I was just wondering why cottage cheese is viewed so positivly, while skim milk negatively. They both contain carbs and fat, just the ratio favors cottage cheese slightly. Are the carbs different perhaps?
The insulin response is the dramatic difference. Milk contains more “sugars” that cause your insulin levels to go sky high. I used to drink milk all the time. But I haven’t had a glass of milk in three or four months. I’ve replaced it with cottage cheese because the protein content is much higher and it doesn’t have the same affect on insulin levels. Which also means I stay leaner eating cottage cheese rather than drinking milk.
A 16-oz serving of cottage cheese has 52 grams of protein. A 16-oz serving of milk has 18 grams of protein. So cottage cheese wins out for a few reasons!
ain’t nothing wrong with either of them…
For a midnight snack I eat a big ass bowl of cottage cheese w/ a whole can of solid white tunafish mixed in and a tall glass of skim milk to wash it down.
Whats the best brand/kind of cottage cheese to get, because I tried some indivdual containers of it and could barely stomach it.
Nate Dogg - Yo bud, how’s it hangin’! I was under the impression skim milk was about mid-range on the GI. I’m using it for my daily carb intake while on a semi keto/Don’t Diet type eating plan. It’s easy and it gives me the carbs I need, so it’s a decent food for what I need at the moment. Have to check my GI lists I think…
I eat a ton of cottage cheese and have tries a lot of different combinations. First off I think Kroger brand is the best. Mix cottage cheese with any fruit to help improve the taste. Cottage cheese and pineapple is the best.IMO
Any low fat or fat free cottage cheese blended with a scoop of Advanced Protein. Good stuff!
mark-aus - nate dogg was referring to the insulin index rather than the glycemic index. most of the time these two number coorelate, but every once in a while you get a low GI food that actually causes a much higher insulin response than one would expect. i suspect milk is in this category? kevo
Kevo is correct! John Berardi has also talked about this before. It may be in a recent article of his, but I can’t remember off the top of my head. I know he brought it up during the Orlando No Holds Barred Seminar last Feb.
Breakstones tastes the best in my opinion but it is more expensive so I stick to the store brands and I still love it. At first I thought it tasted kinda weird but now I crave cottage cheese sometimes.
Nate Dogg, it may not be the carbohydrates (“sugars”) in milk that cause the large insulin spike. John and I were theorizing on this a few months ago. It appears as though one of the proteins in milk (a beta-casein… sorry I forget the exact one he theorized) could be the culprit. Nothing too substantial evidence wise though but thought you might be interested. -Bodyguard
So I am gettin fat and shit by drinking milk and whey protein mixed at night?
Kenneth- We give up. Are you?
Well 'aint that some shit! Fair enough. Anyone know of any “Insulin Index” lists around??? I guess if you get a nice insulin spike with low GI carbs then to some extent it wouldn’t matter. As the insulins effect is largely gone by the time the carbs enter the bloodstream. I could be wrong though… [grin]
This is slightly off topic, but does maltodextrin fall into this category of a low GI/high II food supplement? The reason I’m asking is that I know maltodextrin is made up of complex carbohydrates and does not cause a large increase in blood sugar levels, but yet it causes a large insulin spike. A fried of mine sometimes has maltodextrin instead of oatmeal for breakfast because “it’s the same thing”. Uh…no! I told him he shouldn’t because of the insulin spike. Right?
Kenneth - probably not if you’re taking in less calories than you’re burning throughout the day. But even if you’re trying to put on weight, flax oil and water rather than milk will be a better mix with your protein at night.
mark-asu - give this url a shot.
http://www.theministryoffitness.com/mof/library/articles/article18.htm
it’s a realatively new way of classifying carbs so this list is very short. maybe a search on yahoo will yield better results. kevo
Interesting info! Thanks! Kenneth, if you haven’t noticed any increase in fat, then you have nothing to worry about. Some people are affected by milk more than others. I easily beef up when drinking milk, so I have to limit my consumption.
Thanks.
DoubeL, I’ve found the best tasting cottage
cheese to be Cabot. I’m not sure if it’s available outside of the Northeast since
they’re a Vermont cooperative. Those
individual containers always taste wretched
for some reason…