Milk – Ice cream – Cancer – MS
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The following press release was posted to PR Newswire on9/25/02: {Support National Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a Scoopof Ice Cream Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream and the National Alliance of BreastCancer Organizations (NABCO) are uniting to educateAmericans about good breast health during National BreastCancer Awareness Month. Through the end of October, Dreyer'swill feature pink ribbons on its Grand Light, No Sugar Addedand Fat Free No Sugar Added ice creams, as well as FrozenYogurt, Fat Free Frozen Yogurts and Sherbet. Consumers who scoop up a carton can help raise up to$250,000 for NABCO and its nationwide education andinformation programs that encourage women to seek earlydetection.} Many people feel that methodologies employed in earlydetection (repeated x-ray mammographies) are a leading causeof breast cancer. Recent studies prove that breast cancerearly detection x-rays do not affect breast cancer incidenceor lessen death rates. What hurts so much is that the cause is being promoted asthe means to discovering a cure. Who in their right mind will buy ice cream to prevent breastcancer? American women, that's who. Please print this column and make a flyer. Hand it out atyour supermarket. Stick it in somebody's cart or in thewindshield of their car. Place it in the ice cream section. Twelve pounds of milk are required to produce one pound ofice cream. Each sip of cow's milk contains estrogen, which has beenidentified as a key factor in promoting breast cancer cellgrowth. Milk also contains a powerful growth hormone calledinsulin-like growth factor (IGF-I). There are hundreds of millions of different proteins innature, and only one hormone that is identical between anytwo species. That powerful growth hormone is IGF-I, and itis an exact match in the cow's body and the human body.Drink one glass of cow's milk and a female doubles theamount of free circulating IGF-I in her body. Eat oneportion of ice cream and one consumes 12 times the amount ofthis powerful cancer accelerator. IGF-I survives digestionand has been identified as the key factor in breast cancer'sgrowth. If you believe that breast feeding "works" to protectlactoferrins and immunoglobulins from digestion (and benefitthe nursing infant), you must also recognize that milk is ahormonal delivery system. By drinking cow's milk or eatingice cream, one delivers IGF-I in a bioactive form to thebody's cells. When IGF-I from cow's milk alights upon anexisting cancer...____________________________________________ "Human Insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I) and bovineIGF-I are identical. Both contain 70 amino acids inthe identical sequence." Judith C. Juskevich and C. Greg Guyer. SCIENCE,vol. 249. August 24, 1990.____________________________________________ "IGF-I is critically involved in the aberrant growthof human breast cancer cells." M. Lippman. J. Natl. Inst. Health Res., 1991, 3.____________________________________________ "Estrogen regulation of IGF-I in breast cancer cellswould support the hypothesis that IGF-I has a regulatoryfunction in breast cancer." A.V. Lee, Mol-Cell- Endocrinol., March, 99(2).____________________________________________ "IGF-I is a potent growth factor for cellular proliferationin the human breast carcinoma cell line." J.C. Chen, J-Cell-Physiol., January, 1994, 158(1)____________________________________________ "Insulin-like growth factors are key factors forbreast cancer growth." J.A. Figueroa, J-Cell-Physiol., Nov., 1993, 157(2)____________________________________________ "IGF-I produces a 10-fold increase in RNA levels ofcancer cells. IGF-I appears to be a critical componentin cellular proliferation." X.S. Li, Exp-Cell-Res., March, 1994, 211(1)____________________________________________ "IGF-I plays a major role in human breast cancercell growth." E.A. Musgrove, Eur-J-Cancer, 29A (16), 1993____________________________________________ "IGF-I has been identified as a key factor inbreast cancer." Hankinson. The Lancet, vol. 351. May 9, 1998____________________________________________ "Serum IGF-I levels increased significantly in milkdrinkers, an increase of about 10% above baseline butwas unchanged in the control group." Robert P. Heaney, Journal of the American DieteticAssociation, vol. 99, no. 10. October 1999____________________________________________ "IGF-1 accelerates the growth of breast cancer cells." M. Lippman Science, Vol. 259, January 29, 1993 Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a common neurological disease, affecting approximately 300,000 Americans. Two-thirds of those diagnosed with MS are women.
Most researchers believe that MS is an auto immune disease. Auto means "self." The body's reaction to a foreign protein is to destroy that antigen-like invader with an antibody. The antibody then turn upon one's own cells. That is an auto-immune response. In the case of MS, the body's response is to attack the outer membrane-protecting nerve cells, or the myelin sheath.
Symptoms of MS include tingling or numbness of the limbs, paralyses, and vision problems. Sometimes MS patients experience slurred speech accompanied by chronic pain.
MS costs approximately $2.5 billion each year in America. MS is found in milk-drinking populations. It is interesting to note that Eskimos and Bantus (50 million living in East Africa) rarely get MS. Neither do those native North and South American Indian or Asian populations that consume no dairy products.
Many physicians have noted a dairy link to MS. Many little clues have been reinforced by one very large clue, just published. Each clue provides a piece of the puzzle.
Norway has the highest rates of milk and dairy consumption in the world. Dr. Ashton F. Embry analyzed geogrphical regions, and provides this dairy clue:
http://www.DIRECT-MS.org/
He writes:
"...In Norway MS is up to five times more common in the inland farming areas than in the relatively nearby coastal fishing areas."
John McDougall, M.D., cites the British medical journal Lancet in pointing out that a diet filled with dairy products has been closely linked to the development of MS. (The Lancet 1974;2:1061)
Dr. Luther Lindner is involved in clinical MS experiments at Texas A & M University College of Medicine. Lindner, a pathologist, writes on his website:
"It might be prudent to limit the intake of milk and milk products..."
A worldwide study published in the journal Neuroepidemiology revealed an association between eating dairy foods (cow’s milk, butter, and cream) and an increased prevalence of MS. (Neuroepidemiology 1992;11:30412.)
The April 1, 2001 issue of the Journal of Immunology will contain a study linking MS to milk consumption. It has long been established that early exposure to bovine proteins is a trigger for insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Researchers have made that same milk consumption connection to MS.
The July 30, 1992 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine first reported the diabetes auto immune response milk connection:
"Patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus produce antibodies to cow milk proteins that participate in the development of islet dysfunction... Taken as a whole, our findings suggest that an active response in patients with IDDM (to the bovine protein) is a feature of the auto immune response."
In October of 1996, The Lancet reported:
"Antibodies to bovine beta-casein are present in over a third of IDDM patients and relatively non-existent in healthy individuals."
Two months later (December 14, 1996), The Lancet revealed:
"Cow's milk proteins are unique in one respect: in industrialized countries they are the first foreign proteins entering the infant gut, since most formulations for babies are cow milk-based. The first pilot stage of our IDD prevention study found that oral exposure to dairy milk proteins in infancy resulted in both cellular and immune response...this suggests the possible importance of the gut immune system to the pathogenesis of IDD."
THE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS/MILK CONNECTION
Michael Dosch, M.D., and his team of researchers have determined that multiple sclerosis and type I (juvenile) diabetes mellitus are far more closely linked than previously thought. Dosch attributes exposure to cow milk protein as a risk factor in the development of both diseases for people who are genetically susceptible. According to Dosch:
"We found that immunologically, type I diabetes and multiple sclerosis are almost the same - in a test tube you can barely tell the two diseases apart. We found that the autoimmunity was not specific to the organ system affected by the disease. Previously it was thought that in MS autoimmunity would develop in the central nervous system, and in diabetes it would only be found in the pancreas. We found that both tissues are targeted in each disease." (Journal of Immunology, April, 2001)
