[Dejibo]

Read a study on MS and Milk and it seems that several are trying to link the higher consumption of milk products with the prevalance of MS.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...is.html?cat=70

now I am the only one in my family with MS, and I am the only milk drinker. I have been told years ago to give up milk, but I love it so. I am not sure I could give it up.

Is anyone else a diary lover? milk, cheese, butter, yogurts, cottage cheese??? I simply would shrivel up and waste away without milk or milk products. MOOO!

[Kitty]

I hate milk but love ice cream, cheese, yogurt.....

Ice cream doesn't like me, though. It tears up my tummy.

[kicker]

I have MS. I never drink milk, hate yogurt, ice cream and cheese only occasionally. Who knows. I am not lactose intolerant either. Just not into dairy.

[ykonstan]

i don't drink milk at all, just don't like any products contains milk, once in a while i can eat yogurt and have ms for 20 years. I think this theory about gluten free diet and lactose intolerance in ms patients is just imagination of sick people or msers who needs to find some good theory why they have it.

[Erin524]

I've never been a milk drinker, unless it was chocolate.

When I was a kid, my mom didnt buy milk. She bought powdered milk (why I dont know) and that stuff was so watered down, it was gross. The only time I drank real milk was at school, and I didnt like that either unless it was chocolate, and we could only get chocolate milk on fridays for some reason. I just didnt drink anything at lunch since they didnt provide us with anything else.

I love ice cream tho, just dont eat it that often.

[SallyC]

Never liked milk, even as a kid, but Mom made me drink it.

I'm with Stan, we're just looking for something to blame for MS. I think Chocolate causes it....NOOO!!!

[Erin524]

If chocolate causes it, then I'm screwed because I'm addicted to chocolate.

[TwoKidsTwoCats]

It is an interesting theory. Do they say at what age the damage is done? How long it takes for damage to occur?

While I was pregnant with my oldest DS28, I drank 3 gallons of milk a week. It and watermelon were my only cravings. Normally, I am not a big milk drinker, rarely eat cheese and grudgingly eat yogurt when my gut says the antibiotics I just took are starting a war! The reason I ask the question above about age, my mom could not breastfeed me due to medication she was on. In 1959, formula was limited to few choices. I could not tolerate any of the commercial stuff. The family tried everything on me... goats milk, fresh cows milk. I ended up being fed canned Carnation milk diluted with water and Karo syrup.. until I was 1 yr old.

My first identifiable MS symptoms occurred in 1989.

[tkrik]

I was a huge milk drinker. I love milk! And cheese! I can't drink/eat too much of them now. Yogurt I can tolerate but only certain brands. I remember as a kid getting in trouble for drinking too much milk - hey, things had to be "rationed" with that many kids. I was the milk drinker in the house.

It is interesting but I don't fully buy in to it. It doesn't explain the longitude issues and other demographics. Most of us drank milk as kids.

BTW - Pam that was pretty common back then. And, when DD20 was little and having trouble with whey formulas and soy formulas made her gassy, I used the Carnation trick to supplement. I alternated between the soy based formulas and the Carnation. And, as she got older, she had trouble with milk, only certain brands. Come to find out, it wasn't the milk she was allergic to but the grass that was being fed to the cows. Go figure.

[karilann]

When I was a baby, I was allergic to most kinds of milk......could only tolerate goats milk. Cow's milk is not a product originally designed for humans, so thats why so many people have issues with it.
I love ice cream.....couldn't imagine life without it, but I'm not a huge milk drinker. My husband is and he also eats 6 eggs nearly everday for breakfast. He is as healthy as a horse and his cholesterol is lower than mine....

For me personally I feel much better on a low blood sugar diet. Eat 6 times a day kind of like a diabetic. Lower carbs and higher protien portioned out in exchanges. Weight melts off too when I stick to it. My blood sugar can drop really low, but they say I don't have reactive hypoglycemia (don't react badly to the low sugar level). But I would recommend this diet to anyone....very healthy, and knocking out most sugars keeps the fat content low.

What about the new SILK milk product? Its soy I believe and my sister in law loves it. Better for women anyway especially as we age as soy is good for the hormone issues we face.