Milk and Allergies

As a boy, I followed the advice from school and the government food guide and drank my 6 to 8 glasses of milk per day. As a teenager, I also guzzled the stuff in hopes of growing bigger and stronger. I never seemed to put on much muscle despite how much of the cow juice I downed. I was also plagued with colds and allergies for most of my adolescent life.
Sometime, during my late teens, it was explained to me that most human adults were not meant to eat cow milk products. Part of the explanation was that most animals lose their milk-digesting lactase enzyme after infancy. This is a survival mechanism that ensures that the infant stops nursing so that the new baby to begin nursing.
When you consider the diets of Asia, South America, Africa and parts of Europe, you do not see much milk consumption. Cow's milk was unseen in the Arctic until someone brought it up north.
True enough there have been outstanding athletes, like Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz and the India wrestler, Gama, who drank gallons of milk. But, rest assured, the average folk usually just gets bloating and gas from the undigested milk sugar that moves into their large intestines.
There is a strong belief that milk is a good dietary source of calcium. It does contain calcium, but the mineral balance with magnesium is wrong for the human body. Magnesium promotes the absorption of other minerals into the bones. Without enough magnesium, a person will develop soft bones and teeth, regardless of how much milk that they drink. Worse yet, the excess calcium ends up deposited in the kidneys and arteries.
I recall some friends whose parents used to give them fresh milk right off of the farm. This stuff was rich in cream and tasted like a milk shake. It made ordinary milk taste like flavored water. Fresh, natural milk will contain cream globules which are too large to pass through the intestinal wall into the blood stream. Most store-bought milk has been homogenized, which is mixing the milk fat thoroughly with the rest of the milk. Homogenized milk has reduced the fat globules so that they are small enough to pass into the bloodstream and collect around the heart. Countries that consume homogenized milk have higher rates of heart disease and death rates than those countries with non-homogenized milk. Processed milk also runs the risk of contamination from antibiotics, copper and infection.
At age 20, I stopped drinking milk and noticed an immediate reduction in allergies, colds and stomach problems. Surprisingly, with this lack of milk, I started gaining more muscular weight from my workouts. I also felt better and found my thinking to be clearer. Since then, I have reduced my milk intake to a bare minimum.
If the reader really doubts this article, they might consider avoiding milk for 5 days and see how they feel. This, in itself, can put all of the milk nutrition theories to rest.