Re: Calcium Supplements Do not Build Strong Bones.

Until I was 30, I grew up on a diet that consisted mainly of dairy (milk) and ground beef (I also rode the bicycle at the very least 20 miles a day). The next 25 years were dominated by fast food, junk food, no vitamins, minerals or supplements, 18-20 hours a day at work, average 3 hours sleep per day, at least 8 cups of coffee per day with 5 spoons of sugar, and heavy smoking, yet I'm in perfect health. For the last 5 years, with the coffee I make at home, I go through about 4 to 5 pounds of sugar per month and eat horribly. Yet, I'm in perfect health.

I think that all this research is only THEORETICAL (if you're aiming for the 'perfect health award', then dairy might not fit the equation well).

Sure, I've heard many bad things about dairy, but the overall benefits of avoiding dairy would seem exclusive to a small segment of society that needs to overcome an impaired metabolism/body chemistry (lactose intolerant affects nutrient utilization?).

My bias is completely unscientific and any professional number crunching is irrelevant TO ME, but what attracted me to the idea of alternative medicine is that the foods provided by the creator are perfectly fit for healing the human body. I can't see how dairy is an exception.

In my unscientific understanding, I see many people use cleanses and flushes to an extreme and never let the body stabilize. I view the research as also being carried to an impractical absurdity.

How is it that alternative medicine/health can heartily promote natural food EXCEPT dairy? Isn't dairy NATURAL?

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