Evidence Shows Dairy is Cause for Many Health Related Problems

December 15, 2011 by Matthew Christodoulou

“There is compelling evidence, now published in top scientific journals and some of which is decades old, showing that cows’ milk is associated, possibly even causally, with a wide variety of serious human ailments including various cancers, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and an array of allergy-related diseases. And, this food contains no nutrients that cannot be better obtained from other far more nutritious and tasty foods.”

- Dr. Colin Campbell

“Due to the extreme processes that milk undergoes, as well as the high amounts of antibiotics, hormones, and genetically-modified substances that cows are continually exposed to, I can, with much certainty, say that there are real and eminent dangers associated with drinking milk from cows. All cows release toxins through their milk, as milk is a natural exit-portal for substances that the body cannot use.”

– Global Healing Center

“The countries with the highest rates of osteoporosis are the ones where people drink the most milk and have the most calcium in their diets. The connection between calcium consumption and bone health is actually very weak, and the connection between dairy consumption and bone health is almost nonexistent.”

- Amy Lanou, nutrition director for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington, D.C.

Diary consumption and its effects on the human body has been a subject of debate for quite awhile. With this article I would like to address the myth of dairy being good for our health.

Through mass media tools such as the “Got Milk?” campaign, we are led to believe that “milk does a body good” as they so eloquently state. Is this really the truth? Absolutely not!

“Milk is a high quality source of vitamin D and calcium.”: MYTH

This is entirely not true. Because of the fact that milk goes through a pasteurization process, which means it is heated to 71.7 degrees Celsius to ensure sterilization, almost all nutritional value is lost. We have to understand that all organic matter has what you can call “life force energy”. When organic liquid is subject to extreme temperatures such as pasteurization, this life force is destroyed as it debilitates the molecular structure of the milk. It actually destroys the calcium and vitamin D within the milk and as a result, it becomes a leaching agent and seeks to restore its original molecular structure. Animal proteins in dairy also have been found to leach calcium from the body. Upon consumption, dairy acidifies within the body and extracts calcium from our bones. The calcium acts as a neutralizer for the acid as the body tries to naturally balance its PH level. This process in turn results in being a major cause for cancer, osteoporosis, arthritis and other diseases.It’s also similar to the process with distilled water, as it is boiled and when consumed, leaches nutrients from the body that the water had contained before the distilling process occurred.

Now some people may say that raw milk is healthier to drink because is does not go through a pasteurization process, but it’s important to understand that at the infant stage, we carry active enzymes which are called “lactase” enzymes. These enzymes are used to break down lactose in milk so that it can be digested and used efficiently for energy. Through research, it has been shown that after the infant stage of approximately 3 years of age, lactase in the body begins to deplete as we are genetically programmed to no longer be dependent on our mother’s milk. Lactose intolerance is a result of lactase deficiency. With this being said, it doesn’t matter whether we drink pasteurized or non-pasteurized milk, our bodies are not designed to break it down and digest it properly. Without the proper digestion process the body cannot utilize nutrients properly. If we understand that as we grow older, our bodies are designed to not digest milk does it really make sense to consume it? Large amounts of dairy such as milk and cheese can lead to poor health through the debilitation of our bones, teeth and organs and is an associated cause of various human diseases.

IMPORTANT FACTS REGARDING DAIRY CONSUMPTION:

- Humans are the only species on the planet that drinks another species milk.

- Lactose intolerance affects more than 7 million Canadians (20% of the nations population). This is likely an underestimate as many individuals do not associate their symptoms with lactose-containing foods or are asymptomatic.

- More than 20 million Canadians suffer from digestive disorders every year. (57% of the nations population)

- Digestive disorders cost $18 billion (in 2000) annually in health care costs and lost productivity.

- Canada has the highest incidence of gastrointestinal ulcers in the world and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) in the world.

- Next to lung cancer, digestive cancers kill more Canadians than any other type of cancer. One out of every five new cancer cases in 2009 will involve the digestive tract. Colon cancer has the 2nd highest death rate of all cancers in Canada.

In knowing these facts, it shows us just how much our dietary habits affect our health and how we function on the planet. Even a simple change in our diet, such as stopping the consumption of dairy, could drastically reduce funding costs on national and global healthcare and result in a more vibrant and healthier population. This would allow us to move forward greatly in changing human society. Through feeling healthy and restoring the body to it’s natural balance and energetic flow, we will feel more at peace within ourselves and this will reflect in how we function and create our lives individually and collectively. Imagine a world full of healthy people…The energetic difference would be staggering!

Through the sharing and spreading of this information we hope that it will give people a perspective on dairy and consuming dairy products that they may not have had before. It can lead to major change if enough of us become aware of the effects that consuming dairy has on the body. If you have any concerns regarding calcium intake, you can look into a number of ways to sufficiently supply the body with the amount of calcium that it requires. There are a number of alternative ways to consuming calcium such as plant-based foods and drinking milk products such as almond milk and rice milk. Do yourself the favour and look into how you can change your health and others. It can lead you to a more peaceful and vibrant life!

