Miraculous Simplicity of Milk

Many Notmilk readers have a strong religious belief,
rejecting all modern-day theories of evolution,
while many of my readers accept science as their
absolute, rejecting all religious interpretations
of the world in which they live. Others accept a
variation of both science and religion, while some
are both agnostic and sceptical of both science
and religion.

Debates will be waged over man's origin, and where
each of us is headed, but whatever may be your own
personal belief, there is a unity of thought among
all people. In merging science and religion into one
tiny focal point, there is a resulting profound
respect for the mechanisms of religion and/or science
which resulted in a substance that we call milk.

Milk is both simple and quite complicated. It is as
if God, in his magnificance, or a group of brilliant
Nobel-Prize winning scientists defined all of the
biological, physiological, emotional, and psychological
challenges amd designed a substance to nurture an infant
so that all of the initial needs necessary for a child's
growth would be satisfied.

Milk is much more than just a brilliant design for an
infant. It is also a substance for the mother of that infant.
Milk is the perfect food for the young of each species
of mammal, but as the growing infant in the mother's womb
is maturing, as ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, the
mother's milk develops within her own body as a different
formula for her still-to-be born child.

What planning! As the fetus develops, a mother's milk
contains substances which nurture her own body. Chemical
messengers such as PIF (prolactin Inhibitory Factor) and
Oxytocin. These complex chemicals are secreted in a mother's
milk into her own body and instuct her own mammary glands
to grow.

Consider this: At the time of her life that the mother
produces such milk, her breasts grow large. A body responds
to the programming of an infinite intelligence. Breasts
were intended to grow in size to contain increased amounts
of milk so that a hungry infant could be fed. At this point
in time, infants are not supposed to be drinking such a
sustance. The last thing God or nature intended was to
produce immature female offspring with large breasts.

In today's world of the absurd, where many attempts to
improve upon God and nature have met with unique and
unexpected failure, dairy cows are routinely milked before
they give birth. Cow's milk is the wrong milk for humans
to be drinking at any time, but milk from cows who have not
yet birthed calves contains similar steroid hormones to human
varieties
.
A debate continues as to why young girls develop large
breasts long before their mothers and grandmothers did.
There is more evidence of this than just memory. There
are photos. Check the fifth grade class picture of
your mothers and fathers and take note of the way
children look today. Little girls have become women
with grown up bodies long before they should have, due
the "accidental" ingestion of a cow's feminizing hormones.
This was neither God's nor nature's plan. This was an
accidental result of man's ignorance and folly.

Milk was intended to be the single perfect food for the
infant of each specific species. Each formula for each
mammalian species differs from the next. One problem
facing milk's designer was that stomach acid would
rapidly break down the nurturing substances. Chemicals
called lactoferrins and immunoglobulins have been
identified in milk from each species. These substances
have been shown to aid a child's development by
providing natural immunities to harmful external events.
Stomach acid is powerful enough to destroy milk's
lactoferrins and immunoglobulins so that a mechanism
insured milk's own post-consumption survival. Milk
contains substances which buffer the acidic environment
so that these chemicals survive digestion.

In that seame sense, milk was never intended to be
consumed with grass or leaves or french fried pottoes
or peanut butter sandwiches. Other foods compromise
digestive processes so that everything within the stomach
will fement and putrify for many hours. Milk was intended
to be the only substance within the stomach. Later in
its growth, as a mammal matures and eats solid food,
there is no need to ingest a liquid which buffers
gastic pH.

In this twenty-first century, cow's milk represents forty
percent of the average American diet. The average child
and adult consumes about 666 pounds per year of milk in
one form or another. Ten pounds of milk are required to
manufacture one pound of hard cheese. In 1960 when I was
a growing child, the average American consumed nine pounds
of cheese each year. Ninety pounds of milk were used to
produce that nine pounds of cheese. In 2007, the average
American will consume 32 pounds of cheese requiring 320
pounds of hormone-rich milk. My fifth grade photo reveals
a classroom of flat chested girls and young boys. Today,
my daughter's recent public school photos show mature
large-breasted young women and many men needing shaves.
Milk is a miraculous simplicity. Is it any wonder that
we have become an obese race of mammals who mature before
we were intended to?

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
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