Kids Drinking Raw Milk Have 40% Less Asthma and Allergies: New Large Study
Reuters, Fox and other media outlets reported September 13 about a large European raw milk study published at the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, online August 29, 2011, showing kids who drink raw milk are 41% less likely to suffer from asthma and allergies. The study included 8334 school-aged children, and 7606 of them provided serum samples to assess specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) levels. Over 800 cow’s milk samples were collected at the participants’ homes. Reuter’s article stated:
Compared with kids who only drank store-bought milk, those who drank raw milk had a 41-percent reduction in their odds of developing asthma. They were also only about half as likely to develop hay fever — even after accounting for other factors that might be relevant. On the other hand, those who drank boiled farm milk had no less asthma than those who drank store milk. The protective effect was linked to so-called whey proteins in the milk, such as BSA and alpha-lactalbumin. Pasteurization remains an effective tool to inactivate harmful microorganisms but may simultaneously destroy whey proteins.
The results of this study brings up two other very serious questions rarely posed: 1) What other diseases and disorders are caused by regular pasteurized, homogenized milk with synthetic chemical additives? and 2) What other health benefits can be realized from including raw milk as part of a well-rounded diet of whole, fresh foods?
1) What other diseases and disorders are caused by regular pasteurized, homogenized milk with synthetic chemical additives?
First, twenty percent of Americans get sick immediately upon drinking regular milk and this has been growing every year. An informal survey by The Weston A. Price Foundation found that ninety percent of those lacto-intolerant can drink raw milk. What is it doing to the health of the other 80 percent? This study names just asthma and allergies. But there are a host of other auto-immune disorders caused or made worse by drinking regular milk. These symptoms are either corrected or lessened when regular milk is stopped or when substituting regular milk with raw milk. . It is only logical to assume many people do not know the symptoms they suffer are regular-milk-induced. Face it, regular milk today is not what grandma drank. Our article Skim Milk may be making you fat and sick is already the No. 1 post of the year. It tells how skim milk can help make you fat and raise bad cholesterol
In a December 2009 survey by the Journal, 877 raw milk drinkers had this to say:
Health Benefits (of 877 raw milk drinkers)
74% have much health benefit
24% some
2% none
What all responders said about pasteurized milk:
62% believe it has long-term health consequences
15% say it makes them very sick
40% say it tastes terrible
30% say it upsets their stomach
16% say it gives them diarrhea
2) What other health benefits can be realized from including raw milk as part of a well-rounded diet of whole, fresh foods?
From my experience, I will state that children and adults who drink raw milk are significantly healthier and have fewer diseases and disorders than those who drink regular pasteurized, homogenized milk. One reason may be those essential natural animal fats and healthy cholesterols. A whole set of studies substantiate the health benefits and safety of properly produced raw milk.
Humorously, the subject study goes as far as not to recommend raw milk because of its “dangers”. Be assured the FDA and USDA will continue to bust Amish farmers and other dairies producing raw milk intended and fit for human consumption, even though no deaths have been recorded from raw milk consumption in the last ten years. In fact, of 42 raw milk illnesses per year on average reported, using government figures, you are about 35,000 times more likely to become ill from other foods than you are from raw milk, especially if you are careful to select a clean, safe raw dairy. Yet the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have targeted a ban on access to raw milk, included in the top 10 health crises to be addressed in their Healthy People 2020 campaign
Do not expect the milk industry or their marketing partners at USDA, FDA or CDC to fund a study in overall health outcomes of raw versus regular milk drinkers. The milk industry is already losing market share as the underground secret message of natural milk is overcoming television milk mustaches on celebrities. But if a study were ever conducted, the healthier outcomes would not be from raw milk or healthier diets alone. Of the hundreds of raw milk drinkers I know also have children who are not overly vaccinated nor do they drink fluoridated water.
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Thanks for posting this Augie. Great news for raw milk, people everywhere who want to be healthy, and the sustainable food community.
I am glad you had a chance to read it Raine. Thanks for sharing it too.
I used to have moderate to severe asthma but I haven’t been on medications in over a year thanks to starting raw milk. I drink a gallon of raw goat milk per week (and sometimes cow milk if I can get it!) I haven’t felt better! Asthma drugs are toxic!
when my girls were young, we had the worst time finding them a formula – they couldn’t drink anything without being ill. They were finally put on non-milk nutramigen. When “graduating” off formula to “real” milk, we again had the same problem and they only “milk” they could stomach was rice milk. Over the years I slowly introduced regular milk until they could at least tolerate a glass a day, or have some in cereal. They could only handle powdered milk, though, so again we were struggling with ideas. Someone suggested raw goat milk as it’s supposedly easier to digest than cow milk … my girls love it, it doesn’t make them ill and they tolerate it just fine. We can never use anything else, so I am glad to have found an excellent source for their milk.
