| Another food recommended for its
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| | assimilated, adults who drink as little
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| nutritional advantages without
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| | as two glasses of milk a day risk a
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| consideration for the harm it can cause
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| | buildup of excessive levels of calcium in
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| is milk. Dr. Duane Alexander, director of
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| | their bodies. Yet a recent revision in
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| the National Institute of Child Health
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| | the guidelines of the U.S. government's
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| and Human Development, is quoted as
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| | Food Pyramid, published on April 20,
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| saying, "Without including milk in the
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| | 2005, in the New York Times, ignores this
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| diet, it is nearly impossible to meet
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| | information by recommending three cups of
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| calcium needs." Some medical authorities,
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| | milk for adults daily, one more cup than
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| concerned about the deficiency of calcium
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| | it recommends for children. In adults who
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| in the diets of young people, believe
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| | drink milk every day, the calcium is apt
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| that drinking more milk is the solution.
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| | to be deposited in the wrong places, for
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| A national survey revealed that only 13.5
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| | example, in the reproductive organs, in
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| percent of girls and 35.3 percent of boys
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| | the bile duct, or in the ureters, the
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| between the ages of twelve and nineteen
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| | ducts that convey urine from the kidneys
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| consume the recommended amount of calcium
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| | to the bladder.The well-known downside of
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| for teenagers: 1,300 mg of calcium
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| | drinking milk is that it induces the
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| daily.Teenagers may be short on calcium,
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| | mucus-secreting glands to overproduce.
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| but they need to satisfy their calcium
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| | Excessive amounts of mucus cause
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| requirements by eating calcium-rich foods
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| | unfriendly germs to multiply faster
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| rather than by drinking milk because milk
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| | because it's a food they thrive on.But
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| puts them at risk for developing a
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| | far more dangerous to health than excess
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| serious, sometimes fatal health problem
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| | mucus is the elevation of blood insulin
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| later on in life. Milk causes a spurt in
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| | that the consumption of milk by adults
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| growth by stimulating the release of the
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| | causes. Excessive insulin in the blood
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| human growth hormone somatotropin. This
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| | makes glucose levels drop drastically.
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| increases the teenager's chance of
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| | This gives rise to binge eating, which
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| getting cancer as an adult if his or her
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| | brings the blood sugar back up; however,
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| milk-drinking habit causes growth above a
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| | because blood sugar goes too high,
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| certain height. A study published in the
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| | insulin again rises excessively and once
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| Journal of the American Medical
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| | again causes the blood sugar to plummet.
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| Association and conducted at the
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| | These wild swings in blood sugar give
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| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and
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| | rise to hypoglycemia (low blood sugar),
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| Women's Hospital, and the Harvard School
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| | and when the overproducing insulin glands
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| of Public Health found that taller people
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| | stop working, the hypoglycemic individual
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| in general were more likely to get both
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| | becomes diabetic.Elevated insulin levels
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| pancreatic and colon cancer. Dr.
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| | have also been implicated in the
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| Dominique Michaud, an investigator at the
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| | development of cancer. Women with breast
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| National Cancer Institute, states that
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| | cancer who have high insulin levels are
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| this increase in cancer risk is related
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| | six times more likely to have a
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| to exposure to the growth hormone in milk
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| | recurrence.The deficiency of a nutrient
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| during adolescence. (This is the growth
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| | in the body is not always the result of a
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| hormone that occurs naturally in milk,
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| | diet that is lacking in that particular
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| not the hormone added by dairy farmers to
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| | nutrient. Calcium deficiency is a case in
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| increase cows' production of milk.)With
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| | point. The body can be deficient in
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| each generation in America and elsewhere
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| | calcium even though the diet meets the
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| growing taller than the previous one
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| | calcium requirements if the individual
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| because of increased milk consumption,
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| | lacks vitamin D or the mineral boron.
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| and therefore increasingly likely to get
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| | Both are necessary for the absorption and
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| cancer -- as well as diabetes and
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| | utilization of calcium.Vitamin D is found
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| calcium-hardened tissues -- it's time
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| | only in the fat in meat, milk products,
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| that the human body's calcium
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| | and seafood. The low-fat diet, by
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| requirements were satisfied by eating
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| | depriving the body of vitamin D, could be
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| foods that are high in calcium, such as
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| | responsible for the widespread calcium
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| yogurt, cheese, and root vegetables,
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| | deficiency in teenagers. In a study
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| rather than milk. (Yogurt and cheese,
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| | published in The Archives of Pediatrics
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| although made from milk, have been
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| | and Adolescent Medicine, 24 percent of
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| chemically altered by fermentation, so,
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| | the 307 teenagers tested had a severe
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| unlike milk, they don't stimulate the
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| | deficiency of vitamin D, and 42 percent
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| release of somatotropin, the human growth
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| | were slightly deficient in the
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| hormone.)Not only should teenagers avoid
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| | vitamin.The only way to overcome nutrient
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| drinking milk because of the health risks
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| | deficiencies is to eat the foods that are
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| involved when they become adults but also
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| | indicated for your metabolic type. The
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| because the processed milk available in
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| | metabolically appropriate diet is geared
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| supermarkets today won't satisfy their
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| | toward normalizing mineral levels in the
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| calcium needs. Standard brands of milk
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| | body and providing the fats and oils
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| produced by agribusinesses have been
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| | needed to assimilate minerals. The danger
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| heated, for the purposes of extending
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| | to health caused by consuming large
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| their shelf life, to a temperature of 212
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| | quantities of milk to overcome a calcium
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| degrees Fahrenheit. Pasteurization at
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| | shortage make it clear that foods should
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| such high heat destroys the acidity in
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| | not be evaluated solely on the basis of
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| milk; without it calcium can't be broken
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| | their nutrient values but also on what
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| down, and undigested calcium can't be
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| | effect they have on long-term health.an
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| absorbed and utilized by the
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| | excerpt from the book Eat Right for Your
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| cells.Drinking commercially pasteurized
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| | Metabolism by Felicia Drury Kliment
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| milk not only fails to satisfy the body's
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| | Published by McGraw-Hill; April
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| calcium requirements, but because
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| | 2006;$16.95US/$22.
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| undigested calcium particles are not
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