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of this review paper.38 Suffice it to say, the author did not acknowledge

the evidence for the cow's milk hypothesis.

Because this issue has mammoth financial implications for American

agriculture, and because so many people have such intense personal

biases against it, it is unlikely that this diabetes research will reach the

American media anytime soon. However, the depth and breadth of evi-

dence now implicating cow's milk as a cause of Type 1 diabetes is over-

whelming, even though the very complex mechanistic details are not

yet fully understood. We not only have evidence of the danger of cow's

milk, we also have considerable evidence showing that the association

between diabetes and cow's milk is biologically plausible. Human breast

milk is the perfect food for an infant, and one of the most damaging

things a mother can do is to substitute the milk of a cow for her own.

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

AND OTHER AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a particularly difficult autoimmune disease,
both for those who have it and for those who care for its victims. It is a
lifelong battle involving a variety of unpredictable and serious disabilities.
MS patients often pass through episodes of acute attacks while gradually
losing their ability to walk or to see. After ten to fifteen years, they often
are confined to a wheelchair, and then to a bed for the rest of their lives.
About 400,000 people in the u.s. alone have the disease, according
to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.39 It is a disease that is initially
diagnosed between twenty and forty years of age and strikes women
about three times more often than men.
Even though there is widespread medical and scientific interest in
this disease, most authorities claim to know very little about causes
or cures. Major multiple sclerosis Internet Web sites all claim that the
disease is an enigma. They generally list genetics, viruses and environ-
mental factors as possibly playing roles in the development of this dis-
ease but pay almost no heed to a possible role for diet. This is peculiar
considering the wealth of intriguing information on the effects of food
that is available from reputable research reports.^4 0--42 Once again cow's
milk appears to play an important role.
The "multiple" symptoms of this disease represent a nervous system
gone awry. The electrical signals carrying messages to and from the
central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and out through the pe-
ripheral nervous system to the rest of the body are not well coordinated