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Monday, August 12, 2013
An informative infographic about milk
An infographic by the team at Online Masters In Public Health
Friday, November 19, 2010
Hi Gary
We wanted to quickly ask your advice - our son (18months) gets excema, and I have recently experimented by taking him off milk and replacing it with a kids soy milk. His excema has calmed down but has not gone completely however it seems less severe.
Is it safe to give the kids just soy - or do they need the nutrients in cows milk? I'd love to hear your thoughts,
Thanks so much
"N"
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Gary:
I am not a fan of soy milk. While fermented soy products have nutritional merits, I am not that sure of the nutritional benefits of soy milk which appears to an over-processed product that is devoid of nutrients. Soy milk is just one of many, many industrially processed food items that are replacing healthy wholefoods that once dominated our supermarket shelves.
Milk is better nutritionally; but not much more, if overly processed. The process of pasteurisation is said to reduce the number of nutrients in milk from over 900 down to about 120. Homogenisation whereby the fat molecules are broken up so it disperses evenly is hotly debated as to possible consequences to health.
When fat is removed from milk so are many of the remaining nutrients, including the fat soluble vitamins - A, D, E and K. What remains is a little protein, calcium and lactose (sugar) and not much of anything else. I would not feed fat reduced milk to anybody, especially a child because all you are doing is ingesting excess calcium and giving a short sugar hit. Excess calcium, with little in the way of other vitamins and minerals, especially the fat soluble ones and magnesium, will be contributing factors in cases of eczema.
A low fat, low nutrient diet for a child is a sure guarantee for poor concentration at school, difficulty sleeping, constant illness and obesity. The food industry has done a remarkably effective job tricking us into believing that these foods are actually healthy and are best for producing strong and intelligent children who will go on to be champion athletes and great scholars. This is simply not true.
The food industry is using the very same tactics that were refined to perfection by the tobacco industry decades ago to dupe people into believing that cigarettes are healthy for you, when they knew all along that tobacco is deadly harmful. The tactic is to recruit health experts and sporting heroes to lie through their teeth the exact opposite of what is really the truth (Of course, many athletes and health experts couldn't care less so long as the money is good and many others are so brainwashed or too ignorant, so they actually believe what they are saying!).
My youngest, Alama, has been raised on raw full cream milk which we get direct from a farmer. He is healthy, fit and strong. Thin, while muscular. Raw milk has been good for him as it has been for the rest of the family, including myself (cholesterol levels have become healthy since switching to raw full cream milk, btw). Please refer to this article about my own remarkable improvement in health.
If you can not access raw milk, the next best thing is Silvertop Milk. The most available silvertop milk in New Zealand is the Farmhouse brand silvertop milk.
Eczema and asthma (The same condition; but with different manifestations) were serious issues for my children and it took several years to figure these out and to find non-drugs solutions that worked. Both children who were affected with asthma and eczema are now 95% clear and living life to the full without limitations or drugs. Having said this, there are no "one size fits all" solutions. Contact me for a consultation if you would like my assistance with finding healthy solutions that works for your child.
We wanted to quickly ask your advice - our son (18months) gets excema, and I have recently experimented by taking him off milk and replacing it with a kids soy milk. His excema has calmed down but has not gone completely however it seems less severe.
Is it safe to give the kids just soy - or do they need the nutrients in cows milk? I'd love to hear your thoughts,
Thanks so much
"N"
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Gary:
I am not a fan of soy milk. While fermented soy products have nutritional merits, I am not that sure of the nutritional benefits of soy milk which appears to an over-processed product that is devoid of nutrients. Soy milk is just one of many, many industrially processed food items that are replacing healthy wholefoods that once dominated our supermarket shelves.
Milk is better nutritionally; but not much more, if overly processed. The process of pasteurisation is said to reduce the number of nutrients in milk from over 900 down to about 120. Homogenisation whereby the fat molecules are broken up so it disperses evenly is hotly debated as to possible consequences to health.
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A low fat, low nutrient diet for a child is a sure guarantee for poor concentration at school, difficulty sleeping, constant illness and obesity. The food industry has done a remarkably effective job tricking us into believing that these foods are actually healthy and are best for producing strong and intelligent children who will go on to be champion athletes and great scholars. This is simply not true.
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| An unhealthy association |
It must be right because 20,679 Physicians say so - Yeah right!
Iron Man Food - Yeah right!
My youngest, Alama, has been raised on raw full cream milk which we get direct from a farmer. He is healthy, fit and strong. Thin, while muscular. Raw milk has been good for him as it has been for the rest of the family, including myself (cholesterol levels have become healthy since switching to raw full cream milk, btw). Please refer to this article about my own remarkable improvement in health.
If you can not access raw milk, the next best thing is Silvertop Milk. The most available silvertop milk in New Zealand is the Farmhouse brand silvertop milk.
Eczema and asthma (The same condition; but with different manifestations) were serious issues for my children and it took several years to figure these out and to find non-drugs solutions that worked. Both children who were affected with asthma and eczema are now 95% clear and living life to the full without limitations or drugs. Having said this, there are no "one size fits all" solutions. Contact me for a consultation if you would like my assistance with finding healthy solutions that works for your child.