For More Information Please Research The Following Sources of Information:

Canadian Digestive Health Foundation:

http://www.cdhf.ca/digestive-disorders/statistics.shtml

Natural News:

http://www.naturalnews.com/031255_milk_health.html

Global Healing Center:

http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/dangers-of-cows-milk/

Live Strong:

http://www.livestrong.com/article/248912-foods-that-leach-calcium/

Not Milk:

http://www.notmilk.com/

Save Our Bones:

http://saveourbones.com/osteoporosis-milk-myth/

Neteral:

http://neteral.com/health-and-fitness/dangers-of-dairy

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91 comments on “Evidence Shows Dairy is Cause for Many Health Related Problems”

pree
December 19, 2011 at 8:52 pm

hahaha this is ridiculous. i’d love to see an article such as this one about alcohol – a substance that is actually harmful to the human body, as opposed to milk, which is largely harmless. ps. “All cows release toxins through their milk, as milk is a natural exit-portal for substances that the body cannot use.” –> common sense tells us this makes no sense, as milk is a substance that is primarily meant to feed one’s child – why would the body release toxins, ie. things that the mother doesn’t need, through milk? i’d like links to scientific journal articles. otherwise, this article is merely a collection of people’s opinions.

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- DD
  January 14, 2013 at 5:39 pm
  
  To Pree:
  You really need to do a little research regarding bovine secretions. Raw, natural, organic or not, it contains growth hormones, identical to humans (plus other stuff I won’t get into here). Dairy promotes cancer cell growth, particularly breast and prostate – you can Google that and read it on PubMed.
  
  After a mammal is weaned, they never drink their mothers milk again, YET, for whatever reason (money), corporations have basically found a cash “cow” so to speak, promoting this liquid meat / white body fluid as a healthy product. Do know that all meat and dairy is government subsidized – it’s a huge profit industry.
  
  You can’t compare this to alcohol! Last time I checked, there was no magazine ads, TV commercials, sports and Olympic endorsements, painted mustaches, or food guides telling me that alcohol was good for me and I should have at least three glasses per day.
  
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  - Carmel
    March 29, 2013 at 6:36 am
    
    Brilliant and to the point! Thank you DD
    
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  - Agafitei Alexandru Catalin
    April 6, 2013 at 10:47 am
    
    DD , the cows body does not know that the cub isn’t drinking any more . Further more , cow don’t milk themself after the cub is weaned.
    So you are wrong .If not , please explain how the cow get rid of the toxines in her body using milk as “transport” . You are ilogical and irational .
    
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    - dan
      April 17, 2013 at 3:14 pm
      
      AAC, its called a ‘ calf ‘
      So you are not reliable either
      
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      - Felix
        May 2, 2013 at 11:52 pm
        
        Hi dan.
    - Kelly
      May 14, 2013 at 12:06 pm
      
      Toxins that build up in the body are released through mammal’s milk (this is a well known fact). Anything in the body’s blood stream can transit through mother’s milk — this is why there is a mother risk hotline, to asses the safety of prescription medications that a mother is taking to see how much the infant will end up with. It is also true that with each birth, due to nursing, the toxin load in a mammal’s body decreases. This has been clearly illustrated in whales and other species. So, WHEN the milk is being removed from the body, whether by humans or the calf, toxins and drugs that enter the cow ARE leaving the animal (just remember, more toxins enter the animal throughout it’s life through it’s feed, the environment and through drugs the farmer/vet administers…
      
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  - Connie
    April 25, 2013 at 11:02 am
    
    You can compare the two, easily. Alcohol dehydrates the body, causes blackouts and other memory loss, and can literally poison your body to the point of death.
    
    As to the issue of dairy products themselves: if we stopped allowing companies like Monsanto (once responsible for the Agent Orange that killed people in Vietnam) to control all the food and genetically engineer everything, we wouldn’t have to worry about what’s in our milk or other food products!
    
    BTW, every one of us 3 kids drank milk pretty much straight from the cow, and my mom made butter and peanut butter from the cream. And we had very little health issues as children. So just from my own experience, I can tell you that the dairy itself is NOT the issue. It’s all the CRAP they add to it.
    
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- Arillé
  March 24, 2013 at 8:05 am
  
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/dairy-free-dairy-6-reason_b_558876.html
  
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- claire
  April 16, 2013 at 10:19 am
  
  A cow would not naturally be pumped full of steroids and antibiotics would it? Do a bit of research before you comment!
  
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- Echo Moon
  May 2, 2013 at 6:02 pm
  
  Mother’s milk is intended to feed your child. Once a child is weaned, the mother’s milk dries up. Same with any mammal. Cows are kept in perpetual milk production by artificial means via milking machine and/or human hands. Slowly stop milking the dairy cows and they will stop producing milk until such time that the cow needs it to feed a calf. If drinking milk is so beneficial to human growth and health? Then why all the stigma about women breast feeding as the child gets older. Why not keep feeding Jr until the day that you die? It is only humans that demand to be fed milk until they die. Seems to me that there are a whole lot of animals out there that were born to drink milk from their mothers that after they are weaned they grow up strong and healthy just fine. Why does that happen??? How can that happen?? That they can improve their lives without the continued drinking of their mother’s milk??? Because they eat healthy. They eat the foods that were intended for them to eat. And they eat them in the way that they were intended to be eaten.. Humans should do the same thing….
  
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  - Happymom
    May 2, 2013 at 7:06 pm
    
    Sounds like some people live by “ignorance is bliss” and shun making educated decisions. Kind of sad, if you ask me.
    
