From: "Robert Cohen" <notmilk@e...>
Date: Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:04 pm
Subject: Vitamin D-3 Can Cause Death by Overdose
Vitamin D-3 Can Cause Death by Overdose
Vitamin D-3 is used to kill rats!
Why is it added to milk
for our children to drink?
The title of a brochure produced by the Ministry
of Environment in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada,
is: "Safe and Sensible Pest Control"
The brochure represents a series of "safe and sensible"
pest control measures, according to the Canadian Health
Minister.
Many methods of mice and rat control are discussed. I prefer
the most foolproof of methods: Don't let them eat your food.
Store all foods in refrigerators or tamper-proof containers.
With no food supply, mice and rats go elsewhere to dine.
According to Canadian health officials, Vitamin D-3 is
the most effective and ecologically sound method of
dealing with rat and mouse infestation.
According to the brochure, products containing Vitamin D-3
(calciferol) kill by vitamin overdose after 3-4 days. The
Vitamin D-3 actually mobilizes excessive amounts of calcium
from an animal's bones.
And you thought that Vitamin D-3 helped to absorb calcium.
Another dairy industry myth!
Don't try this at home. When the animal dies within your walls,
its putrefying body will add the most unpleasant bouquet to your
environment. The offensive smell may last for months.
How soon we forget! Children are taught in first grade that
Vitamin D is the "sunshine vitamin." Vitamin D is a steroid
hormone and is synthesized in one's body after skin is exposed
to sunlight. Once the body has made enough, it will produce
no more. Too much Vitamin D can be toxic and
result in bone loss.
In 1963, the Journal Pediatrics revealed:
"Consuming as little as 45 micrograms of Vitamin D-3 in young
children has resulted in signs of overdose." (one gallon of milk
contains 1600 IU, or 40 micrograms)." (Pediatrics, 1963; 31)
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine
revealed that of 42 milk samples, only 12% were within the
expected range of Vitamin D content. Testing of 10 samples
of infant formula revealed seven with more that twice the
Vitamin D content reported on the label, one of which had
more than four times the label amount. Vitamin D is toxic
in overdose for rats and mice.
(New England Journal of Medicine, 1992, 326)
Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com