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.”
There’s 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 wasn’t.
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 ...
It is called “vitamin D”. This ain’t rocket Science.
Sorry… I forgot the K2!
Don’t forget salt.
I am beginning to think that "Americans consume" massive quantities of things that are, in context, wholly alien to the body and we're seeing a total confused mess result. The farther away we get from simple food the way God made it, to bastardized man-made junk like Crisco and margarine (hydrogenized vegetable fats) and carbonated liquids out the ying-yang, not to mention nutso sugars like high-fructose corn syrup (as opposed to cane sugar) --
-- folks who eat "normal" in America are screwed up six ways to Sunday because their bodies are receiving "designer nutrition" created by food manufacturers and so-called health experts and scientists. But the human body doesn't process hydrogenized vegetable fat the same way it does butter or oil or animal fat. Shortening is down right BAD for you, physically, it turns out. I stopped using it and switched to lard years ago. Cholesterol levels in the household are fine, incidentally.
The healthiest people I know eat very, very simply, and not only eat simple vegetables and fruit and basic grains and bread, but also eat all the stuff that "conventional wisdom" used to say, or still says, isn't good for you -- meat, eggs, animal fat, dairy if they're lucky enough to be among the mere 40 percent or even less of humans on earth who are lactose tolerant. (I love my dairy! It's a nutritional short-cut that I cherish.)
People who appear healthy but who have chronic health issues, are folks who eat quite a lot of ready-made food, including "healthful" processed (and appropriately marketed!) stuff that's supposed to be better than what God provided.
So very puzzling in the locker room at the gym, where you see young women in their 20s and 30s who are not fat, but who are sludged over with cellulite. Something is going on there -- whatever it is that's causing that, I have ingested enough myself to get a tiny bit of cellulite. It's very odd.
Personally, nowadays for me and more and more healthy folks I know, it's rendered lard (it can actually lower cholesterol), butter, olive oil, meat, dairy, eggs, vegetables and fruit canned, fresh, or frozen; rice, beans, potatoes, some flour, some bread, (on the other hand, I'll eat all the oatmeal you put my way), and sweets you can make out of any or all of the above.
They are all simple foods more or less as God put on this earth from the start.
Vegan diets, with zero animal protein from either meat or dairy, nor even honey (bees are IN honey, basically), will kill a human child. Human children will DIE if forced to subsist on a vegan diet. Adult vegans survive ONLY because they were not vegan as children and/or because they are supplemented by man-made contrived nutritional boosters. That's stupid.
It's chemistry. We don't get to choose what kind of diet is good for us. It's already been decided.
Right. Salt. And, of course, sugar.
Need 400 mg of Magnesium everyday But 50 mgs of Zinc so it can be absorbed.
For years eggs caused cholesterol, then they were ‘the incredible edible egg’
Pork was bad for you, then ‘the new white meat’
Coffee was bad, now they say it helps fight obesity.
Unbelievable these studies, you can get the result you want depending on where you stand...left or right. I say if God created it in nature, the it’s good for you. Never eat fake food like margarine, because man has no idea what he is doing.
Please finish your waffle...’take two they’re small’.
I FORGOT!!!! The big S. SUGAR!
Oh goody the Slimes decides to chime in on what we should eat.....No doubt Mooch is encouraging them
Humans are the only mammal that feeds itself and its young milk long after the weaning period is over.
93 miles an hour or 93 years old? :-)
That’s really interesting. Looks like “the wisdom of the body” took over to get you to give it what it needed to heal. Of course “it” is “you.”
IT’S NOT MILK!
It’s some highly tweaked bio/chemical brew. If you want milk, get a cow.
I try to watch carbs but I just like fat free milk better. When I drink it to wash down chocolate cake, who cares?
Until very recently, I drank about a quart of fat-free milk a day, for the past 40-plus years (I switched to buttermilk a couple of weeks ago). My very wise mom advised me to stop drinking the non-fat stuff because, she reasoned, the body needs the fat to help process what's in the milk. So I switched to 2 percent AND LOST FOUR POUNDS in about two weeks.
Just goes to show -- listen to your mom!
Gimme some water and cookies...
NOT!
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