Simple, Sweet Cashew Cream Recipe

NOTE: If you don’t have dates, any other sweet alternative will work. Sometimes we add a little maple syrup, sometimes it is a bit of date sugar (<—just dehydrated/granulated dates). Options: add vanilla or almond extract, add a little cinnamon… — NOTE: If you don’t have dates, any other sweet alternative will work. Sometimes we add a little maple syrup, sometimes it is a bit of date sugar (<—just dehydrated/granulated dates).

Options: add vanilla or almond extract, add a little cinnamon, add some other spice you love, or you could also leave out the dates entirely and you’d have a more standard cream.
Season per taste.

Calcium is a mineral needed for strong bones and teeth.

Who here thinks you need the breastmilk of a cow to give you calcium? I sure did; and I loved cheese and ice cream so much I ate my weight in them several times over.

It is true that cow breastmilk has a lot of calcium and protein in it (for that growing calf), but did you ever stop to think that the reason mammals breastfeed is to grow babies (not adults)? I never did, but Boy Howdy does it rattle my brain now.

Did you know the etymology of “dairy” means female servant? It also removes us from the mental image of just what it is we’re consuming, and I’m a proponent of direct words, so this is why you’re forever going to see me bring us right back to the truth that we are the only species drinking the breastmilk of another species into adulthood.

I used to say that I couldn’t imagine living without dairy, and now I know with absolute firmness that I will never willingly try it again), I had a son with failure-to-thrive due to that same swill, and once I got into the weeds of research I realized how harmful it is, but notice with a wailing heart that society keeps stumbling backward because it “tastes good” and it’s “how we’ve been doing it for years.”

We also had toxic lead in our pipes for centuries, & doctors also used to smoke and promote it as healthy.

We have the ability to grow forward with new information, but it’s just understandably hard to do so. Here is some information to consider:

Humans are supposed to be weened around 2 years of age, yet we persist with drinking the breastmilk of another animal. We’re the only species that does this, and we aren’t even choosing a mammal that has anywhere near our same body composition or lifestyle. —> The protein in cow’s breastmilk is meant to double the size of a calf in about 60 days. Humans babies are supposed to double their weight in about 5 months (and not end up the size of a cow), so by continuously feeding yourself an unneeded mammalian growth slurry you are setting yourself up for a feast of diseases.

Wait, why would it give us diseases?

First, you should know that all animal products (muscle, breastmilk, embryo) contain choline. “As bacteria in your gut feast on the choline, they produce a substance called trimethylamine (TMA). Your liver takes that TMA and converts it to TMAO. “

Why’s that an issue / What’s the matter with TMAO?

“The trouble with TMAO is that data show high levels contribute to a heightened risk for clot-related events such as heart attack and stroke—even after researchers take into account the presence of conventional risk factors and markers of inflammation that might skew the results. In their most recent analysis, scientists showed that high blood levels of TMAO were associated with higher rates of premature death in a group of 2235 patients with stable coronary artery disease. Those found to have higher blood levels of TMAO had a four-fold greater risk of dying from any cause over the subsequent five years.”

You can also take a look into mTOR research so you can understand that the enzyme within that breastmilk causes cancer cells to grow (because again, breastmilk is meant to GROW OUR BABIES, adults are not supposed to be drinking it through life, and especially not some other species’ breastmilk), and when you consume animal products (whose proteins are flush with mTOR) it begins to perpetuate the growth of cancer.

In the same vein, you should look into the research surrounding IGF-1 (insulin growth factor) and how it perpetuates cancer. How? Why?

“When we consume too much animal protein, the body increases its production of a hormone called IGF-1, (insulin-like growth factor 1). IGF-1 is one of the body’s important growth promoters during fetal and childhood growth, but later in life IGF-1 promotes the aging process. Reduced IGF-1 signaling in adulthood is associated with reduced oxidative stress, decreased inflammation, enhanced insulin sensitivity and longer lifespan.4 In contrast, IGF-1 has been shown to promote the growth, proliferation and spread of cancer cells, and elevated IGF-1 levels are linked to increased risk of several cancers. Several observational studies have suggested that high circulating IGF-1 may translate into promotion of tumor growth in colon, prostate and breast tissue.5-13”

Additionally, there’s metabolic acidosis. What’s that? It’s a negative chemical reaction that happens within your body when you try to consume another species’ protein. Why? Because those animal proteins are not meant for you, your body knows this and recognizes them as a harmful, it is trying to neutralize the threat, but by doing so the stress of this back-and-forth can cause osteoporosis. This process is called metabolic acidosis.

