People often ask me if I think everyone needs to give up gluten. I usually tell them that the science on gluten in people without intolerances is inconclusive. There are studies that indicate that gluten is not good for anyone. There are other studies that show that unless you are sensitive to it, a little bit (whole wheat bread is less nutritious than boiled white potatoes) is fine.
The same cannot be said about dairy. Aside from nursing children (so age three and younger) no one should consume dairy. Ever. The science is conclusive.
T. Colin Campbell was a researcher in the 1970s trying to figure out why the children in the Phillipines who had access to both milk and aflatoxin contaminated peanuts (aflatoxin is a potent carcinogen that it is used to induce tumors in lab animals) died of liver cancer while their peers who ate the peanuts but did not have milk lived. He came across an Indian medical journal that said that when rats were fed aflatoxin and dairy protein 100% died of cancer. If the rats only ate the carcinogen 100% lived.
Now very few things kill everyone. Sure, if you eat arsenic, then that will kill you, but there are plenty of people like my friend’s late father who live on bacon, scotch and cigars without it killing them. So as a scientist when you see numbers like 100% and 0% your first thought is that someone made a mistake.
So when Dr Campbell got back to Cornell from the Phillipines he tried it on his own rats. 100% of his rats died too. None of the rats who didn’t get dairy died. He ran the tests again and again. He was raised on a dairy farm. The rats died again.
So he went home and got rid of all the dairy and became a vegan.
Further tests were done including the massive China Study which became a book and which made this link clearer and which hinted at a similar impact from other forms of animal protein.
But you don’t want to take it from me. Listen to Dr. Campbell himself, and know that his work has been replicated over and over. Dr. Campbell has demonstrated that you can safely get up to 10% of your calories from animal protein (casein) and not get cancer, but after that it gets very scary very fast.
But there is also great news. They took rats with cancer and took away their dairy protein…and the tumors stopped growing. They tested it over and over again. Veganism stops tumors from growing (at least in rats).
Anyway, here is Dr Campbell. The shocking information starts at about 7:40 into the video. If you know anyone with cancer, you may want to share this with them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfsT-qYeqGM
FYI he mentions animal protein but really he tested casein which is dairy protein only. I would love to see this story with more extensive animal protein research using meat and legumes.
But for now, I will be eating very very very small portions of meat. And no dairy. Period.
