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How To Lose Weight … With The Right Food!

Dairy products - Good or Bad? According to a popular Western belief, dairy products are excluded from the diets of people in most parts of the world. Americans, who include a lot of diary products in their diet, wonder if there is something about dairy products that others know and they don't.

Diary products are not essential to the maintenance of good health. According to pH miracle diet, it is harmful for the body, which is why it omits acidifying food, such as dairy products, from its list of acceptable foods. By doing so, it prevents obesity and the medical disorders that obesity brings with it.

Dangers of Dairy Products

A number of people strongly believe that taking dairy products, including milk, strengthens bones and improves health. In fact, dairy products comprise a large quantity of fat and protein, which produce enormous quantities of acid within the body. Cow’s milk is more acid forming than goat's milk, which has lesser quantities of fat and protein. Among dairy products, clarified butter is the only item that does not produce acids thanks to the short chain of fats that it comprises.

Moreover, dairy food is not pure. The dairy industry, in order to make a profit, has created an image of milk as not only safe, but also essential for the maintenance of health. The average cow of fifty years ago could produce 2,000 pounds of milk annually. The average cow of today, on the contrary, produces 50,000 pounds of milk annually. Consider the amount of drugs, hormones, antibiotics, forced feeding, and specialized breeding that is responsible for such mass production of milk. Also consider the fact that all these additives enter your body whenever you drink milk.

Dairy Products in FDA and Harvard Food Pyramids

In 2003, the Harvard School of Public Health modified the FDA food pyramid on the basis of certain imbalances noticed by the users of the FDA food pyramid. The FDA food pyramid reflects a preference to alkaline foods although it doesn't specifically make a mention of alkaline

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