What Milk is the Right Milk For Children?
by Frederick Patenaude

The article: “What milk to feed a newborn baby?” by
Professor J. Lestradet, published in the scientific journal:
Journal of Nutrition and Diet (Cahiers de nutrition et de
diététique), March 1982, stated:

“Any kind of milk other than mother’s milk, used in an
unaltered state, will cause major disruptions. Differences
between types of milk are fundamental.

As a matter of fact, there is twice as much lactose in human
milk as in cow’s milk, and it is known that lactose is vital
for brain growth, which is twice as quick in a baby as in a
calf. There is an overload of protein in cow’s milk, which
contains three times as much protein as human milk. It is to
be noted that the liver and kidneys of a bottle-fed child
are 30% larger than the very same organs in a breast-fed
child.

Cow’s milk doesn’t address calcium absorption better than
human milk, although it contains three times as much
calcium. Cow’s milk contains five times as much phosphate as
human milk, and this causes two-thirds of the calcium to be
retained in the gut -- the result being that a bottle-fed
child tends to have low blood calcium.

Furthermore, cow’s milk, whether formulated or not, contains
iron and this enhances the growth of pathogenic bacteria
(which accounts for excretory smells in the feeding bottle).
Using partly skimmed spray-dried milk, one is going the
other way and setting up an iron deficiency in the newborn,
which is, additionally, worsened since cow’s milk protein
irritates the digestive tract and causes microscopic
bleeding.

As for salt, which cow’s milk is three times as high in, it
is known to cause water retention and high blood pressure.
There are grounds for thinking that starting a child out on
too much salt could well account for some cases of adult
high blood pressure.”