[quote]katzenjammer wrote:
Dumptruck, very interesting. I assume the same goes for raw milk? What about cottage cheese/yogarts? Cheers, ~katz
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As I said, I haven’t seen enough to make me want to say remove these things completely from your dietary intake(although it certaitnly wouldn’t hurt anything to try.)In all likelihood, you are probably fine in moderation with most of these things.
We just need to define moderation, which unfortunately might be something different for every individual. I would think the simplelist way to do this would be to remove things completely for a week or so, and slowly reintroduce them to you intake and note any changes.
I also didn’t have any cottage cheese/yogurts in my diet AT ALL, so therefore I didn’t do any research specifically on those items. This also made it that much easier to zero in on the milk. However…
In addition to getting my blood glucose under control, I’ve actually seen a noticeable improvement in the complextion/condition of my skin as well…to the point for a while I was almost recieving daily compliments on it. This could be one of those things to keep an eye on when performing the above experiment.
I believe I recall Berardi saying in one of his articles that the cottage cheese doesn’t have near the same effects as milk by itself.
Not sure what effect the pastuerization process would have on all of this. I had been using fat free organic milk for some time until I found out about my blood sugar, so I can tell you that style of milk was obviously no help.
As far as yogurts… for your typical yogurt bought in one of our grocery stores I probably say it’s gotta be close to being just as bad. However, I have on more than one occastion gotten good comments on organic greek style yogurt. I believe they sell it as trader joes and those types of places. Basically has much less sugar and more of the fats and protein that we can always use.
Due to the fact these other products are just made from/contain some milk, as opposed to being purely milk, it would seem these products would be much more tolerable.
As Berardi believes, almost everyone most likely has some level of lactose intolerance, which is a plausible explanation for the aforementioned possible differences in being able to tolerate yogurt or cottage cheese, but not milk. My G/F will actually throw up within 5 minutes of ingesting a small glass of milk (4 to 8 oz.), but she can have sizeable amounts of cheese/ice cream/ yogurt with no ill effects?!?! Go figure.