cutting out dairy?

shming123 said:

I heard that I could be a little bit faster if I cut out dairy products during the race season.. is this true? if so, what soy milk tastes the best? lol.

Your from Wisconsin. Are you sure cutting out dairy from your diet is legal in your state, lol.

haha, thats kinda funny. I'm curious though because some people I know swear by it, and other super fast people drink a ton of milk. Personally, I never heard of it.. I thought lowfat/skim milk is good because of calcium, protein, amino acids, etc..

Unless you have a specific intolerance to milk products i doubt it will make any difference.

Milk is just sugar, water, protein and a few other bits and pieces.

Duckwah said:

Unless you have a specific intolerance to milk products i doubt it will make any difference.

Milk is just sugar, water, protein and a few other bits and pieces.

When I was in high school, I ran Cross Country, and was in the top 80 in the state....our top runner ran about 45 seconds faster than me, the biggest difference was he drank lots of milk. So much in fact, he got Calcified kidney stones from it.

Robbie

Quoted post said:

Milk is just sugar, water, protein and a few other bits and pieces.

nearly every fluid can be simplified to this extent (yet most lack significant sources of protein) but your overlooking the bits a pieces

Milk is a great source of some very important nutrients most notable calcium and Vitamin D which are important elements to a healthy diet and more importantly are hard to attain through other dietary means.

as to whether cutting out dairy can improve performance I dont see how it would have a short term effect either way.

what is the basis of eliminating dairy(other than pissing off your local cheese heads) out of curiosity?

-Mike

mcortazzo said:

what is the basis of eliminating dairy(other than pissing off your local cheese heads) out of curiosity?

with the danger of starting a riot and being called all kind of things, you could check: http://www.pcrm.org/health/Info_on_Veg_Diets/dairy.html

(*sounds of running feet, and scared panting*)

mcortazzo said:

nearly every fluid can be simplified to this extent (yet most lack significant sources of protein) but your overlooking the bits a pieces

Milk is a great source of some very important nutrients most notable calcium and Vitamin D which are important elements to a healthy diet and more importantly are hard to attain through other dietary means.

as to whether cutting out dairy can improve performance I dont see how it would have a short term effect either way.

what is the basis of eliminating dairy(other than pissing off your local cheese heads) out of curiosity?

-Mike

Some people were just saying that because milk has lactose, its just more 'lactic acid' your body has to get rid of. I don't believe any of that either. From what I understand, your body is constantly producing and getting rid of lactic acid, but at super low levels. (is it from the burning of carbohydrates?)

Your right, you shouldn't believe that talk of lactose being just another source of lactic acid. The lactose that you are talking about is a dietary sugar, a simple sugar that is fairly easy for most people (except those individuals with lactose intolerance) to digest. Lactic acid is a biproduct of anaerobic respiration that occurs often during high intensity exercise when there is not enough oxygen in the muscles for the energy (glucose) one burns to enter what's called the kreb's cycle of respiration. Lactose that you consume does not just suddenly become lactic acid, though similar in name and chemical composition, the two compounds are not the same. as my first posts I dont want to be flamed...just preventing mis-information.

thats my 2 cents(might be worth less)
-mike

mcortazzo said:

Lactose that you consume does not just suddenly become lactic acid, though similar in name and chemical composition, the two compounds are not the same.

That is mostly true - lactose and lactate (or lactic acid) are only similar in name! Their chemical composition is very different though (apart from the fact that they are both made from Carbon, Hydrogen & Oxygen). Lactate is C3H6O3. There is no carbon-ring structure.

Lactose is a disaccharide consisting of one glucose moiety and one galactose moiety - each of which is a 6-carbon ring (C14H22O11).

Consuming lactose has nothing to do with lactate levels!!!