Most everyone eats milks and cereal for breakfast.
Milk and cereal is as American as apple pie, but is it that good for you?
If you watch TV and or listen to most doctors, it’s great, but if you ask me (Acupuncture Physician Fl 1992-2002, questioned and counseled 30,000+) and many others, it’s not so great.
Milk by its nature is cold and damp. In excess, it tends to cause excess moisture in the stomach and small intestines (gurgling, gas, burping), large intestines (loose stools), lungs, mucous, phlegm), vagina (mucous, discharges), breasts (cysts, lumps), etc.
Milk is more or less a baby food, designed for infants. It generally digests well by itself, when drunk alone. With other foods, especially cereal, it tends tends to curd, harden around, envelop, which in turn, reduces overall digestion, absorption and the production of blood. Blood builds and fuels all function, mental and physical. Spices (cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, etc.) aid in the digestion of milk.
Most commercial cereals are nothing more than fiber, vitamins, minerals and sugar. They are more of a dessert than anything else, especially when combined with milk.
Milk and cereal is a well advertised commercial breakfast that has very little to do with health and everything to do with profit. It’s not exactly an ancient food, diet plan. There is no mention of milk and cereal in the Bible or any other scripture although most supermarkets have an isle full of cereals.
Milk, likely everything else, has a positive and negative. Milk is very nourishing on some occasions (dryness, weakness, growth) and others (mucous, phlegm ,colds) not. It is not a good breakfast for children. A better breakfast would be a vegetable omelet, juice, toast, jelly, fruit or rice, chicken, three cooked vegetables, fruit, etc.
If you are worried about calcium then remember this. Most Americans drink a lot milk, have a high calcium intake in addition to a higher incidence of osteoporosis, especially among women. While some may say it has more to do with menopause than diet, think about these facts.
The bones are primarily made up of protein, fat and calcium. Americans have a high calcium, dairy intake. Women tend to eat low protein and low fat diets. Connect these two and you have the major reason behind osteoporosis.
Menopause does play a role, but like everything else, it, hormones, blood, etc. are a function of diet.
R. G. Heft, Hot and Cold Health, www.hotandcoldhealth.net
