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A Diet High In Milk May Cut Heart Disease And Stroke Risk

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calypso47@voyager.net - 24 May 2005 16:32 GMT
"A diet rich in milk does not increase the risk of heart disease and
     stroke, and may even be protective, concludes research in the
Journal
     of Epidemiology and Community Health."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050524001009.htm
George  Lagergren - 24 May 2005 17:53 GMT
> "A diet rich in milk does not increase the risk of heart disease and
>       stroke, and may even be protective, concludes research in the
> Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health."
>
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050524001009.htm

        So one avoids heart disease and stroke while just maybe increasing
the risk of getting ear infections;  strep throats; diabetes; and asthma /
lung congestion when drinking cow's milk.
PeterB - 24 May 2005 19:16 GMT
> > "A diet rich in milk does not increase the risk of heart disease and
> >       stroke, and may even be protective, concludes research in the
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> the risk of getting ear infections;  strep throats; diabetes; and asthma /
> lung congestion when drinking cow's milk.

I'm suprised that you would post a crap study like this.  It has "Dairy
Job" written all over it.  First, a correlation of food intake to
disease risk must be MUCH larger than 665 subjects to be meaningful.
Second, the article writer says "a random sample of the surviving men
in 2000" shows the majority of THOSE (NOT the majority of survivors,
just the majority of those randomly SELECTED *from* that group) had
switched to low-fat milk.  It's very bad science to take a subset of
your original population and suggest a health benefit based on a
feature of that group but avoid measuring a similar trait in the rest
of your subjects.  In this case, we don't know what percentage of the
total group was ALSO drinking skim milk already.  It gets worse.  We
also don't know what random factor was used in this "analysis."  Was it
1-in-5 or 1-in-10?  If it's 1-in-10, we're talking about 44 total
subjects ((44=665-225)*.1) who switched to low fat milk and avoided
having a heart attack DURING THE STUDY PERIOD.  But what was the
cardiovascular health of these survivors at the END of the study
period?  Why, I don't think anyone had anything to say about that.  No
triglycerides, cholesterol, homocystine, CRP, oxygen, nothing.  It
doesn't seem like anyone was too curious to find out, does it?  We
aren't even told whether the survivors were in the bottom quartile of
the age group, so how do we know the survivors were not 5-10 years
*behind* their less fortunate croaking buddies on the developmental
curve of heart disease?  Care to take a guess?  The sole basis for this
"milk may cut heart disease risk" garbage is simply the fact that some
skim milk drinkers didn't die as early of heart disease as others.  The
headline is not only irresponsible journalism, it's an example of junk
science.  

PeterB
TC - 24 May 2005 20:54 GMT
> > > "A diet rich in milk does not increase the risk of heart disease
> and
[quoted text clipped - 38 lines]
>
> PeterB

I do not believe that this study is a "dairy job".

This is the title and the authors:

Milk consumption, stroke, and heart attack risk: evidence from the
Caerphilly cohort of older men
P C Elwood1, J J Strain2, Paula J Robson2, Ann M Fehily3, Janie
Hughes4, Janet Pickering4 and Andy Ness5
1 Visiting Professor, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland
2 Northern Ireland Centre for Food and Health (NICHE), University of
Ulster
3 Consultant Nutritionist
4 University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK
5 University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

This is the only industry ties I could find on any of the authors:

J.J. Sean Strain, Ph.D., Northern Ireland Center for Diet and Health,
University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. Research on genetic aspects of
nutrition and toxicology supported in part by the Heinz Institute of
Nutritional Sciences and CanTox. (J. Amer. Coll. Nutr. 2001;20:119-28)

Last time I looked Heinz was not involved in the Dairy industry.

I think the crap around here is the anti-milk stuff.

