Originally Posted by
jamesstout
it is added in again thus not absorbed liek natural calcium in milk
>Yes, milk contains calcium, but don't be fooled by the amount of calcium listed on the label. Just because something contains much calcium does not mean your body can easily absorb it. Unlike plant protein, the ANIMAL PROTEIN ACCOMPANYING COW'S MILK, TENDS TO LEACH CALCIUM FROM THE BONES & passes it out of your body through urine. (Remer T, Manz F. Estimation of the renal net acid excretion by adults consuming diets containing variable amounts of protein. Am J Clin Nutr 1994;59:1356-61.)
> 12-year Harvard study of 78,000 women: the chances of breaking bones INCREASED the more milk they drank (Feskanich D, Willett WC, Stampfer MJ, Colditz GA. Milk, dietary calcium, and bone fractures in women: a 12-year prospective study. Am J Publ Health 1997;87:992-7)
> Australian study of men & women: those who drank more milk had DOUBLE the risk of fractures than those drank the least amount of milk (Cumming RG, Klineberg RJ. Case-control study of risk factors for hip fractures in the elderly. Am J Epidemiol 1994;139:493-503.)
If you are looking for easily absorbed calcium, dark green leafy vegetables, such as collard greens & kale are the best sources. Of course there are more convenient products like soy "milk" which contain complete, high quality protein & calcium. And yes, they can be fortified w/ more calcium to "compete" w/ milk. Just because it is fortified, does not make it any less absorbed.
Originally Posted by
urodacus
avoid too much soy: nothing like the calcium input you need for cycling... sat fats are only bad if you have a lot of other fat in your diet. full cream milk is a handy way of getting lots of carbs along with your Vitamin D and calcium and protein.
> Saturated animal fats are not bad for you? Guess it's some kinda revisionist medical theory I don't know about...
> Got Mucus?
"Dairy is a tremendous mucus producer and a burden on the respiratory, digestive, and immune systems." Christiane Northrup, M.D.
"The fact is: The drinking of cow milk has been linked to iron-deficiency anemia in infants and children; it has been named as the cause of cramps and diarrhea in much of the world’s population, and the cause of multiple forms of allergy as well."
(Frank Oski, M.D., the former director of the Department of Pediatrics of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and physician-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center)
After milk was removed from their diet, up to one third of children ceased having allergies. (American Academy of Allergy and Immunology Committee on Adverse Reactions to Food National Institutes of Health)
>You do not need cow's milk to get Vit. D. 15 min of direct exposure to sunlight is all you need per day. Ask any doctor (except those funded by the sunscreen industry that teaches us to fear sunlight all day).
> Humans are the only species that chooses to drink animal milk beyond weening (other animals only drink it because we give it to them, ever seen a cat milking a cow?) Also humans are the only ones who chooses to forcibly harvest & drink the milk of other animals, especially the kind designed for the offspring of a much larger species.