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Fail
December 20, 2011 at 5:54 am

I agree with pree, this article fail to reference any scientific journal. You make some really wild claims of the health hazards of drinking milk without any support from the literature. For example, is really milk drinking and osteoporosis cause and effect?
You also fail to mention the evolution of lactose tolerance in adults that happened >5000 years ago (Albano P.B, et al., 2003). Selection favored those who were able to drink milk, thus milk could not have been disadvantageous.

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- Lee X
  May 18, 2013 at 3:22 am
  
  haha i guess we are the chosen mammals of the earth that can do whatever we want. If we can shove it in our faces it must be ok.
  
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pree
December 21, 2011 at 12:19 am

BTW, I’ve done some research of my own. Here is some research on milk (i’ve provided the titles to journal articles, a google scholar search is enough to bring some of these, though I did use my university student account):

- “Children who avoid drinking cow milk have low dietary calcium intakes and poor bone health (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)

-”Dairy Consumption and Female Height Growth: Prospective Cohort Study” in Cancer Epidemiology
(the study results: Of the foods/nutrients studied, dairy protein had the strongest association with height growth”)

- “Milk consumption, calcium intake, and decreased hypertension in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico Heart Health Program study” in Hypertension
–> study results: “a twofold increase in hypertension was found in subgroups who drank no milk compared to those who consumed over 1 quart of milk a day. Similar trends were found when an estimate of total calcium intake from food, principally from milk, was used.”

- The Survival Advantage of Milk and Dairy Consumption: an Overview of Evidence from Cohort Studies of Vascular Diseases, Diabetes and Cancer in Journal of American College of Nutrition
–> study results: the results provide evidence of an overall survival advantage from the consumption of milk and dairy foods.

None of these studies were funded by dairy farmers or large multinational corporations that sell milk … are there any? LOL.

Anyway, my suggestion to those who love blaming dairy foods for their digestive difficulties, I suggest you start tracking your consumption of alcoholic drinks. Alcohol is harmful to every organ in the body, inhibits calcium absorption, and leads to digestive difficulties.

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- Agafitei Alexandru Catalin
  April 6, 2013 at 10:43 am
  
  Nice one pree , I read the first reply to , right to the subject and very logical
  
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- Echo Moon
  May 2, 2013 at 6:12 pm
  
  LOL You truly cracked me up with your last paragraph!!! I’m sorry but there have been multiple studies by medical experts that say red wine is good for you.
  
  But? Track my alcohol consumption??? That’s a very easy thing to do. I don’t drink alcohol. I use to…. But then again I use to drink milk. I have never been diagnosed as lactose intolerant but find that milk will upset my stomach and will worsen the phlegm/mucus of a cold. Plus I’ve had doctors tell me not to drink milk during a cold and have had me not give milk to my kids when they have a cold. Needless to say the kids when little didn’t drink alcohol so we know that alcohol as causing any problems.
  
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- Rocco82nl
  May 9, 2013 at 12:57 am
  
  There is no creature on this planet that drinks milk when he grows up. Yes milk is mean to be fed to the baby, and like every other creature on this planet he should start eating healthy when he can. Like every other creature, including cows, milk production will stop when the need for milk stops.
  
  The American Society for Nutrition (ASN), the largest society for nutrition researchers in the US, openly receives support from pharmaceutical companies like Abbott Nutrition and Martek Biosciences, genetic engineering and pesticide giant Monstanto, food processor ConAgra, and junk food suppliers and producers Coca-Cola, Mars, Kraft, McDonald’s, General Mills, and Kellogg’s, not to mention the Sugar Association, Inc. (among many others). – Nov. 2010- http://www.anh-usa.org/the-war-for-nutrition-science-integrity/ .. found 8 (!) more sites with this information.
  
  But hey, thats just 3 years ago, and now WIKI tells us they dont accept corporate funding… Dig deeper, UR FOOLING URSELF!!
  
  This is only one example, and I found several wich debukes your above research.
  
  Let’s be clear on one thing, USE YOUR BRAINS!!! >>> There is no creature on this planet that drinks milk when he grows up. Yes milk is mean to be fed to the baby, and like every other creature on this planet he should start eating healthy when he can. Like every other creature, including cows, milk production will stop when the need for milk stops. <<<<
  
  To be honest, 100 researchs, with PHD, can tell me whatever they want.. You can tell me whatever you want me to believe and whatever you believe yourself. I use my own brains to conclude whats good or not. Dont come with half-done research and unverified conclusions about so called research-institutes just because your fist hit on Google tells ya what you want to hear. THATS WHY ITS THE FIRST HIT ON GOOGLE… most people, like you, dont look further. So they can tell all the googlelers whatever bullshit they want, and they do that too.
  
  Develop your inner-authority, take responsibiity over your consciousness and start THINKING!!
  
  So… dont care what u believe or say, just hope that you take responibility over the crap you put forth and I hope that you think about the people who arent strong and independent enough take personal responsibility over the things they believe.. some people will believe whatever you say and thereby you carry some responsibility when u put bullshit forth.
  
  The very best to you Pree.
  
