Amazing Weight-Loss from Yogurt??? Ooh, yeah!

[Katherine Brengle]

What a total load of bs...

Anyway, I found this great article--I think it is from last year, but I hadn't seen it, so I am willing to bed most people haven't seen it. This passage amused me quite a bit:

Consider for a moment the one true purpose of milk. Whether
you believe in God or Mother Nature or evolution, you must
admit that milk was designed for an infant to gain weight,
not lose weight. Milk is not diet food. Milk is a calorie-
rich food, containing fat and growth hormones which make
mammals grow, not shrink. If you are made to believe that
milk and dairy products make you lose weight, you might also
have believed the Iraqi minister of propaganda who went on
television to tell his people that American Soldiers were
committing suicide at the gates of Baghdad. The dairy
industry lie is much worse, because it fools you into
believing that an unhealthy product designed to turn calves
into 1500-pound monsters will end America's obesity
epidemic.

It gave me a giggle... :rofl:

Here's the rest if you want it: http://www.notmilk.com/dairywhorelie.html

[WindRavenX]

1. Well, he does have a point

We were designed to ingest milk as infants/children, but not as adults--that's a relatively new evolutionary development with the advent of domestication of animals ~10K years ago. There's a reason many people develop lactose intollerance with age.

But milk and dairy products are an excellent source of calcium and protein for many people. I wouldn't recommend chugging whole milk on a diet, but skim milk is a great way to fill "full" and perhaps ultimately eat less.

[Katherine Brengle]

3. No, I agree with him--

I am vegan, lol.

I think it is completely unnatural for adults to consume breastmilk (which is what milk is, after all) and I think it is completely unnatural for humans to consume the breastmilk of other animals.

There are better sources of calcium out there for human beings--we were never meant to consume another animal's milk, therefore it has no logical or healthy place in our diets. There is considerable scientific evidence that excessive consumption of calcium can actually increase one's chance for osteoperosis as well. In addition to that, most people do not consume the other things they need to to draw the benefit from the calcium- and iron-rich animal foods they consume (such as Vitamin C, which is integral for absorption), so it's all for nuttin'.

Water makes you feel just as full, and it is better for the body.

:hi: :)

[WindRavenX]

6. true

But milk is a very good, cheap source of protein and calcium, so I don't get too bent out of shape when it is used almost exclusively for food programs. I personally love milk, though I know it is "unnatural" at my age (21) to drink it. But I try to drink organic (not Horizon, because they've been exposed as being non-organic).

[REP]

10. Drink Milk If You Like It, But Not For Calcium

Milk is actually a terrible way to get calcium. Milk is so hard for adult humans to digest that very little of the calcium actually makes it into the body. This info is not from the dairylie site, but from my doctor (I'm on a calcium *restriction* so I have to be careful to avoid high-calcium foods. I can have all the half-and-half I want in my coffee!).

I'm not knocking milk, especially non-RBGH, organic milk - but it's just not a great source of calcium. That's a bit of an oversell by the Dairy Council.

[populistdriven]

2. LactoBacillus ( Yogurt ) is one of the top 10 SuperFoods for long life

Everyone should eat one serving per day. It is found in both diary and soy-based yogurt.

YUM

How to make soy yogurt at home
http://www.bryannaclarkgrogan.com/page/page/1999382.htm
http://www.soya.be/how-to-make-soy-yogurt.php

Nutritionist Jo Ann Hattner says if she could pick only two superfoods, they would be yogurt and tea, because their health-giving attributes have been known for centuries.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/04/FDGQBGG57F1.DTL

The top 10 super foods
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/dietfitness.html?in_article_id=369042&in_page_id=1798

Steven Pratt, MD, author of SuperFoods RX: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life, includes these foods on his list:
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/112/110396.htm
* Beans
* Blueberries
* Broccoli
* Oats
* Oranges
* Pumpkin
* Salmon
* Soy
* Spinach
* Tea (green or black)
* Tomatoes
* Turkey
* Walnuts
* Yogurt

Top 10 superfoods
http://www.homemakers.com/homemakers/client/en/food/DetailNews.asp?idNews=450

[TahitiNut]

7. Yum Most of those are among my favorite foods.

I learned to like broccoli (steamed) when Poppy Bush announced he hated it. I eat ALL of those foods.

[serryjw]

8. Actually I agree

I find my little yogurt and banana snack balances my sugar and I do lose weight. You don't have this uncontrollable urge for sweets. I have been on non fat milk for 15 years. I switch to soy when I remember

[TahitiNut]

4. Would you like a little BGH with that burger?

:evilgrin:

[madeline_con]

5. Ooooh, dairywhorelie.! That's no nice.

O.K. so whole milk is made to make baby cattle grow.

We've manipulated it into other products, as well as removing the fat. It's yummy and nutritious. I'll take my chances. :)

[MrMonk]

9. Interesting site

I never knew that milk and milk-derived products were the cause of every illness known to man, woman or child.


:rofl: