I stopped drinking milk about 5 years ago. Prior to that, I would drink 2-3
gallons a week by myself. Within a couple of months of stopping, my face
cleared up considerably and I wasn't nearly as bloated. I used to have
terrible cystic acne due to my pcos. Not drinking that stuff helped me
clear it up. I avoid it now, except when it is occassionally an ingrediant
in something I am eating (i.e. low calorie dessert bars, etc.).

I never knew that about the growth hormones! I do know that I did grow up
pretty tall and big boned in a short family. I wonder if excess milk
consumption during childhood contributed to that. I am a bit over 5'9, my
sister and mom are 5'5 and my dad is 5'10. I am the tallest female on both
sides of my family and I have a ton of cousins. No one knows where I got
the height from.

"That T Woman" wrote in message

In cow's milk you have all kinds of hormones that are given to the cows
and
pass through in the milk. I was reading on another fitness related
newsgroup and the guys were discussing how you can get really huge (hooge
I
think is how they put it) by drinking a gallon of whole milk a day not
just
from the calories but also from the growth hormones. Soy milk doesn't
have
those things in it. I can't drink cow milk or most other dairy products
because they cause too much phlegm production in my sinuses. I don't know
what component in cow milk causes that but it's a severe reaction in me
that
I go out of my way to avoid.

Tonia