TC
Peter Moran - 24 May 2005 21:59 GMT
>> > "A diet rich in milk does not increase the risk of heart disease
> and
[quoted text clipped - 38 lines]
>
> PeterB

PeterB, the study is a simple observational study, with all the weaknesses
that that entails.  Even the news item mentions one possible confounder i.e.
that those drinking more milk had a higher overall energy intake, which
might suggest a more physically active subgroup.   I am thus also a  little
surprised at the strength of the concluding statement of the paper that
"every effort should be made to restore it to its rightful place in a
healthy diet".  I suppose, as expert nutritionists, familiar with ALL the
evidence, they may have other reasons for backing this quite natural and
complex food (which, in case you have forgotten,  means something included
in the diet, rather than consumed as a pill).

But what I mainly wanted to point out that this is exactly the same kind of
observational study that Pauling and many others used to claim spectacular
effects from taking large quantities of vitamins, ones that have yet to be
confirmed by prospective randomized studies.  The latter have been almost
universally negative so far, as well as hinting at the possibility of
harmful effects, at least with some antioxidant vitamins such as vitamin E
and beta-carotene.

I look forward to your  dissection of studies that don't challenge your
beliefs.

Peter Moran
PeterB - 24 May 2005 20:41 GMT
George, I'm suprised you would post a crap study like this.  It has
"Dairy Job" written all over it.  First, a correlation of food intake
to disease risk must be MUCH larger than 665 subjects to be meaningful.
Second, the article writer says "a random sample of the surviving men
in 2000" shows the majority of THOSE (NOT the majority of survivors,
just the majority of those randomly SELECTED *from* that group) had
switched to low-fat milk.  It's very bad science to take a subset of
your original population and suggest a health benefit based on a
feature of that group but avoid measuring a similar trait in the rest
of your subjects.  In this case, we don't know what percentage of the
total group was ALSO drinking skim milk already.  It gets worse.  We
also don't know what random factor was used in this "analysis."  Was it
1-in-5 or 1-in-10?  If it's 1-in-10, we're talking about 44 total
subjects ((44=665-225)*.1) who switched to low fat milk and avoided
having a heart attack DURING THE STUDY PERIOD.  But what was the
cardiovascular health of these survivors at the END of the study
period?  Why, I don't think anyone had anything to say about that.  No
triglycerides, cholesterol, homocystine, CRP, oxygen, nothing.  It
doesn't seem like anyone was too curious to find out, does it?  We
aren't even told whether the survivors were in the bottom quartile of
the age group, so how do we know the survivors were not 5-10 years
*behind* their less fortunate croaking buddies on the developmental
curve of heart disease?  Care to take a guess?  The sole basis for this
"milk may cut heart disease risk" garbage is simply the fact that some
skim milk drinkers didn't die as early of heart disease as other milk
drinkers.  The
headline is not only irresponsible journalism, it's an example of junk
science.  

PeterB
Renegade5 - 26 May 2005 21:59 GMT
>George, I'm suprised you would post a crap study like this.  It has
>"Dairy Job" written all over it.
How so?

> First, a correlation of food intake
>to disease risk must be MUCH larger than 665 subjects to be meaningful.
But this is just one of many recent studies showing the health
benefits of dairy and in many ways, the smaller, more controlled
studies like these are more 'telling' than  the large,
epidemiologocial ones.

> Second, the article writer says "a random sample of the surviving men
>in 2000" shows the majority of THOSE (NOT the majority of survivors,
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>1-in-5 or 1-in-10?  If it's 1-in-10, we're talking about 44 total
>subjects ((44=665-225)*.1) who switched to low fat milk and avoided
That's obviously not the type of thing that gets published as 'general
interest' on Reuters, etc.  More details can be found here:
http://press.psprings.co.uk/jech/june/502_ch27904.pdf

