Do I want to drink milk today?

There must be quite a few people who think that when they have no appetite or time to eat, "they should at least drink some milk." Milk is also the first choice for many children's breakfast. In our current diet, "milk belief" has penetrated into every corner, and the whole society regards milk as a source of calcium, even a "perfect nutritious food".

Milk will definitely be added to the meals provided by the school, whether it is bread or rice, which even makes people feel that it is a sin to hate milk. Dairy products, such as milk, are also used in diet strategies to prevent osteoporosis. Many athletes like to drink low-fat milk because it gives the impression that it is healthier than ordinary milk. Some anecdotes even tell milk stories of famous athletes, saying that they drank several bags of milk every day from childhood to adulthood.

But my suggestion here is that milk is not a healthy food for modern people, including athletes. Of course, I also advised the players who signed with me not to drink milk.

The reasons for not drinking milk are endless, but they can basically be summarized as five points: it does not conform to eating habits; Will destroy the nutritional balance; Interfere with the function of cells; May be contaminated by harmful substances; The result of high temperature sterilization is the destruction of food enzymes.

Some people purr or have diarrhea as soon as they drink milk, which is called lactose intolerance. The reason is that there is no lactase in the body that decomposes the ingredients in milk, and lactose is not digested through the intestine. This symptom is by no means a special disease, but it can be said to be a normal reaction.

We Asians, Africans, and mammals other than humans all have a common feature, that is, although lactase exists in lactating babies, lactase loses its function in the body after weaning. But Europeans and Americans are different. They used to live in places with high latitudes where crops were difficult to grow. They mainly get the necessary nutrition from the milk of livestock. Therefore, after thousands of years, they have to develop into a body structure that can still decompose lactose in adulthood. Compared with them, we often drink milk for only a few decades. Such a comparison will reveal that milk is not suitable for our eating habits.

When it comes to milk, it is inevitable to mention calcium. There is no doubt that the mineral calcium is very important to us. Having said that, if we only ingest a lot of calcium, our body will excrete it, which is caused by the balance of calcium and magnesium in the body.

Calcium plays an important role in blood information transmission. Once calcium is insufficient, various obstacles will appear in the body. So the body extracts calcium from bones and tries to keep the calcium concentration in the blood. It is magnesium that plays a regulatory role in bones. If there is a lack of magnesium in the bone, this regulation cannot be carried out normally, so the calcium in the bone is dissolved everywhere.

Compared with Asians, Europeans and Americans consume much more calcium, but more people suffer from osteoporosis. This reality is really ironic. One of the reasons for this situation is that the intake of magnesium in European and American diets (including milk) is small, so calcium is easily excreted.

In fact, osteoporosis is a disease caused by calcium dissolution in bone. But its main reason is not the insufficient intake of calcium in the diet, but the living habits, especially the bad eating habits, which easily lead to the loss of calcium in the bones.

The biggest problem is that calcium in the body can't function normally. It can be said that we modern people have fallen into the abyss of "calcium deficiency syndrome".

Milk itself cannot strengthen bones.

Here I want to say a little more about calcium. Just now I mentioned that calcium in blood is related to information transmission, and its main functions can be roughly divided into three categories. The first category is cell proliferation and differentiation. The so-called cell differentiation means that cells will become cells that function in various tissues and organs respectively. For example, proliferating cells in blood vessels will become vascular cells; If it is viscera, it will become visceral cells. The second function is the secretion of hormones. In human body, endocrine glands such as thyroid gland and thymus gland will produce various hormones, and calcium signal is needed to synthesize these hormones. Moreover, the hormones synthesized in endocrine gland cells cannot be transported outside the cells without calcium. The third function is to excite nerve cells. Nerve cells can transmit information because calcium enters, thus generating electrical signals.

From this point of view, it will be clear that calcium is closely related to the most basic part of maintaining the normal work of the body. There is a similarity between its functions, that is, the stimulation caused by calcium ions inside and outside the cell becomes a signal to induce some action.

After World War II, the calcium requirement of Japanese people was set at 600 mg per day. Compared with the daily calcium intake of Europeans and Americans 1000 mg, 600 mg seems to be much less. But in fact, people will not be troubled by osteoporosis as long as they consume about 300 mg of calcium every day.

Nevertheless, in today's society, both men, women and children are drinking milk, but as a result, the proportion of patients with fractures and osteoporosis has increased significantly. What a strange and ironic reality. The fracture rate depends not only on the composition of bones, but also on lifestyle and physique. Now there are survey results showing that the more countries consume milk and other dairy products, the higher the fracture rate.

Bone is not only composed of calcium, but also needs various other nutrients such as magnesium. In Japan, where the diet is Europeanized, the cases of osteoporosis are also increasing rapidly. It can be seen that some things are not as simple as imagined. It does not mean that "the more calcium-containing foods, the stronger the bones".

