Eating unnatural foods for the sake of cutting calories

wellz6

Hi all, came across an article awhile back that I thought I'd share. I've been doing quite a bit of research into things such as health, nutrition, etc. since 2006. I know many people out there are currently watching calories in order to achieve a certain weightloss goal. I'm sure many of you have been exposed to the whole "processed food vs real food" debate. I have my own opinions on the matter but I'll let everyone read the article below for themselves and form their own opinion.

This post is simply going to be on skim milk, which I'm sure many people on this forum consume in order to cut back on calories. Some people may already be aware of the information that is presented in this article, but others may not be, so I'm simply sharing this article for those who may be consuming skim milk, or other foods for that matter, without really knowing much about how these foods are processed and the fact that they may not be healthy for you at all even if they are low in calories.

http://butterbeliever.com/fat-free-dairy-skim-milk-secrets/

I'll post a few summaries below but feel free to read the entire article to get the full scoop.

1) People haven’t always bought into the idea that fat is unhealthy. It all started with a flawed theory by a scientist who said that saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart disease - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8WA5wcaHp4

2) Before processing, skim milk has a very unappetizing blueish color, a chalky taste, and watery texture that doesn’t resemble natural milk at all. So, to whiten, thicken, and make it taste a little more normal, powdered milk solids are often mixed into the milk. In the manufacturing process, liquid milk is forced through tiny holes at very high pressure, which causes the cholesterol in the milk to oxidize, and toxic nitrates to form. Oxidized cholesterol contributes to the buildup of plaque in the arteries, while unoxidized cholesterol from unprocessed foods is actually an antioxidant to help fight inflammation in the body. The proteins found in powdered milk are so denatured that they are unrecognizable by the body and contribute to inflammation.

3) Dairy manufacturers are not required by the FDA to label the powdered milk as a separate ingredient, because it’s still technically just “milk,” the single ingredient found on the list. So, there’s no way to be sure that it is or isn’t in your fat-free or low-fat dairy products.

4) The skim milk you’ll find in most grocery stores is a mass-produced product from animals in concentrated animal feeding operations, or factory farms, which you can read more about here - http://butterbeliever.com/whats-in-my-milk-part-one-industrialized-dairy/

5) Cows in factory farms are legally allowed injections of recombinant bovine growth hormones, or rBGH, which are banned in virtually every industrialized nation in the world, except the United States.

6) Researchers at the Harvard medical school found that, contrary to their hypothesis, “skim and 1% milk were associated with weight gain, but dairy fat was not,” in a study in which thousands of children’s milk drinking habits were surveyed. These studies have showed that a reduced-fat diet, similarly to a reduced-calorie diet, does not result in long-term weight loss and health, but instead leads only to “transient” weight loss — that would be weight that comes piling right back on after it’s temporarily shed - http://healthyliving.msn.com/diseases/cholesterol/is-skim-milk-making-you-fat-1

meshashesha2012

luke skywalker drank blue milk



if it's good enough for the last Jedi, why is it not good for you? :huh:








just kidding skim milk is nasty

wellz6

luke skywalker drank blue milk

if it's good enough for the last Jedi, why is it not good for you? :huh:

just kidding skim milk is nasty

I guess if the force is strong with you, then you can tolerate just about anything

wheird

Protein found in skim milk is unrecognizable to the body, eh?

livingleanlivingclean

I tend to not eat a lot of dairy, but choose local organic products when I do, in the hope that the cows are treated better, and thee d product is better...

I have changed my eating habits in regards to sweet food too. I went through a "diet/no sugar" period where I ate a lot of artificially sweetened products in the place of higher cal "real" sugar. They cause havoc on my stomach, so now I just choose the real option and have less of it! The artificially sweetened products taste wrong now!

wellz6

Protein found in skim milk is unrecognizable to the body, eh?

That's what it states. Honestly I'm not sure how to prove or disprove this specifically. I think a human body works best on foods eaten as close to nature intended as possible. But with the capabilities of the human body maybe it can still find a way to use the proteins, who knows.