>having a heart attack DURING THE STUDY PERIOD.  But what was the
>cardiovascular health of these survivors at the END of the study
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
>headline is not only irresponsible journalism, it's an example of junk
>science.  
So read the full report...
PeterB - 24 May 2005 21:06 GMT
George, I'm suprised you would post a crap study like this.  It has
"Dairy Job" written all over it.  First, a correlation of food intake
to disease risk must be MUCH larger than 665 subjects to be meaningful.
Second, the article writer says "a random sample of the surviving men
in 2000" shows the majority of THOSE (NOT the majority of survivors,
just the majority of those randomly SELECTED *from* that group) had
switched to low-fat milk.  It's very bad science to take a subset of
your original population and suggest a health benefit based on a
feature of that group but avoid measuring a similar trait in the rest
of your subjects.  In this case, we don't know what percentage of the
total group was ALSO drinking skim milk already.  It gets worse.  We
also don't know what random factor was used in this "analysis."  Was it
1-in-5 or 1-in-10?  If it's 1-in-10, we're talking about 44 total
subjects ((44=665-225)*.1) who switched to low fat milk and avoided
having a heart attack DURING THE STUDY PERIOD.  But what was the
cardiovascular health of these survivors at the END of the study
period?  Why, I don't think anyone had anything to say about that.  No
triglycerides, cholesterol, homocystine, CRP, oxygen, nothing.  It
doesn't seem like anyone was too curious to find out, does it?  We
aren't even told whether the survivors were in the bottom quartile of
the age group, so how do we know the survivors were not 5-10 years
*behind* their less fortunate croaking buddies on the developmental
curve of heart disease?  Care to take a guess?  The sole basis for this
"milk may cut heart disease risk" garbage is simply the fact that some
skim milk drinkers didn't die as early of heart disease as other milk
drinkers.  The headline is not only irresponsible journalism, it's an
example of junk science.  

PeterB
PeterB - 24 May 2005 21:09 GMT
George, I'm suprised you would post a crap study like this.  It has
"Dairy Job" written all over it.  First, a correlation of food intake
to disease risk must be MUCH larger than 665 subjects to be meaningful.
Second, the article writer says "a random sample of the surviving men
in 2000" shows the majority of THOSE (NOT the majority of survivors,
just the majority of those randomly SELECTED *from* that group) had
switched to low-fat milk.  It's very bad science to take a subset of
your original population and suggest a health benefit based on a
feature of that group but avoid measuring a similar trait in the rest
of your subjects.  In this case, we don't know what percentage of the
total group was ALSO drinking skim milk already.  It gets worse.  We
also don't know what random factor was used in this "analysis."  Was it
1-in-5 or 1-in-10?  If it's 1-in-10, we're talking about 44 total
subjects ((44=665-225)*.1) who switched to low fat milk and avoided
having a heart attack DURING THE STUDY PERIOD.  But what was the
cardiovascular health of these survivors at the END of the study
period?  Why, I don't think anyone had anything to say about that.  No
triglycerides, cholesterol, homocystine, CRP, oxygen, nothing.  It
doesn't seem like anyone was too curious to find out, does it?  We
aren't even told whether the survivors were in the bottom quartile of
the age group, so how do we know the survivors were not 5-10 years
*behind* their less fortunate croaking buddies on the developmental
curve of heart disease?  Care to take a guess?  The sole basis for this
"milk may cut heart disease risk" garbage is simply the fact that some
skim milk drinkers didn't die as early of heart disease as other milk
drinkers.  The headline is not only irresponsible journalism, it's an
example of junk science.  

PeterB
PeterB - 24 May 2005 21:17 GMT
George, I'm suprised you would post a crap study like this.  It has
"Dairy Job" written all over it.  First, a correlation of food intake
to disease risk must be MUCH larger than 665 subjects to be meaningful.
Second, the article writer says "a random sample of the surviving men
in 2000" shows the majority of THOSE (NOT the majority of survivors,
just the majority of those randomly SELECTED *from* that group) had
switched to low-fat milk.  It's very bad science to take a subset of
your original population and suggest a health benefit based on a
feature of that group but avoid measuring a similar trait in the rest
of your subjects.  In this case, we don't know what percentage of the
total group was ALSO drinking skim milk already.  It gets worse.  We
also don't know what random factor was used in this "analysis."  Was it
1-in-5 or 1-in-10?  If it's 1-in-10, we're talking about 44 total
subjects ((44=665-225)*.1) who switched to low fat milk and avoided
having a heart attack DURING THE STUDY PERIOD.  But what was the
cardiovascular health of these survivors at the END of the study
period?  Why, I don't think anyone had anything to say about that.  No
triglycerides, cholesterol, homocystine, CRP, oxygen, nothing.  It
doesn't seem like anyone was too curious to find out, does it?  We
aren't even told whether the survivors were in the bottom quartile of
the age group, so how do we know the survivors were not 5-10 years
*behind* their less fortunate croaking buddies on the developmental
curve of heart disease?  Care to take a guess?  The sole basis for this
"milk may cut heart disease risk" garbage is simply the fact that some
skim milk drinkers didn't die as early of heart disease as other milk
drinkers.  The headline is not only irresponsible journalism, it's an
example of junk science.

