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TOXINS TO AVOID

1. DAIRY PRODUCTS - pesticide, antibiotic, and hormone residues make milk, cheese, butter, yogurt, ice cream, cottage cheese, etc. a serious hazard to your health. Heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and chronic infections are the result of regular dairy intake.

2. SILVER-MERCURY DENTAL FILLINGS - mercury can cause damage to the brain, kidneys, and immune system, and is linked to Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, chronic respiratory and digestive problems, kidney disease, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Demand gold or non-toxic composite materials from your dentist.

3. SPIRULINA and BLUE GREEN ALGAE - algae products, and anything made with them contain a cocaine like neurotoxin. Check the label of any vitamin or mineral supplement to make sure there is no algae present.

4. GLANDULARS - thymus, ovary, and adrenal extracts may be contaminated with pesticides, and can cause endocrine imbalance.

5. AMINO ACIDS - the chemical processing of these supplements leaves behind toxic chemical residues that can be damaging to the brain and kidneys.

6. KOMBUCHA TEA or MANCHURIAN MUSHROOM - this is not a mushroom, but a colony of yeast, staph, strep, and salmonella. We have seen many people get sick from this, including skin rashes and high blood pressure.

7. ESSIAC TEA - this folk remedy for cancer contains rhubarb root, which has an estrogen like effect, and is a powerful laxative.

8. SHARK CARTILAGE - our experience indicates this can increase tumor growth and suppress the immune system in certain patients.

9. MAHUANG or EPHEDRA containing weight loss products can exhaust the pituitary, adrenals, and immune system. Daily exercise and good food is the only safe way to lose weight.

10. COLLOIDAL SILVER - according to Dorland’s dictionary of medicine, colloidal silver has been responsible for many cases of argyria, or silver poisoning. We have seen several patients suffer severe side effects from use of this product.

11. COLLOIDAL MINERALS - we have seen hepatitis related to arsenic and cadmium toxicity from a colloidal mineral supplement, and all samples tested to date show significant heavy metal toxicity.

12. MSM - this sulfur compound has caused aggravation of autoimmune disease in several patients, and appears to increase growth of certain bacterial infections

13. HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES - made from sugar pills or alcohol, these drugs can aggravate yeast and bacterial infections

14. HIGH POTENCY VITAMINS - megadose vitamins can cause toxic effects on the nervous system and immune system

 TEN REASONS for ZERO DAIRY


1. HEART ATTACKS, STROKES, AND HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
six times more heart attacks in milk drinkers

Briggs, R. "Myocardial Infarction in Patients Treated with Sippy and other high Milk Diets,", Circulation, 21:538, 1960

Hartroft, W. "The Incidence of Coronary Heart Disease in Patients Treated with the Sippy Diet" American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 15:205, 1964

2. DIABETES, AUTISM, SCHIZOPHRENIA milk antibodies in blood of diabetic children

Dosch, Hans-Michael, "The Possible Link Between Insulin Dependent (Juvenile) Diabetes Mellitus and Dietary Cow Milk" Clin Biochem, Vol 26 pp 307-308 August 1993

Sun, ZJ, Cade JR, et al "Beta-casomorphin induces Fos-like immunoreactivity in discrete brain regions relevant to schizophrenia and autism" Autism March 1999 vol 3(1) 67-83

Sun, ZJ, Cade JR "A peptide found in schizophrenia and autism causes behavioral changes in rats" Autism 1999 vol 3(1) 85-95

3. CANCER breast, ovarian, prostate, lung cancer all dairy linked

Westin, Jerome B. "Carcinogens in Israeli Milk: A Study in Regulatory Failure" International Journal of Health Services, Vol 23 No 3 pp. 497-517 1993 Baywood Publishing Co. Inc.

4. ANTIBIOTIC RESIDUES 30 to 80 different antibiotics cause chronic resistant infections

5. PESTICIDE RESIDUES linked to cancer, chronic fatigue, infertility

6. HORMONE RESIDUES menstrual problems, osteoporosis

Baldini, M, Coni, E. et.al. "Presence and Assessment of Xenobiotic Substances in Milk and Dairy Products" Ann. Ist. Super. Sanita Vol. 26, N. 2 (1990) pp 167-176

Mepham, TB Public health implication of bovine somatotrophin use in dairying: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 85 Dec1992 pp. 736-739

7. OSTEOPOROSIS National Dairy Council study shows bone loss caused by milk drinking

Lovendale, M. " The Impact of Dairy Products on Human Health, the Environment, and the National Budget" Advanced Health Journal March 1993 No. 4, Advanced Health Center, Monarch Beach, CA 92629

8. LEUKEMIA VIRUSES 87% of all cows carry leukemia viruses that can infect humans

Ferrer, J. Milk of dairy cows frequently contains a leukemogenic virus Science 213:1014 1981

9. ALLERGIES, ASTHMA, CHRONIC SINUSITIS

Gerard J.W. Mackenzie J.W.A. Goluboff N. et.al. Cows Milk Allergy: Prevalence and Manifestation in an Unselected Series of Newborns Acta Paediatr Scand. Supplement 234 1973

10. DIGESTIVE PROBLEMS, CANDIDA OVERGROWTH caused by allergy and antibiotic residues.