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Treating HIV With Yogurt
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, June 23, 2009.
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Every morning in a small community kitchen in a village in Tanzania, women transform local farmers’ milk into probiotic yogurt. In a country where 1.3 million adults are HIV positive, that yogurt, rich in bacteria, has the possibility of improving the quality of life for people infected with HIV.
The project, called Western Heads East, is based out of the University of Western Ontario and Lawson Institute in Canada. For more on this, we’re turning to Gregor Reid. He’s a microbiologist from the Lawson Institute, and he joins us from his office in London, Ontario.
Nature Medicine: A Cultured Response to HIV (PDF)
(Photo by Western Heads East via Flickr/Creative Commons)
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My extensive research into cow milk and everything from it, confirms that it is NOT fit for human consumption. Every doctor worth his salt from Dr. Spock to Dr. John McDougall, to Dr. Neal Barnard to Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr., and many others, confirm that the bovine secretions is what nature intended, (Like ALL mothers milk) to nourish and fatter HER calf.
If there is a dairy interest serving aids patients, it is just that, the special interest dairy industry expanding its diabolic grip so it can enhance consumption in any and every way possible.
Pro-biotic can be delivered without exploiting cows and calves or stealing mothers milk away from its rightful recipient, an infant that mother carried, gave birth to, and loves, as any mother loves her own.It comes in capsule form.
The dairy industry is way too capable of lying to us all, influencing media "programming," and medical professionals are ignorant of the detrimental implications of a liquid meant to fatten a bovine species.
www.notmilk.com
This abuse of cow milk for helping HIV/Aids patients is akin to using beer to deliver medicine for alcoholics or burgers to deliver lipitor. If we stopped our assault on other mammals, perhaps we'd not need all these crisis interventions.
Quite possibly this virus began because humans ate their own kin, monkeys.
Our taste for flesh( milk is liquid meat) has given rise to a perversion of every fiber of human existence....
Thomas Edison said, "Non-violence is the highest ethic and goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming ALL other living beings, WE are still savages."