Can homogenized milk give you cancer?

Question

My person said that you can get cancer from homogenized pasturized vitamin D milk.. is it true?

Answer 1

your person?

well milk has many chemicals in it now.. i can't stand to drink the crap any more.. i drink soy milk because it's not as mediciny tasting.

still it's got chemicals in it. what does one expect from mass produced products?

Answer 2

Here's a true explanation that uses everyday words instead of heavy medical terminology.

Homogenized milk has been "supermixed" so that each glass tastes the same without having to shake or stir the milk. Before we started homogenizing milk many years ago, it had to be shaken before each glass was poured so that the cream would mix into the milk. (Hence the old phrase "the cream rises to the top".) We still shake orange juice bottles/cartons since it is not homogenized and the pulp falls to the bottom. Homogenizing milk seems to be an unlikely cancer source.

The pastuerization process, which heats the milk to kill bacteria, both the "good" and "bad" kinds. Then there's ultra-pasteurization, which uses even higher temperatures, killing more bacteria but removing even more natural taste in the process. If you drink a glass of ultra-pasteurized milk (most major brands today) then drink a glass of regular pasteurized milk (some of the newer organic and hormone-free varieties) you should notice more flavor in the second glass that was not heated as much at the production plant. I don't like the taste of superheated milk, but that does not means it causes cancer.

The hormones used by major brands of milk to get a cow to produce lots and lots of milk are arguably dangerous. We are all ingesting a gross amount of antibiotics when we drink most commercially produced milk today. In my opinion, the United States' resistance to antibiotics is not from overuse of penicillin and other drugs taken during legitimate illness....it's because our milk is full of it and we get more and more every day.

Vitamin D is added so that the body absorbs more calcium from the milk. It is NOT harmful in normal doses. The human body can make vitamin D (which means it is not really a vitamin afterall) if you spend time 20 minutes in the sun with just your arms exposed through short sleeves. Thanks to UV rays, no one can do this without worrying about melanoma so it gets added to products that contain a lot of calcium.

Be safe...buy organic milk that came from a normal cow that was not pumped with growth hormones (antibitotics) to get her to produce a hundred gallons of milk each day.

Answer 3

Yes it is.

Read this.

When milk is homogenized, it passes through a fine filter at pressures equal to 4,000 pounds per square inch, and in so doing, the fat globules (liposomes) are made smaller (micronized) by a factor of ten times or more. These fat molecules become evenly dispersed within the liquid milk.

Milk is a hormonal delivery system. With homogenization, milk becomes a very powerful and efficient way of bypassing normal digestive processes and delivering steroid and protein hormones to the human body (both your hormones and the cow's natural hormones and the ones they were injected with to produce more milk).

Through homogenization, fat molecules in milk become smaller and become "capsules" for substances that bypass digestion. Proteins that would normally be digested in the stomach or gut are not broken down, and are absorbed into the bloodstream.

The homogenization process breaks up an enzyme in milk (xanthine oxidase), which in its altered (smaller) state can enter the bloodstream and react against arterial walls causing the body to protect the area with a layer of cholesterol. If this happened only occasionally, it wouldn't be a big deal, but if it happens on an ongoing basis... well, need I say any more.

Answer 4

If you drink enough of it. Of course if you drink enough to get cancer you would probably be as big as a house Literally. You can get cancer from eating or drinking to much of anything. Some studies suggest that eating certain things prevents cancer but then a few months later they say that if you eat to much you will get cancer. I mean that is just like the stuff in diet coke. They say that can cause cancer too. Only problem is in order for it to cause cancer you would have to eat like one ton of it aday. I dont see anyone eating that much artificial sweetner for anything. So just take it with a grain of salt.

Answer 5

Your person? Are you a cat?

These days, everything gives you cancer- fast food, colored toilet paper, hair dye- the key is moderation. If you're not drinking 2 gallons of the stuff on a daily basis, I think you'll be fine.

Answer 6

you absolutely cannot get cancer from the milk itself, but I believe I have heard about getting cancer from the pesticides that the cows are exposed to when they eat the pesticide treated grass and it is absorbed into the milk that they produce. Safer to take a calcium supplement these days.

Answer 7

Probably not. But if you want to be safe, buy skim milk and add cream. Then you won't need to worry about it.

Answer 8

Uhh i've never heard of anything like that

Answer 9

I personally have never heard of this..

Answer 10

not if it has been homogenized by F.D.A. approved techniques