PeterB
calypso47@voyager.net - 24 May 2005 23:39 GMT
Regarding intake of cows milk and risk of diabetes, the following
abstracts published this month say no in either type 1 or 2 diabetes.  
The first shows that those using milk have a lower risk of getting type 2
and the second that the theory being explored 10 years ago, a lifetime in
diabetes research, that a milk protein causes type 1 can no longer be
supported:

"Dairy consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in men"

Arch Intern Med. 2005 May 9;165(9):997-1003.

"Follow-up Study. RESULTS: During 12 years of follow-up, we documented
1243 incident cases of type 2 diabetes. Dairy intake was associated
with a modestly lower risk of type 2 diabetes. After adjusting for
potential confounders, including body mass index, physical activity,
and dietary factors, the relative risk for type 2 diabetes in men in
the top quintile of dairy

intake was 0.77 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.62-0.95; P for trend,
.003) compared with those in the lowest quintile. Each serving-per-day
increase in total dairy intake was associated with a 9% lower risk for
type 2 diabetes (multivariate relative risk, 0.91; 95% CI, 0.85-0.97).
The corresponding relative risk was 0.88 (95% CI, 0.81-0.94) for
low-fat dairy intake and 0.99

(95% CI, 0.91-1.07) for high-fat dairy intake. The association did not
vary significantly according to body mass index (< 25 vs or = 25
kg/m(2); P for interaction, .57). CONCLUSION: Dietary patterns
characterized by higher dairy intake, especially low-fat dairy intake,
may lower the risk of type 2 diabetes in men."

"The A2 milk case: a critical review."

Eur J Clin Nutr. 2005 May;59(5):623-31.

"there is no convincing or even probable evidence that the A1
            beta-casein of cow milk has any adverse effect in humans."
George  Lagergren - 25 May 2005 02:03 GMT
> Regarding intake of cows milk and risk of diabetes, the following
> abstracts published this month say no in either type 1 or 2 diabetes.
> The first shows that those using milk have a lower risk of getting type 2
> and the second that the theory being explored 10 years ago, a lifetime in
> diabetes research, that a milk protein causes type 1 can no longer be
> supported:

        That sientific study could mean well - but there must be a reason
why a chiro doc friend (& nutritionist) has his young daughter drinking rice
milk rather than cow's milk to reduce her chance of getting type 1 diabetes.

        I, myself, would trust the nutritional insight of a chiro doc over
a "scientific" study any day.
Pizza Girl - 25 May 2005 02:09 GMT
I am an avid believer in chiropractic doctors but what the geeeez would a
chiro know about nutrition or health other than joint and muscle problems
and health?

> > Regarding intake of cows milk and risk of diabetes, the following
> > abstracts published this month say no in either type 1 or 2 diabetes.
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>          I, myself, would trust the nutritional insight of a chiro doc over
> a "scientific" study any day.
George  Lagergren - 25 May 2005 03:47 GMT
> I am an avid believer in chiropractic doctors but what the geeeez would a
> chiro know about nutrition or health other than joint and muscle problems
> and health?

         Many chiro docs desire to specialize in nutrition along with their
regular chiro knowledge.
         Many chiro docs also sell nutritional supplements in their
offices.