Here’s a video that explains it perfectly and how it is causing osteoporosis and cancer. Countries with the highest milk consumption have the highest levels of osteoporosis.

If videos or the research articles highlighted above aren’t your thing, let me explain:

When animal products enter your system, they cause an acid reaction (your body is trying to kill them, because it DOESN’T WANT THEM IN IT) and this reaction is metabolic acidosis. To neutralize the acid, your body utilizes its most readily available acid buffer (calcium) and pulls it from your bones which leads to osteoporosis. You flush this all out in your urine, which leads to a direct correlation between prostate cancer and casein (cow breastmilk protein) consumption.

These animal proteins also linked to other cancers, asthma, hormonal diseases, kidney failure, and diabetes.

Hormonal diseases? But I get the kind of milk that is RGH free, so I’m good…right?

“This has absolutely nothing to do with bovine growth hormone which is being used in the States but not in Canada to increase milk production. That’s an irrelevant factor. But what is not irrelevant is that today cows are milked for about 300 days a year, and much of that time the cows are pregnant. Estrogen sulphate, the main estrogen in milk, is about thirty times as abundant in milk from pregnant cows than in milk from non-pregnant ones. And the amount of estrogen increases during the later stages of pregnancy.”

This is a great interview with Dr. Neal Barnard explaining it all in depth, but in short: estrogen is a handy little hormone that we naturally produce, and it likes to signal cells to multiply and divide. When we add high-in-estrogen-cow-breastmilk into our systems it throws our body out of balance leading to: early menstruation, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, endometrial cancer, ovarian cancer, and the prostate cancer mentioned above.

Wait! How do they cause diabetes? Your body can’t process those animal fats, so they build-up and create toxic fatty breakdown products and free radicals that block the insulin-signaling process, close the 'glucose gate,' and make blood sugar levels rise.

What do our kidneys have to do with this? Again (and again, and AGAIN), your body isn’t meant to process those animal fats, so your kidneys go into overdrive trying to filter out the contaminants. Just like your endothelial cells are affected moments after you consume animal products (harming your whole cardiovascular system and leading to heart disease and dementia), your kidneys are put in the same lurch. Animal products cause “an impairment of kidney blood flow, inflammation, subsequent leakage of protein in the urine, and a rapid decrease in kidney function.”

Did you know of the environmental impacts tied to cow-breastmilk consumption? It’s right up there with the affects of raising animals to consume their flesh:

“Dairy cows and their manure produce greenhouse gas emissions which contribute to climate change. Poor handling of manure and fertilizers can degrade local water resources. And unsustainable dairy farming and feed production can lead to the loss of ecologically important areas, such as prairies, wetlands, and forests.”

Did you know that even Canada removed dairy from its food pyramid and we have doctors here in the United States trying to do the same thing, or to at least post warnings that it is linked to cancer? Did you know that 70% of humans are lactose intolerant and that the numbers are higher in those of Asian and African descent? Did you know there are doctors out there —like Dr. Milton Mills— sounding the alarm that the American Dietary guidelines pushing milk are institutionalized racism?

If you like the taste of cow breastmilk so much you don’t care about any of the above damage and could care less about how dairy production is harming the earth (and the animals suffering to give it to you), that is your choice to make, and it is my empathetic choice to keep verbally shaking you awake to the realities; because: ignorance is bliss until you have been informed, and then it is just willful disregard.

If you’re like us and the above information slapped you right up side the head, here are a feast of plant-based calcium sources that are as kind as they are healthy (cashews are one of those sources); and here are the simple directions to make a cashew cream, spicy/tasty cashew queso, and cashew cream cake recipe.