Susan Komen Foundation Promotes Breast Cancer

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Susan Komen Foundation Promotes Breast Cancer

What's new from the makers of the milk chocolate candy which melts in your mouth and not in your hands?

The makers of M&M's write:

"We have a wonderful way to support the breast cancer cause and satisfy your cravings for M&M'S Brand Chocolate Candies."

Cravings? You bet. Three pounds of milk are required to produce one pound of milk chocolate. Milk chocolate must be considered a concentrated dairy product, much in the same way that cheese and ice cream contain concentrated amounts of those same powerful naturally occurring opiates and hormones. All cow's milk contains an opiate quite similar to morphine. If you are a chocolzte eater, your craving is actually an addiction. The opiate is called casomorphin.

According to the National Alliance for Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO.org), 200,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year. Got M&M's? Not after reading this column.

Today's tragic irony is that the M&M company will be donating money to the Susan Komen Breast Cancer Foundation for each bag of addictive M&M's sold. See:

us.mms.com/us/news/promotions/komen

Here's why even the healthiest milk from the healthiest cow represents a breast cancer risk:

Cows and humans share the same hormone, insulin-like growth factor, or IGF-1. This powerful growth hormone has been identified as a key factor in the growth of every human breast cancer. Each sip of milk contains that growth hormone.

"Human Insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I) and bovine IGF-I are identical. Both contain 70 amino acids in the identical sequence."

Judith C. Juskevich and C. Greg Guyer. SCIENCE, vol. 249. August 24, 1990.

"IGF-I is critically involved in the aberrant growth of human breast cancer cells."

M. Lippman. J. Natl. Inst. Health Res., 1991, 3.

"IGF-I has been identified as a key factor in breast cancer."

Hankinson. The Lancet, vol. 351. May 9, 1998

"Serum IGF-I levels increased significantly in milk drinkers, an increase of about 10% above baseline but was unchanged in the control group."

Robert P. Heaney, Journal of the American Dietetic Association, vol. 99, no. 10. October 1999

Many groups such as the Komen Foundation sponsor walks or races for the "cure" while soliciting sponsorship dollars from those promoting the cause. That is neither ethical nor wise. Such deception can be deadly.

Robert Cohen
notmilk.com