Is It Better To Drink Soy Milk Instead Of Cow Milk? And Is There Any Soy Milk That Is Non-Fat & Unsweetened?!
Also, if I only drink soy milk, will this be ok and provide the necessary nutrients I need? Or should I drink cow milk instead?
Answers: I'm a Vegetarian and I really am not and was never into drinking cow (animal) milk. My doctor told me to drink milk and eat eggs since I don't eat meat. I LOVE soy milk and enjoy it way better than cow milk. The problem is that I just think it has A LOT of fat and calories. So I just wanted to know if there are any companies that sell fat free/unsweetened soy milk.
Also, if I only drink soy milk, will this be ok and provide the necessary nutrients I need? Or should I drink cow milk instead?
Unfortunately the average medical student receives very few hours of classroom time learning about nutrition. In Western medicine, it is much more popular to administer drugs and risky surgery after a patient has a serious health problem than to try to create healthy people with education about how their diet and exercise can prevent health problems. So I would take anything your average MD says about your diet with a big grain of salt.
There are many alternatives to cow's milk. Drinking cow's milk as your doctor suggested would absolutely not do you any favors, the countries that consume the highest amounts of dairy have the highest rates of osteoporosis and bone fracture in older adults. Get your calcium from other sources, of which there are plenty.
Read labels and ingredients, you should be able to find a brand that has little fat and no added sugar (cow's milk, by the way, contains a lot of sugar in the form of lactose). If you can't find something tasty that fits your nutritional requirements you can try mixing it with whatever you like to have for breakfast if that works for you (hot or cold cereal, smoothies).
Several companies make non and low fat soy milk without sweeteners. However, at least in my opinion, it tastes awful. I buy non fat, light VANILLA soy milk. It kind of tastes like the milk left over after you ate a slightly sweet cereal. I also get the chocolate flavered soy, which is also pretty tasty. Compare the nutritional info on the cartons to see if soy is what you want. They do have lots of protein....
I can not tell you if you should or should not drink milk. Many people live healthy lives without eating meat, eggs or drinking milk. I am not aware of a unsweetened non fat soy milk. There are non fat and unsweetened soy milks available. West Soy makes a nonfat soy milk. Organic Valley and Silk both have unsweetened soy milks.
Hi!
I strongly encourage you (and anyone else contemplating it) to remove any and all dairy from their diets. It's completely unnatural for adult mammals to drink breastmilk (humans are the only species that drink breast milk past infancy), and it's inappropriate for humans to drink the breast milk of another species (humans are the only species that drink the breastmilk of another species).[1]
Dairy consumption is linked with type 2 diabetes, heart disease, obesity, osteoperosis, acne, allergies, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, and increased mucous production.[1]
Alternatives to cow milk such as soy, rice, almond, and hemp milks will give you the same nutrients as cow milk, and they're cholesterol free and low in saturated fat. They are available in unsweetened and low-fat varieties.
Best of luck!
Doctors don't know everything...
BACTERIA
Cow's milk is allowed to have feces in it. This is a major source for bacteria. Milk is typically pasteurized more than once before it gets to your table... each time for only 15 seconds at 162 degrees Fahrenheit.
To sanitize water one is told to boil it (212 degrees F) for several minutes. That is a tremendous disparity, isn't it!
Keep in mind that at room temperature the number of bacteria in milk DOUBLE around every 20 minutes. No wonder milk turns rotten very quickly.
PUS
ONE cubic centimeter (cc) of commercial cow's milk is allowed to have up to 750,000 somatic cells (common name is "PUS") and 20,000 live bacteria... before it is kept off the market.
That amounts to a whopping 20 million live squiggly bacteria and up to 750 MILLION pus cells per liter (bit more than a quart).
1 cup = 236.5882cc 177,441,150 pus cells ~ 4,731,600 bacteria
24 oz (3 glasses) = 532,323,450 pus cells ~ 14,220,000 bacteria
(the "recommended" daily intake)
The EU and the Canadians allow for a less "tasty" 400,000,000 pus cells per liter.
Typically these levels are lower... but they COULD reach these levels and still get to YOUR table.
CHOLESTEROL
The cholesterol content of those three glasses of milk is equal to what one would get from 53 slices of bacon. Do you know of any doctor who recommends that much bacon per day?
KOSHER
Is cow's milk and dairy "Kosher"? Consider this:
"D-3 always is derived from an animal. The sunlight reaction that converts 7-dehydrocholesterol to vitamin D-3 is a 'pure' chemical reaction that occurs in your skin in certain cells."
