numerouno
04-13-2010, 05:43 PM
Interesting article:
I had a conversation about this topic with a good friend of mine today and it reminded me of how many other people always have this same question...
The problem is that we've established (as you know from the thorough details in my Fat Burning Kitchen ebook) that regular pasteurized/homogenized milk is horrible for you...
We're talking about the regular milk (no matter whether it's skim, 2%, or whole) that you get at the grocery store -- which is almost ALL from factory farms where the cows are kept in horrendous conditions, poor health, and fed the wrong foods.
Even if you find milk that is "organic" at your grocery store, it still has the problem that the homogenization process renders the fat molecules unhealthy within your body, and the pastuerization destroys beneficial enzymes that help the proper digestion of milk proteins and lactose.
But we've also established that raw whole milk from grass-fed cows raised in a healthy manner, fed the correct foods, and treated right, is the ONLY source of healthy milk.
And no, despite the propaganda you've been fed, raw milk is NOT dangerous... not when it comes from a clean grass-fed farm operation certified to produce raw milk and with healthy cows.
I'm living proof of that fact... I've been drinking 100's and 100's of gallons of raw whole milk for about 7 years now, and never once have gotten sick from it. Nor have any of the families and friends I know that have also been drinking it for years. Certainly, if raw milk was "dangerous", we'd all be dead by now or at least have been sick multiple times by now. Nope, not once!
But the fact that raw milk is the only healthy milk is a problem for many people because they simply can't find a farm in their area that supplies raw milk. btw, you can search your area on realmilk.com to see if any farms deliver in your area.
So I've come up with a possible healthy alternative if you can't find raw milk and want a good cows milk alternative...
First of all, stay FAR, FAR away from soymilk! It's a straight-up junk food. There's an entire article on my website dedicated to this topic of why soy is pure junk...
http://www.truthaboutabs.com/soy-foods-make-you-fat.html
What about Rice Milk?
No! Way too much sugar and total carbs and almost ZERO protein. If you want to shoot your blood sugar through the roof, rice milk will do the job, and will pack on the blubber just as fast.
Here's the best option I've found...
It's a new "Coconut Milk Beverage" that I've seen recently in the grocery stores here in the US. It seems to differ from the "coconut milk" that you see in cans simply that it's diluted down more than canned coconut milk so that it's not such a thick coconut cream.
Now as you know from reading my books and newsletters, coconut fat is one of the healthiest fats you can consume... Yes, it's saturated fat, but research has proven that it is a very healthy form of saturated fat, and is mostly medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) including lauric acid, which supports a strong immune system.
The flavored "coconut milk beverages" do have some added sugar, but still only have 9 grams of carbs per 8 oz, which is less than a glass of cow milk.
But they also have an unsweetened version, which only has 1 gram of carbs.
The only problem is that this "coconut milk beverage" only has 1 gram of protein too.
So here's my solution... get a good quality vanilla whey protein (sweetened with stevia instead of typical artificial sweeteners) and mix 3-4 scoops of whey protein into the entire half gallon carton of "coconut milk beverage"... possibly in a blender and then transfer to a new pitcher.
Now you have a milk alternative that's high in healthy fats (MCTs in this case) and also quality protein, with only 1 gram of sugar per 8 oz serving!
I still won't give up my raw whole cows milk for this (since I do have access to a good raw milk farm)... but this coconut milk mixture would be the only option that I would actually drink if I couldn't get my good raw milk.
What about almond milk?
Actually, I don't have a problem with this as long as it's not heavily sweetened with added sugars or artificial sweeteners. I've occasionally seen almond milk that is unsweetened and only has 1 gram of sugar per 8oz, just like the coconut milk.
I think adding the protein to almond milk would make a great mixture too and make it more balanced as a good healthy milk alternative.
Btw, one of the best whey proteins out there is a cold processed whey protein with ZERO artificial sweeteners from my friends at Prograde (which you can find at the page below)
FYI - my partners at Prograde are having a birthday sale (celebrating Jayson's daughter Hailey's 3rd bday) this week for 15%-off everything in their store!
http://natural.getprograde.com/specials
What do I use personally?
*Longevity: under "anti-aging" on the left column (a powerful synergistic antioxidant blend that I actually helped them to develop the formula)
*EFA Icon: under "essential fatty acid" on the left column (47x the antioxidant power of regular fish oil)
*Occasionally, I stock up on some Organic Cravers Peanut Butter Chocolate flavor. I like to snack on these while I ski (under "nutrition bars" on the left column)
What don't I use?
Well, I DON'T use the Prograde Lean, because it has artificial sweeteners.
I also don't use the whole-foods based multi-vitamin VGF. However, I'm going to do an article about this soon, because although I personally don't use a multi-vitamin, Prograde's VGF multi-vitamins are one of the only whole-foods based multis I've found... and as you may have heard me talk about before, I believe there are many detriments to artificial versions of vitamins as are found in most multis that you see.
So if your diet isn't perfect, and therefore, may require a multi-vitamin, the VGF multi is my recommendation solely because it's whole-food based instead of artificial forms of the vitamins.
