There is a lot of untrue information about raw milk from cows. But what do you really know about milk in general? Processed milk (pasteurized, homogenized and/or fortified) offers very little nutrition and causes health complications. Raw milk (unprocessed) is the opposite of this and can be used as medicine. I am going to clear up the differences between the milk you can get at the store and the milk directly from the cow.
Pasteurization is a process of heating milk to high temperatures (usually 161 degrees Fahrenheit) for a short period of time (15-20 seconds) to greatly reduce the microbial growth. This also reduces the growth of good bacteria that are needed to regulate the digestive track. This process also greatly reduces the nutritional value of the milk. One very important nutritional characteristic that is effected by heat is the enzymes found in milk. Enzymes play many important roles in all living things. We are capable of producing many enzymes however, the stress of producing extra take a toll on the human body in multiple areas (one worth mentioning is the pancreas). Most enzymes cannot survive at temperatures beyond 118 degrees Fahrenheit. So the cooking of milk changes it from a food that aids our biological processes to a food that exhausts them. Make sure to visit leonsthoughtforfood.com everyday. I will talk a lot more about enzymes in the future.
Homogenization is a process where milk from many different cows is mixed together to create a consistent flavor, then the milk is forced with high pressure through small holes to break the fat cells into smaller parts to prevent the cream from separating. The smaller fat cells absorb the protein (casein) cells which changes the milk into something the human body cannot process properly causing several health complications.
Raw milk is a whole food. Whole foods are foods that are unprocessed and unrefined, or processed and refined as little as possible, before being consumed. Whole foods typically do not contain added ingredients, such as salt, carbohydrates, or fat. One benefit of this is that unprocessed milk has the entire lactase enzyme still in it. Lactase is the enzyme used to break down the milk sugar lactose. Lactose intolerance is a condition where the body doesn’t produce enough lactase on its own, causing the person to have trouble breaking down the milk sugar lactose. Lactose intolerance occurs when the milk consumed is pasteurized; this heating process destroys all of the lactase enzymes and leaves the lactose in the milk.”The Raw Milk Cure” is used to treat many health conditions (i.e. tuberculosis, diseases of the nervous system, cardiovascular/renal conditions, and hypertension).
As you can see, raw milk is more beneficial than it is given credited for. Also, once you know more about the processes the milk you can buy in the store go through, you can understand why some people would rather have raw milk instead. I use raw milk myself and I am going to talk more about it in upcoming thoughts. Please stay tuned!
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I completely agree with all that is written. My family and I have been using raw milk for 3 years and there have been countless health benefits that we have seen on a regular basis. I had developed acne as an adult after having three children. It was bad the worst I had had since I was a teenager. I couldn’t get rid of it. I was a so called healthy eater with American standards and drank the pasteurised and homogenised milk a few times a day thinking I was healthy. I decided to try raw milk after a lot of research and slowly eased into it drinking one 8 oz glass a day for a few days and slowly upping my intake and adding butter from raw milk ice-cream and using the cream off the top of the milk for my coffee that separates everytime the milk settles. I completely removed cooked milk and milk products from my diet and by the end of The first two weeks my acne that I had had for 2 years was completely cleared not only that but my bowels were more regular then they had been since I was a teenager. My son broke his arm completly through and was casted. He was fully healed by the end of three weeks strong bone. His doctor said he has never in his career seen a child regow bone as fast nor has he ever seen as much bone in a heeled break in a child before. Normally It will take up to 6 weeks and the bone is weak during this time. I told the doctor that he only gets raw milk and raw milk products. As we know raw milk rather than pasteurised milk has more calcium and vit D in the milk in the right way for your body to get exactly what it needs for healthy bones. All those old commercials in the fifties about milk making strong bones was correct. But now with cooked milk this is far from the case.
. We get new gallons once a week. And all that garbage about sickness coming raw milk. As far as that goes all the farms selling raw milk r required to keep a clean farm and that should be true for all farms and the gov tests and ensures this. Raw milk is packaged like all other milk. It generally comes from smaller farms and therefore isn’t mass produced and shipped from far away. Those huge farms that milk is cooked at is needed due to mass production and unhealthy farming practices no wonder their milk can get SICKINESS in it before it gets to the consumer. So instead of shipping it to local stores only and downsizing to small farms where cows can do what they do naturally making your milk healthy and not sick they just cook the milk killing everything and call it good so they can keep making tons of money and kick out the smaller healthier farms.
I urge people to really do your research this change will change your life and your families for the better by far.
Jersey cows milk seems to taste the best
But enough on that. U will benefit greatly to make the change.
Thanks
Julie
When I initially commented I clicked the “Notify me when new comments are added” checkbox and now each time a comment is added I get several e-mails with the same comment. Is there any way you can remove people from that service? Thanks!
This is very interesting! This comment from “FDA” stating
“When I initially commented I clicked the “Notify me when new comments are added” checkbox and now each time a comment is added I get several e-mails with the same comment. Is there any way you can remove people from that service? Thanks!”
That was the first comment they made (“When I initially commented” ???) and we don’t have a “Notify me when new comments are added” check box installed on this blog yet (” I clicked the “Notify me when new comments are added” checkbox and now each time a comment is added I get several e-mails with the same comment” ??????). And (“Wow that was unusual. I just wrote an incredibly long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t appear. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Anyhow, just wanted to say fantastic blog!”) from a different comment there is no long comment that is mentioned here.
So I looked into it. So far what I’ve pointed out is what you can see, what you can’t see is that all three of these comments are each from a different email and each from a different IP address. I looked up the IP addresses and they all belong to a holding company LLC that will remain unnamed for now. I will share that they are the parent holding company to roughly a dozen specialized companies and a broad spectrum of websites. They are privately-held, employee-owned, and have been involved in a number of very lucrative Internet services companies of many names. As I have posted before the FDA has waged a war on raw milk. This war has awarded them additional funding, funding that we pay for. My belief is that this was a spam bot seeking out blogs talking about raw milk and posting generic posts to get the FDA link on the site and maybe discredit the site subtly like make you think if you subscribe to this post you will get too many emails or to get me to turn subscribing off. In my opinion this company does not seem cheap and they are private. So whether or not you care if raw milk is persecuted you probably care how your money is being spent on private corporations in shady sneak attacks on raw milk. If the FDA was so just then why the need for such strategic deception?
To be sure I am not deceptive I want to state that the time stamps on these comments have been altered to put them in an order of relevance. They were also stamped partially when the blog was set to UCT zone and then I changed it to EST zone. The 3 comments posted by “FDA” were posted in the order that they appear at 9:34 AM, 9:34 AM and 9:41 AM all EST. My responses were several hours later after 4 PM EST.
Wow that was unusual. I just wrote an incredibly long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t appear. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Anyhow, just wanted to say fantastic blog!
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