subject: Raw Cow's Milk Eliminates Asthma [print this page] Can you envision raw milk becoming the next organics movement? This is what the president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, a health advocacy group, believes. A growing number of people in many countries are proclaiming the health virtues of raw milk. They are convinced it can provide relief for a slew of health conditions from childhood allergies to heart diseases to disorders in your digestive system.
There is much that cow's milk from can offer, and one of these is the elimination of asthma in children. There is one specification, however: not just any milk will do; it has to be raw, unpasteurized milk produced by grass-fed cows.
For those generations reared in pasteurized milk, this may seem like heresy. But in many ways, raw milk is so much better for you. Raw milk is densely loaded with enzymes that help digest calcium and other minerals, vitamins A, B, C and D, good bacteria, and heart healthy fats such as omega-3 fatty acids. Pasteurization and homogenization may kill microbes that cause disease, but they also destroy all of these helpful constituents. The usual pasteurized milk in grocery shelves no longer provides as much health benefits as raw, unpasteurized milk.
One important benefit from drinking raw milk is the protection provided against asthma and other diseases. A group of European researchers reported in 2001 that boys who were exposed for farm stables and drank fresh raw milk showed fewer cases of asthma and hay fever compared to children of the same age who drank processed milk.
In 2006, UK researchers established that raw milk consumption by children results in a 40 per cent reduction in the risk of developing allergy-related conditions including asthma, hay fever and eczema.
Long-term consumption of raw milk can provide effective protection against many other diseases. Since the various nutrients are not destroyed by the heat of pasteurization, raw milk can strengthen your auto-immune system to ward off disease-causing microbes. The good bacteria improve your digestion, making it easier for your body to absorb the nutrients in the milk and the other foods that you eat.
It is important that the raw milk comes from cows allowed to roam freely in the pasture and eat only fresh, green grass, their natural food. If the cows are healthy and living in an environment without stress, you can be sure their raw milk is also healthy. All the better to help you eliminate asthma.