         Thus, my chiro doc friend (& nutritionist) has the necessary diet
/ nutritional knowledge to
          understand why his young daughter should NOT be drinking cow's
milk.   She drinks rice
          milk.
Pizza Girl - 25 May 2005 04:30 GMT
This doesn't happen in Canada much 'round here. I think they would
compromise their licence doing that.

> > I am an avid believer in chiropractic doctors but what the geeeez would a
> > chiro know about nutrition or health other than joint and muscle problems
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> milk.   She drinks rice
>            milk.
David Wright - 25 May 2005 05:17 GMT
>> I am an avid believer in chiropractic doctors but what the geeeez would a
>> chiro know about nutrition or health other than joint and muscle problems
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>          Many chiro docs also sell nutritional supplements in their
>offices.

Since they can't prescribe drugs, it makes them feel better to be able
to prescribe *something*.

 -- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
    These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
      "I don't need someone to tell me that George W. Bush is a
       deceitful, corrupt, clever and destructive man--that's pretty
       clear on the face of it."  -- Garrison Keillor
PeterB - 25 May 2005 14:17 GMT
> >> I am an avid believer in chiropractic doctors but what the geeeez would a
> >> chiro know about nutrition or health other than joint and muscle problems
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> Since they can't prescribe drugs, it makes them feel better to be able
> to prescribe *something*.

Does that mean Dr. Feel Good comes in all shapes and sizes?
David Wright - 26 May 2005 02:47 GMT
>> >> I am an avid believer in chiropractic doctors but what the geeeez would a
>> >> chiro know about nutrition or health other than joint and muscle problems
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>
>Does that mean Dr. Feel Good comes in all shapes and sizes?

And colors.  Don't forget colors!

 -- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
    These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
      "I don't need someone to tell me that George W. Bush is a
       deceitful, corrupt, clever and destructive man--that's pretty
       clear on the face of it."  -- Garrison Keillor
Peter Moran - 25 May 2005 21:33 GMT
>> I am an avid believer in chiropractic doctors but what the geeeez would a
>> chiro know about nutrition or health other than joint and muscle problems
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
> milk.   She drinks rice
>           milk.

Fascinating.  Since rice milk is almost totally devoid of nutritional value
(some carbohydrate and little else),  this chiro must be conferring some
kind of mystical significance to the word "milk", as do those who market
this product with quite false claims..

No surprises there considering the level of medical understanding of many
chiropractors.   Recently in Australia we had a chiropractor's baby die
because such the parents tried to raise it on rice milk.

Peter Moran
George  Lagergren - 26 May 2005 00:37 GMT
> No surprises there considering the level of medical understanding of many
> chiropractors.   Recently in Australia we had a chiropractor's baby die
> because such the parents tried to raise it on rice milk.

        Peter, is this a case where a newly born infant is fed rice milk
instead of her human mother's milk?
Peter Moran - 26 May 2005 04:31 GMT
>> No surprises there considering the level of medical understanding of many
>> chiropractors.   Recently in Australia we had a chiropractor's baby die
>> because such the parents tried to raise it on rice milk.
>
>         Peter, is this a case where a newly born infant is fed rice milk
> instead of her human mother's milk?

The infant was six months old.   Caleb Moorhead was the name. My memory is
faulty - it was a NZ case.

Peter
George  Lagergren - 27 May 2005 05:13 GMT
> "Peter Moran" <moringa@gil.com.au> wrote:
> No surprises there considering the level of medical understanding of many
> chiropractors.   Recently in Australia we had a chiropractor's baby die
> because such the parents tried to raise it on rice milk.

> "George Lagergren" <gel44@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>         Peter, is this a case where a newly born infant is fed rice milk
> instead of her human mother's milk?

> The infant was six months old.   Caleb Moorhead was the name. My memory is
> faulty - it was a NZ case.

          Peter,  I heard of a case where a six-month child had an ear
infection.  The kid's doctor said that the ear infection was the result of
the kid being intolerant to cow's milk.   So the doctor sent the parents to
the drug store to pick up a [pharm drug?] cow's milk substitute with the
necessary nutrient contained within it.

