The MORE Milk You Drink The LESS Calcium You Have In Your Body.
Nov 23rd, 2008 by AhYap
Doctor say you should drink more milk to get more calcium so your bone can get stronger. All milk advertisements also say the same thing. You never doubt that. Anlene says 2 cups of anlene give you all the calcium you need in a day. By watching the TV ad every day you also think it is true, since no body ever tell you it is wrong. And newspaper also tell you it is true. Everyone (the blinds) is telling everyone else (the blinds) drink more milk for more calcium.
So as a good son or daughter you buy milk for your old mum to drink. Because you want to be ‘good’ to them, you force them to drink 2 cups of milk daily. She is also very happy because she got a good son that love her so much.
But what if I tell you instead of loving her you are actually trying to kill her?
Something that everyone else say is correct can be way wrong. And you have to always remember the story of Galileo, the man who said it is not the sun that circle around the earth but the earth that is circling around the sun. Everyone think he is way wrong at that time and even lock him up in his own house for his entire life.
That’s why I wrote a long post on be open minded and ready to investigate. A lot (almost all!) of things in this world that you think is right can be just way wrong. Remember Galileo, be open minded.
Why milk actually leak calcium out of your body instead of giving you the calcium?
There is no lie by the packaging of the milk that it indeed contain a lot of calcium in the milk. But unfortunately not only that the calcium will not be absorbed but it actually will leak more calcium that you originally have out of your body! That means the more milk you drink the more calcium will get out of your body! The more milk you drink, the more quicker you will get calcium deficiency and bone problem.
Did you brain just say, “No way!” ?
Why drinking milk leak calcium out of your body?
Because I want you to do the investigation yourself (using Google is enough), I will just explain it in a few short sentences. If that drive your curiosity, investigate on it and see if you will still let your mum drink milk.
Yes, milk contains calcium. But milk is also liquid protein that is called acid lactic. So milk is actually acidic! (gastric patients are asked to drink milk, which is also very foolish, I will explain in another post). When you drink too much milk, your body become acidic. But our body cannot tolerate acidic and cannot function well (and will even die) if it gets too acidic. But our body is a very intelligent machine that it will try to correct everything by its own. So when your body becomes too acidic, it starts to drain calcium (alkali) from your bone and teeth to neutralize your blood! Your body has choose to respond to the crisis by ‘borrowing’ calcium from your bone and teeth!
Skeptical? Investigate yourself.
THE MILK LETTER : A MESSAGE TO MY PATIENTS
It seems that the countries with the highest intake of dairy products are invariably the countries with the most osteoporosis.
For the key to the osteoporosis riddle, don’t look at calcium, look at protein. Consider these two contrasting groups. Eskimos have an exceptionally high protein intake estimated at 25 percent of total calories. They also have a high calcium intake at 2,500 mg/day. Their osteoporosis is among the worst in the world. The other instructive group are the Bantus of South Africa. They have a 12 percent protein diet, mostly p lant protein, and only 200 to 350 mg/day of calcium, about half our women’s intake. The women have virtually no osteoporosis despite bearing six or more children and nursing them for prolonged periods! When African women immigrate to the United States, do they develop osteoporosis? The answer is yes, but not quite are much as Caucasian or Asian women. Thus, there is a genetic difference that is modified by diet.
To answer the obvious question, “Well, where do you get your calcium?” The answer is: “From exactly the same place the cow gets the calcium, from green things that grow in the ground,” mainly from leafy vegetables. After all, elephants and rhinos develop their huge bones (after being weaned) by eating green leafy plants, so do horses. Carnivorous animals also do quite nicely without leafy plants. It seems that all of earth’s mammals do well if they live in harmony with their genetic programming and natural food. Only humans living an affluent life style have rampant osteoporosis.
Update: This post has sparked a debate here. Interesting! 
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I agreed with you about the calcium leakage of the milk. But, FYI, the milk for gastric patient is not the normal milk. It’s magnesium milk.
WoH…. this information will put DutchLady out of business
i wonder Anlene will sell their product after this information spread to public… maybe they will reduce their product price. hehehe
it make sense lo.tats y i usually eat food the way it is…try not to eat too much produce food. last time when i first turn 20 my mum always advice me to drink millk. then the thing is when i take regularly, my joints and muscle really hurts esp when i exercise. dunno why. then i top taking due to laziness and i feel that it doesn’t hurt anymore. now that you mention this thing…i guess ya.
but this piece of information will not be circulated in the Malaysian media. cuz they like to throw away the truth just to keep the old beliefs…
Yes, its true Ah Yap, everything on earth not just milk even mineral water when we drink too much and often we make our body too water it mean less alkali and acid and that not good for our body and brain not functional properly, i’ve read at news paper lately.
if you are interested in detail study, get a copy of “The China Study” by Dr. T. Colin Campbell, there is a chart related to what you have posted– “Countries with milk intake vs. osteoporosis cases”.
On the other hand, kefir & yogurt are better alternative.
“wow.. no way man… how can this be true…”, thats my initial response.
anyway, its a very interesting finding! glad you have shone some light here!
I strongly believe our body is an intelligent machine. But don’t take it for granted. Consume more alkaline base foods and drink alkaline water to neutralise acidic waste in our body.
Very interesting diagnosis. But I would like to offer my two cents in view of this matter. I’m a pharmacist by profession, despite not being a nutritionist/dietition. Here’s my rational regarding this:
Our body needs a daily allowance of calcium, depending on your age and activity. However, to absorb enough calcium we require Vitamin D, which is often neglected. Our main source of Vitamin D is from the sun (just the morning sunlight, not the afternoon blazing sunlight that gives you skin cancer). If you read on the studies on the relation of calcium & osteoporosis incidents, they occur commonly in countries which has much lesser annual sunlight, such as Scandinavian countries, which milk & dairy products consumption is high.