You can see all about Hailey's 15%-off 3rd birthday sale and all of the products here:
http://natural.getprograde.com/specials
I had a conversation about this topic with a good friend of mine today and it reminded me of how many other people always have this same question...
The problem is that we've established (as you know from the thorough details in my Fat Burning Kitchen ebook) that regular pasteurized/homogenized milk is horrible for you...
We're talking about the regular milk (no matter whether it's skim, 2%, or whole) that you get at the grocery store -- which is almost ALL from factory farms where the cows are kept in horrendous conditions, poor health, and fed the wrong foods.
Even if you find milk that is "organic" at your grocery store, it still has the problem that the homogenization process renders the fat molecules unhealthy within your body, and the pastuerization destroys beneficial enzymes that help the proper digestion of milk proteins and lactose.
But we've also established that raw whole milk from grass-fed cows raised in a healthy manner, fed the correct foods, and treated right, is the ONLY source of healthy milk.
And no, despite the propaganda you've been fed, raw milk is NOT dangerous... not when it comes from a clean grass-fed farm operation certified to produce raw milk and with healthy cows.
I'm living proof of that fact... I've been drinking 100's and 100's of gallons of raw whole milk for about 7 years now, and never once have gotten sick from it. Nor have any of the families and friends I know that have also been drinking it for years. Certainly, if raw milk was "dangerous", we'd all be dead by now or at least have been sick multiple times by now. Nope, not once!
But the fact that raw milk is the only healthy milk is a problem for many people because they simply can't find a farm in their area that supplies raw milk. btw, you can search your area on realmilk.com to see if any farms deliver in your area.
So I've come up with a possible healthy alternative if you can't find raw milk and want a good cows milk alternative...
First of all, stay FAR, FAR away from soymilk! It's a straight-up junk food. There's an entire article on my website dedicated to this topic of why soy is pure junk...
http://www.truthaboutabs.com/soy-foods-make-you-fat.html
What about Rice Milk?
No! Way too much sugar and total carbs and almost ZERO protein. If you want to shoot your blood sugar through the roof, rice milk will do the job, and will pack on the blubber just as fast.
Here's the best option I've found...
It's a new "Coconut Milk Beverage" that I've seen recently in the grocery stores here in the US. It seems to differ from the "coconut milk" that you see in cans simply that it's diluted down more than canned coconut milk so that it's not such a thick coconut cream.
Now as you know from reading my books and newsletters, coconut fat is one of the healthiest fats you can consume... Yes, it's saturated fat, but research has proven that it is a very healthy form of saturated fat, and is mostly medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) including lauric acid, which supports a strong immune system.
The flavored "coconut milk beverages" do have some added sugar, but still only have 9 grams of carbs per 8 oz, which is less than a glass of cow milk.
But they also have an unsweetened version, which only has 1 gram of carbs.
The only problem is that this "coconut milk beverage" only has 1 gram of protein too.
So here's my solution... get a good quality vanilla whey protein (sweetened with stevia instead of typical artificial sweeteners) and mix 3-4 scoops of whey protein into the entire half gallon carton of "coconut milk beverage"... possibly in a blender and then transfer to a new pitcher.
Now you have a milk alternative that's high in healthy fats (MCTs in this case) and also quality protein, with only 1 gram of sugar per 8 oz serving!
I still won't give up my raw whole cows milk for this (since I do have access to a good raw milk farm)... but this coconut milk mixture would be the only option that I would actually drink if I couldn't get my good raw milk.
What about almond milk?
Actually, I don't have a problem with this as long as it's not heavily sweetened with added sugars or artificial sweeteners. I've occasionally seen almond milk that is unsweetened and only has 1 gram of sugar per 8oz, just like the coconut milk.
I think adding the protein to almond milk would make a great mixture too and make it more balanced as a good healthy milk alternative.
Btw, one of the best whey proteins out there is a cold processed whey protein with ZERO artificial sweeteners from my friends at Prograde (which you can find at the page below)
FYI - my partners at Prograde are having a birthday sale (celebrating Jayson's daughter Hailey's 3rd bday) this week for 15%-off everything in their store!
http://natural.getprograde.com/specials
What do I use personally?
*Longevity: under "anti-aging" on the left column (a powerful synergistic antioxidant blend that I actually helped them to develop the formula)
*EFA Icon: under "essential fatty acid" on the left column (47x the antioxidant power of regular fish oil)
*Occasionally, I stock up on some Organic Cravers Peanut Butter Chocolate flavor. I like to snack on these while I ski (under "nutrition bars" on the left column)
What don't I use?
Well, I DON'T use the Prograde Lean, because it has artificial sweeteners.
I also don't use the whole-foods based multi-vitamin VGF. However, I'm going to do an article about this soon, because although I personally don't use a multi-vitamin, Prograde's VGF multi-vitamins are one of the only whole-foods based multis I've found... and as you may have heard me talk about before, I believe there are many detriments to artificial versions of vitamins as are found in most multis that you see.
So if your diet isn't perfect, and therefore, may require a multi-vitamin, the VGF multi is my recommendation solely because it's whole-food based instead of artificial forms of the vitamins.
You can see all about Hailey's 15%-off 3rd birthday sale and all of the products here:
http://natural.getprograde.com/specials