Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | If Milk or Pop?, take Milk... (But better yet, water)

THIS IN AN AMENDMENT TO MY PRIVIOUS POST��..HERE I AM LOOKING AT IT MORE IN LINE WITH YOU, PEACHES, A VERY YOUNG WOMAN WHO HAS LOTS OF GROWING LEFT TO DO AND WHO NEEDS ALL THE NUTRIENTS YOU CAN GET TO AVOID DEFICIENCIES AS YOU GET OLDER��..

Peaches,

Having taught HS foods classes, (about million years ago, or so it seems) and now looking at your bio and seeing you're still in HS, I can tell you that one reason we Home Ec teachers have pushed milk is because young women are so highly deficient in calcium, and have always been avoiding it because they think it makes them fat. In fact the latest I read was that LESS than 20% of ALL American women consume ENOUGH calcium. (Since you're taking a foods class I don't have to reiterate why you need adequate amounts of calcium daily.)

But, you have a special problem�.It's called IBS. Your teacher may not know much about IBS. Milk may be a trigger food for you but you'll only know if you try it. Even if you CAN tolerate a little of it, don't push it and think you can drink the recommended 3-4 glasses a day. You can't. It's more likely you can have it only once and a while. If you want to wow your teacher, do your own personal research on other foods containing calcium and then calculate how much of them daily you would need to equal the calcium you'd get from milk. Don't forget to look at the foods you are consuming now, which may be calcium enriched, like soy or rice milk/cheese, dried cereals, etc.

But, like the title I made to this post says, if it boils down to being out with your friends at a fast food place, and they are all having cokes and you don't want to look like a dork by not ordering one too, get milk instead��.maybe you'll start something!

A teacher's 2 cents��.Kandee

I'm going to take hits for this I KNOW, and I still don't advocate drinking milk as a regular practice, UNLESS, you have your own dairy cow, (or better yet, your own milk goat), know what it's fed, conduct your own safe milking practices, and consume it in it's raw state immediately.

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