"The provitamin known as 7-dehydrocholesterol is extracted and isolated from the skins of mammals and purified." (Marian Herbert of the Vitamin D Workshop U of C)
Vitamin D-3 can come from four different sources:
Pig skin, sheep skin, raw fish liver, and pig brains. Most of the time, Vitamin D-3 is extracted from pig skin and sold to dairy processors.
Short answer to "is milk kosher" - probably not.
OTHER 'STUFF'
Fat and cholesterol. Lots of it. Per the dairy influenced USDA "food pyramid" all milk, dairy and meats should represent no more than 8% of the diet. Statistically, by volume of sales in a nation of 281 million Americans, it works out to almost 40% of the diet for MILK AND DAIRY.. without the meat.
The milk of each of the over 4,700 mammals on earth is formulated specifically for that species. There are special lactoferrins and immunoglobulins (cow specific immunizing stuff) that in humans serve as allergens.
LEUKEMIA
According to Hoards Dairyman (Volume 147, number 4)... 89% of America's dairy herds have the leukemia virus. (more at http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/not... )
DIABETES
The protein lactalbumin, has been identified as a key factor in diabetes (and a major reason for NOT giving cows milk to infants).
CROHN'S DISEASE
Mycobacterium paratuberculosis causes a bovine disease called "Johne's."
Cows diagnosed with Johne's Disease have diarrhea, and heavy fecal shedding of bacteria. This bacteria becomes cultured in milk, and is not destroyed by pasteurization. Occasionally, the milk-borne bacteria will begin to grow in the human host, and the results are irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn's Disease.
MAD COW DISEASE
There may also be prions (pronounced PREons) in the milk and meat. This is crystalline substance that acts like a virus... with an "incubation" period of from 5 to 30 years. The end result is MAD COW DISEASE!
HOMOGENIZATION
Large fat molecules cannot get through the intestinal wall into the bloodstream. The cream no longer rises... because homogenization breaks up those large molecules into small ones that DO get into the bloodstream! This becomes an expressway for any fat-borne toxins (lead, dioxin's, etc.) into your (otherwise) most protected organs.
CUMULATIVE EFFECTS
How does this impact humans who consume cow's milk and dairy? Obesity (over 50% of Americans and rising), heart disease, cancer, allergies, digestive problems, diabetes, asthma, desensitization to antibiotics, behavioral problems, and the constant ingestion of dioxin's, herbicides, pesticides (and anything else the cow eats that is not good for any critter), that winds up getting stored in HUMAN fat... is not healthy by any measure.
Those who resist believing the truth should understand that MOST of the world's population CANNOT tolerate the lactose in cow's milk. Up to 95% of the black population, around 53% of the Hispanics, etc.) So much for cow's milk being "natures perfect food" for humans! Mother nature knows better.
Common sense question: Where was this massive "milk is a must" before refrigeration, pasteurization and mass transportation? Back when cows gave only 1-4 pounds a day it was quickly made into BUTTER and cheese! Now that those same cows have been tweaked and shot-up with Posilac to produce up to 55 or more pounds of milk per day... almost all year long... it is suddenly (after many thousands of years) a daily "staple". NOT!
POLLUTION
There are around 9.2 million dairy cows in the United states. Each dairy cow ingests around 330 pounds of feed (perhaps 50 pounds) and water (around 280 pounds or 33 gallons) per day. Allowing for the best dairy production of 55 pounds of milk per day (over ten times what mother nature designed the cow to produce) that means that what remains becomes "slurry".
That means around 275 pound of urine and feces per day... per cow, for a daily total of 2.53 BILLION pounds of pollution. Per year... that amounts to around 923 billion pounds of UNTREATED pollution entering our streams, rivers, lakes... and drinking water systems.
Cows are hot-blooded mammals. Like all other mammals they pass gas. Somewhat like elephants their compartmented digestive system is rather inefficient... which leads to the creation of MORE gas. During a Discovery Channel documentary on elephants a parting quip was that the average adult elephant passes enough methane gas per day to run a car about 20 miles.
Cows are not much better. The English New Scientist (page 5 -31.8.96) mentions that cattle produce around 48 kilograms (105 pounds) of methane each per year and that more bubbles out of the animals' manure. Dairy cows eat more because they produce milk. With 9.2 million dairy cows times a minimum of 100 pounds of methane gas per year... that amounts almost a billion pounds of methane gas released into the atmosphere each year. With around 100 million beef cattle... pigs, sheep, and other "factory farmed" animals it should not be difficult to fathom the extent of this problem.