We are all the same while all being different, so go for tailored health solutions
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Why do you recommend against low fat milk?
Hello Gary. I'm enjoying your responses to various questions related to fitness training and weight loss. I notice in your most recent newsletter that you recommend against low fat milks. Why is that?
Wayne
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Gary responds:
When I was a child I was a milk monitor at school. This was a highly contested position because the monitor got to drink the left over milk - Yummy! It was full cream non-homogenised milk. I later milked cows for a living while a student. One thing I know is our cows were treated like Queens! Happy, contented cows produce good milk.
Milk is very different nowadays. Homogenisation is an unwelcome development. There is no health benefit from this process and plenty of anecdotal testimony that it can pass undigested through the gut wall of many people.
Modern cows are 90% A-1 protein which many people have difficulty digesting. A-1 is implicated in degenerative diseases, including heart disease and diabetes. Old World cows are type A-2 protein with little or no association with ill health.
Unpasteurised milk has over 900 nutrients, including enzymes and active, beneficial bacteria to aid digestion. Pasteurisation reduces these nutrients to about 120.
When the fat is removed from processed milk, most of these remaining nutrients are removed from the milk, including the fats and the fat soluble vitamins. The remaining anaemic milk water has little nutritional value.
Where do all the extracted nutrients end up?
The real money in milk is in the processing: extracting the high value nutrients such as creatine, beta alanine, carnitine, HMB and whey protein and selling these as Super Foods.
Rather than dump the once worthless left over water some ingenious milk industry marketing executive devised a public education campaign to brainwash the consumer into believing that this waste water is actually good for them. This included getting on board Government public health agencies and health advocacy organisations by way of industry funded research and generous sponsorships.
Now that a huge market for this waste water has been created by hysteria and misinformation about obesity and heart disease - and fat - these cunning executives have now worked out how to add value to this once worthless product: Put back some of the calcium they took out, call it "Calci-Trim" and charge a premium! Take the Calci Trim and put back some of the vitamin K and vitamin D and call it "Anlene" for women and charge a bomb-load for it!
Don't you feel conned after reading this?
The milk we drink in our home is delicious full-bodied raw full cream direct from the cow. Our family drink about 6 liters per week and have done so for the last 2 years. During this time the family has thrived. My skin has cleared, I am running as well as I did 20 years ago and my cholesterol levels have even dropped! Oh - and my body fatness has dropped to 11%. My 22 yr old daughter and partner are both about 15% fat (Average Samoan my partner's age is 50%+). Our youngest son who lives at home is super lean, fit and strong.
Won't full cream milk make you fat?
It will if you drink too much. But how much is too much?
Because real milk is packed with all the nutrients needed to build a strong and healthy body, including fats, proteins and vitamins, digestion is slower and the sense of satisfaction is longer. With less craving, overall intake of calories may be less. Healthy lean tissue burns energy.
Drink more full cream milk and eat less of refined foods that have little nutritional value
For more information about the health benefits of raw A-2 milk and the counter arguments to the campaign to discredit the health benefits of fats, go to the Weston Price Foundation website here. Incidentally, the Head of the Foundation, Sally Fallon, is married to a retired farmer from New Zealand. I have met them both. The World can be a small place indeed!
If you can't get raw milk, the next best product in New Zealand is Farmhouse Silvertop which can be found in most supermarkets and dairies. If it is not stocked - ask for it. If you can find A-2 milk - buy that.
Fats and all the nutrients that go with them are essential for a long and healthy life - so long as this is a mix of the right fats and not in excess.
Do you have a question?
Email Gary: gary at myotec.co.nz (Replace the "at" with @ and remove spaces). Please include any relevant background information to your question.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Raw cows milk update - is it really healthy?
For two years, our family has been using almost exclusively raw cows milk that we obtain from a cow that we have shares in. Where raw milk has not been available, we have sought out Farmhouse Full Cream unhomogenised milk from the supermarket. Here is an update.
Why raw milk?
What can I say: perfect health!
Do you have a question?
Email Gary: gary at myotec.co.nz (Replace the "at" with @ and remove spaces). Please include any relevant background information to your question.
Why raw milk?
- Raw milk from herd tested New Zealand farmers is as safe to consume as the pasteurised kind.
- The raw milk we have is predominantly A2 protein which has little or no association with diseases such as IBS, diabetes and heart disease.
- Raw milk is essentially self digesting - homogenised is not.
- Raw milk has several hundred beneficial nutrients. Pasteurised milk has less than 120 left.
- Milk other than full cream has most of the nutrients removed (What is removed is refined into many super foods and nutraceuticals and sold to consumers at a premium).
- The farmer gets a much better payout per liter of milk while the consumer gets it for a little less than the nutrient poor supermarket versions.
What can I say: perfect health!
- My cholesterol profile has improved and my body fat has gone down to 12%. Physical performance in running and cycling has improved despite being 55yrs.
- My skin has improved.
- My 9yr old son is thin, muscular and in perfect health and has been free of any debilitating flus and colds.
- My partner, Alofa, (now mid 40's) is now 15% body fat, strong and muscular (Average Samoan woman her age is estimated to be ~50% body fat).
- Our 2nd daughter in her early 20's who is presently living with us is also well under 20% fat and very fit and strong.
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