farm lands have become arid and non-
productive. The progressive dwindling of rains and
the lack of new water management schemes have
added up to their malady. As a result of this, the
farmers are slowly leaving agriculture and becoming
milk producers. The bulls and male calves are sent
to the slaughter houses in large numbers and the
population of bulls in the villages is fast becoming
near zero.

It is an ominous sign of failing agriculture and an

impending signal for fast approaching food scarcity.
In India, bulls were actually considered more sacred
than cows and in all the Shiva temples the Nandhi
(Bull) is worshipped next only to the main deity.

The state governments are giving subsidies to

villagers to buy high yielding cross-bred cows as a
step to boost the white revolution. Ironically these
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governments are not giving any such subsidies to
maintain the bulls which form the roots of natural
farming. Hence the contention of the author that
‘THE WHITE REVOLUTION IS FLOURISHING
ON THE ASHES OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION’
is going to become true soon.

The erstwhile farmers are slowly transforming

themselves to the present day’s milk producers.
Unless agriculture is declared as a priority industry
and immediate steps taken to ban cow slaughter,
and export of beef, the green revolution cannot
be sustained for long. Recently a new clandestine
business of exporting cow dung cakes to the
middle-east countries has started flourishing which
will further deteriorate the natural farming in our
villages. Native breeds of cattle are well suited for
the local conditions in the rural India and they are
the real doyens of agriculture. The cross-bred cows
produce more milk and hence lead to more diseases
to the human population. The author has given
convincing evidences in this book confirming that
the “increase in the human morbidity and mortality
is directly proportional to the increase in the milk
production and consumption’’. Hence the title of this
book ‘MILK THAT KILLS’ is well substantiated.

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26. Facts in a nut shell

Milk contains lactose, casein, lactalbumin,
lactglobulin, enzymes, minerals and microbial
organisms.

Lactose: It is not digested after three years of age and

causes lactose intolerance diarrhoea and abdominal
bloating which the common man complains as ‘gas
trouble’.

Galactose:

It is derived from lactose.

1) Causes ovarian cancers in women.

2) Induces cataract in 10 % of the population.

3) Induces memory loss and early

ageing.

Casein:

It is also not digested after three years of

age.

1) Causes Minimal Brain Dysfunction

(MBD) in children.
2) Causes Breast Cancer in women.
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3) Causes Colonic Cancer in adults.

4) Major cause for Irritable Bowel
Syndrome (IBS).

Lactalbumin:

1) Induces Insulin Dependent Diabetes

Mellitus (T1DM) in susceptible children.

2) Causes Hair loss on the scalp by raising

the DHT., and forming antibodies to
the hair roots.

Lactoglobulin: Induces allergic and Auto-Immune

diseases.

Microbes in milk: Cause for Typhoid, Diarrhoea,

Anthrax, Bovine Tuberculosis, Brucellosis and
Prion disease.

Fat: Induces Childhood Obesity, Poor Genital

Development in males and early Heart Attack.

Minerals: Acidic amino acids in milk causes

calcium depletion from bone, (Osteoporosis) and
easy fractures. The excreted extra calcium in Urine
causes Kidney Stones.
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27. Reference Books

and Journals

1) Agonies of white revolution – DR. Kasi Pitchai

- 2005, Arivi Publishers
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4) Journal of Nutrition Studies – DR. Campbell –
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7) Journal of American Academy of Paediatrics –
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8) Milk – The deadly poison – Robert Cohen, Argus
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9) Outlines of Dairy Technology, - Sukumar De,
Oxford University Press – 2016 – Page 199, Page
114, Page 195
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IAS , sixth edition-August-2005.

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Notes
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