          The only big problem was the super expensive cost of this cow's
milk substitute.
          Cow's milk costs about $4 USD per carton while this cow's milk
substitute may cost $10 to $12 per carton??????

           Perhaps Jeff the kid's doc would have more information about he
prescribes for infants who are intolerant to cow's milk.
Rich - 27 May 2005 05:25 GMT
>> "Peter Moran" <moringa@gil.com.au> wrote:

>           Peter,  I heard of a case where a six-month child had an ear
> infection.  The kid's doctor said that the ear infection was the result of
> the kid being intolerant to cow's milk.   So the doctor sent the parents
> to
> the drug store to pick up a [pharm drug?] cow's milk substitute with the
> necessary nutrient contained within it.

Bullshit. What doctor would say that an ear infection is the result of cows'
milk intolerance? It's not so, and you made it up yourself.
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Pizza Girl - 30 May 2005 03:29 GMT
Doctors in the know.

> >> "Peter Moran" <moringa@gil.com.au> wrote:
>
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> Bullshit. What doctor would say that an ear infection is the result of cows'
> milk intolerance? It's not so, and you made it up yourself.
calypso47@voyager.net - 26 May 2005 18:47 GMT
"Fascinating.  Since rice milk is almost totally devoid of nutritional
value (some carbohydrate and little else),  this chiro must be
conferring some kind of mystical significance to the word "milk", as
do those who market this product with quite false claims..

No surprises there considering the level of medical understanding of
many chiropractors.   Recently in Australia we had a chiropractor's
baby die because such the parents tried to raise it on rice milk."

But the child's spine was in perfect alignment and thus not being so can
be ruled out as the cause of death.
Renegade5 - 26 May 2005 21:30 GMT
>No surprises there considering the level of medical understanding of
>many chiropractors.   Recently in Australia we had a chiropractor's
>baby die because such the parents tried to raise it on rice milk."
>
>But the child's spine was in perfect alignment and thus not being so can
>be ruled out as the cause of death.

I'm sure his 'chakras' were in good order too...
Renegade5 - 26 May 2005 21:27 GMT
>Fascinating.  Since rice milk is almost totally devoid of nutritional value
>(some carbohydrate and little else),  this chiro must be conferring some
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
>Peter Moran

It's one thing to try subject your own body to crazy nutritional
theories... but a young child?  I hope the parents got jail time.
What was the outcome?

And what, they couldn't recognize the signs of malnutrition until the
child was too far gone?
David Wright - 27 May 2005 03:59 GMT
>>Fascinating.  Since rice milk is almost totally devoid of nutritional value
>>(some carbohydrate and little else),  this chiro must be conferring some
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
>theories... but a young child?  I hope the parents got jail time.
>What was the outcome?

The parents got five years imprisonment.  A quick google search will
turn up more than you want to know about this case.

>And what, they couldn't recognize the signs of malnutrition until the
>child was too far gone?

The initial diagnosis, when they took the kid to a doctor, was
"possible meningitis."  The parents didn't want a lumbar puncture
done, so they took the kid and scrammed.  The doctor later
reconsidered and suggested that a simple B12 injection would probably
be sufficient, and it might well have, if the parents hadn't chosen to
disappear and treat the infant by wrapping him in herbs and other such
idiocy.  

Those reading over the last couple of days will recall our little
discussion of the (lack of) nutritive value in rice milk.  The parents
were obviously not thinking too well -- I mean, not *nursing* an
infant?  

 -- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
    These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
      "I don't need someone to tell me that George W. Bush is a
       deceitful, corrupt, clever and destructive man--that's pretty
       clear on the face of it."  -- Garrison Keillor
Renegade5 - 26 May 2005 21:24 GMT
>> I am an avid believer in chiropractic doctors but what the geeeez would a
>> chiro know about nutrition or health other than joint and muscle problems
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>          Many chiro docs also sell nutritional supplements in their
>offices.
Interesting.  I wonder how many years of training they require to
specialize in nutrition, and what type of certification they have?

