Hi all,
I was just reading the foods that make you look good nekkid article and they said to not mix milk and sugar into your oatmeal. OK, sugar, I get, but what’s wrong w/ skim milk. I eat 1 cup oatmeal, 1 scoop whey protein, and 1.5 cups skim milk (instead of water) every morning - the milk adds 15g protein and no fat. So, what’s wrong with that?
even though milk isnt high on the GI list, it is very high on the insulin index. i always use it my oatmeal though. i don’t think a half a cup will make that much of a difference. could be wrong though. i’d be interested in hearing some other responses.
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Lactose is stored in your liver rather then muscles. Because of your liver’s minimal ‘storage’ capacity it’s then shuffled off to be stored in your fat cells.
Milk itself is high in sugar, that’s whats wrong.
Ditch the milk, its got all the garbage a cows body tries to eliminate (pesticides and estrogens).Havent touched milk for months and have never looked or felt better.
I did a thread on this a while back, use the subject search on the left and type in ‘Milk: Good Nutrition?’. There was some good discussion. The jist I got was that only 50% of the lactose in milk can be used to replenish muscle glycogen, the other 50% can only replace liver glycogen. Now most of the time, if your eating well and especially if your on a bulking cycle, your liver glycogen will be topped up, so the sugar that would’ve been used for that purpose just gets converted to fat. Generally milk is known as a food that makes you look smooth (as opposed to ripped) due to half of it’s carbs being turned to fat (under normal circumstances).
Milk sugar (I think its called lactose), 1 serving has about 9 grams.
its high insulin index appears to be a good thing to me. I’ve been using it as a post workout drink before my surge comes for that very reason. Someone who knows for sure what’s up with this please tell us
There have been a couple of threads recently addressing this question, I pulled a few excerpts from a few as follows. Try a search using galactose/lactose and you’ll find all sorts of info…
Do not use milk post workout. Lactose is half galactose, which does nothing for muscle recovery, as it’s
primary function is to restore liver glycogen. It will also slow down absorption of other carbohydrates
consumed. Also, the casein found in milk will slow down the absorption of whey.
Mixing milk with MRPs in the morning shouldn’t be a problem, provided that it is not your only source of
carbohyrate at this time.
Lactose is 1/2 galactose, which restores liver glycogen…not muscle glycogen. If liver glycogen is topped
of (which is almost definatly will be if you are eating properly on a bulking cycle) then galactose will likely
be stored as fat. As with just about anything, moderation is key.
Lactose is 50% galactose, which like fructose, does not enter general circulation and is not used by
muscle to replenish glycogen or as a fuel. It’s only food for the liver.
To the bodybuilder or athlete it’s similar in that regard to sucrose.