Roland,

I would be very interested to see the data that lactose enhances GI
permeability

best.. Todd Caldecott

On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 02:33  AM, Roland Rohde wrote:

> Liza,
>
> it's a well known fact that milk sugar (lactose) is not simply any
> sugar.
> Actually it causes baby's gut to become leaky for some of the valuable
> milk
> constituents that are provided by mother's glands and that should not
> be
> digested (hormones like IGF1) or got lost (like the calcium from
> mummy's bones).
>
> Pastoral tribes like the Samburu and the Masai know this well.
> They never mix milk and meat.
> This rule is the origin of the appropriate jewish kashrut.
> It's not unlikely that our gut becomes leaky for many immunogenic food
> constituents (e.g. Neu5Gc) if we drink not fermented milk or -even
> worse-
> drink it together with meat.
> But today, you can find milk sugar as an additive in many prepared meat
> products.
>
>> "Of course, there are already existing recommendations that people
>> should
>> not consume too much food containing saturated fats, such as dairy
>> products
>> and red meats," Varki said in a statement.
>
> Statements like these seem to be pretty outdated.
> Not only is the theory of the beneficial vegetable fats
> completely paradoxified by the facts, e.g. the masai,
> the french, the israelis, in this order.
> As it becomes clear that polyunsaturated fats are toxic
> in higher amounts, they try to switch to the so called
> 'mediterranean diet' rich in monounsaturates as they are present in
> olive
> oil, like it is grown and used in Israel,
> a mediterranean country and world champion in the rate of heart
> disease.
>
> There is considerable scientific evidence that at least the saturated
> fatty acid stearic acid is sort of semi-essential for man.
> I don't want to bore you. Literature or discussion on request.
>
> Roland
>
>
Todd Caldecott
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