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 Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:13 pm
My Google-Fu has revealed two theories on this: 1. It's not the milk per se - it's that consuming all that calcium wears out your bones. http://www.4.waisays.com/ExcessiveCalcium.htm2. It's the cooking. Pasteurized milk does not contain the enzymes needed for your body to absorb the calcium properly. http://hubpages.com/hub/Raw-Milk-Good-For-You
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:40 am
I could believe that, especially with how the milk industry pushes milk consumption. (those got milk? ads)
I remember reading that even homogenization is bad. Because it involves breaking the milk to make it uniform so the cream doesn't separate.
I found out recently from my mom that I was a soy baby. Milk formula gave me bad reactions and rashes so the doctor had her feed me soy formula. I'm not too keen on having been formula but I didn't say this to my mom and it was 25 years ago when I was born. Still I'm curious as to if that would linger to have any effect on my now. If it was the milk or other ingredients in the formula. I'm not lactose intolerant or anything but cow milk is one of the harder things to digest. Like health issues as a baby still affecting me as an adult?
I don't think I'm making sense. I'm still half asleep haha.
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:43 am
Probably. We've been brainwashed into thinking a lot of things have to be cooked to absolute sterility.
The problem isn't that the uncooked products (even meat) are in and of themselves so unhealthy, but rather that our clumsy methods of processing them end up with them contaminated. (Indeed, this school of thought is pervasive that some actually believe that to eat raw meat of any kind, no matter how fresh and well-handled, is a death sentence. Such thinking is utterly ridiculous and flies in the face of 2.5 million years of evidence.)
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:24 pm
Supposedly there is too much of some chemical (don't remember what it is, beena while since I studied this) in natural milk that prevents calmcium from being absorbed into the bones, and an excess of calcium can contribute to calcium deposits in the joints. So, from what I remember, milk=prevents already consumed/produced calcium from being absorbed while adding loads of extra calcium to contribute to calcium deposits. Yum.
My boyfriend was always told to "drink more milk," and he loved milk so he used to drink almost a gallon a day... His doctor always said that it was good for him to be getting so much calcium and that he'd probably grow quickly, but he ended up being really short until a month after he stopped drinking so much milk at 16, and he now has bad knees because there are awful calcium deposits in both knees.
stressed I don't drink milk (I've never liked it) and I haven't had any bone problems or calcium deficiencies at all, ever.
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:07 pm
I have also read somewhere that osteoporosis is increasing in teens and twenty-somethings---attributed mainly to the large quantities of carbonated drinks and fast foods consumed by this age group. The phosphoric acid in the drinks takes calcium from the bones and the teeth, in any age group.
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