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Then how on earth have people lived and even thrived on raw milk for thousands of years? Dr. Weston Price studied the diets of "primitive" people who still ate traditional foods in the 1940's - raw dairy, unprocessed animal meats and fats, fruits and vegetables. A comparison of modern Western diets filled with sugar, refined grain, pasteurized dairy and processed oils showed incredible differences in health:
Such people [traditional diet eaters] were characterized by "splendid physical development" and an almost complete absence of disease, even those living in physical environments that were extremely harsh.
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In these peoples [modern diet eaters], he found rampant tooth decay, infectious illness and degenerative conditions. Children born to parents who had adopted the so-called civilized diet had crowded and crooked teeth, narrowed faces, deformities of bone structure and reduced immunity to disease. Price concluded that race had nothing to do with these changes. He noted that physical degeneration occurred in children of native parents who had adopted the white man's diet; while mixed race children whose parents had consumed traditional foods were born with wide handsome faces and straight teeth.
His book: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
and site about his studies: http://www.westonaprice.org/traditional-diets/622-ancient-dietary-wisdom.html
Milk from grass-fed cows is not the same product milk from cow in conventional confinement dairies. Milk from the latter is not clean or safe and should be pasteurized - it is full of antibiotics, hormones, pus and blood from mastitis-infected teats. I worked on a small confinement dairy, I've seen this. However, milk from cows eating their intended diet of grasses and legumes, and collected in a clean environment is quite safe, and incredibly delicious I might add. There really is no comparison in flavor between the two - pasteurized milk tastes like plastic after you've had the real thing.
Then how on earth have people lived and even thrived on raw milk for thousands of years? Dr. Weston Price studied the diets of "primitive" people who still ate traditional foods in the 1940's - raw dairy, unprocessed animal meats and fats, fruits and vegetables. A comparison of modern Western diets filled with sugar, refined grain, pasteurized dairy and processed oils showed incredible differences in health:
Such people [traditional diet eaters] were characterized by "splendid physical development" and an almost complete absence of disease, even those living in physical environments that were extremely harsh.
...
In these peoples [modern diet eaters], he found rampant tooth decay, infectious illness and degenerative conditions. Children born to parents who had adopted the so-called civilized diet had crowded and crooked teeth, narrowed faces, deformities of bone structure and reduced immunity to disease. Price concluded that race had nothing to do with these changes. He noted that physical degeneration occurred in children of native parents who had adopted the white man's diet; while mixed race children whose parents had consumed traditional foods were born with wide handsome faces and straight teeth.
His book: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
and site about his studies: http://www.westonaprice.org/traditional-diets/622-ancient-dietary-wisdom.html
Milk from grass-fed cows is not the same product milk from cow in conventional confinement dairies. Milk from the latter is not clean or safe and should be pasteurized - it is full of antibiotics, hormones, pus and blood from mastitis-infected teats. I worked on a small confinement dairy, I've seen this. However, milk from cows eating their intended diet of grasses and legumes, and collected in a clean environment is quite safe, and incredibly delicious I might add. There really is no comparison in flavor between the two - pasteurized milk tastes like plastic after you've had the real thing.
