Posted on 11/17/2014 4:27:08 PM PST by steve86
Almost no one will dispute that when a baby is born, breast milk is the best nutrition a mother can provide. All mammals nurse their young, and breast milk benefits a newborn infant in ways above and beyond nutrition.
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More and more evidence is surfacing, however, that milk consumption may not only be unhelpful, it might also be detrimental.
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But if you believe the advertising of the dairy industry, and the recommendations of many scientific bodies, they are missing out on some fantastic benefits to milk consumption: that milk is good for bones, contains calcium and vitamin D, and does a body good.
Theres not a lot of evidence for these types of claims. In 2011, The Journal of Bone and Mineral Research published a meta-analysis examining whether milk consumption might protect against hip fracture in middle-aged and older adults. Six studies containing almost 200,000 women could find no association between drinking milk and lower rates of fractures.
More recent research confirms these findings. A study published in JAMA Pediatrics this year followed almost 100,000 men and women for more than two decades. Subjects were asked to report on how much milk they had consumed as teenagers, and then they were followed to see if that was associated with a reduced chance of hip fractures later in life. It wasnt.
A just-released study in The BMJ that followed more than 45,000 men and 61,000 women in Sweden age 39 and older had similar results. Milk consumption as adults was associated with no protection for men, and an increased risk of fractures in women. It was also associated with an increased risk of death in both sexes.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
An October thread mainly about the Swedish study:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3221980/posts
In a few weeks it'll be eggs again. And then coffee. And then bacon.
As Obola famously said, "Can I please just finish my waffle!?"
We’ll never get outa here alive.
Years ago I remember reading that Americans consume more calcium than almost any other nation, yet our rates of osteoporosis and such were among the highest. Clearly, something other than milk/calcium plays a part in weak bones and bone density.
Too bad. I will drink milk to my dying day if God is so kind as to provide it to me.
Whatever. I feel better when I drink milk and crappy when I don’t.
Vitamin D and K.
We spend far too much time indoors and not exercising.
HA! I might even have TWO glasses a day now.
I got my first case of shinsplints (which is really broken bones, just not broken in a way that gets a cast) about 5 years ago. And I couldn’t shake it, and couldn’t get rid of it, and it just wouldn’t go away. Months any time I did something with impact it hurt. Then one day I started craving milk (not generally much of a milk guy, it’s mostly for cooking in my home), and I spent a couple weeks just slamming milk down, half gallon would last 2 days tops. At the end of that my legs stopped hurting, shinsplints were gone, haven’t been a problem since. Cholesterol went through the roof for a while, but that’s much less painful and not tough to cure.
So, in the words of so many developers: works on my machine.
End bovine lactic slavery now!
I like my milk and jam sammiches ....
I’m 54, and still drink that wonderful stuff as if there was a b**by attached. And, I always will.
I’ve always drank 3-5 gallons of whole milk a week, am 77 years old, and will continue to do so!
Shove your study up your back side!
Vitamin D. It controls how much calcium your body can process, with D deficiency you can consume nothing but pure calcium and you’ll still have brittle bones. And with the way modern America fears the sun we don’t get enough D. It’s why most calcium pill also have D, that’s actually the part most folks need.
The milk only works when mixed with cookies.
In the United States, milk is often fortified with vitamin D, which many believe also lends the drink bone-friendly properties. But the evidence behind this assumption is sketchy as well. It is true that vitamin D is necessary for calcium absorption, and for bone health, but that doesnt mean that most people need to consume more. A meta-analysis published this year in The Lancet examined the effect of vitamin D supplementation on bone mineral density in middle-aged and older adults. It found that, for the most part, consuming extra vitamin D did not improve the bones of the spine, hip or forearm. It did result in a statistically significant, but less clinically meaningful, increase in bone density at the top of the thighbone. Taken as a whole, however, vitamin D had no effect on overall total body bone mineral density.
I don’t care. I’m still going to drink it .... in moderation, of course.
This is like coffee. One day a study comes out saying coffee is bad for you. The next day, another study says coffee is bad for you. Then another study says coffee is good for you. And on and on.
Personally, I think most of these experts don’t know what the bleep they’re talking about.
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