Tangle
12-16-2002, 06:09 AM
Before my chronic environmental illness, i never had problems with food axcept that i got enough of it. I have always been critical of essentric type people discrediting certain foods, specifically Dairy products. I have heard the actress Mary L. Henner preaching the dangers of Dairy and have left my mind open to her veiws however substantiated.
Point being, my health & digestion simply loose efficiency and function when i use dairy foods. Why is this?? Does dairy contain high levels of strontium or other nuclear wastes?? What's the deal with Dairy??????????????
Point being, my health & digestion simply loose efficiency and function when i use dairy foods. Why is this?? Does dairy contain high levels of strontium or other nuclear wastes?? What's the deal with Dairy??????????????
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Endorphin Junky
12-16-2002, 10:57 AM
Dairy produces contain a type of sugar called Lactose. Some peoples bodies don't like lactose as they can't deal with it properly (lactose intollerance) and this intollerence can lead to numerous symptoms eg stomach cramps, acne, bloating, nausea etc. I'm slightly Lactose intollerant and too much highly concentrated lactose gives me stomch cramps and bloating. You just have to plan your diet around it.
zip2play
12-20-2002, 09:16 AM
Tangle,
Like Junky, I am lactose intolerant. As a teen and 20 something it was unbearable for me if I drank milk: cramps, diarrhea, gas.
Then I was SLOWLY able to add back lactose little by little over a decade or more- all was well (with a LITTLE milk). Then (now) I did a couple years following a lower carb regimen and thus spent a year without milk.
Adding it back, I've found that I am as intolerant as ever of lactose.
What happens to an intolerant person is that the enzyme lactase isn't produced by the body and thus the double sugar, lactose isn't cleaved to the simple sugars, glucose and galctose. The lactose passes through the gut where the normal flora in the intestines rapidly ferments the stuff producing carbon dioxide, alcohols, and lactates. When the intestines become a chemical plant- look out.
Any PRE-fermented product like yoghurt, kefir, and cheese is not likely to cause the same problems.
As far as "less efficient" goes...anything undigested will be a less "efficient."
With radiation poisoning from strontium-90, you're problems would be far worse than efficiency- more like cancer!
[This message has been edited by zip2play (edited 12-20-2002).]
Like Junky, I am lactose intolerant. As a teen and 20 something it was unbearable for me if I drank milk: cramps, diarrhea, gas.
Then I was SLOWLY able to add back lactose little by little over a decade or more- all was well (with a LITTLE milk). Then (now) I did a couple years following a lower carb regimen and thus spent a year without milk.
Adding it back, I've found that I am as intolerant as ever of lactose.
What happens to an intolerant person is that the enzyme lactase isn't produced by the body and thus the double sugar, lactose isn't cleaved to the simple sugars, glucose and galctose. The lactose passes through the gut where the normal flora in the intestines rapidly ferments the stuff producing carbon dioxide, alcohols, and lactates. When the intestines become a chemical plant- look out.
Any PRE-fermented product like yoghurt, kefir, and cheese is not likely to cause the same problems.
As far as "less efficient" goes...anything undigested will be a less "efficient."
With radiation poisoning from strontium-90, you're problems would be far worse than efficiency- more like cancer!
[This message has been edited by zip2play (edited 12-20-2002).]