Enzyme Questions and Answers

Q45-Should children take enzymes?

Yes.  Children usually eat the same enzyme-deficient foods as their parents.  Breast feeding is an important way babies receive enzymes.  Children that are breast-fed acquire dozens of enzymes from their mother's milk.  Bottle-fed babies receive pasteurized milk that has been heated, which destroys the milk enzymes.  Drinking pasteurized milk, causes the baby's enzyme factory to begin using its reserve of enzymes from day one.  Research indicates that this could be harmful for the child.  A study involving 20,061 babies was divided into three groups: breast-fed, partially breast-fed, and bottle-fed.  They studied the morbidity (sickness) rate for the first nine months of the infant's life.  They found that 37.4% of the breast-fed infants had sickness; in comparison to 53.8% of the partially breast-fed; and 63.6% of the bottle-fed.  It is obvious that babies who were entirely breast-fed were healthier than babies who were only partially breast-fed or who were bottle-fed.  They also examined the mortality rates of these different groups, which are presented as follows:

The mortality rate among the bottle-fed infants was 56 times greater than among the breast-fed.  In the United States one deformed child is born every 5 minutes, which is the equivalent of one in every ten families.  This adds up to 250,000 deformed babies yearly.

Dr. Anders Hakannson at Lund University in Sweden discovered that when he added mothers milk to cultured cancer cells that were alive prior to the addition of the milk, he soon found them to be dead.  Further tests indicated that only tumor cells were killed by the milk, while normal adult cells were left intact.

Research is trying to tell us that we, which includes pregnant women and children, must eat raw foods that contain enzymes and/or take supplemental enzymes.