Dairy...

ChubbyBunny
ChubbyBunny Posts: 3,523 Member
edited September 19 in Food and Nutrition
I am sure this has come up before.....but my issue is dairy.

Now, I know it's super important to get it in. However, when I drink milk and consume a moderate amount of dairy products I tend to "puff up." My face gets rounder, I am more....squishy....all over.

So, here is my issue....how can I still get the benefits of dairy without the physical consequences. I have heard that not all supplements absorb well to give the needed amount.

Replies

  • ChubbyBunny
    ChubbyBunny Posts: 3,523 Member
    I am sure this has come up before.....but my issue is dairy.

    Now, I know it's super important to get it in. However, when I drink milk and consume a moderate amount of dairy products I tend to "puff up." My face gets rounder, I am more....squishy....all over.

    So, here is my issue....how can I still get the benefits of dairy without the physical consequences. I have heard that not all supplements absorb well to give the needed amount.
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    Hm, have you ever been tested for a milk allergy? There's not much you can do in that case besides avoid milk products, but if it's just a lactose or a whey problem, you can still consume some dairy products. If you're sensitive to whey, you wouldn't be able to do cottage cheese, milk, ice cream, or whey protein; but you could do hard cheese. If it's lactose, you'd experience GI problems with any dairy product.

    As far as replacing dairy, that's not hard. It's great for calcium, Vit D, and protein, but it's not a superfood essential to your diet. Just make sure you're taking a multivitamin, and take extra calcium, Vit D, and Vit C for absorption.
  • laurenk182004
    laurenk182004 Posts: 1,882 Member
    And that is why we missed sbs so much :heart:
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    And that is why we missed sbs so much :heart:

    Awwwe I missed you guys too! :happy:
  • ChubbyBunny
    ChubbyBunny Posts: 3,523 Member
    I haven't been tested for a milk allergy ever.

    To be honest, I wouldn't of noticed except the drastic change physically cause I didn't consume any dairy for a week except cheese and like one container of yogurt. That's it though.

    My face thinned out and some jigglage went away.
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    I haven't been tested for a milk allergy ever.

    To be honest, I wouldn't of noticed except the drastic change physically cause I didn't consume any dairy for a week except cheese and like one container of yogurt. That's it though.

    My face thinned out and some jigglage went away.

    Well food elimination is the best way to do it. When I became suspicious of my whey protein causing me to bloat, I switched to veggie/soy, and the feelings went away. You can test your reactions to different dairy products, like milk vs. hard cheese, and see if some don't cause a reaction.
  • ChubbyBunny
    ChubbyBunny Posts: 3,523 Member
    I'll try that.
    I've been able to drink Soy milk....and I did that for a while....

    Can the body stop making the enzymes that break down dairy?
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    I'll try that.
    I've been able to drink Soy milk....and I did that for a while....

    Can the body stop making the enzymes that break down dairy?

    Absolutely, and it's very common actually. You have to express genes for lactase production just like you have to express genes to keep your hair blonde and and your eyebrows growing. If gene expression ceases for whatever reason (usually because we don't need that feature), whatever it controlled goes away. So your hair can change color, and your body hair can stop growing, and you can stop producing lactase. It's common in adults...it's up in the air as to why exactly, but most people assume it's because we are weaned off breast milk as infants, so gene expression will naturally stop in early childhood. It doesn't, because we keep drinking cow's milk, but it doesn't comprise our entire diet like breastmilk, so we don't need lactase as often, and it's just not readily available. In cultures that don't drink animal milk, lactose intolerance is widespread.
  • ChubbyBunny
    ChubbyBunny Posts: 3,523 Member
    Wow....I had no idea.

    I will kinda fiddle with it this next week and see what happens.
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    Wow....I had no idea.

    I will kinda fiddle with it this next week and see what happens.

    Cool, you might want to buy some lactaid, it's lactase.
  • BrandNewLaura
    BrandNewLaura Posts: 1,650 Member
    Okay here's my really duh question of the day...and I mean really duh...I have been eating low fat yogurt at least once a day for awhile now, and today I noticed that the brand I've been eating has aspartame...and as much as I like the lower calorie and low fat yogurts, I've read and heard some terrible things about aspartame that I'd rather not put it in my body...I still eat cheeses and chocolate soy milk...

    Now here's the super duh question...does soy milk count as a serving of dairy? LOL I just had an intense workout after a long day...so please don't laugh too hard lol...
  • jlwhelan1
    jlwhelan1 Posts: 664
    Laura
    Neither of my children nor I drink milk - My son has a terrible allergy, my daughter mild, and she can have the occasional yogurt, and me...well it just makes me feel terrible but once in a while I succumb to a piece of cheese. We supplement the nutrients in other ways. For instance I always buy the fortified version of both soy and rice milk.

    I don't believe soy milk would count as "dairy" but it probably has the calcium and vit A/D you are looking for if it is fortified (most brands are.) So in that sense, the soy would fill the role of dairy.

    Here,
    http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/1861.html
This discussion has been closed.

Categories