Whitewash by Joseph Keon

Author:Joseph Keon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: HEA017000
ISBN: 9781550924565
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2010-10-31T18:30:00+00:00

In one case researchers found that 51 percent of Type I diabetes sufferers had antibodies to beta-casein, compared to only 2.7 percent of controls subjects who were diabetes free.129

Finnish researchers looked at the risk of diabetes in 173 newborn children who each had a relative suffering with diabetes. In a double-blind study, half of the children were given, in addition to their mother’s milk, a supplement based on cow’s milk, while the other half were given a predigested formula. Neither the parents nor the researchers knew which child was receiving the standard cow’s-milk supplement. In the eighty-four children consuming the predigested formula, three children developed antibodies seen in children who develop diabetes. However, in the group who received the standard cow’s-milk formula, ten of the children had developed these antibodies.

A study of 142 diabetic children published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that all these children had substantial blood levels of antibodies to this same protein.130 Researchers have shown that children with more types of autoimmune antibodies are more likely to eventually develop diabetes. In the Finnish study, three of the children had a single type of antibody, while the remainder had developed two or more different antibodies. Suvi M. Virtanen, a nutritional epidemiologist and coauthor of the Finnish study, says the presence of a single type of antibody in susceptible children places them at a 40 percent risk of developing Type I diabetes within a decade. If they have three types of antibodies, their risk of developing Type I diabetes climbs to between 80 and 90 percent.131

In another study, 725 children were first genetically tested to determine their susceptibility to diabetes. Then they were monitored for eleven years. The children who drank more than three glasses of milk a day had five times the risk of developing diabetes than children who drank less than three glasses.132

Apparently, the earlier a child is exposed to the protein, the greater the risk of an autoimmune response. An Australian study showed children given cow’s-milk formula in the first three months of their lives were 52 percent more likely to develop diabetes than those not fed cow’s milk. When asked what he thought of the hypothesized link between cow’s milk and diabetes, Dr. Neville Howard, an Australian pediatric endocrinologist, replied, “There is a relationship to early weaning. Our epidemiology did show a significance of cow’s-milk feeding as a factor in the development of Australian kids with diabetes.”133 Dr. Howard is leading researchers in the largest international study of its kind, including twenty countries, to see if conclusive evidence can be found.

So substantial is the evidence supporting the theory that proteins in cow’s milk elicit diabetes that in 1994, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued this statement: “Early exposure of infants to cow’s-milk protein may be an important factor in the initiation of the B-cell destructive process in some individuals .... The avoidance of cow’s-milk protein for the first several months of life may reduce the later development of IDDM or delay its

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