Milk Is A Great Recovery Drink

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Many people are less able to process lactose as they age, which is why older folk sometimes get abdominal pain and diarrhoea.

I like @Night Train swapped to lactofree solutions a few months ago. Cured 90% of the general ill-feeling I had when consuming regular semi-skimmed.(which easily reached 1l+ a day)

Anecdotally perhaps: It wasn't until I cut the majority of gluten from my diet that felt as if I found the other 10%. I'm heavily considering giving semi-skimmed a go again just to see what happens. Yes wheat and gluten is a different ball game with issues of their own for some. But light reading has suggested that gluten can weaken the gut, which can lead to (can't remember the term) basically rejection of lactose.

I haven't researched it properly yet, only gathered a few snippets from a thread in HF&Training before christmas.

 

[Aperitif]

All I see is a load of cows laying around in a field...AND they have a low gluten diet. The swallows semi-skimmed them, but lost their bottle when there was some moovement toward the gate...

 

[Aperitif]

I luv my milk on my cereal in the mornings with a glass of it on the side.
And a bag of plain crisps with my workday lunch to get some salt into my body.

Plane crisps will never take off...stick to Christmas Pudding flavour!

 

[Over The Hill]

Did anyone see BBC 1 programme about food yesterday afternoon?
It showed milk was a far better recovery drink than these fancy sports drinks.
Also crisps are not as bad as often thought by people, containing less salt than many common foods, such as bread and weight for weight also twice as much potassium as bananas.
I do not eat many crisps but do drink lots of milk

I am not saying you are wrong but do firstly find it hard to believe. 20 years ago we used to have "the milk race" but I am sure milk as a energy replacement has far too complex energy, ie the fat takes a long time to digest but sugar drinks (or fancy sports drinks if you like) are a quick hit of energy that can work quickly.

As for Crisps and all these other silly programmes on food and diet, it is easy to ignore the bad thing (crisps being about 30% fat) and talking about other elements in it. Crisps are bad for you because of the high fat content. If they have potassium in them then that is not going to offset the bad elements.
I do recall some similar twist on things where sweets were said to be OK because they were "low fat".
There are probably some good vitamins in lard but that is not a reason to eat it.

The salt thing is a lie anyway, or at least a spin on the facts. They tend to compare a 100g slice of bread with a 33g packet of crisps but forget that you have eaten three times the amout of food by eating the bread. Bread typically actually has about a third of the salt of crisps weight for weight.

Bread is about 3% fat while crisps are about 30%.

 

[Andy_R]

I saw that episode of QI as well

My dentist told me about it many years ago....

 

[Andy_R]

I am not saying you are wrong but do firstly find it hard to believe. 20 years ago we used to have "the milk race" but I am sure milk as a energy replacement has far too complex energy, ie the fat takes a long time to digest but sugar drinks (or fancy sports drinks if you like) are a quick hit of energy that can work quickly.
.

I think possibly that you are mistaking energy drinks for recovery drinks. The two are different, and the OP was about milk being a recovery drink. Milk has a good balance of carbohydrates and protein, where energy drinks tend to be high carbohydrate and trace levels of protein.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

I think possibly that you are mistaking energy drinks for recovery drinks. The two are different, and the OP was about milk being a recovery drink. Milk has a good balance of carbohydrates and protein, where energy drinks tend to be high carbohydrate and trace levels of protein.

Yes, but it was compared to lucozade sport, which is totally void of anything that would help recovery. Perhaps this was missed

 

[Globalti]

I like @Night Train swapped to lactofree solutions a few months ago. Cured 90% of the general ill-feeling I had when consuming regular semi-skimmed.(which easily reached 1l+ a day)

Anecdotally perhaps: It wasn't until I cut the majority of gluten from my diet that felt as if I found the other 10%. I'm heavily considering giving semi-skimmed a go again just to see what happens. Yes wheat and gluten is a different ball game with issues of their own for some. But light reading has suggested that gluten can weaken the gut, which can lead to (can't remember the term) basically rejection of lactose.

I haven't researched it properly yet, only gathered a few snippets from a thread in HF&Training before christmas.

No need to research it; just ask a dietician or a physician who specialises in the gastro-intestinal tract as all of this stuff is routine to them.

 

[Over The Hill]

I think possibly that you are mistaking energy drinks for recovery drinks. The two are different, and the OP was about milk being a recovery drink. Milk has a good balance of carbohydrates and protein, where energy drinks tend to be high carbohydrate and trace levels of protein.

It seems I am!
I have never seen a "recovery drink" and googled it.
Found this -
High 5 Protein Recovery is an ideal mix of carbohydrates and protein, to increase energy levels and to protect and repair muscles which are prone to damage after exercise.

Now forgive me if I am off track but if you want carbs and protein then how about just eating a balanced meal? Is this magic drink not just giving us what we get in food anyway?
I think I would rather eat a spag bol as a source of carbs and protein that a banana flavoured powder.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

It seems I am!
I have never seen a "recovery drink" and googled it.
Found this -
High 5 Protein Recovery is an ideal mix of carbohydrates and protein, to increase energy levels and to protect and repair muscles which are prone to damage after exercise.

Now forgive me if I am off track but if you want carbs and protein then how about just eating a balanced meal? Is this magic drink not just giving us what we get in food anyway?
I think I would rather eat a spag bol as a source of carbs and protein that a banana flavoured powder.

Different strokes, different folks or something

 

[Andy_R]

It seems I am!
I have never seen a "recovery drink" and googled it.
Found this -
High 5 Protein Recovery is an ideal mix of carbohydrates and protein, to increase energy levels and to protect and repair muscles which are prone to damage after exercise.

Now forgive me if I am off track but if you want carbs and protein then how about just eating a balanced meal? Is this magic drink not just giving us what we get in food anyway?
I think I would rather eat a spag bol as a source of carbs and protein that a banana flavoured powder.

The idea is to have something immediately after your ride that can be digested quickly and easily, then have your balanced meal when you feel up to it. Some people (myself included) feel nauseous if they eat a meal immediately after exercise, this is a good way of getting those much needed nutrients quickly.

 

[Maz]

I've been munching on these for the past few days for extra carbs...Carbón de Reyes (Coal from the 3 Wise Men). It's basically coloured sugar!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Milk works because it readilly assimilated by the body, quick uptake and good quality of proteins, carbs fats, minerals, fats and other co-factors, it's actually a hugely complex material with natural blood pressure modifiers, relaxants etc. Think what milk is designed to do .... grow bodies ... no surprise it's a good recovery product.

 

[Aperitif]

Milk works because it readilly assimilated by the body, quick uptake and good quality of proteins, carbs fats, minerals, fats and other co-factors, it's actually a hugely complex material with natural blood pressure modifiers, relaxants etc. Think what milk is designed to do .... grow bodies ... no surprise it's a good recovery product.

Truesay. It also makes for the fastest milkman in the West.

 

[biggs682]

good olde plain simple milk