The World Peace Diet: Eating For Spiritual Health And Social Harmony

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and grow four healthy stomachs! Cow’s milk contains three times as
much protein as human milk and about fifty percent more fat. Dog’s
milk, for example, is nutritionally much more similar to human milk
than cow’s milk. Cow’s milk is far too coarse, especially for young children
who are growing delicate brain, nervous system, and other tissues.
Human children are not calves! Infant brain and nerve tissue are best
grown with the nutrients in human milk. The main protein in human
milk, lactalbumin, has a molecular weight of 14K. It is perfectly suited
to building sensitive human tissue. The basic protein in cow’s milk,
casein, has a molecular weight of 233K 8 and, because it is so durable
and sticky, is used as a binder in paint, and as the glue that holds plywood
together and sticks labels to bottles. 9 It is perfect for building a
calf’s tissues but causes incalculable harm to humans. Casein is an
immense and unwieldy protein, difficult for a human child (or adult for
that matter) to properly break down, creating a lot of acidic residue
when metabolized, and in the case of young children, causing many serious
problems.
We are concerned not only about the host of childhood symptoms
that have been linked with dairy products, including colic, earaches,
sore throats, colds, fevers, anemia, diabetes, tonsillitis, appendicitis,
allergies of various kinds, inflamed mucus membranes, diarrhea, gas,
and cramps. 10 We are also concerned about the damage done to the early
development of tissues of young children who are forced to eat and
drink dairy products. Can the sensitive human tissues that make up the
young child’s mind-body system possibly be properly formed with the
gluey and cumbersome casein and excess fat that are meant for growing
young bovines? It’s like trying to create a delicate landscape painting
with house-painting brushes as tools! This may certainly affect the early
psychological development of our children—and with the bovine hormones,
toxins, and misery in milk, one of the effects may very well be a
basic desensitization of the child. How tragic to pollute and damage the
miraculously sensitive human vehicle at an early age, reducing its ability
to be a conduit for spiritual energy, wisdom, and compassion, and
perhaps diminishing its ability to sense the subtle interconnectedness
that it is created to perceive, explore, and celebrate. To continue to eat