RE: evolution and diet

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 07:49:38 MDT

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    Sabine Atkins wrote:

    > I'm unlurking here to shortly chime in this very interesting thread
    > to bring these two articles to everybody's attention:

    Thanks for chiming in.
     
    > New study finds yogurt may help burn body fat:
    >
    > http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-04/wsw-nsf041103.php

    > Adolecent girls who consume more calcium weigh less:

    > http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-04/foas-agw033003.php

    Both these articles are about the importance of calcium in the diet, a
    mineral easily obtained from healthy paleolithic green leafy vegetables.
    Green leafy vegetables (e.g., spinach, my favorite) provide not only
    calcium, but also many other extremely valuable nutrients not found in dairy
    products like yogurt.

    > The yogurt study seems to have been funded by the Yoplait company

    Yes. The title of the article is very revealing: "New study finds yogurt may
    help to burn body fat." The suggestion to the unwitting is that yogurt has
    some magical weight-loss properties not found in other foods. In reality the
    benefits come calcium -- not from anything found only in dairy products,
    much less from anything found in the Yoplait brand of yogurt.

    Non-paleo dairy products contain the wrong ratio of calcium to phosphorous,
    by the way, relative the ratio found in our bones. It won't work to rely
    only on dairy for calcium and phosphorous.

    -gts



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