Negative Effects Of Milk Essay

According to the USDA ‘’The average American wolfs down 36 pounds of cheese and 24 pounds of ice cream or dairy products. You wash all that down with 200 pounds of milk and cream.’’ (Fowler) Even though dairy is tasty it has many negative factors. From causing acne to even causing cancers dairy is an unknown threat to health.

Any dairy product can cause acne to trigger. At Dartmouth Medical School a group did some research. In their findings was milk has testosterone-like hormones which can trigger oil glands in the skin and start breakouts (Fowler). Breakouts happen to many people, but many do not think of dairy being a reason. Many dermatologists suggest that having a dairy-free diet is a great first step to treat acne (Fleming).The hormones in milk can make can make your skin aggravated. Also physicians are now saying being sensitive to milk like being lactose intolerant, can cause inflammation(Fleming).

75% of the population can not digest milk and other milk products, due to genetics(Hyman). Dairy is on the top eight food allergen list in the United States (Fleming). Many of this percentage do not even know they are lactose intolerant. Being lactose intolerance is when the small intestine can not make the …show more content…
Production of dairy starts out with the baby calves being pulled away from their mothers usually right when they are born. Dairy cows are killed about at the age of 5 to 6 years because they don 't produce the amount they did before making them useless to farmers (Dreena).Male calves end up chained in small stalls where they can barely move, and then raised for meat (Dreena). Humans are also the only species to drink milk from another animal, (Allen) which is not natural and should be stopped. “70% of global freshwater consumption and 38% of the total land use” (Allen) is accounted for agriculture which makes a dairy diet totally unsuitable for the entire