Strawberry, Chocolate, Cookies n' Cream,
White and Root Beer Milk...just how far will we go to get our calcium? Let me tell you, a long way. I'm not one to turn my nose up to a ice cold glass of milk in the late evening before bed. The little town I live in has one grocery store and a convenience store that sells milk. The grocery store sells Iwig FAMILY DAIRY and they're having trouble keeping this milk in stock. Tells me that the area locals love this glass bottled extra creamy milk that doesn't have the added hormones that so many other milks have. www.iloveiwig.com
The milk comes in glass bottles which helps keep the milk colder than plastic. Glass bottles don't allow chemicals to leach into the product being stored in it. When plastic containers are heated up, they leach chemicals into the contents, then you ingest these chemicals known to cause health issues.
Iwig milk is free of rbST and rbGH injectable Hormones and free of antibiotics. This is where I have decided to take action for a healthier me by avoiding these things as much as possible. This year, I decided to start drinking Iwig milk instead of other milk from cows that has added hormones and antibiotics that the owners give their cows to encourage larger cows before going to market or milking them. Next I'm working at AVOIDING XENOESTROGENS.
Xenoestrogens contribute to troubling health issues with the human reproductive systems such as developing cancers, fibroids, heavier menstral cycles, miscarriages, infertility, low sperm count. Besides just reading and studying about fibroids, I wanted to change some actual things about what I eat and drink. I have had Uterine Fibroids for years and have been taking a watch and wait outlook with them. Uterine Fibroids are known to grow because they are estrogen fed. I try to avoid soy products because soy is a natural estrogen. I'm studying up on xenoestrogens so I will be better informed how to avoid these in my life. More blogging about this later.
Just about every January, I make a New Year's Resolution. If I take baby steps to getting where I hope to go, I'm more likely to stay on track getting there and actually reaching my goal. I know that what I eat and drink and wear and spend and save and talk and walk is more likely to take place if I keep it simple. Drinking milk is simple to me at the time.
Easy does it,
~Deanna~
Dear Lord, may I desire the sincere milk of the word...
1Peter 2:1-3
1. WHEREFORE laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
2. As new born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
3. If so ye have tasted that the LORD is gracious.
14 comments:
HI Deanna!!!
Thank you so much for doing that blog, us women have to keep each other informed!!! I just found out today my older sister is having such a surgery in a week for having cysts/tumors on her ovaries. She became a part time vegan several years ago, and consumes ALOT of Soy Milk, I hope that is not what caused this medical condition. I will talk to her about it, we have tried doing things more organically too, we can go to a local dairy here and buy the milk hormone free, I think it would be so much more healthy for Miss C, I think little girls starting periods so much earlier then ever before is because of all the hormones. Good job on the blog!!!!
hugs,
jamie
If you ever get to my part of the prairie, Linderhof's doors will be open to you.
Our daughter is seriously lactose intolerant, and for the past 8 years has substituted soy milk and soy products for the milk products in her diet. Lately she developed an enlarged thyroid and on doing some on-line research ( after the doctor said it was not cancer, tumor, etc,)she has discovered that is one of many problems associated with too much soy in your diet. Interesting post, thank-you!
I would LOVE to have access to raw milk! I grew up on it and it's wonderful! We drink a LOT of milk at Thistle Cove Farm, Dave and I go through about a gallon a day and raw milk would be much, much better for us. When we can find it, we buy organic milk. Yes, it is expensive but, as Dave says, "pay nor or pay later" and I'd rather buy quality than pay a doctor -smile-.
Martha- Thank you for your hospitality offer. I would enjoy meeting a fellow Kansas Prairie Pal.
Mimi- The things we learn when we share is a blessing. Prayed for your sis. The number one reason so many doctors use for an excuse for hysterectomy is due to fibroids. The convential doctor probably won't tell you that once you cross over to being menopausal the fibroids will shrink.
I agree about the hormones and earlier periods in girls. Also think so much of the obesity in people is due to growth hormones in food. It isn't necessarily that people eat so much as it is what's in the food they eat that causes problems. Also people are not absorbing nutrients that their bodies need so they are hungry and stay hungry.
