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What if you were told of a simple way to reduce your child’s chances of developing asthma and even allergies by almost half.
Wouldn’t you sit up and take notice?
Wouldn’t you listen very carefully and fall all over yourself to implement that strategy immediately?
Asthma, after all, is a life threatening disease. It is not just a minor inconvenience to everyday life.
An inhaler in your pocket is not comparable in any way to carrying around a pair of reading glasses.
Asthma affects a child’s ability to fully participate in life and may even threaten his/her life if an attack occurs in a place where medical help is not readily and immediately available.
The numbers of children suffering from asthma are staggering. Over 10 million children in the United States alone suffer from this life threatening illness. Any parent would be nuts unwise not to implement such a simple strategy if it could indeed reduce the odds of developing asthma by almost half.
So what is this simple strategy for reducing your child’s asthma risk?
A drug? A vitamin? A supplement or special nutrient of some kind?
None of the above.
Before reading on … remember that just because answers sometimes come in a brown paper bag doesn’t make them any less important or worthy of our rapt attention.
Children That Drink Raw Milk Have 41% Less Asthma
The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology reported on August 29, 2011 that children who drank raw milk had a 41% reduced chance of developing asthma. These same children had a nearly 50% reduction in hay fever as well even when other relevant factors were considered.
The large European study reported by Reuters Health earlier this month included survey results where parents answered detailed questions about their children’s milk consumption. 800 milk samples were collected from the households of those participating in the study.
Researchers linked the protective effects of raw milk to the fragile whey proteins BSA and alpha-lactalbumin which are destroyed by pasteurization.
It is important to note that children who drank raw milk that was boiled before drinking had no less asthma than those children drinking pasteurized milk.
Only completely unheated raw milk from farm to glass provided the protective effects against asthma and allergies.
What if You Are Afraid to Give Your Child Raw Milk?Â
Here’s the bottom line if you find yourself afraid of raw milk due to the tedious and misguided government warnings about this healthy whole food.
There is no record of raw milk ever killing a single child per review of the available literature over the past 12 years.
Did you get that?
Zero deaths.
Nada.
Nil.
Asthma, on the other hand, kills thousands of people each and every year and causes millions of annual visits to hospital emergency rooms.
What seems to be the common sense, obvious decision to you? Most people don’t trust the government about much of anything anyway (and with good reason), so why wouldn’t they be skeptical of government warnings about raw milk too?
As it turns out, more and more people really are ignoring government warnings about raw milk given that raw milk consumption increased by 25% in California alone in 2010 while pasteurized milk consumption shrank by 3%.
Thinking for oneself is truly a beautiful thing.
Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist.com
Source: The Protective Effect of Farm Milk on Childhood Asthma and Atopy, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
I know this post is older, but does anyone know if raw goat milk provides the same benefits related to preventing asthma?
I have had asthma since birth now 42, could never run. I now eat no meat no dairy no sugar
and have never felt better or had more energy. I can run very easily now, no problems. I extract the juice from ginger root in a juicer and eat pineapple to control any breathing problems, when I feel any discomfort.I feel fantastic and do not miss these foods at all. No one should drink milk at all. It causes cancer along with any other animal protein that humans
can not digest.
this is a very interesting topic…my daughter suffers asthma and i posted a comment on your wall about a week ago i think, asking for help for my daughter and Sarah’s reply was to get help from a specialist because it is a serious illness.
thank you for that… we dont eat processed food and milk was one of the last thing i needed to change i finally found raw milk and iam happy to say that prayer and changing the milk my daughter hasnt used her inhaler since then, i am careful parent and of course i will always have an inhaler in hand but for now she is doing great.
thank you God for unprocessed food!!
I have a question… I purchased some raw milk a few weeks ago and LOVED it! BUT, I broke out horribly, and 3 weeks later am still trying to recover from it (think WORSE than junior high and I am 36 years old). My daughter (11.5 years old) had some raw butter last night and woke up the same way. My boys (9&5) seem to be fine with it. Are some people just overly sensitive to the hormones in milk? It IS raw, organic milk. Obviously there are natural hormones.
I’ve had asthma since I was a toddler and have been drinking raw milk nearly all my life, except for a few years when we didn’t have access to it. Do you think that it’s the cow’s milk that’s the reason I haven’t seen a difference? Should I switch to goat’s milk?
Actually, I moved to Wyoming almost a year ago and was able to go completely off my medication and very rarely have to use an inhaler. We went home (Pennsylvania) to visit for two weeks and I was miserable with asthma the entire time. A few days after returning to Wyoming, I was feeling much better!
I have had asthma my entire life now 42. If has been had allergic reactions to everything cold air rain dust mold pollen cats dogs plastic and so much more.
I saw the gerson therapy on t.v and stopped eating any meat no animal protein at all. And no cheese,milk or sugar. I can now run and my thighs get tired before I have any asthma
problems.It has been a week and a half and Im 30lbs overweight. Run at a fast pace for 15 minutes 1.5 miles no asthma at all. I juice ginger root and eat pineapples if i have any
discomfort starting. NO milk meat fish cheese or sugar. I fell great and will lose the 30lbs withen a few weeks.
OK, I have been drinking only raw milk for the past few years, and also have stopped eating all grains and sugars, except raw honey, but my allergies and asthma are still with me. I am going to try to stick it out to see if doing that for 6 months will help. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated…also I use only homeopathic remedies for my asthma and allergies.