For World Vegan Day on November 1, Editor-in-Chief Katy Sunnassee talks to the founders of world-renowned Hippocrates Wellness in the US, Brian Clement and his wife Anna Maria, about the problem with dairy and why they keep it out of their diets – and think we all should.
BRIAN: In one of my previous books, Dairy Deception, I talk about why we shouldn’t be consuming milk, cheese or eggs. During one of my book tours I showed slides of an attractive, well-dressed woman sitting under a cow drinking from its udder – the entire audience gasped as if I were showing them a pornographic picture! But nobody considers that this is what they’re doing when they drink milk. Because it comes in a nice carton, and everyone has been drinking this stuff forever, we don’t question it. When I was at school we were told you had to drink milk – and it was free for kids. It’s the same today. It’s great propaganda for the dairy industry.
Ironically, what’s true is the complete opposite and there are thousands and thousands of studies to prove it. When you think about it, who even thought we needed milk after the age of two? That doesn't make sense. Think about it, if you’re drinking milk meant for a calf, which is an animal that’s meant to grow massively in size, do you think that's going to be appropriate for a human? And what would happen if a cow was drinking a human’s milk? That would be weird too, right? And do you think the calf would be able to sustain on human milk? No. We’ve really got to come out of the fog on this stuff and think common sense.
At our complementary residential health centre, Hippocrates Wellness, we work with people who are highly osteoporotic (when bone mass decreases) and also very young in their 30s and 40s, and they are consuming large amounts of dairy, which just breaks up cartilage. That's why you have big arthritic conditions in Britain, and in Sweden where Anna Maria is from, and in Germany. It actually eats holes into the bone. We have pictures of this. I show pictures to people but they find it difficult to comprehend as it’s so the opposite of what we’ve all been taught about milk being good for us.
ANNA MARIA: People often worry they won’t get enough calcium if they stop drinki
