Milk.....
It does a body good...or does it?
The argument can go on and on. There are the anti-milk folks and the pro-milk folks. The man I look up to for nutritional advice, Robb Wolf, is anti-milk. John Welbourn, the man behind CrossFit Football, recommends a paleo diet supplemented with milk (preferably raw milk from grass fed cows....not easy to find).
There is tons of information about milk on the internet. Funny how Google can formulate your side in the argument.Do a search on milk in Google and you can find information that argues both sides of the milk debate. I typed in "Milk and Mucous" because that is what I keep hearing milk haters talk about, and quite frankly I wasn't sure what they were talking about. On the first page of search results were websites saying milk causes mucous and websites saying milk doesn't cause mucous. WTF?
I guess what will happen is you will follow your own trail of information found on the internet, and that trail will formulate your opinions on the matter. All good....
So about milk. I know some people that are seeing FANTASTIC results from drinking milk. Dan is jugging a couple quarts of raw milk a day. He tells me his energy levels are through the roof, he feels great, and we have all seen his performance numbers. I started drinking a quart of whole milk after every training session and supplementing some of my meals with a couple glasses of the stuff. My strength numbers are climbing, and I am looking more muscular than I've looked in a long time. You can do a search on Google right after reading this and within 20 seconds find a slew of articles as to why Dan and I are screwing ourselves up, or why we are doing well drinking milk. (BTW- From some of what I have read, it appears I have no allergies to milk. I have gone several months without drinking it and had no ill side effects when I start drinking it again. Good thing...I love milk.)
You can post your arguments about milk here, or I invite you to CrossFit Unlimited on 2/4/2010 at 6:30 pm. Mark McAfee, the owner of Organic Pastures will be giving a free presentation about raw milk. Austin is encouraging people to show up who have questions, concerns or hatred of milk. Here is Austin's take on the seminar from the CrossFit Unlimited site:
"There are a ton of health benefits for drinking raw milk. There's an underground movement happening over this stuff and I want to learn more. So I have the owner of Organic Pastures, Mark McAfee, coming to the cell to do a presentation on raw milk and bring some free samples. He's coming straight from the farm in Fresno so I promised we would have at least 15 people there."
I am attending for sure. Anyone else interested, please post to comments so I can let Austin know.
Video from Mark McAfee.
7 comments:
I am 100% for paleo + dairy. It appears to be working well for me (although I have to admit I have never tried removing dairy). Nevertheless I think the milk-as-medicine people are pseudo-scientists. Unpasteurized milk is a great way to win an all expenses paid trip to Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria town. It this year's hot destination for practitioners of alternative medicine and anti-science. Grass-fed cow's milk, on the other hand, sounds like a pretty damn good idea. Why can't these doughnuts just sell grass-fed pasteurized milk with no other preservatives?
What Ben said.
I personally cut out dairy since starting paleo and it has worked great for me. I actually cheated and had some cheese less than a week ago and it played havoc on me. I actually felt pain in my abdomen and the end result was not good. This is just my perspective though.
Ben, you made a really great point about the raw milk causing potential problems such as Salmonella, E.Coli, etc. If you read Rippatoe's literature, he really pushes whole milk consumption for muscle gain. It all depends on what you as an individual wants in the end.
Oh, and wish me luck with my cert this weekend!
Many people get excess mucous or bowel irritation. There are also people who cannot manage to slim down with dairy even if they have no undesirable reaction to it. If you do not tolerate milk, do not consume it. I totally support people who have seen a difference making the choices that work for them.
Good luck and have fun Adam!
Im a pro Dairy, Paleo guy. I have ran the spectrum. Cut out all dairy for about 6 weeks and then started drinking 1/2- 1 gallon of milk a day. Difference...no milk - equaled leaner, skinnier, weaker on lifts, sprinting was slower, but endurance was up. With milk, reverse it. Overall, I toned it down to 1/4-1/2 gallon a day and I feel great.
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