http://www.notmilk.com/aa.html offers anti-dairy insights on diet
and autism. I'm visiting this site to wean myself off of milk, as it
interferes with my accomplishing a low-carb Atkins lifestyle. I'm
apparently deeply addicted to milk, feel poorly without my usual
tumbler of milk at hand. Someone suggested I give this site a try
to convince myself that milk is not quite All That! So here I am.
I find milk so utterly calming that it alone satisfies me when I can
think of nothing else that I really care to eat. So I am inclined to
believe that some of the following may well be true. -Zer
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SCIENTIFIC PROOF: MILK CAUSES AUTISM & A.D.D. ~ Florida
researcher, Robert Cade, M.D., and his colleagues have
identified a milk protein, casomorphin, as the probable cause of
attention deficit disorder and autism. They found Beta-caso-
morphin-7 in high concentrations in the blood and urine of
patients with either schizophrenia or autism. (AUTISM, 1999, 3)
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Eighty percent of cow's milk protein is casein. It has been
documented that casein breaks down in the stomach to produce
a peptide casomorphine, an opiate. Another researcher
observed that casomorphin aggravated the symptoms of autism.
(Panksepp, J. Trends in Neuroscience, 1979, 2)