Is it beneficial to, say, only drink skim milk when cutting (if you choose to drink it at all), and perhaps drink 2% (or, gulp, even whole milk) when bulking?
Any merit to this behavior at all?
Milk is highly insulinogenic (sp), meaning very anabolic due to insulin release. If you combine a lot of fat with milk sugar you’ll find yourself getting fat.
Milk has over 200,000,000 somatic cells in each liter, aka, puss. A large composition of milk is nothing but denatured and useless protein and puss, it is hardly worth consuming. Besides that fact, it is highly mucus forming and allergenic. Not even baby cows can survive on pasturized milk, they usually die shortly after birth if not feed on live breast milk. Another reason not to consume milk is that adult bodies are very poor at breaking down and digesting the casein protein and other proteins in milk. Every human is lactose intolerant to some degree, especially to other mammals milk. This is the reason why it then develops mucus in the body. Dn’t worry, your not the first person to be brainwashed by the dairy industry!
Related question.
From what do you (velocegatto and others) get your calcium from?
Also, do you never drink milk, or only sparingly? This is new to me.
Green veggies are a superior form of calcium than dairy. Many people would argue against this, but biochemically it’s true. Think about this, if milk was a good choice of calcium, why would they have to enrich it with synthetic forms of Vitamin D and Calcium? The same argument is made with bread, which obviously isn’t worth anything to your body as far as nutrition goes. When white bread was first making it’s intro, it was found in labs that not even mold could grow on it!..lol.
So, therefore we now have “enriched” bread, which is just one of the reasons for disease in america. Besides these facts, biochemically, the stomach requires a slightly acidic medium to absorb calcium, and milk is very basic, another reason it’s inferior. Here’s a great statistic for you, despite the fact that americans have the highest “intake” of calcium of any country in the world, we have the LOWEST bone mass density of any country! This includes third world coutries too. Doesn’t make sense to me either, but it’s true.
It obviously let’s us know that our problems are not in getting enough calcium in the diet, but instead in the digestion and absorbtion of natural and not synthetic forms of calcium. Oh, and in order to attain the slightly acidic medium I was talking about in the stomach all that is needed is to eat your green veggies with meat, the meat provides the acidic medium due to the amino acids, which can make it easier for the calcium to be absorbed.
Average serving (244g) of Whole Milk 3.25% Milkfat = 28% calcium ((((276mg))))
Average serving (67g) of Kale= 9% calcium ((((90.5mg))))
If you take the Kale x 3 servings (67 x 3 =201g compared to 244g of milk) to equal the 244g of a serving of whole milk (90.5 x 3 =271.5mg of calcium) the Kale is shown to be even higher than Milk in calcium for it’s serving size in grams.
Thus,
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201g of Kale contains 271.5 mg of calicum
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244g of Milk contains 276mg of calcium
When you look at it this way 244g of Kale has much more calcium than the same amount of milk. Not to mention when you throw in the other vitamins, it becomes apparent that milk isn’t worth that much nutritionally. Source of my Data: http://www.nutritiondata.com/
I reccomend drinking a shnood of goats milk, mixed with a philp of turtles blood and a diln of vampire bat guano, from a silver thimble every full moon. You’ll be running fast in no time.
(LMAO!!!) Velo… you always relate things to puss… ick!
What you say (ignoring the puss I am drinking in my coffee as we speak!!) is true.
I get a lot of my calcium from soy milk (the natural, non-flavoured kind) just mixed w/ my pro powder.
Now… back to my puss filled coffee before my work out…