The dairy industry often promotes the nutritional values of cows’ milk—like that cows’ milk provides calcium which can help build strong bones. While it’s true that dairy does have high levels of calcium, protein, and Vitamin-D, it also supplies an excessive amount of saturated fat, antibiotics, and hormones into our system. Even when consuming “hormone-free” or “grass-fed” milk, you can still consume hormones like estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone.
Consuming cows’ milk can increase the risk of many health problems including digestive issues, diabetes, and cancer. More than 6 billion people globally consume milk and dairy products, but 65% of the world’s population are lactose intolerant.
Bosnia and Herzegovina consumes over one billion pounds (500,000 MT) of dairy products each year. 84% of Bosnia’s population from ages 15-65 consume milk every day, but at least 25% of Bosnian citizens are lactose intolerant. Lactose intolerance is the inability to digest milk sugar—lactose. When there are not enough lactase enzymes produced in the intestines, undegraded lactose goes to the large intestine, where it is broken down by intestinal bacteria, resulting in digestive difficulties.
Once someone who is lactose intolerant consumes cow's milk or any other lactose-containing dairy products, symptoms can occur within 30 minutes. These symptoms include abdominal pain, bloating, gas, nausea, and diarrhea. In the elderly, this problem is even more pronounced. In Europe, half of the population over the age of 50 are lactose intolerant.
Diabetes is currently one of the most common health problems in the world. Around 10.48% of the population in Bosnia and Herzegovina has some sort of diabetes. Globally, someone dies from diabetes every seven seconds. And half of these deaths (around 4 million per year) are under the age of 60. Proteins from cows’ milk impact the production and activity of insulin which can lead to high insulin levels that can damage pancreatic cells.
Another health condition impacted by dairy consumption is breast cancer. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. A study of breast cancer cases that surveyed 40 countries across five continents found that cows’ milk was the second food most correlated with breast cancer—the first was meat.
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