= Diabetes
"The National Dairy Board's Slogan, 'Milk. It does a body good,' sounds a little hollow these days."
Scientific American, October, 1992
"Studies have suggested that bovine serum albumin is the milk protein responsible for the onset of diabetes... Patients with insulin- dependent diabetes mellitus produce antibodies to cow milk proteins that participate in the development of islet dysfunction... Taken as a whole, our findings suggest that an active response in patients with IDDM (to the bovine protein) is a feature of the autoimmune response."
New England Journal of Medicine, July 30, 1992
"In lieu of the recent evidence that cow's milk protein may be implicated in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus, we believe that the Committee on Nutrition should clarify whether cow's milk is ever appropriate for children and whether or not infant formulas that are based on cow's milk protein are appropriate alternatives to breast milk."
Pediatrics, July, 1992: 89
"Antibodies to bovine beta-casein are present in over a third of IDDM patients and relatively non-existent in healthy individuals."
LANCET, October, 1996, 348
"Cow's milk proteins are unique in one respect: in industrialized countries they are the first foreign proteins entering the infant gut, since most formulations for babies are cow milk-based. The first pilot stage of our IDD prevention study found that oral exposure to dairy milk proteins in infancy resulted in both cellular and immune response...this suggests the possible importance of the gut immune system to the pathogenesis of IDD."
LANCET, Dec 14, 1996
"Introduction of dairy products and high milk consumption during childhood may increase the child's risk of developing juvenile diabetes."
Diabetologia 1994;37(4):381-387
"These new studies, and more than 20 well-documented previous ones, have prompted one researcher to say the link between milk and juvenile diabetes is 'very solid'."
Diabetes Care 1994;17(12)
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The hoary chestnut that milk may cause diabetes is at best, contraversial.
See, for instance, http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/d_0j_10a.htm
and
http://www.childrenwithdiabetes.com/dteam/2004-03/d_0d_bu9.htm
where a pediatric endocrinologist stated:
"The idea that cow's milk either as formula or raw milk might predispose someone to Autoimmune or Type 1A Diabetes was first proposed in Finland and seemingly supported by small, but well conducted studies. As the years went by, however, it became clear that this was far from universally true and finally, in the last two years, the whole idea was convincingly disproved, at least as far as the U.S. was involved."
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He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And then took Byetta, and lost half himself.
Metformin he took, too, and got great BGs,
He quit smoking, ate fiber, and told me that he's
So much happier now that his rock hard small belly
No longer shakes like a bowl full of jelly.