Lactose = EVIL?????

[Temple]

Spats - you kind of touched on this in another thread and it is the one thing (well actually there are several) but this is the one that has been bugging me of late. Is skim milk good or bad when cutting. There was a thread on the diet board that said it was low glycemic yada yada, the calcium helped with fat loss blah blah.

God know I love the stuff but if it is what is keepin' this fat on my ass it will go.

Does anyone have a definitive answer on this?????

 

[wyst]

I don't have the answer, but I'll give a bump.

I can't live without my milk. I actually drink 1% milk, lol. I got in the habit when I was recovering form my bad old dieting days and realized I wasn't eating enough fat, so I traded up from skim. I drink a ton of milk. It's my comfort food.

Wyst

 

[diamonddiceclay]

serious bb'ers prepping for contests should avoid dairy. So should any 1 wishing to get bf down in single digits

 

[Sassy69]

This organic nutrition chick I worked w/ last summer suggested that I totally stay away from dairy & stick w/ soy - cheese, yogurt, etc. Although if you notice there's a bunch of carbs & fat in this stuff. Now I generally just stay away from all of it - though I still throw on a couple dribbles of soy cheese on my mexican food. I even skip the cheese when I got to Mexican restaurants and just bury my stuff in jalapenos - so your taste buds couldn't tell if there was cheese on there if they wanted to !

I did notice when I start cutting for competition, I have absolutely no dairy tolerance to speak of. Even something like low fat yogurt makes me pay dearly. So in general, its just easier & less painful to just avoid all dairy. I keep some Lactaid pills around just in case tho.

 

[Brishen]

(Long time lurker, first-or-second-or-third-time poster....)

Yogurt has too much sugar any way you slice it.

Is this true even of no-fat natural yogourt? It has zero added sugar or sugar-substitues. Are you talkin' about naturally occuring sugars? The lactose? I'm not lactose intolerant, but I find that milk products make me too... moucous-y, therefore I consume very little of it but the occasional 1/2 cup in a shake. Is dairy bad for you in general?

*Rushes off to the Search button...!*

 

[Brishen]

http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=100026&highlight=lactose

Aaaaaaah. Excellent thread on this.

 

[Temple]

why didn't I find that when I searched?????
Thanks for the link Brishen.

I still kind of dig the soy milk so may do a self experiment and see if it makes a difference.

 

[Brishen]

Mmmmmmmmmm... luscious soy goodness.... (Homer Simpson-esque drool sound.)

 

[starfish]

Personally, I think the only animal who is supposed to drink cow's milk are baby cows

 

[aurelius]

Personally, I think the only animal who is supposed to drink cow's milk are baby cows

Looks like it´s back to breast milk for me!

 

[starfish]

LOL, Aurelis

I read something once about the dairy industry- wish I could remember where. Totally turned me off about milk..

 

[Audacious1]

I remember reading an article somewhere, (i'll try to find it and post it) that stated that keeping dairy in your diet will HELP with fat loss. There is a certain ingredient in dairy that is good with fat loss. I had cut dairy out of my diet completely for a while and when i reached a steady period i decieded to change my diet and add dairy...within a week or two the fat started to come off again and i have continued to drink skim milk for the past 2 months and have continued to see wonderful results with fat loss. Now everyone's body is different...so who knows, i might just have one of those weird systems and it may not work for you. Just thought i'd share my experience on the subject

 

[Brishen]

I have read a statistic (can't remember the source, sorry) that 70% of adults are unable to digest lactose, anyway. Maybe you're one of the lucky ones, Audacious! I also heard a nasty rumour that dairy makes you "puffy." I have no idea what "puffy" would mean, there, but that's what I heard....

 

[MS]

Of course you all realize that "dairy" also applies to whey protein and casein/cottage cheese. I hope you're not going to cut all of those out of your diet as well, though real food is always better than pulverized and instantized stuff.

If you're not allergic/lactose intolerant then lactose is just another carbohydrate, and low GI at that. However, if you have problems with lactose then don't eat it! There is some evidence that components of dairy foods are actually insulogenic and result in a higher insulin response with a mixed meal (this means the GI appears low because your pancreas produces extra insulin). This may be a good or bad thing depending on whether you're a BB with good insulin sensitivity or an overweight insulin resistant couch spud.................

 

[wyst]

Yogurt has too much sugar any way you slice it. Unless it's Nutrasweet sweetened, and I don't consume aspartame.

How about just plain unsweetened lowfat or nonfat yoghurt? I drop a frozen strawberry or blueberry or two (literally just a few a couple berries) mash it up good, and I think that's not too bad a snack...

Wyst