Raw cheese and the China Study on Milk

Q: Dear Susan,

I totally love your website and articles. I am going to the health food store tomorrow so I can make some nettle, oatstraw and dandelion tea!

I do have a very important question that I hope you can answer. You say that yogurt and raw cheese are good sources of calcium but I am so hesitant to eat them as I read in so many places that dairy causes the formation of mucous which results in so many health problems and that dairy consumption is so bad in general. The China Study and many other works have me terrified at the thought of consuming any dairy at all. Can you shed some light on this? Thanks ever so much!

Sincerely, P.

 

A: Hi P., I do understand your concern... there is so much out there that says that milk is bad for us. First, I encourage you to trust your feeling on it. As I have heard from Susun the whole idea about milk and mucous came from a man who had, well to me, strange ways of determining this. I am sorry I do not remember all the details. As a consumer of organic free ranging meat and dairy and egg products from local farmers, I myself have to wonder if any of the studies are not differentiating between the quality of the product and its effects. Now I can barely bring myself to consume standard store-bought milk or meat or eggs, now that I have this available. I am not saying though that even those are bad for you, but if they bring any harm I wonder if it is not the product but the way the animal was raised, and what was injected into it later, and the homogenization and pasteurization of the milk.

I did recently read about the China Study in Wise Traditions. Here are two excerpts, perhaps showing a different light on it:

http://www.westonaprice.org/bookreviews/chinastudy.html http://www.westonaprice.org/traditional_diets/food_in_china.html

As someone who has had a hard time with dairy all my life, with stomach gas, I sware by raw dairy milk and cheeses now. Not only the taste but the feel in my body I trust.

Please let me know if I can help further.

Blessings,
Karen Joy
[email protected]
www.wisewomanweb.com

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