>          Thus, my chiro doc friend (& nutritionist) has the necessary diet
>/ nutritional knowledge to
>           understand why his young daughter should NOT be drinking cow's
>milk.   She drinks rice
>           milk.
'nuf said  :-)
Renegade5 - 26 May 2005 21:23 GMT
>I am an avid believer in chiropractic doctors but what the geeeez would a
>chiro know about nutrition or health other than joint and muscle problems
>and health?

Only what they read in 'High Times' and 'New Age Living' magazines
:-)
David Wright - 25 May 2005 05:15 GMT
>> Regarding intake of cows milk and risk of diabetes, the following
>> abstracts published this month say no in either type 1 or 2 diabetes.
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>why a chiro doc friend (& nutritionist) has his young daughter drinking rice
>milk rather than cow's milk to reduce her chance of getting type 1 diabetes.

Well, it could be because he's nuts, or poorly-informed, too.  I'm not
saying that he is, but he could be.

>         I, myself, would trust the nutritional insight of a chiro doc over
>a "scientific" study any day.

I wouldn't.  The fact that you would speaks volumes about you, none of
it good.

 -- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
    These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
      "I don't need someone to tell me that George W. Bush is a
       deceitful, corrupt, clever and destructive man--that's pretty
       clear on the face of it."  -- Garrison Keillor
Renegade5 - 26 May 2005 21:19 GMT
>>> Regarding intake of cows milk and risk of diabetes, the following
>>> abstracts published this month say no in either type 1 or 2 diabetes.
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>Well, it could be because he's nuts, or poorly-informed, too.  I'm not
>saying that he is, but he could be.

Most of them are (either nuts, or poorly-informed) IMHO.  Most Chiro's
I know of are borderline naturalpaths, and tend to discount the
science of nutrition either because they don't understand it, or
simply becuase it's not their 'niche' (ie. if you want science, see a
doctor, if you want 'mysticism', see a chiro).  

Personally, I think a blending of science and 'wisdom' is the ideal -
all information should be considered from scientific research and
clinical trials, to ancient methods and traditions.

>>         I, myself, would trust the nutritional insight of a chiro doc over
>>a "scientific" study any day.
>
>I wouldn't.  The fact that you would speaks volumes about you, none of
>it good.
Me neither.  Look at all the herbal products that many of them used to
flog until science has proven that some are quite dangerous.
Roger Rabbit - 26 May 2005 02:19 GMT
>> Regarding intake of cows milk and risk of diabetes, the following
>> abstracts published this month say no in either type 1 or 2 diabetes.
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>         I, myself, would trust the nutritional insight of a chiro doc over
>a "scientific" study any day.

Bwaaahahaha! Seriously?

rr
David Wright - 25 May 2005 05:11 GMT
>> "A diet rich in milk does not increase the risk of heart disease and
>>       stroke, and may even be protective, concludes research in the
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>the risk of getting ear infections;  strep throats; diabetes; and asthma /
>lung congestion when drinking cow's milk.

Sounds like a good trade to me.  What's your problem with it?  Are you
arguing that a strep throat is worse than heart disease and stroke?

 -- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
    These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
      "I don't need someone to tell me that George W. Bush is a
       deceitful, corrupt, clever and destructive man--that's pretty
       clear on the face of it."  -- Garrison Keillor
Renegade5 - 26 May 2005 21:21 GMT
>> "A diet rich in milk does not increase the risk of heart disease and
>>       stroke, and may even be protective, concludes research in the
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>the risk of getting ear infections;  strep throats; diabetes; and asthma /
>lung congestion when drinking cow's milk.

There's no good evidence linking milk to increased bacterial or viral
infections.  There is evidence to show that milk probably helps
prevent diabetes.
Bawl - 24 May 2005 21:59 GMT
calyps...@voyager.net wrote:
> "A diet rich in milk does not increase the risk of heart disease and
>       stroke, and may even be protective, concludes research in the
> Journal
>       of Epidemiology and Community Health."
>
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050524001009.htm

Cholesterol and animal fats are protective!?........In what way?
By coating the arteries?
What a crock!
 
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