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  - Clair Tomlinson
    May 9, 2013 at 2:47 pm
    
    RICE MILK RICE MILK RICE MILK…..HEMP MILK HEMP MILK HEMP MILK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
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Antilli
January 5, 2012 at 2:58 pm

To all you “debunkers”:

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/harvard-declares-dairy-not-part-of-healthy-diet.html

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sevenexxes
January 10, 2012 at 8:16 pm

Hmm, seems rather suspicious that since 1994 and the United Nations Agenda 21, in which agriculture has been labelled along with private real estate, roads and other infrustructure as non-sustainable, things such as housing has become less affordable, farming has become threatened by gas mining and now this. Also notice that eating meat has become ‘bad’ for us as well?
So after 5000 years we are now told that cow milk is bad for us? Yeah right. More like this as an excuse to start reducing cattle farming and agriculture and begin herding people in mega cities and feed them on soylent green.

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- Tom Lazer
  March 29, 2013 at 8:44 am
  
  If you lived within 5 miles of a cattle pen on any windy day and smelled the urine shit smell so thick you can’t breathe you would think twice about eating anything that stands in its own waste 24 hours a day.
  
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- dan
  April 17, 2013 at 3:20 pm
  
  5000 yrs? Do you really believe that the cows TODAY are the same as back then?? All the chemicals and genetic engineering that we do to our cows transfers into us
  
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Engineer
August 13, 2012 at 8:48 am

organic compounds have something like “life force energy” …. ? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. what the FUCK are you talking about.. ? apart from that calcium is a chemical element, you can’t break it down with conventional heating. you are either SUPER-DUMB or….

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theTruth
November 22, 2012 at 8:06 pm

Hey Antilli – From the debunkers. if you search on the http://www.hsph.harvard.edu website – your article doesn’t exit.

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gl
November 26, 2012 at 4:34 pm

this is from harvard website and it is about dairy: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/archives/2000-releases/press04042000.html

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gl
November 26, 2012 at 4:39 pm

also from harvard: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/calcium-and-milk/

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gl
November 26, 2012 at 4:45 pm

and a third one on harvard about milk:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/now-archive/20061110/milk.html?__utma=1.581820801.1353965264.1353965264.1353965264.1&__utmb=1.2.10.1353965264&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1353965264.1.1.utmcsr=hsph.harvard.edu|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/&__utmv=-&__utmk=133028878

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Dee
December 1, 2012 at 1:27 pm

This is funny – this discussion and this silly article. The article above has no merit in real life. If you look at human history and the role that milk played in it, you will see that milk is just another food product, just like meat, or animal fat, that brings nutrients and energy to human body. I agree, nowadays milk is bastardized by pasteurization, homogenization, and cows being sick, eating GMO corn and soy, and packed with all kinds of drugs. If you go to Europe and find communities that still live in the way humans lived for hundreds of years, you will see that they do drink fresh, RAW, clean, healthy milk daily. They do make cheeses, yogurts, and kefir out of that clean healthy milk. Milk and meat from healthy animals are the staple there and people live close to 100 years of age, with good teeth and strong bones. No one there is lactose intolerant, because RAW milk has all the enzymes in place that help body to digest milk. Pasteurized milk is denatured with enzymes and delicate proteins destroyed. So clean RAW milk is a fantastic source of all kind of good nutrients, and “milk” that comes from the supermarket shelf, well, it’s a pus that no child should ever drink. So here is your answer and you are wasting your time doing “research” on milk. Cheers!

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- Brett Simcock
  March 29, 2013 at 7:26 am
  
  Well said… I couldn’t put it better myself…
  
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- Cam
  April 6, 2013 at 10:47 am
  
  Very eloquently put!
  
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- Lee X
  May 18, 2013 at 3:34 am
  
  so explain to me why we are the ONLY animal on the planet that consumes milk after infancy? Just another food group? Ugh….
  
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matthewpcMatthew
December 1, 2012 at 1:57 pm

Thanks to everyone for sharing! It’s much appreciated and we’re open to having everyone share as they wish

I just wanted to touch on some things that were mentioned, especially about how we’re justifying drinking milk because of what history has shown us as well as what some are still doing today. When we say there are people who have and still do drink milk, like what was mentioned about raw milk, and that they are “healthy” and can live to an age of 100 years, I invite everyone to rethink how we define health in the first place.

What limitations have we created due to belief systems that we’ve created about what an ideal “healthy” human being is?

As we understand that everything is energy, everything in existence has it’s own unique vibratory signature. In human tradition, there are cultures that do consume more healthy milks and cheeses than in Western society, but really, their level of consciousness and freedom within the human physicality is still quite limited. We look at someone who is 100 years of age and think that they have lived a long and healthy life because of the way we have been conditioned to believe that an age of such is something that is profound and rare. However, our bodies were originally designed to live well over 1000 years and to vibrate at a much higher frequency. There are many truths about the design and ability of our bodies that are overlooked by modern science. Facts like how we have 12 DNA strands that can be activated and are being activated through the rise in energy on the planet right now. As well as facts like how we have well over 5 senses that we can utilize with our bodies. This stuff has been disconnected due to our creation of dependency on external matter and survival mode that limits us.

