Thu, Jun-08-17, 19:16
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Posts: 6,498
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Plan: VLC, mostly meat
Stats: 202/200/165
BF:
Progress: 5%
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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OK so fewer calories make kids taller and leaner, more calories make kids shorter and fatter? Makes perfect sense to me! But seriously, I like this quote here:
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Though the study was not designed to look at why non-cow’s milk was linked to shorter heights, the authors suspect that children who drink non-cow's milk consume less dietary protein and fat than those who drink cow's milk. Both are essential to growth in early childhood.
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I'm reading the full paper's conclusions and they hypothesize that somehow kids who grow shorter didn't get enough protein and/or calories, and/or there's the IGF-1 factor where there's more IGF-1 in cow's milk than in non-cow "milk" (they count various juices and beverages as milk, i.e. almond milk, soy milk, etc).
I'll put up an alternative hypothesis. Kids who drink noncow milk, and kids who drink cowmilk, both growth shorter than kids who don't drink any milk past weaning, and instead drink water and eat genuine food just like every other growing offspring of every other species on this planet. You see, the study didn't compare water intake or diet quality, it's just about cow milk vs substitutes. Also, it's not an experiment so Imma gonna ignore everything about it, and instead rely on solid experimental evidence like my own personal n=1 for example, and on some reasonable principles like eat real food or something like that.
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