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mateja

Thank you for raising this important point. Yes, juicing green veggies is a perfectly good way to release nutrients, including the (usually small amounts of) glucose/fructose. When the nutrition tables are created, the lab workers homogenize the raw veggies in a blender in order to analyze their contents so that when you look up how much sugar is in, say, beet greens or a carrot, that’s based on a “juiced” product anyway. In people with inefficient digestive systems, the sugar and nutrient benefits of raw veggies will be somewhat reduced.

I am just reading your book Deep nutrition and loving it. I do have one question: is it OK to JUICE green leafy vegetables and grasses?

I am asking because of the pharagraph saying that glucose is trapped inside cellulose. As juicing breaks up the plant’s cells and cellulose, would that mean that by juicing green leafy vegetables I would actually be getting an extra dose of glucose? And if yes, is that amount of glucose big enough to counter-weight the benefits of juicing?

Thank you.

best regards,
mateja

The bovine genetics and casein subtypes in the different breeds also co-exists with numerous other differences. We know the Holsteins are the breed of choice for industrial farmers because they produce more milk, though of lower quality, and these animals tend to be grain fed rather than grass fed and raised in deplorabile conditions, injected with hormones, and on and on.

A more likely causative explanation is the fact that A1 casein types are consumed primarily by Americans and A2 primarily by people living in countries with lower rates of autism.

I also did look at the genetics, and the difference results in a casein protein that is nearly identical except for a shift in a single amino acid, if memory serves, which is probably a natural variation. Goat milk protein differs by more than a single amino acid, soit seems to me it makes little intuitive sense to start blaming this kind of natural variation for an epidemic.

And a final point: If A1 were the cause of autism/diabetes and not just an association, then nobody in the countries where they drink milk from the A2 cows would have autism/diabetes.

Sound reasonable?

I found a link (http://thebovine.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/beta-casein-a1-and-a2-in-milk-health/) describing A1 beta-casein and A2 beta-casein that is now linking the A1 casien causing type 1 diabetes in children along with autism and heart disease. The study is basically saying that heritage bovine breeds like the ones they have in India, France, Japan ect. don’t carry the A1 gene like the cows we have here in America and because human milk is of the A2 protien type that’s the type of protien in milk we should be getting. Thus they recommend A2 milk protien like goat and sheep’s milk. I would love to get your take on this study as you do a great job at weeding out the faulty studies! Thank so much!