Thanks for posting this.
A similar study is here http://www.organicpastures.com/pdfs/raw_milk_allergy.pdf
Thanks, Mark McAfee.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has estimated that the total fluid milk product sales declined 1.4 percent in 2010, the largest annual decline since the Agricultural Marketing Service began publishing monthly fluid product sales data in January 2000.
That trend has continued into 2011, with fluid milk product sales down 1.6 per cent year-to-date through May.
Beginning with December 2009, fluid milk sales have declined compared to a year-earlier in 17 of the last 18 months by an average of 2.1 million pounds each month. That is over 240 thousand gallons less fluid milk sold each and every day for the past year and a half.
To read the rest of the story, please go to: USAAgNet http://www.wisconsinagconnection.com/story-national.php?Id=1636&yr=2011
With so many people un-employed or under employed, I wonder if the economy has anything to with the lower numbers of poison-errrr I mean pasteurized milk sales declining.
Thanks for the article Augie!
It’d certainly explain why when I went down a level in how much the milk I bought was “treated”, I got better.
As a sufferer of Crohns, this speaks wonders.
I’m going to have to find out a raw source of milk, or even that goats milk thing, to see if it makes much of a difference.
Most other foods that I have tried to change, remove or alter, hasn’t really made a difference to me. (cheese especially, being a huge lover of it too, is supposedly a bigger one that tends to be removed from Crohns diets.)
But it seems this might actually work.
If it does make any difference, even if only a little, I shall be sure to update.
I will have to look into this. I can’t drink a glass of regular milk as it gives me diarrhea but SEEM to tolerate sour cream and cheese and the occasional frozen custard. I have ulcerative colitis and autoimmune thyroid disease as well as seasonal allergies. I wonder if raw milk is legal in Michigan and where I can get it….
Click on the raw milk ad above. Sour cream and cheese are cultured products so they will be much easier to digest. Sounds like you would like home made raw milk yogurt and kefir. One thing to help thyroid problems is staying away from fluoride water
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I have been trying to get some data on the rate of allergies/asthma with a dairy free lifestyle vs. raw milk? Anybody have any thoughts?
i found one study on pubmed that basically said some people reacted to raw milk proteins, and some people react to cooked milk antigens. it is true pastuerization exposes antigens by breaking a part whole proteins. but i don’t think there is one rule for every person.
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hello, am curious what the raw milk community has to say about Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis which has infected nearly 68% of cattle in the u.s.a., and believed to cause crohn’s disease. it is not destroyed in pastuerization process. i use to buy raw milk, and after my studies on crohn’s disease am very apprehensive. i am also shocked that the raw milk dairy farmers i have spoken with, do not know what i am talking about. it is a HUGE concern in the farming industry. how could they not know it? http://www.shafran.net/crohn/Publications.htm#Mycobacterium%20avium%20subsp.%20paratuberculosis%20as%20one
thank you,
monica yearwood
My farmer, Pattie, here in eldorado county, ca tests her cows for tb…pasteurized dairy farmers, as far as I know, do not.
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I myself am a local-raw-milk drinker and I agree 100% that raw milk is far superior, but I have serious issues with this article. The study found a correlation, but correlation does not equal causation. There are many possible reasons why a child who happens to drink raw milk would have a lower incidence of allergies, such as 1) their mothers may have been more likely to breast-feed 2) the kids may eat an overall healthier, less-processed, more local, more seasonal diet 3) family history of asthma/allergies. The person who wrote this article was 100% wrong to take this correlation and say that raw milk was the sole cause of the improved health. Thus, it is logically incorrect to then ask what other diseases are caused by pasteurized milk because it hasn’t been proven that ANY are caused by pasteurized milk.
I am wondering if the switch to raw milk, cow or goat variety has been known to cause allergy / asthma improvements. My 5 1/2 ear old son suffers from on set asthma that comes when he gets a cold it causes the breathing problems and prolonged coughing spells, which he then needs to take two inhalers to help calm the irritation. We are not big milk drinkers in our household we prefer water as our beverage of choice, and I breastfed him until he was 20 months. I stopped breastfeeding because i was pregnant with number two. I just would like to help him to remedy this issue, any extra info is helpful. Thanks.
Starting raw goat or cow milk has alleviated much asthma and allergy symptoms– this is what raw milk drinkers report. If it were my son, I would try goat. See out flyers http://j.mp/armi2
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