What you need to know about Dairy.

Over the years, numerous articles and studies have shown the link between breast cancer and the Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH). Dr. Samuel Epstein, a long-time critic of the cancer establishment, was one of the first to raise public awareness about the increased risk of breast cancer from bovine growth hormones (BGH) given to dairy cows.

The Synthetic Bovine Growth Hormone RBGH is given to cows to boost milk production and according to rBGH manufacturers, injections of rBGH enabled cows to produce up to 20 percent more milk. However, Epstein claimed that BGH also increases the levels of IGF-1,(insulin-like growth factor 1) which passes into the milk. IGF-1 survives pasteurization and digestion, and is absorbed into the blood where it produces potent growth promoting effects believed to transform normal breast tissue into cancerous cells.

What is IGF-1? Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 (IGF-1) is a normal growth factor.

Allison Stewart’s article in Consumer Health Journal titled “Hormones in Milk are linked to Cancer” March 2004 explains that:
"Milk contains IGF-1 for good reason: milk is designed for babies, and IGF-1 helps us grow. IGF-1 affects growth, as well as other functions, and is normally found in our blood. Higher levels of IGF-1, however, appear to stimulate cancer cells."

Per an article in UK medical journal, The Lancet:
"Women with a relatively small increase in blood levels of the naturally occurring growth hormone Insulin-like Growth Factor I (IGF-1) are up to seven times more likely to develop pre-menopausal breast cancer than women with lower levels. Based on those results, the report concluded that the risks of elevated IGF-1 blood levels are among the leading known risk factors for breast cancer, and are exceeded only by a strong family history or unusual mammographic abnormalities."

Interesting to note:
Breast cancer is lowest among nations that consume little or no dairy products… Mediterrean and Asian countries

Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and most European nations have banned rBGH to protect citizens from IGF-1 hazards.

We can read about these studies but sometimes it’s when you hear a personal story that makes you actually change your mindset. One woman we know, who had recovered from breast cancer a few years ago said that, at the onset of her diagnosis, she educated herself, poured herself into finding out what she could do. She talked to as many people as she could. One of her male friends had a very large tumor and there was risk in operating because of its size. His doctor told him to go off dairy because with the added hormones he was ‘feeding’ his cancer, helping it grow. Faced with that kind of personal story, it's hard to get away from the idea that something we eat could be ‘feeding’ a disease. It's worth a quick glance at the packages of all things dairy.