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Dear Mr. Stoll,
I read your book(very good by the way) and I was thinking about cutting milk out of my diet because I heard it has lactose. First of all, does it really have lactose because it doesn't say it on the ingredients(it really should though)? Secondly, if I cut out milk will I become calcium deficient and will that have a negative effect on my body? What would you recommend i do?
In Reply to: avoiding milk...cuz of lactose? posted by John on January 30, 2003 at 10:35:04:
You heard right. Milk has lactose. Since the animals that produce the milk put in the lactose, the bottlers don't have to declare it on the label. I guess it is just another sneaky trick by manufacturers and their lackey animals to get out of labeling their products properly. How low will they stoop?
Are you trying to correct a problem, or do you just have the extra time to dabble in autoexperimentation?
In Reply to: avoiding milk...cuz of lactose? posted by John on January 30, 2003 at 10:35:04:
It is reputed that culturing cow's milk for 24 hours into yogurt will eliminate the lactose (break the lactose down into galactose and glucose) but you would still have to deal with the casein and about 27 other proteins. Do you have a problem with lactose?
In Reply to: avoiding milk...cuz of lactose? posted by John on January 30, 2003 at 10:35:04:
Lactose is milk sugar. It is digested by lactase enzymes in your body. If you lack this enzyme, you are lactose intolerant. If you eat YOGURT, the lactose is digested by the benefical bacteria. So when you eat it, it doesn't cause as many problems. Also, when milk is fermented into yogurt, calcium, protein, and all nutrients are absorbed better. However, I don't recommend you consume ANY cow yogurt. If you are going to have it, have goat yogurt. It is MUCH better absorbed. If you can find RAW goat yogurt, you have hit the nutritional jackpot!! Raw yogurt has up to 5x more usable calcium than pasturized yogurt.
Now, if you decide to avoid all milk products, that's ok too. Most people do not absorb calcium well from milk because no magnesium is present and the pasturization process makes the calcium inorganic (not usable). Get your calcium from green vegetables which contain supporting nutrients which effectively get the calcium into your bones. The USA has the highest consumption of dairy in the world. We also have the highest OSTEOPOROSIS in the world. Don't believe the dairy/calcium/osteoporosis talk. It's all hype. You NEED calcium but you can get plenty of it if you eat vegetables and juice them as well. Taking a calcium supplement can round you out if you don't get enough. Just know that calcium needs magnesium, vitamin K, boron, vitamin D, manganese, silicon, chromium, and zinc to be properly utilized. I hope that helps
-HY
In Reply to: Re: avoiding milk...cuz of lactose? posted by cris on January 30, 2003 at 14:01:09:
thanks everyone, no i don't have a problem with milk or lactose, its just that in Walt's book, part of his diet mentions staying away from anything that ends in -ose. What other products have -ose in it that I don't know about? Maybe one day the truth will be revealed and Corporate America will stop fooling us.
In Reply to: Re: avoiding milk...cuz of lactose? posted by Helping You on January 31, 2003 at 01:32:36:
Thanks, HY.
It really is amazing how much the advertizing media gets people's eyes glazing over as an indication that they have stopped thinking.
Just the one statistic that the US citizen uses more dairy than any other country and has the highest incidence of osteoporosis should cut through the glazing but it seems it is still not enough.
Namaste`
Walt
In Reply to: Re: avoiding milk...cuz of lactose? (Archive in dairy.) posted by Walt Stoll on January 31, 2003 at 09:08:58:
That's exactly it! As long as the "experts" continue to force-feed the American people these "facts", Americans will continue to suffer. MY goal is to dispell as many of these myths as possible. Thank GOD that there ARE reputable sources of factual information available to dispell what we have "known" for many years. It's amazing what we will believe.
-HY
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