Milk for Health and Brain Power

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Looking for a cooking oil that’s healthy, yet doesn’t mean you have to compromise on taste? Consider Ghee -- the ayurvedic cooking medium that’s been around for thousands of years. It has a rich, buttery taste and aroma, and comes with a host of benefits that are listed in the traditional ayurvedic texts. more

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Of course, simply drinking milk will not make one immortal, but it can increase the duration of one's life. In modern civilization, men do not think milk to be important, and therefore they do not live very long. Although in this age men can live up to one hundred years, their duration of life is reduced because they do not drink large quantities of milk. This is a sign of Kali-yuga. In Kali-yuga, instead of drinking milk, people prefer to slaughter an animal and eat its flesh. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, in His instructions of Bhagavad-gita, advises go-rakshya, which means cow protection. The cow should be protected, milk should be drawn from the cows, and this milk should be prepared in various ways. One should take ample milk, and thus one can prolong one's life, develop his brain, execute devotional service, and ultimately attain the favor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As it is essential to get food grains and water by digging the earth, it is also essential to give protection to the cows and take nectarean milk from their milk bags.

Refuting claims that milk is harmful
Conversation with disciples, July 4, 1976, Washington D.C.

Prabhupada: And what culture they'll speak? They can speak, "Milk is dangerous and meat is very nutritious. Kill all the cows. Oh yes, it's very scientific." This is the culture. "Milk is dangerous." Is it not?
Pusta Krsna: Yeah, they're saying that, the doctors nowadays.
Rupanuga: It's true.
Pusta Krsna: I remember one day you retorted that. You said that "Milk is nothing but the blood of the cow transformed. And [sarcastically:] the milk is bad but the blood is good?
Rupanuga: They scare people by saying that milk helps to create heart disease, and artery disease, like that. They frighten people with that propaganda.
Pusta Krsna: Meat creates cancer of the intestines.
Rupanuga: Actually, there have been some articles in papers lately about meat and cancer, linking meat and cancer. Prominent, prominently displayed articles.
Prabhupada: Then why do you give milk to the children? Give him blood.
Rupanuga: They say past a certain age...
Prabhupada: No, no, this propaganda-milk is bad—so why from the very beginning you give milk to the children?
Rupanuga: Actually, in America they do not feed the children by the breast. They use cow's milk practically from birth.
Prabhupada: Therefore I say.

Milk promotes goodness
purport, Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.16.4

Human civilization means to advance the cause of brahminical culture, and to maintain it, cow protection is essential. There is a miracle in milk, for it contains all the necessary vitamins to sustain human physiological conditions for higher achievements. Brahminical culture can advance only when man is educated to develop the quality of goodness, and for this there is a prime necessity of food prepared with milk, fruits and grains.