I usually avoid dairy as I found that drinking milk (pasteurised,
homogenised), after about 6 weeks I would always come down with something
(Flu, head cold) brought on I think by the build up
of mucous
I thought i was lactose intolerant but I recently read the symptoms of
lactose intolerance and I don't experience them.
Has anyone had a similar experience and know why it happens?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Kleisner" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: fw: interesting article: Veg out, live longer
> "Maddy Mason" <MyTGoldens> wrote:
>
> <bruce>
> > > >Calorie restriction is not healthy.
> > >
> > > This is a blanket statement which has no basis in reality. Calorie
> > > restriction experiments have been going on for the better part of
> > > a century, and have been proven to extend youth/life in every single
> > > organism ever tested
>
> Only when feeding animals a low-fat, high-carb, processed,
> and non-paleo diet. Would the same results apply if we fed
> them their natural diet of fresh unprocessed foods and at
> least 50% raw foods?
>
> > > Walford and nearly
> > > all of his followers are about as far from Paleo as one can get..
> > > follow a nearly, or totally vegetarian diet; many are Vegan..
> > > high fiber, high grain and legume, very low fat.. suffer from
> > > fatigue, lethargy, low sex drive, depression, and worse, serious
> > > osteoporosis. To blame all of this on the number of calories..
> > > with no regard to the makeup of the diet, is erroneous.
>
> Most complain of feeling cold and hungry all the time.
> We can get the same benefits of CR (and more) just by
> eating less frequently. Why torture ourselves risking
> out health with starvation? Mice get the benefits of
> a 40% reduction by eating one meal a day or fasting &
> feasting on alternate days. This applies even if they
> eat the same amount overall. If the same applies with
> humans, it refutes the calorie restriction theory.
>
> http://www.you.com.au/news/1706.htm
>
> > CR sure does become unhealthy, once one crosses the threshold
> > into starvation. It could be that many of the sick practitioners
> > just do not get enough calories.
>
> Man does not live on calories alone. They crossed the
> threshold when they began suffering chronic diseases
> like osteoporosis, arthritis, and ALS. Their diets do
> not provide the optimal nutrition of CRON. They don't
> even provide adequate nutrition (CRAN). They are all
> brainwashed by low-fat vegetarian lies.
>
> > nobody has any way of knowing if Walford would have developed
> > ALS many years sooner if he had not been practicing CR.
>
> True, but no one knows if he wouldn't have developed it
> had he eaten high-fat/low-carb, paleo, raw animal food,
> or other primitive diet (Price/Pottenger/Fallon).
>
> > I don't believe he practiced a very severe form of
> > CR anyway.
>
> Walford claims to eat 1600 Calories a day. He stands
> 5'8" tall and weighs 130 pounds. That sounds extreme
> to me. Most 5'8" women don't weigh 130 lbs. Not very
> many 5'4" women weigh 130 pounds, except waif models
> and emaciated celebrities.
>
>
http://www.lef.org/news/aging/2003/01/06/REC/0000-0300-KEYWORD.Missing.html
>
> > > it does irritate me that all CR is lumped into the
> > > Walford type of diet... you can't do CR with a Paleo diet?...
> > > CR is usually abbreviated as CRON, meaning Calorie
> > > Restriction with Optimal Nutrition... of course, what is
> > > optimal nutrition?
>
> We might not need to restrict calories at all. Just
> avoiding processed foods, eating low-carb, and less
> frequent meals probably provides the same benefits,
> with none of the drawbacks. Surely, it wouldn't be
> that hard to feast and fast on alternate days.
>
> Just eating 2 meals a day instead of 3 probably has
> a comparable effect to CR. You want to reduce your
> body's exposure to insulin, and all food stimulates
> insulin. Meat, fish, and dairy stimulate a greater
> insulin response than oatmeal and white pasta.
>
> http://venus.nildram.co.uk/veganmc/insulin.htm
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