Posted on 11/17/2014 4:27:08 PM PST by steve86
An October thread mainly about the Swedish study:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3221980/posts
In a few weeks it'll be eggs again. And then coffee. And then bacon.
As Obola famously said, "Can I please just finish my waffle!?"
We’ll never get outa here alive.
Years ago I remember reading that Americans consume more calcium than almost any other nation, yet our rates of osteoporosis and such were among the highest. Clearly, something other than milk/calcium plays a part in weak bones and bone density.
Too bad. I will drink milk to my dying day if God is so kind as to provide it to me.
Whatever. I feel better when I drink milk and crappy when I don’t.
Vitamin D and K.
We spend far too much time indoors and not exercising.
HA! I might even have TWO glasses a day now.
I got my first case of shinsplints (which is really broken bones, just not broken in a way that gets a cast) about 5 years ago. And I couldn’t shake it, and couldn’t get rid of it, and it just wouldn’t go away. Months any time I did something with impact it hurt. Then one day I started craving milk (not generally much of a milk guy, it’s mostly for cooking in my home), and I spent a couple weeks just slamming milk down, half gallon would last 2 days tops. At the end of that my legs stopped hurting, shinsplints were gone, haven’t been a problem since. Cholesterol went through the roof for a while, but that’s much less painful and not tough to cure.
So, in the words of so many developers: works on my machine.
End bovine lactic slavery now!
I like my milk and jam sammiches ....
I’m 54, and still drink that wonderful stuff as if there was a b**by attached. And, I always will.
I’ve always drank 3-5 gallons of whole milk a week, am 77 years old, and will continue to do so!
Shove your study up your back side!
Vitamin D. It controls how much calcium your body can process, with D deficiency you can consume nothing but pure calcium and you’ll still have brittle bones. And with the way modern America fears the sun we don’t get enough D. It’s why most calcium pill also have D, that’s actually the part most folks need.
The milk only works when mixed with cookies.
In the United States, milk is often fortified with vitamin D, which many believe also lends the drink bone-friendly properties. But the evidence behind this assumption is sketchy as well. It is true that vitamin D is necessary for calcium absorption, and for bone health, but that doesn’t mean that most people need to consume more. A meta-analysis published this year in The Lancet examined the effect of vitamin D supplementation on bone mineral density in middle-aged and older adults. It found that, for the most part, consuming extra vitamin D did not improve the bones of the spine, hip or forearm. It did result in a statistically significant, but less clinically meaningful, increase in bone density at the top of the thighbone. Taken as a whole, however, vitamin D had no effect on overall total body bone mineral density.
I don’t care. I’m still going to drink it .... in moderation, of course.
This is like coffee. One day a study comes out saying coffee is bad for you. The next day, another study says coffee is bad for you. Then another study says coffee is good for you. And on and on.
Personally, I think most of these experts don’t know what the bleep they’re talking about.
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