“When I gave up dairy, my asthma went away completely”

July 8, 2019

“Mark Bittman is a food columnist with New York Times. He suffered from hyperacidity and took pills most of his life. Recently he was told by a friend to stop drinking milk or any of its forms – curd, cheese etc. He did, and four months later not only had his acidity disappeared but most of his other health problems vanished as well.”

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New Delhi, July 08, 2019:

He wrote a column on it for the paper. 1300 people wrote to the paper the next day saying that they had had similar experiences. “ In them, people outlined their experiences with dairy and health problems as varied as heartburn, migraines, irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, eczema, acne, hives, asthma (“When I gave up dairy, my asthma went away completely”), gall bladder issues, body aches, ear infections, colic, “seasonal allergies,” rhinitis, chronic sinus infections and more. One writer mentioned an absence of canker sores after cutting out dairy; I realized I hadn’t had a canker sore — which I’ve gotten an average of once a month my whole life — in four months.”

Doctors and the medical establishment are the last people to consult about milk. While they will admit that many people are lactose–intolerant, meaning they are allergic to milk, and will suffer digestive problems if they drink it – they will confine this to 1 % of the population. But they refuse to study the links between dairy and such a broad range of ailments

If you go to a doctor with an acidity problem (or heartburn as it is known) the gastroenterologist will prescribe a proton pump inhibitor, or P.P.I., a drug that blocks the production of acid in the stomach. But P.P.I.s don’t address underlying problems, nor are they “cures.” They address only the symptom, not its cause, and they are only effective while the user takes them.

Most of these heartburn cases have a story to tell of how they solved their problems by eliminating dairy. Hundreds of people wrote in to Bittman saying that they stopped drinking milk by accident — a vacation where milk was not available or they were with non-milk-drinking friends or family — and their symptoms disappeared, which returned when they started their “normal” diet again.

He writes: “Others abandoned dairy for animal cruelty reasons, or a move towards veganism, and found, as one reader wrote, “My chronic lifelong nasal congestion vanished within a week, never to return.” Still others, like one writer, “immediately gave up dairy … and quit taking my medications.  After nine days … I have had no heartburn, despite the fact that I have eaten many foods that would normally bring it on…. It feels like a miracle.”

When a lifetime of suffering, medical visits and prescription drugs can be resolved with an easy dietary change it seems foolish not to do it.

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Some people will argue that it is “industrialized packet” milk that causes this (cows who are kept badly by dairies and fed inferior food which they have trouble digesting), or it is pasteurized milk which is bad and raw is better, or cows milk is better than buffalo milk or goat milk is alright, or that milk is bad but yoghurt and cheese are fine. The average human has a dislike for changing what he considers traditional or god-given (Krishna drank it) or endorsed by the medical establishment and he will argue with all his might against any change. And it is also true that lots of people drink milk and nothing happens to them – the same way as many people smoke cigarettes and do not get cancer. But on the basis of what appears to be widespread experience, anyone with chronic heartburn or any of the other ailments mentioned above would be missing an opportunity if he or she didn’t give a non-dairy diet a shot.

The problem is that governments have become very deeply involved in the selling of milk. They run their own dairies in India like Amul. Each state has its own milk as well. Their animal husbandry departments issue “public interest” advertisements on television to drink milk. In fact the entire official establishment is involved in the selling of this product. They have divisions whose only job is to stop adulteration and their veterinary colleges concentrate on milch animals. It becomes a Nationalistic thing to Drink Milk. With such an extraordinary push from the government and its lazy unthinking allies, the medical establishment, it is but natural that people are gulled into drinking milk.

But the job of an agriculture department should not be to sell whatever crops (milk is a crop) farmers can grow most efficiently; it should be to encourage the growth of crops that will benefit the greatest number of people. Milk is inefficient as well – we grow wheat and soya, corn and clover and then feed it to cows. It takes 11 kilos of green to make one kilo or less of milk.  These plants can be directly eaten by humans and they will not give asthma, acne, arthritis, acidity, diabetes and cancer.

Why does the medical establishment invest itself so deeply? For one, all research is government guided. Few doctors go against the prevailing beliefs of the day.  Very few doctors know anything about diet as they are not taught the subject in medical colleges. So they pass off old wives’ tales as medical knowledge.

But most importantly, many doctors are led by pharmaceutical companies. And for pharmaceutical companies and doctors, the answer to everything is a drug. The more they sell, the better they are. More than $13 billion worth of P.P.I.s were sold in 2010, so, if as few as 10 percent of those people were helped by dropping milk, the makers of antiacids, Nexium, Prevacid and Prilosec would be feeling the pain. Who cares if the consumer feels the pain caused by milk?

Author : Maneka Gandhi

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