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In a message dated 2/20/2008 1:57:45 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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I'm not sure about clean unprocessed dairy not being paleo and I know this
has been discussed here many times but you have a point about the growth
hormones.
I too wrestle endlessly with the dairy issue. Women of Crete for example
have low breast cancer rates yet cheese and yoghurt are prominent in their
cuisine. My grandmother was Italian, had children at the alleged "protective" age
but moved to America in her 20s and later developed breast cancer. She went on
to live to just shy of 100. She was never overweight but ate a mixed diet,
some processed foods but teensy portions. Her two sisters never moved to
America, never had children and never got breast cancer. Both of them lived to
their 90s. All of these women ate the dairy products that are featured so
prominently in Italian cuisine -- cheeses. When people speak of the Med diet being
low in fat I want to laugh. I have no idea what Med type diet is low in fat.
The French, Italians, Greeks and Spaniards all eat plenty of dairy and have
done so for centuries. I think that dairy is not paleo in any form but if it
makes the diet possible to maintain as a lifestyle, then that is a personal
choice. For those who have to eat a limited carbohydrate paleo style regime due
to blood sugar problems etc, dairy products certainly add variety and
convenience. I will add that Austrian physician Wolfgang Lutz, MD -- author of Life
Without Bread, still practices medicine in his mid 80s has kept meticulous
records of thousands of his patients. He mentions that breast cancer was the most
prevalent cancer in his female patients and those that followed the
carbohydrate restriction did not suffer metastases. The only exception to this was one
patient who was found to already have metasteses at the time of her
diagnoses. His low-carb plan does not omit dairy and in fact he considers butter to be
an important fat for health. This is just his observation of patients he has
followed for decades -- but I found it interesting. Anyway, dairy is not
paleo by any stretch so if one wants to be a purist -- just omit it entirely.
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