I've been living 90 to 100% on cow milk with varying amounts of fat for eight years now. I find that I feel better physically when I consume milk than when I eat solid food. For example, when I drink milk my eyes feel okay, but when I consume solid food they hurt. Is there anything different about the nutrients from milk, particularly in their form, when they reach my bloodstream from the nutrients from solid food?
In my opinion nutrients from cow milk as an emulsion reach bloodstream and absorb very well and everything is natural without any artificial additions ( preservatives, vegetable fats. etc. )
State of the food should not be a major issue, our bodies are quite well designed to handle both. Consuming nutritionally balanced meals is far more important.
In fact, if intestinal absorption is not put to use for too long, as it happens in case of iv feeding, ability of GI to efficiently absorb nutrients is compromised.
Marianne:
"(milk) everything is natural without any artificial additions ( preservatives, vegetable fats. etc.)
Vegetable fats (oil) are unnatural?
Arsenic, lead, mercury etc are all natural.
I have had similar experience when consume more liquid milk based diet. I feel better, more energetic and alert when i am on milk based diet and fruits than when I am consuming regular food. Milk nutrients are known to have a better bio-availability than its counterparts, also, I think the fact that milk (86% water) keeps you hydrated also adds to the alertness.
Sonika,
Kottayam is next door to rain forests that by most measures offers virtually unlimited varieties of nutrients and "natural" products (all the rage these days, specially among the affluent members of society!) to optimally maintain and improve one's health. And you are opting to ignore the best bounty nature has provided, in favor of recycled vegetation through cows/water-buffaloes.
"I think the fact that milk (86% water) keeps you hydrated also adds to the alertness."
Do you think that drinking clean water makes one go comatose? ;)
Of course, scientifically speaking, without proper controls, an individual's subjective experience is nothing more than an anecdote. Some of semi-believable published data that are available about involvement of milk in health and disease, point to use of milk in children as one of the culprits in development of type 1 diabetes.
A smoker will say "I feel better with smoke than with food". But the truth is actually opposite in nutritional point of view. Our diet should be diversified; otherwise our organism will start rejecting some foods. It is a question of digestion and metabolism. You accustomed your stomach will liquid food, then it lost it mashing ability; similarly, you accustomed you organism with milk, then several metabolic pathways are closed. And you will need a sort of "nutritional re-education" to recover the normal metabolism.
Regards!
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