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Monday, August 04, 2008

When Milk isn’t Just Milk

What Are Your Drinking Every Morning?

If you have been around long enough to remember the days when milk came in a nice clear glass bottle set on your doormat each morning, you may wonder what exactly has happened to everyone’s favorite white breakfast beverage. If you are significantly younger, you may just wonder what the fuss is about – milk is milk, right? The problem of course is that milk is in fact no longer milk. It is loaded to the brim with a frothy concoction of unwanted, unneeded hormones, chemicals, and fillers that are do nothing but dilute or even destroy the positive effects this natural super food can have on your body.

The way milk has been altered – marketed as a commodity in just about every conceivable way – has made it into a product needed by the barrel and truckload rather than by the gallon. Milk is served everywhere and with every conceivable food and it finds its way into millions of bodies every morning. The problem is that the companies producing milk have decided that rather than continue to produce real milk and increase the percentage of it they manufacture, they will simply streamline its production and load it down with a heady combination of unwanted fillers that make it faster and easier to produce.

Today’s milk is loaded with hormones that are injected into the bodies of the cows that produce it, artificial ingredients that are cheaper than real milk, over pasteurization, heavy homogenization, and a ton of odd, filler ingredients that make little or no sense in a glass of cold milk. Just consider the ingredients you can find in a single carton of everyday, major-brand half-and-half:

• Nonfat Milk
• Milk
• Artificial Color
• Sugar
• Vitamin A Paltimate
• Carrageenan
• Artificial flavors
• Corn Syrup Solids
• Dipotassium Phosphate
• Sodium Citrate Mono
• Diglycerides

Milk is supposed to taste like milk and yet every year, the dairy industry seems to throw in a few more ingredients that are tasteless fillers or chemical preservatives. Take carageenan for example; this filler is a seaweed derivative that is odorless and tasteless and basically acts as a filler in dairy products. You’ll find it in your ice cream as well (and many times in your deli meats and cheeses). Sugar and corn syrup make their way into your milk because they add color and longevity to the milk while other fat compounds, artificial colors, and artificial flavors are added to offset the slightly off taste that a lot of milk gets from being so thoroughly homogenized and over-pasteurized. It is barely milk any longer and whatever health benefits you think you’re getting are ultimately lost by the wayside.

Fresh, raw milk is healthy. It provides your body with dozens of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes you need to live a full and healthy life every day. The milk you buy at the local grocery store is not healthy – it is full of hormones, chemicals, and additives that may very well be the root of so many of today’s health problems.



Sincerely,

Caroline Cardenas

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