Following is a guest post by Sydney Johnston, a free lance health writer. Her take on milk is the opposite of what you hear from Weight Watchers. Read on and you decide how you want to deal with milk in your diet.
Milk and Weight Loss: Friends or Foes?
If we can believe the dairy industry, milk and weight loss go together like chocolate and peanut butter. Celebrities like Brooke Shields, Mariska Hargitay, Sheryl Crow and Glenn Close lounge in magazine ads, earnestly assuring us that their great bodies are the result of drinking milk. But is the link between weight and milk genuine?
"Nutrition Reviews", a respected scientific journal, reviewed 49 different studies and found:
- 41 of the research papers indicated no relationship whatsoever between dairy and weight loss
- Two studies declared that milk and dairy products increased weight, rather than reduced it
- Six of the studies found that folks who drank milk lost weight - but these six were financed by none other than the American Dairy Association
This is very unconvincing evidence. And here are three more thoughts on dairy and weight loss:
1. The Dairy Association promotes "24:24", meaning three glasses, or 24 ounces of milk every day. That's an extra 300 calories that could be "spent" in other ways.
2. Dairy products all contain lactose, which is a very concentrated sugar. Sugar + too much fat ... do we need to say anything else?
3. All that lactose sugar is nothing less than a tasty buffet for all microforms, mycotoxins, parasites and other nasties that live in our guts, stop us us from proper digestion and steal the vitamins and minerals that should be used for radiant health. The less efficient our digestion, the harder it is to lose weight and keep it off.
The idea that milk is a big help for slimming down is only self- serving advertising. Cow's milk is only good for baby cows. It won't help anyone to lose pounds and it is definitely not good for the human body.
About the Author Sydney Johnston has been a researcher and free-lance writer in the health field for 11 years. She is a student and apprentice of Dr. Robert Young, the originator of the pH Balance diet. Get one year of weight loss tips that avoid torture, suffering & starvation!
I still believe you need Milk or cheese!
It's been shown it helps you loose weight. No don't drink whole milk but it would be it should be in your diet. This is just my opinion
Posted by: Kaitlynn | May 20, 2009 at 05:30 PM