Dairy Products: Complete Chapter from the book "The Human Diet"

Articles by Eric Edmeades / Articles by Eric Edmeades

My experiences with, and interest in, dairy products ultimately lead to my writing The Human Diet. Also, as a relatively new food - we will get to this in a moment - and one that is so common in westernised diets, it is clearly an important one to discuss.

Until my early twenties I was a strong believer that dairy milk was an important part of the human diet. After all, how else was I going to get all my calcium needs met?

I was a staunch supporter of and believer in milk because some broken bones I had as a child were blamed, in part, on the calcium shortage I must have had as a result of my childhood allergies to milk. This was despite the fact that milk had been reintroduced to my diet when I ‘overcame’ the allergies.

Now, significantly more informed about our nutritional requirements, evolutionary history, and the negative impact of many contemporary foods, I can see quite clearly that I suffered a few broken bones not because I was missing out on my 'milk requirements' but because (a) active children do occasionally break bones and (b) my diet - which included a fair quantity of fizzy soft drinks, wheat, salt and refined sugar - did not include nearly enough fruits and calcium-rich vegetables.

My interest in the link between dairy products and human health started when I was 22 years old. I had just left my doctor’s office with a new appointment slip. I was scheduled to have my tonsils removed. I had been suffering for most of my teens and early 20’s with severe allergies, sinus troubles, post-nasal drip that culminated in relentless throat infections. In took only one short glance down my throat for the ears-nose-throat specialist to order the offending tonsils out. While I agreed to the surgery - I was certainly not going to argue with a specialist - I was somewhat reluctant and concerned. However they got there - whether created by God or evolution - I was certain that they were meant to be there. Still, the specialist had ordered them out of my throat and into a specimen jar and who was I to argue?

It was around this time that I met my good friend, Tim Ames who was trying to sell me tickets to a motivational seminar in Vancouver, Canada. Tim was a vibrant young man with a great deal of energy - like most good sales people. He convinced me to attend the program and suggested that I pay special attention to the third day.

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