Posted on 02/25/2010 8:11:01 AM PST by decimon
Cow belle ping.
Really, baloney! While I consume lots of dairy products myself and think they are great, the amount of vitamin D in milk is small and you can get the other nutrients from other foods. Human adults were not designed to require milk, and human infants were not designed for milk other than human.
Surely they're not implying that "lowfat and fat free milk and milk products" have a greater nutritional value than dairy products containing natural amounts of milk fat.
I’ve tried almond milk recently. It’s pretty good.
It causes gas, diarrhea, severe discomfort, AND inhibits the uptake of ALL OTHER NUTRIENTS!!!!
As one of 90% of those of Asian descent sufferers (those within a 10 foot circle suffer, me not so much) I say man up and open the windows. Milk is goooood.
“I’ve tried almond milk recently. It’s pretty good.”
Thanks for that, I have a carton that I haven’t tried yet. Vanilla Rice milk is very good. I have severe diverticulitis and lactose intolerance...not an easy situation to juggle.
How, then, do vegans/vegetarians survive in good health?
I drank a lot of milk as a child, and have had only one broken/cracked bone. My tailbone, from falling down the basement stairs trying to catch my ferret one morning. Ouch.
Was thinking the same thing. I even used Lactaid milk, but I still have digestive problems.
All these studies and expert bloviating...they don’t know what the h*** they are talking about.
Yea really!
I’m only mildly lactose intolerant and if I drink a glass of milk my stomach starts cramping in 15-20 minutes. Luckily, I can consume pretty much any other dairy product without any major issues. I’m thankful for it because I love cheese.
I was Lactose intolerant. Then, my boss made me go to a multicultural sensitivity seminar. Now, I have the same respect for Lactoses as I do for everyone else.
“I even used Lactaid milk, but I still have digestive problems.”
It’s my understanding that if you are still having problems, then it’s not the Lactose in the milk that’s upsetting your digestion it’s other sugars in the milk? I can’t drink milk or the lactose free milk either. I switched to almond milk which is even better than soy milk in my opinion.
For some reason fat has become the enemy, dietwise. I low carb, and don’t go out of my way to eat fat, but I don’t avoid it either. My cholesterol is healthy, and in fact, when I had a stroke eval done not long ago the tech said EVERYONE should have my arteries.
For some reason, *they* (whoever they are) want us on a diet that is ultra low in fat and consists mostly of grains and vegetables.
Could you not have a problem with some other component of milk? I think a true allergy would be a reaction to a protein, but I don’t think the issues would be digestive, but rather more like hay fever type symptoms.
I’ve never had almond milk. Is that nutritionally close to regular milk or soymilk?
Personally, I like soymilk, but only the light vanilla. The plain doesn’t appeal to me.
I suspect there are a lot of hormones in milk (used by dairy farmers to increase production) than years ago.
I often wonder if true vegans really do survive in optimum health, since humans are designed to eat a variety of things, including animals. However, all nutrients can be had on a vegan diet, altho I personally would suppliment if I were eating that way.
Hell, you can take probiotics that are made to help digest dairy products. Half the time I think lactose-intolerant people just don’t have the bacterial flora they need to aid them in digesting milk products. If you supplement it you can re-populate the gut with the necessary bacteria and probably deal with it a lot better.
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