Harvard university's research team conducted a detailed investigation and analysis of various previous scientific documents. American writer Brian? Clement was full of praise for their discovery. In his book "Living and Eating in the Best Health", he wrote: It is estimated that everyone has heard the phrase "In order to prevent osteoporosis, women should drink more milk and increase their calcium intake". But osteoporosis is not caused by calcium deficiency, but by excessive intake of animal protein. Animal food such as dairy products is the source of protein, but it is rich in sulfur. Sulfur can produce excess acid in the body, and the acid dissolves calcium through bones and is excreted with urine. This situation is caused by animal protein, and there is also a name called "hypercalciuria originated in protein".

Few people know that the calcium content of 1 spoon of seaweed mixed in 1 glass of water is 1 000 times that of1glass of milk, and this information was concealed by clever propaganda.

The research of Harvard University emphasizes that calcium may prevent osteoporosis, but the preventive effect of dairy products has not been proved.

I also mentioned in the second chapter that many studies have proved that excessive intake of animal protein is the reason why calcium is discharged into urine. Dairy products are also an important source of animal protein, so this study denies the effect of calcium supplementation with dairy products such as milk.

Maintain calcium-magnesium balance

Compared with the traditional Japanese diet, there are not many opportunities for magnesium-rich foods such as beans, vegetables and grains to be put on the table in European and American diets, which has also become a big problem. However, there are some more serious problems, which lead to insufficient magnesium content which should be in balance with calcium.

At present, pesticides and other factors lead to poor soil and insufficient magnesium in crops. Therefore, in modern diet, even Japanese diet-centered recipes can't absorb enough magnesium as in the past. In addition, in cereals, germ contains the most magnesium, but now the staple food is white rice, which is one of the reasons for chronic magnesium deficiency.

Another point is that when the body produces hormones that fight stress, it consumes a lot of magnesium. In modern society, we are under various pressures anytime and anywhere, which makes magnesium, which is already insufficient, even more exhausted. Moreover, once used magnesium can not be reused, mainly through urine excretion. This mechanism works for a reason. In the previous human history, magnesium has never been lacking in the human body, so there is no need to establish a system to keep it in the human body.

As I mentioned earlier, the relaxation and contraction of bones, blood, muscles and blood vessels all depend on the action of calcium and magnesium. The function of calcium is to make muscles and blood vessels tense or contract, while magnesium is to make them relax or expand.

At first, the ratio of calcium and magnesium in the body was 2∶ 1, but in today's general magnesium deficiency situation, if you drink a lot of milk or eat foods fortified with calcium, this ratio will be even more inclined, becoming 4∶ 1 or 5∶ 1. Others pointed out that this will be the direct cause of heart attack. Magnesium deficiency will not only cause osteoporosis, but also cause more serious consequences, even life-threatening situations, such as sudden death.

In fact, there is such a research report: dissect the myocardium of people who died of heart disease and people who died of traffic accidents, and check the concentration of calcium and magnesium in the muscle. The results show that people who died of heart disease have a higher proportion of calcium than those who died of traffic accidents, that is, more calcium than healthy people, but less magnesium.

Here, I must remind you that the report dissects the hearts of the dead, but no one knows how our hearts are alive. Therefore, I hope everyone can remember this: once the calcium-magnesium balance is in a state of collapse, life will be in danger.

However, I hope you don't get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with taking a lot of calcium, but it is important to take a proper amount of magnesium at the same time. Is milk still the "perfect food"?

As mentioned earlier, excessive intake of animal protein such as milk and meat will produce acid, and in order to neutralize the generated acid, calcium in bones will be easily dissolved. Moreover, these foods contain a lot of saturated fatty acids, which will cause various health problems if taken in excess. In addition, some facts are reported: in order to prevent cows from getting sick, people add antibiotics or growth hormones to feed, or artificially increase milk production, or use grass containing pesticides as feed. Therefore, the milk sold in the market is likely to be contaminated by these harmful substances.

Neuroendocrinology authority Robert? Cohen has a book, Milk: A Deadly Poison, which satirizes the milk on the market from the cover. He compared milk to explosives, drew a skull symbol on the surface of the box, and wrote growth hormone, pesticides, antibiotics and so on. It's in the column of raw materials in the back. The back cover of the book is equally bitter irony, with the following comments:

"Milk was once overestimated as a' perfect food', but it can never be called a' perfect food', and the United States should not try to hide this fact." (Benjamin? Dr. Spock)

"I was sick because the doctor forced me to drink milk. This white liquid is even eroding incompetent babies. " (Phil)

"The casein content in milk is more than three times that of breast milk. Casein is a by-product of milk, which is also used to bond wood and is very sticky. " (Dr. Walker)

"Milk is the most unhealthy calcium carrier, and the impression that it is a good calcium source should be erased." (Neil? Dr Bernard.

By the way, Spock's parenting classic was the first to criticize milk. In this bestseller, the author makes it clear that it is best not to give children milk. Besides, John? Frank from Hopkins University? Dr Ausky is also the author of Don't Drink Milk! ",this book is basically the same as" milk: deadly poison "in content. Japan has also published some books and is skeptical about milk. Although the number of books is small, I can still feel that the over-evaluation of milk is being re-examined.

If you like milk and other dairy products very much, it doesn't matter if you just drink them occasionally. I just hope that the trend of forcing people to drink milk in kindergartens, schools and even every family will pass as soon as possible.