There are souls on the planet who have lived multiple centuries within the same body. It all comes down to consciousness and programming. Milk is not a high energy food and even though raw milk may contain some nutrients, our bodies are not designed to digest it. They have simply adapted to digest it and take what they can from it, sort of. It still has side effects in the long run. One of them being bone and joint decay. This is easily seen in people who reach an age of 100 years. The majority are very frail and deteriorating, which isn’t an experience that HAS to happen with these amazing bodies that we’re using in this experience. We don’t need to age like we currently are. It’s just a result of our consciousness and what we’ve been putting in them for eons of time. It’s like feeding a car regular gas instead of premium. Of course the one consuming and utilizing regular will not last as long as the premium. We were never designed to consume any sort of animal product whatsoever, and to go even further, we were never designed to even depend on food for survival. Food was mainly just a sensorial experience to enjoy and the majority of food consumed was fruits. We were fruitarians. We created the experience of survival mode to take on a more challenging experience to grow from, and we’ve taken it quite far for a very long time becoming entirely dependent on food to survive, which is turn has become quite limiting. We’re in a time where it’s very important that we become in tune with and feel what resonates with us most. There are simple exercises that we can utilize such as doing a “body talk” to form a communication with our bodies in order to understand what the body truly wants versus what our minds may be telling us it wants. We don’t even need to do all this research and base our opinions on facts of the past. We’re in an entirely new time right now that has never before been experienced on Earth. It’s time we learn to listen and feel rather than think and try to figure things out. Your body knows what it wants and it will tell you if you listen and quiet your mind. Eating stuff like milk is derived entirely from our minds and belief systems that we have taken on. It’s time to move beyond these beliefs and free ourselves from limitation! We can be experiencing so much more

Thanks and much love and light to you all!

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- AliJordanBrown
  December 6, 2012 at 1:01 pm
  
  Thank you so much for your research on this issue!
  
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- timokorv
  March 4, 2013 at 5:52 am
  
  Hi there, Matthew! Could you please share a more elaborate insight on the part of being able to live a few centuries in the same vessel? Certainly piqued my curiosity. E-mail me at … /myusername/ … @gmail.com
  
  Cheers!
  
  Tim
  
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- chris
  March 16, 2013 at 9:49 am
  
  “However, our bodies were originally designed to live well over 1000 years and to vibrate at a much higher frequency.”
  WHAT!?!?!?!?!
  
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- Brett Simcock
  March 29, 2013 at 7:29 am
  
  You are so full of shit… “However, our bodies were originally designed to live well over 1000 years”… Be real… You just lost all credibility on your comment…
  
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- suzie gunn
  May 20, 2013 at 12:24 pm
  
  Thank you mathewpcMathew for bringing a higher vibration and understanding to this discussion. The truths and facts that you have stated are refreshing and although many people will dismiss a great deal of what you have said there are those who recognize that what you advocate is our journey for the future as a planetary society. Love and blessings to you. <3
  
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Chris
December 1, 2012 at 3:06 pm

wow… I’m pretty sure raw milk has both lactase AND lactose, so the point about us not having lactase is moot. Pasteurized milk removes the lactase, leaving the lactose, thus why many people can’t drink it. But raw milk leaves both in tact, so just about anybody can drink it. Granted, it’s not the best source of vitamins or calcium, but raw milk is a whole food.

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Deno
December 1, 2012 at 5:31 pm

@Engineer – Apparently you need to listen to some talks by Bruce Lipton, get more in to quantum physics and understand what we really are. But yes the part that says the Calcium burns off is stupid.

@Dee – Do you see any other animals drink milk beyond being a baby? Nature sure doesn’t seem to think that it’s ‘just another source of nutrients’ it’s ‘a source of fattening nutrients for babies’. But I guess you know better than Harvard and their studies right? Clever girl.

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- Brett Simcock
  March 29, 2013 at 7:34 am
  
  I’d have to agree that milk’s sole purpose is for infants, but it doesn’t mean it is bad for you as an adult… Deno, the Harvard studies are not conclusive, they elude to that fact themselves… Open your eyes, and don’t believe that everything that comes out of Harvard is 100% proof of anything…
  
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  - Brett Simcock
    March 29, 2013 at 7:35 am
    
    Meant to say raw milk, not the tampered with shit…
    
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Vesna
December 2, 2012 at 2:23 am

Dee, I agree somewhat with what you say about those communities that have preserved an old, traditional, and healthier way of life (yes, there is a big enough difference between how that kind of dairy versus the mass-produced, factory-farmed dairy affects the human body), but the problem is that this model is not sustainable with the exorbitant demand for dairy (and meat!) of the entire Western society. The point still stands that most people mistakenly believe that they cannot get certain nutrients and benefits anywhere but animal products, but those of us in affluent nations have ample access to a variety of foods and we now have an infinitely greater treasure of resources to help us prepare food in innovative ways. I have cooked vegan in my home now for 10 years, and I can say that I never miss using animal products of any kind in my house. Unfortunately, animal products (meat, dairy) are highly addictive, in fact, and most people are so quick to dismiss or bad-mouth anything or anybody that wants to reveal the adverse effects (not just with respect to human health but the planet’s health and social health) of consuming (and especially overconsuming!) animal products. I feel like there would be nothing wrong with consuming small amounts of dairy if it did not mean the animals or our health are hurt in the process. But like I said, most people who consume it want to consume too much of it for it to be sustainable that way.

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Vesna
December 2, 2012 at 2:31 am

Pree, you said: common sense tells us this makes no sense, as milk is a substance that is primarily meant to feed one’s child – why would the body release toxins, ie. things that the mother doesn’t need, through milk?

