In France it is illegal as I’ve just found out to sell raw milk. Raw cheese I’m told is on its way out too. I’ve only been able to source raw butter. The closest thing to raw milk is bottled raw milk which is then put into a hot water bath for a short period of time. I got some of that because I suppose its better than the flash pasterised one and funny enough it tastes just like the milk my dad would walk a couple of miles to get every morning when we were kids. Shame my mother boiled it though, twice, before it was given to us invariably burning our tongues. When I’m home in St lucia over winter (summer in Austrailia) I’ll befriend a farmer with a cow and get him to give us as much as we can holddrink as much we can. Boy am I looking forward to that.

The full text of the classic books by Charles Sanford Porter and Bernarr MacFadden are available for free at this website:

http://www.milk-diet.com

Amanda

I’m writing for another reason and it’s not related but it is about calcium. I just watched the Discovery Health channel and it was discussing the Danish study of low fat dairy intake [for the calcium] and fat excretion in the feces. Interesting. I think it could be done w/ just regular raw cheese…but hey, it just my intuition talking. Has any one heard of this study??? Written about it??

On another note, I saw Oprah today and Jenny McCarthy was talking about her experience with her child, Evan, who happens to have autism. She’s written a book “Louder than Words: A Mother’s Journey in Healing Autism.” I haven’t read the book, but it’s political, about diet [the effects of casein and gluten], and video modeling [demonstration] and play therapy as a teaching method. Fascinating. http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200709/20070918/slide_20070918_350_101.jhtml

“Jenny emphasizes that it might not work for every child with autism. “I’m just a mom telling a story of other moms. We want to share it and say our kids do get better,” she says. “[It's like] chemotherapy. It doesn’t work for every cancer victim, but you know what? You’re going to give it a try.”

I have to qualify the fact that I honestly can’t say I’d “give chemo” a try. And, I’m wondering where in the world is the information about the correlation between vacccinations and autism?? Sigh….

My vet described, briefly before I stopped her, because I heard enough… what would happen if I got the growth looked at for a diagnosis for Jackie O, my cat. I *cringed.* So, for the last year, we’ve been treating Jackie homeopathically, no diagnosis, just know she has a growth in her throat. Her quality of life is good, her appetite is good, and her body seems to be rallying. Symptoms of drooling and listlessness have stopped.

Color me happy. My hat is off to all the mothers on this site that KNOW what works for their kids and follow their hearts instead of an allopathic “best guest.”

Abrasitos!
Karen from California
Food for Thought.

I must admit I´m really not great at following strickt diets….
Cutting out sugar, grains and fruit for 3 weeks was horrible when I did that a few year ago.
I didn´t mind the grain and sugar so much… but the fruit was tough… it was september and my garden was full of great fruit…
I love milk and do welll on it - when I´m sick I always crave milk and yoghurt… but to drink theese ammounts ?!