Just to quote the example presented in the South African country in which osteoporosis rate is low, just look at the amount of sunlight, hence Vitamin D that the people there gets.
A simple point, the amount of Vitamin D also determines the amount of the calcium absorption (I’m still not convinced on the theory of the amino acids).
Then what sportsmen drink? Why are they so strong? Milk is one of their main dietary….yet their bones are still so kerassssssssssssssss. Even when i read newspaper…those sportsmen always encourage us to drink 2-3 cups of milk…daily. @_@ Can you message our health minister, Datuk Liow about this? Maybe you will get datukship too…like our angkasawan…..and datuk Khan. Then we have a new datuk, “datuk” yap.
i jst have 1 question~~ haha
what should the baby drink then??
does the fact on the milk affect babies?
This is mind-boggling and yet inspirational. Thanks for telling. This is what making me keep coming here for more.
> Does milk affect babies?
Very good question. Baby cows drink cow milk. Baby monkeys drink monkey milk. Baby human drinks human milk. No problem. Problem is when baby human drink cow’s milk and EVEN BIGGER PROBLEM, adult human drink cow milk! Baby cow has 4 stomach to digest cow milk, baby human only got 1! Cow milk is never a replacement for mother’s milk.
Have you even seen adult cow drink cow milk?
Update: This post has sparked a debate here. Interesting!
Many people don’t believe this, i think u should find some evidence to proof it
“When you drink too much milk, your body become acidic.”
How much is too much? You can’t stop people from taking milk. At least tell us what is the maximum amount so that our calcium stays in the body. And yeah, proofs.
It is true. After age 2, no human has any business drinking milk.
Calcium and other minerals are absorbed into our bodies via chellation.
However for milk, the lactic acid reverses any benefits by causing more calcium to be removed than the milk provides.
The milk industry wants more people to drink milk because it is good for their profits, similar to what the tobacco industry does.
There’s one big dairy industry out there. You should be able to find out what the dairy industry has done to mess up farmers lives in Kenya.
Better to eat vegetables and seafood that are rich in calcium. They are also much cheaper than cow’s milk.
Even the minerals from mineral water cannot be absorbed, and actually cause damage.
If you understand your biology you’ll know this is true.
If you only study biology to pass exams, then pity you.
“”Very good question. Baby cows drink cow milk. Baby monkeys drink monkey milk. Baby human drinks human milk. No problem. Problem is when baby human drink cow’s milk and EVEN BIGGER PROBLEM, adult human drink cow milk! Baby cow has 4 stomach to digest cow milk, baby human only got 1! Cow milk is never a replacement for mother’s milk.
Have you even seen adult cow drink cow milk?”"
cow has 4 stomach to process grass not milk….
The RDA for calcium is 1200-1500 mg, dropping to 800-1000 mg after age 25.
the galileo example is brilliant.
science is too young understand deeper things.
just like in dota, lion’s finger level 1 cant 1 hit kill rhasta but lv 16 does.
sometimes what we 100% believe now might be 100% wrong.
just like u lion lv 16 with sceepter confident of killing a lv 1 rhasta, but
ur the one who will die because he activated blademail.
Hi
It’s interesting how milk can create a debate:-)
Just want to share some little things here:
A baby drink a milk, that is not even ‘milk’. It’s called milk formula or infant formula. The milk in infant formula is specially formulated to suits baby’s digestive system which have more whey protein than casein protein (cow’s milk are the other way round), adjusted almost the same as their mother’s milk (almost I said, never the same or superior!).
The rest of the ingredients are added/blended.
I agreed with cetori. In order to increase calcium absorption in the body, vitamin D is needed. And also – an acidic medium. Our stomach acid is acidic enough to absorp calcium. To get better absorption, it’s best to take milk/calcium supplements immediately after meal or with meal.
When we talk about high calcium intake means an intake of 2000mg or more in a very long term. Yes this may lead to hypercalcemia, could be life-treatening. Your body can only takes calcium at certain amount, at certain time. So there is actually no need to take extra calcium, above you daily DRI (dietary reference intake).
well just thought I’d point out that you abilty to uptake calcium is dependant on vitamin D which the body produces in its skin when exposed to sunlight. The countries with less sunlight have a higher osteoperosis level becuase of this not because of the calcium.
Another thing is that the study was skewed by age. People in the high calcium uptake areas have a much higher life expectancy. Old people get osteoperosis because they’re old and do not put much strain on they’re bones. Not because they drink milk.
If drinking milk reduced the calcium in your bones then why does it only seem to affect such a small portion of the population and why only when they’re over 70 years old. I know people who dont drink anything other than milk and water. Surely they should be dead by now or have bones so week that they break constantly.
Finally as for the acidity in the blood any food, and I really do mean any food, that we eat and can digest is broken down into acids. Thats how our bodies transport fats and proteins. So erm I guess your saying eating is bad for you. Also just to add to this point if you drink semi skimmed or skimmed milk then that will have most of the fatty acids removed.
Finally just incase you were still unconvinced that this was all nonsense. you could test the urine for the calcium containing compounds that would be produced and guess what. There aren’t any. This is unfortunately one of those myths that crept up because of misinterpreted data.
just bought one alkaline water ionizer from
http://www.aomicrowater.com,
sales man said the water is full of calcium,
Any idea?