| Milk Addiction? |
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014 03:00:40 GMT |
| Food |
I've been wanting to become vegetarian, but, the thing I most struggle with is giving up cow's milk. My craving for milk is sometimes so strong I noted that I actually feel like I'm addicted to it.
So, recently, I searched the web for something like "cow milk addiction", and ended up reading a page or two which surprisingly mentioned something about morphine in cow's milk.
Funny that it mentions "mu" receptors. :-) At least they didn't spell morphine "moorphine". :-)
I don't drink a huge amount of cow's milk, but I definitely find it a bit uncomfortable to go without any of it for more than a day or so, and no milk substitute I've tried eased the craving.
I originally thought that was maybe just because the alternatives might lack some nutrients that cow's milk contains. But, perhaps it's the lack of morphine? :-) Don't know, just wondering.
Here's the most credible-seeming page about that that I found (after a brief and lazy search). It's dated August 28, 1981, and its URL is: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6267691
So, if it's true that cow's milk contains morphine, maybe I truly am a bit addicted to cow's milk?
Disclaimer, just in case: I am not a health expert, and none of this post is intended to be health advice or medical advice.