Is Milk a Cause of Obesity?

Starbucks Corp. announced on Tuesday that it was aiming to make the milk and other dairy products it serves in its US coffee houses free of the controversial artificial growth hormone used in dairies to increase milk production. The artificial hormone given as a supplement to dairy cows to increase milk production is known as rBGH. Proponents of the hormone supplement say there are no health concerns for humans or cows. Critics say that rBGH increases the level of another growth hormone in both cows and humans.

I have always had the theory that the present problem with human obesity has started with World War II when women with babies had to work for the war effort and their babies were fed with formulated dairy milk. This was the first time in human history that there was a major shift from breast feeding with human milk to bottle feeding with cow's milk. It is the first time that a living species started to feed its babies with a different species's milk on a broad basis. The first eighteen months of a baby's growth is very important in its development. Asians, like myself, who have not been fed cow's milk in the formative months, have a natural revulsion to cow's milk. The body treats the milk as a kind of poison and creates vomiting to rid the body of the poison. Babies fed with powdered milk get used to it and adapt. The problem is that the formula milk may contain growth hormones given to promote the cow's milk production. Babies who intake this hormone are more likely to grow bigger than children without this hormone. In their adolescence these children will have an inclination to drink or eat more dairy products which also contain this growth hormone. At some point in time they become obese. So if you drink or eat dairy products you become like a cow. "You are what you eat!!!".