This means that "Beef is a greenhouse-intensive food" and a major cause of global warming (with dairy a significant part of the problem).
Another major point is:
"Milk is a very strong pollutant: it is about 400 times more polluting than untreated sewage. To put it another way, 1,000 gallons of milk has the same polluting potential as the untreated sewage from a town of 7,000 people." Morlais Owen. Chief Scientist for Welsh Water. North Wales Weekly News. 24.3.88.
SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED
Q: What is WHEY?
A: Whey results when the FAT and CASEIN are removed from milk.
In making cheese, the curds become the cheese.
Whey's main components are bovine serum albumin and lactalbumin.
There are other hormones contained in whey.
Q: What happens to the:
59 hormones, scores of allergens herbicides, pesticides, dioxins up to 52 antibiotics
When made into cheese?
A: Everything gets concentrated.
When made into butter?
A: The allergens get lost: but the dioxin's and
pesticides and antibiotics remain in the fat.
In the digestive system?
A: Steroid hormones survive, as do dioxins and antibiotics.
In homogenized milk, protein hormones survive... depending upon the
gastric pH, some protein hormones in cheese survive, but not all...
eleven steroid hormones survive.
AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Eventually, everything is broken down, but not before the chemical messengers (hormones) "deliver their message."
Each of those hormones and proteins acts differently and has different rates of degradation. BOTTOM LINE... they all survive to a certain degree... and the effects are cumulative.
OTHER HEATH-TRASHING SUBSTANCES IN COW'S MILK
Whey: Blood proteins. Bovine serum lactalbumin has been identified as a trigger for diabetes and other autoimmune diseases.
Lactose: Two sugars. Glucose and galactose. Galactose has been indentified as a trigger for glaucoma. There are several columns that cover lactose (covering galactose and galactosemia):
Extensive reasons by ailment/topic
http://www.notmilk.com/deb/090599.txt Dr. Gordon: Heart Disease
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/me... Lactose is dangerous
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/me... Ben's heart
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/me... Female Cancers
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/me... Lactose intolerance
Colostrum (cow's first milk): Loaded with hormones, particularly IGF-I, along with loads of immunizing agents for COW DISEASES.
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I don't know of any nonfat soy milks, but there are unsweetened soy milks out there. You might also want to check the fat content of rice milk or almond milk. Even so, soy milk will have far less fat than cows' milk.
Many soy milks are fortified with calcium (you can also buy tofu coagulated with calcium salt) and B12.
A very similar question was asked 2 hours before yours: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...
Another thing: soy milk IS generally low fat and low calories, at least definitely lower than cow milk. Usual cow milk contains 3.5 to 3.8% fat, and soy milk contains maximum 2.7% fat (the brand I buy has 1%).
Only the strongly sweetened versions (vanilla, chocolate...) are higher in calories (but usually not in fat).
And, there are also really low fat varieties, but again: soy milk is NOT high in fat and NEVER was. I really get angry sometimes about people asking me this, this seems to be some dairy industry propaganda.
But if you search for a plant milk very very low in fat, I would recommend rice milk. The brand I buy usually has about 0.5% (!) fat and tastes nevertheless great and creamy. No skimmed milk could be this low fat and taste this good, not to mention the digestive benefits of rice milk (even the most weak and sick people can drink it anytime).
The case with the nutrients in milk is another dairy industry claim. If it would be true, people in Asian countries (with almost no milk and dairy consumed) would be all sickly and in bad condition and living much shorter than we do. But, the opposite is true - in countries with no milk consumption the people are lean and healthy and live stunningly long, despite all the wars and tsunamis and earthquakes and revolutions which occur in many of those countries.
You do need nutrients in your food, but you do NOT need the particular ones from milk. It's better to get the calcium from plant source, for example from sesame (8x as much calcium as in milk). It will benefit your body without making you sick at any time.
1 you have to remember your doctor has almost NO dietary training unless he took extra classes in it!!! Dairy nor Eggs are necessary to have a healthy balanced diet.
WestSoy makes a Unsweetened, Low Fat Soy Milk. Also look a Almond Breeze & Rice Dream they make low fat, plain "milks". I can't do soy so have experimented with other beverages on the market. I don't "drink" any of them, but use them in cooking, in hot tea, on cereal etc.
Slainté (to your health)
Cow milk is disgusting.
It has bus and blood in it which you cannot see.because they are very tiny.
But it really is gross, i read this in -things they didn't tell you- on peta2.com
Id just eat eggs and keep drinking soy milk.
good luck.