KathyB- This is so interesting about what you have shared about too much soy. Appreciate your sharing this.
Thistle Cove- So glad you've shared this. Thank you. I have a ways to go from old me to a healthier different me.
Deanna,...preach it sister! I agree about the hormones and antibiotics in regular milk,...they can only be bad for ya. And I am allergic to so many antibiotics!
I drink Organic milk,...but don't have a close-by place to get it raw. But I do feel like at least I am not getting the pesticides and hormones with organic.
The soy issue is real too. I wish more people understood these things.
I hate all of the bad additives they put in our foods too. And I am scared about the Genetically Modified foods they are coming up with.
Thanks for alerting people to things that they should know.
Linda @ Truthful Tidbits
I love milk, but haven't been drinking much of it due to the hormones and our complete lack of local hormone-free milk! :( I keep telling David we need to buy some land in the country and get a cow. :)
You are blessed to live where this milk is available. It looks delicious!
~ Sarah ~ Tea and Water and Occasional Milk Drinker ~
I'm a nurse but don't know a lot about nutrition. I drink a lot of skim milk but I bet I cannot find that kind of milk in my town. Thanks for the thumbs up. It is worth looking into. Blessings
QMM
Hi Deanna,
I love it that you can still get milk in glass bottles. I wished we could - I do hate the cartons and plastic but it is all you can get.
I loved the days when you used to rinse the bottles and then they were recycled. Bring back those days again.
Thanks for your informative post.
Have a happy weekend
Hugs
Carolyn
I have tried to keep my head in the sand when it comes to natural foods, but I'm beginning to study more and more the benefits of eating a more natural diet. Thanks for sharing!
Blessings!
I hadn't thought of the green connection to Iwig's milk. We are getting healthier milk from healthier dairy cows, and we are recycling at the same time!
Rg
We've done the 'buy a half of hormone free cow' routine before. It was less greasy when cooking with it. We probably will work this back into the freezer over the year.
Now we live a short distance from where range buffalo meat is sold. I'd like to try this.
Will be checking into quality of the local tap water.
Working at eating more salads and fresh vegetables within the meals. I have no desire to 'vegan out' at this time.
Also, on the way to the city, there's a farm house that advertises range chicken eggs. I have been eye balling this sign for about 4 years and haven't stopped to buy any...hummmm. Maybe I will just start doing this.
Artist- it takes a little more planning on our part to return the rinsed out glass bottles and pay a little more for the milk, but it is our option to do this and have it as a stepping stone to better health. The milk is creamier and don't you like it that way?
Donalacasa- If you're anything like me all the change can be unattractive and over whelming.
I was interested in eating and preparing foods differently when I was about 25. The years passed and it's been an on going process of eating the way I was brought up vs. doing the food prep more earth momma style.
I love the convenience of having canned food on the shelf just waiting for me to fix it. So I will probably do both for now...canned and fresh.
Carolyn- I have memories of my Mom placing glass bottles on the front porch steps and the milk man would come by and put more milk on the porch. This stopped somewhere along the way and Mom bought our milk from the grocery store. Truthfully, I think I'd like to have the milk man bring the milk to me weekly. Right to my door step. This could be really handy for staying out of city traffic.
Queen- remember when iodized salt was added to our diets to combat thyroid problems and vitamin c added to fight rickets? There's something to this.
Sarah Jane- Sometimes I wish I lived in the country and had ground to enjoy.
Linda- I can't get excited about the genetically modified foods either. I don't think the radiated technique is healthy either. I don't want cloned cow meat to eat.
Blessings to you. I luv hearing from ya.
~D~
I wish they had milk in glass bottles here. We do buy the natural no hormone kind...but glass bottles, well, that would be nice....
Although all the super market stores use plastic botles for milk these days, the old time milkman, that delivers to the door that some people still use, have glass bottles.
Lets know when you buy yur Lavender and I will tell you how to take care of it.
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