Well, um, that is why nursing mothers have to avoid a whole lot of stuff–because it goes through the breast milk. That includes caffeine, alcohol, antibiotics, toxins, etc. I read about some studies that have shown that human breast milk–though still the number 1 choice for our infants–have a higher toxicity level in the past because of all the junk we are exposed to consume nowadays that were not a problem many years ago.

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Vesna
December 2, 2012 at 2:32 am

oops I meant, “… have a higher toxicity level NOW THAN in the past …”

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jimbo
December 6, 2012 at 3:56 am

humans are the only species that drink another species milk?

absolute hogwash

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- AliJordanBrown
  December 6, 2012 at 12:58 pm
  
  I don’t understand why Jimbo thinks it’s hogwash that humans are the only species that drink another species’ milk. Do you know of an animal that drinks milk from another animal?!?
  
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joshua
December 11, 2012 at 4:59 am

Because of the fact that milk goes through a pasteurization process, which means it is heated to 71.7 degrees Celsius to ensure sterilization, almost all nutritional value is lost”.
now that is hogwash! the melting point for calcium is 842 degrees celsius (1500 degrees fahrenheit)
so what, exactly, does the pasteurization process have to do with anything, it would have no effect on the calcium in milk whatsoever.
the writer of this article is a shill

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matthewpcMatthew
December 12, 2012 at 12:50 am

When pasteurization occurs, the enzyme phosphatase is completely destroyed. The final test for pasteurization after heating to 165 Fahrenheit is the negative Alpha Phosphatase test. This is the enzyme that is critical to the absorption of minerals and calcium. Vitamin D also becomes useless when this happens.

It’s not that the milk’s calcium content is destroyed, the body is unable to digest it. Instead of building bone density, calcium winds up getting into blood vessels, calcifying the inner walls which promotes cardiovascular problems and can enter joints and cause arthritis. When people have to have by-pass surgery, the arteries are clogged with calcium build-up. Dairy products

The heating process also destroys digestive enzymes, inhibiting proper digestion of milks fats and creating mucous and phlegm in the body. Excessive mucous and phlegm buildup are a leading cause of asthma. I have a friend who had asthma all her life and when she stopped eating dairy products it went away, completely. Probiotic digestive bacteria are also destroyed. The temperature of pasteurization is also low enough to still allow potentially deadly pathogens to stay alive.

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Donnalee P
December 12, 2012 at 2:38 pm

Humans are NOT the only species to drink another species milk. Just had to say that. Orphaned animals drink other types of milk…..sigh. I can understand the logic, but seriously, let’s do some articles about what REALLY DESTROYS US….as humans.

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- Lee X
  May 18, 2013 at 3:40 am
  
  and these said animals are full grown? or are they still at the age where they need milk to grow? THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING!!!! There is not one FULL GROWN animal out there that drinks milk from their own mother or any other species mother. This is something that destroys us. It is one of MANY MANY things that we consume like morons and think nothing of it.
  
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Ejay
December 14, 2012 at 10:30 am

I think this should be called ‘Evidence Shows *** PROCESSED *** Dairy is Cause for Many Health Related Problems’

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Megan
December 14, 2012 at 11:36 am

Orphaned animals in the wild usually don’t find another species to live with, they usually die. Usually humans will bring an orphaned animal together with another species…like in a zoo. this is where I supposed you would see another species suckling on a different mother species. In any case, baby animals only drink milk until they are old enough to be weined and then never drink milk again….
Humans drink milk daily until we die. There is no need for milk after a certain age, and even then human babies should be drinking human milk.

Human are not made to obsorb the calcium in cow’s milk. For example, Almond milk has more absorbable calcium then cow’s milk. There is plenty of calcium in veggies (Leafy greens). Dairy in any form is not necessary. I really don’t understand why there are people so against this post.

What isn’t destroying us as humans? People are too caught up in their own lives to care about the big picture. People need to start changing themselves, before anything is ever going to change…like drinking cow’s milk

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Predada Severa (William A Perry Jr)
December 14, 2012 at 12:03 pm

Thousands of years, no. Forever, yes. A need for food, yes and no. We are, every animal, earthworms; we move through space, as most plants would like to, ingesting and passing, in order to go from one place to another, taking nutrients from what we ingest, passing waste in our wake; we have stopped doing that, as humans have yet to discover, except for people who already know, that we take/can take nutrients from our air, which is really still an ocean/soil of its own, via vapors; Not impossible, you just have to be trained how to do it; our air, too, however, is filtered and poisoned. In general, you are all right, with sections of wrong; we were/are taught the wrong, which are merely limitations to keep us from seeking the knowledge, which i can only partially give you, to want to seek the truth and needed knowledge of things such as these, so that we are forced to chase money, buy food, and eat it, enjoy it, to want to chase more money, which works in their plans to destroy plants, their source of ink, and trees, their source of paper, to destroy the presence of free oxygen and food/nutrient vapors, so that they can charge us for the air we have to breathe; stop them from cutting down trees, outlawing personal food, etc gardens, and certain plant/animal possession, or they will make this planet treeless, plantless, animalless, oxygenless, barren, a wasteland, etc., except for people who have millions to buy air, etc., right before they leave here on their spaceships/dimensionalships/timeships, leaving the rest of us, including most/all of the wealthy to die/dead. Join my Urda (www.myspace.com/_tuu ; http://www.myspace.com/predadasevera ; http://www.youtube.com/predadasevera ; http://www.facebook.com/predadasevera), rich and poor alike, because i need all of your financial, intellectual, persistical, etc. support/backing, to remove me from my situation, of practically being homeless, so that we, together, can make those in power, who WILL leave us behind, realize/accept that we are all, regardless of our energy forms, supposed to take this journey, which we call life, together and in unison and peace, and adjust their ultimate agenda to include us, in only positive ways, and to act accordingly. Please make all comments to me, through facebook, and you can call me, only if you want to help me, at my record label entertainment company, BHRKWUE, phone # (646)453-4859.

