Raw Dairy Products Are Recommended for Breast Cancer Patients

Recent scientific studies have suggested that dairy products may be linked to increased risk for breast cancer.

Women seeking to minimize their chances of breast cancer should therefore avoid commercially produced milk and other dairy products.

An exception is unheated raw milk and raw milk cheese from Grass-Fed Cows and Goats.

Raw dairy products from grass-fed cows are rich in the breast cancer fighting fatty acid conjugated linoleic acid.

CLA is a newly discovered good fat called “conjugated linoleic acid” that may be a potent cancer fighter.

Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) is a cancer fighting fat that is most abundant in grass-fed animal products.

CLA has been shown to inhibit the growth of both estrogen receptor positive (ER+) and estrogen receptor negative (ER-) breast cancer cells. The authors show that CLA alters ER transcriptional activities and inhibits cancer cell adhesion and migration.

Animal studies suggest that CLA may play a role in reducing tumor proliferation in certain cancer cell lines

In animal studies, very small amounts of CLA have blocked all three stages of breast cancer: 1) initiation, 2) promotion, and 3) metastasis. Most anti-cancer agents block only one of these stages. What’s more, CLA has slowed the growth of an unusually wide variety of tumors, including cancers of the skin, breast, prostate, and colon.

Adding CLA to the diets of rats treated with a strong mammary (breast) carcinogen resulted in more than a 60% decrease in the number of breast tumors. Feeding CLA during the development phase of the mammary gland leads to a decrease in the total number and rate of growth of mammary terminal end bud cells. The terminal end bud cells are thought to be where mammary tumors start and both of these effects reduce tumor formation.

Human CLA research is in its infancy, but a few studies have suggested that CLA may have similar benefits in people. A recent survey determined that women with the most CLA in their diets had a 60 percent reduction in the risk of breast cancer.

Increased levels of CLA have also been shown in studies to increase metabolic rate, decrease abdominal fat, enhance muscle growth, lower cholesterol, enhance the immune system, and prevent adult onset diabetes.

Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) is a cancer fighting fat that is most abundant in grass-fed animal products.

Food products from grass-fed ruminants (e.g. mutton and beef) are good sources of CLA, and contain much more of it than those from grain-fed animals. In fact, meat and dairy products from grass-fed animals can produce 300-500% more CLA than those of cattle fed the usual diet of 50% hay and silage, and 50% grain.

Cheese from grass-fed cows contains as much as 5 times more Conjugated Linoleic Acid (or CLA) than cheese from grain fed cows. CLA is most highly concentrated in milk fat. The more fat in a given dairy product, the more CLA it contains. Nonfat dairy products have virtually no CLA. Two new European studies link a diet high in CLA with a lower risk of breast cancer. Research has shown CLA to actually shrink cancer tumors.

It is the only compound originating in animals that has been show in research trials throughout the world to inhibit cancer.  Research in France has determined that among 360 women, those with the highest levels of CLA in their breast tissue have a 74% lower risk of breast cancer than those with the lowest levels.

The human body cannot produce CLA, but you can get it from eating grass-fed dairy products.  In order for typical North American grain-fed dairy to claim the cancer preventing benefits of CLA, the content of CLA in milk would have to increase by as much as four hundred percent.

In addition, feeding a cow a traditional diet of grass yields a one-to-one balance of omega-6’s and omega-3’s in her milk. Not to mention the extra vitamins obtained from the grass. These vitamins in the grass produce a milk rich in vitamins A, E, and beta-carotene. Furthermore. the grass-fed cows also produce less milk which yield a product richer in nutrients and vitamins.

A lean hamburger from grass-fed cattle has two and a half times more conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) than an equally lean hamburger from cattle raised in a feedlot.

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Swissland’s organic grass-fed cheese is 100% organic and comes from cow raised naturally on an entirely grass-fed diet.  .

The cheese is made from un-pasteurized milk.  The un-pasteurized milk is heater to 102 degrees Fahrenheit, ensuring that the naturally occurring enzymes in the milk remain intact, then is processed into the cheese.  The cheese is then aged from 60 days at 37 degrees Fahrenheit.  Swissland’s raw milk cheese is healthy and full of flavor.