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Rene Suurkaev
December 14, 2012 at 3:04 pm

cats and hedgehogs drink cow milk too. ( grown hedgehogs are lactose intolerant though, and should be kept away from their drug of choice )

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- Eric Friesen
  January 30, 2013 at 8:03 pm
  
  Cats and hedgehogs, dogs, pigs etc etc will drink cows milk only if we humans provide them with it in a bowl or some such thing, hardly natural!
  
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TheWebman
December 14, 2012 at 10:51 pm

Regarding the Harvard study, anyone notice the disclaimer in paragraph two?

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Evaldas
December 20, 2012 at 6:28 am

The dairy product article is inconsistent and unreasoned, the facts may be facts but there is no direct link shown between actual sicknesses and dairy products.
The only argument i’ve found interesting in it was life-force energy being destroyed during pasterization which i find odd, because canned goods, cooked goods and many more dishes (including most vegetable dishes) go trough same process and they still maintain the same amount of nutrients.
Arguments like “humans are the only species who drink another species milk” is the same as “humans are the only species who have linguistic skills”, just because it’s unusual doesnt mean it’s wrong.

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Tracy
January 4, 2013 at 12:15 pm

You can have my milk and cheese when you pry it from my cold, dead, bloated and mucous clogged hand

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patinthehat00
January 27, 2013 at 1:12 am

This was writtin for testimony. I think you might like it. I copied off the website to share.. It is that good. I like what your doing here, keep up with gettin the word out. I stick with raw unadulterated milk, It does my body good

http://patinthehat00.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/why-sustainable-family-farms-are-critical/

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j jongen
January 31, 2013 at 8:37 am

The fact that we are still debating the need for dairy in the American diet is a testimony of the power of the dairy industry propaganda machine. Not long ago the NRA, the Tobacco Association, and the Healthy Lead Paint propaganda machines were equally effective in selling consumers toxic products. The preponderance of scientific evidence points to a causal link between dairy consumption and ALL of the major ‘modern’ diseases in the western world. BTW calcium and vitamin D are added to milk to deceive consumers to think milk is healthy; most vegetables contain these naturally.

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veganMIke
February 13, 2013 at 6:26 pm

It’s not true that humans are the only species to drink another species’ milk. I saw a nature program where over lactating seals were leaking loads of milk and seagulls were drinking it. Of course they didn’t slaughter the newborn boy seals then steal their milk.

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- ed ivanisko
  March 18, 2013 at 12:35 pm
  
  sorry…seagulls are scavengers that will eat any sort of garbage or carrion
  
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Nehemiyah
February 15, 2013 at 5:42 pm

Matthew, bottomline, what you are saying in the comments and the article above is TRUTH; verifiable Truth. Matthew, for more information look into The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem and you will see how this group of African Americans left America in the 60′s to return to Africa and establish a government of their own. What they have accomplished has astonished the scientific community by simply implementing a little change in environment, diet and lifestyle. Remember, African Americans are generally genetically predesposed to ailments like diabetes, heart disease and cancer due to the diet they were fed during slavery. Now, what this group did is more than just improve their health but they actually altered their genetic structure through these changes that they implemented. And like Matt says, Consciousness is yet another key factor and re-establishing that Living relationship with Earth (our Mother)… verifiable Truth people, these are not assumptions or opinions.

Additionally, looking at African history, we find that Africans could effortlessly live up to more than 200 years. And trust me I know this because this is my history; my Ancestors’ diet was never a blood and starch diet like it is now, they depended highly on wild fruits, dark leafy vegetables, seeds and nuts.

Anyway, this is the age of intellectual revolution and evolution… but there are those ofcourse who will be left behind because they obstinately choose to hold on to obselete, dead ideas. But ey, thats your choice.

Peace

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Amanda
February 24, 2013 at 9:35 am

Cheese is delicious.

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kev
February 25, 2013 at 1:35 am

ants milk aphids

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Gary Bridger
March 16, 2013 at 9:22 am

When school gave free milk , kids were so much stronger and fitter . I used to hang back with a couple of friend and see how many we could drink. Later in life , i had so many accidents on my bike 27 and doing martial arts, I never broke a bone, The police said I should be dead. May be to day they put allot of crap in the milk, And Like BSE and all that, caused by the crap they feed the poor cows, What about all the food that is cooked with cows milk, And Chocolate ? Goats milk is OK But the taste? Yuck, Where is the proof, it all depends on you, everyone is deferent, and processes food differently. it also boils down to being aware of your body and a varied diet!

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Jim Vernon
March 18, 2013 at 7:46 pm

How does someone even come up with an article as full of garbage as this is? Milk doesn’t have a “life force”. Calcium, a mineral (essentially a rock), is not destroyed by heat. Vitamin D is added to milk before bottling. Most of your “facts about dairy” have nothing to do with dairy. Your links don’t support your article or are from equally worthless websites.

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Zen
March 29, 2013 at 6:58 am

http://www.notmilk.com provides the TRUTH! Dairy is for nursing babies sustainance, not post-weened animals. If you MUST, goats will be 140lbs as an adult, versus a TWO ton cow! Almond milk is SAFE, without obesity and or allergic reactions. Soy promotes Hypothyroidism.

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- DianeDi
  May 2, 2013 at 7:21 pm
  
  I never drank / ate soy all my life and I have severe hypothyroidism. My doctor informed me that the main causes are fluoride (artificial water fluoridation) and animal based diet which throws the pH balance.
  Watch Acid vs. Alkaline http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ceJI2Cnz1w
  
  I wish I knew this many years ago, because like most things, it’s cumulative and we pay for it later in life.
  
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Fredrik
March 29, 2013 at 7:01 am

The Masai (and other tribes in Africa and around the world) eat saturated animal fat, meat, milk and blood and not much more. No health problems like we see in the west. Especially no heart disease.

Studies (like the ones above) which show correlations between a couple of variables where countless other variables are hidden and not controlled are not science. They might give you an insight and ideas for hypotheses that must be tested more carefully. Always remember correlation does not give you cause and effect. Many variables correlate in a population. You can show that the number of ice creams sold correlates strongly with the number deaths by drowning. Why? Well it’s summer and people like to eat ice cream as well as swim. You can’t blame the increased intake of ice cream for the drowning deaths, right?

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Zeta
April 1, 2013 at 12:17 pm

How about some common sense… Let’s leave alone all those reaserches (whoever sponsors them). There are just three things to think about- as kids we drank milk – real one. Then it became more processed and full of chemicals and no longer should be called milk. And at some point there started to be more pressure form the companies to drink more of it. I wonder whyyyy…. We have a saying that if you don’t know what it’s all about, it’s about money. The sad thing is that many people I met ( mostly moms) trust their pediatricians ( whoever sponsors them and their education)and follow blindly what they say. As simple as that.

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- DianeDi
  May 2, 2013 at 7:32 pm
  
  Trusting our pediatricians…. yikes, that was then ! I remember my gynecologist lighting up a cigarette after giving me an examination when I was 6 months pregnant. Oh, times sure have changed….. and this debate about milk will never end as the Dairy Board is worth billions and subsidized by government. They promote dairy, which is a known cancer promoter, particularly breast and prostate.
  
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Connie
April 25, 2013 at 10:58 am

I don’t believe the issue is the milk itself. I believe the issue is allowing companies like Monsanto to control the food product of American and inject ALL our food products with chemicals and other treatments for “better output” or “better crops”, when in fact all it does is poison all of us! I grew up drinking milk straight from the cow and never once had any problems with it. I still would, if I could find it from a local dairy that didn’t give their cows all those drugs and hormones and chemicals to make them produce more milk than they would under normal conditions!

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cindy
April 29, 2013 at 12:28 pm

If I stopped eating ,drinking and breathing everything that is supposed to be harmful to my body, I would only live a couple of weeks at best… So, I sit here thoroughly enjoying my glass of milk while I am still alive to do so!
I don’t care to live a long time ,I just want to enjoy whatever time I have!

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- DianeDi
  May 2, 2013 at 7:26 pm
  
  Cindy says *If I stopped eating ,drinking and breathing everything that is supposed to be harmful to my body, I would only live a couple of weeks at best… *
  That is so laughable ! Has it ever occurred to you that you just might live a long, healthy, pain free life if you took the time to eat whole foods, preferably organic? Healthy choices don’t come from cans, bottles, packages, boxes, freezers, drive-thrus, etc. You should visit your produce section and eat what nature intended. You might actually SHAKE OFF that bad attitude about not caring to live a long time. That is just plain sad.
  
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  - Stevie
    May 20, 2013 at 11:59 am
    
    Lol No we might have it backwards..
    Haha :b
    Everything that is FDA APPROVED is UNHEALTHY >.<
    Damned if we DO and damned if we DONT. EAT WHAT YOU WANT GOD HAS OUR DESTINY PLANNED ALREADY AND THAT IS ONE THING THEY CANNOT CHANGE
    sorry to Shout.. lol
    
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Lisa
May 1, 2013 at 4:45 am

who wants to continue drinking milk , do so, who wants to stop, stop, whoever reach 100 or more years, come back and chat about it

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Lisa
May 1, 2013 at 4:45 am

good one Cindy:)

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Clair Tomlinson
May 5, 2013 at 1:49 am

Real men and women drink RICE milk, and put ole bossy cow out to pasture!!!!

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Cecily Porter
May 20, 2013 at 11:33 am

I love the argument that “after a mammal is weaned, they never drink their mothers milk again”. This is NOT a logical argument against drinking milk. Humans don’t drink human milk after they’re weaned either. Also, cows don’t eat cows, so is that an argument for humans not to eat them? Remember, there are some human cultures that have existed since time began on milk – do you think they should stop because you believe milk is not a good food for them to consume?

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Stevie
May 20, 2013 at 11:49 am

We are targets
More unhealthy things that are pushed on us.
To dumb us down then use us as experimental lab rats so they can have their perfect world they are striving for.
Yep folks thats our government. I’d say ANYTHING FDA approved is UNHEALTHY.
LOL

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