Thoraiya DyerLittle Miss Muffet Eats Curds and Whey, Gets ULTRA RIPPED
June 19th 2008 01:50
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey. Pretty soon, she was feeling trim and buff. In fact, she realised she had the ultimate lean, ripped body, and when the spider came along, she started doing poses like this:
So the spider nicked off pretty quickly.
Could that variation on the story be true? What could cause such an amazing transformation in Little Miss Muffet?
Obviously she didn’t realise the amazing power of whey. Whey, also known as whey protein, is the major ingredient in this intriguing product, Balance Ultra Ripped Protein, available for online purchase here ( Really Long Link ):
“Balance Ultra Ripped is your key to chiselled muscles for the ultimate lean, ripped body. The highest quality WPI (Whey Protein Isolate) is combined with thermogenic herbs and minerals for maximum muscle definition.”
If only Little Miss Muffet had known what would happen. She could have just stuck to the curds and tipped out the whey. But maybe, back then, whey was the only source of protein available to Little Miss Muffet. Perhaps her poor mother couldn’t afford to give her meat or fish. If rhymes.org.uk is to be believed:
“Little Miss Muffet was a small girl whose name was Patience Muffet. Her stepfather, Dr. Muffet (1553-1604) was a famous entomologist who wrote the first scientific catalogue of British Insects. Whilst eating her breakfast of curds and whey Little Miss Muffet was frightened by one of his spiders and ran away.”
So how does eating whey for breakfast substitute for other sources of protein? What ARE curds and whey?
“Milk contains hundreds of types of protein,” advises food-info.net ( Really Long Link ), “most of them in very small amounts. The proteins can be classified in various ways according to their chemical or physical properties and their biological functions. Traditionally milk proteins were classified into caseins, whey proteins and minor proteins.”
When you make cheese, you start out with milk. Kurma.net explains:
“The first step in cheese making is the addition of a starter culture of Streptococci and Lactobacilli. These bacteria ferment the lactose to lactic acid and reduce the milk's pH to the proper range for the rennet to coagulate the casein. Then the rennet is added. The active enzyme in rennet, called rennin, is remarkably efficient. In pure form, one part will coagulate 5 million parts of milk.”
So the goo coagulates. It separates into curds (solid bit, eventually becomes the cheese, contains the casein protein group) and whey (liquid bit, contains the whey proteins).
Instead of feeding the whey to little kiddies - or pouring it down the sink - these days, they save it to make whey protein sources.
According to the Innovate With Dairy web site ( Really Long Link ),
“Whey protein isolate (WPI) is a white to cream-colored product with a clean neutral flavor. WPI is manufactured by drying pasteurized liquid whey and removing nonprotein constituents by a variety of separation techniques that include precipitation, filtration and dialysis. The resulting dry product contains 90% or more protein.”
Its medical uses, say PDR Health ( Really Long Link &contentId=564 ), include the following:
“Whey is a dietary supplement used in cancer prevention and treatment, for babies and malnourished people to help them gain weight, as a substitute for cow milk in allergic children, to treat phenylketonuria, and to help prevent tooth plaque and cavities.
Other names for Whey include: Whey protein.”
No mention there of getting buff. Why not?
Protein has long been the darling of body builders and crash dieters, mostly because the body is not very good at storing it. If you eat too much carbohydrates or fat, the body can store it in your liver or in great wobbly slabs on your thighs. Eat too much steak, however, and the excess is broken down and eliminated through urine.
Sounds ideal, doesn’t it? Not necessarily. Dr Gabriel Cousins ( Really Long Link ) warns us that eating excess protein…
“…has been associated with creating an over-acidic system due to the accumulation of toxic wastes such as uric acids and purines in the tissues.
The late nutrition expert, Paavo Airola, Ph.D., pointed out that overeating protein “contributes to the development of many of our most common and serious diseases, such as arthritis, kidney damage, pyorrhea, schizophrenia, osteoporosis, atherosclerosis, heart disease, and cancer: and that a “high protein diet causes premature aging and lowers life expectancy.”
But why bother about that if you’re trying to impress the beach babes at Christmas time?
Women’s Health Information is also wary of excess protein intake ( Really Long Link ):
“The average American eats about twice as much protein than what is actually required. Some people, in the pursuit of thinness, are going on high-protein diets and are eating up to four times the amount of protein that their body needs. Protein deficiency is certainly not a problem in America. So exactly how much protein does your body really need? Much less than you think. According to the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health, as little as 50-60 grams of protein is enough for most adults. This breaks down to about 10-12% of total calories.”
Maybe Little Miss Muffet needed a daily dose of whey because her 1580’s diet was otherwise protein-deficient, but it doesn’t appear to be healthy in the long term to chow down on massive doses of Balance Ultra Ripped.
Hopefully, those who use the product would only use it for a short period. The thing is, protein supplements are no substitute for hard work. You can’t get chiselled muscles without putting in hours at the gym. Scoffing Ultra Ripped by itself won’t do anything except give you heart disease.
The Bodybuilding Supplement Guide ( Really Long Link ) points out that:
“Protein supplements made up of amino acids are the fundamental building blocks of muscle. Even though your body needs fat and carbohydrates to function, you simply cannot build muscle without protein. That is why a high quality source should be included in your bodybuilding strategy.”
As far as I'm concerned, the most important part of that paragraph is the phrase, “INCLUDED in your bodybuilding strategy.” It’s not the ONLY thing you have to do if you want a bulging bod.
You can’t get ultra ripped just by eating whey. And so, I’m afraid, the Miss Muffet variation is not true.
Besides, she ate the curds and whey together, getting carbs and protein, vitamins and minerals, and, yes, even milk fats, all together.
I guess cows know what they’re doing, if they can produce lean, ripped bodies like this:
…without using precipitation, filtration and dialysis to create a high-protein isolate.
Sheila Bleck
So the spider nicked off pretty quickly.
Could that variation on the story be true? What could cause such an amazing transformation in Little Miss Muffet?
Obviously she didn’t realise the amazing power of whey. Whey, also known as whey protein, is the major ingredient in this intriguing product, Balance Ultra Ripped Protein, available for online purchase here ( Really Long Link ):
“Balance Ultra Ripped is your key to chiselled muscles for the ultimate lean, ripped body. The highest quality WPI (Whey Protein Isolate) is combined with thermogenic herbs and minerals for maximum muscle definition.”
If only Little Miss Muffet had known what would happen. She could have just stuck to the curds and tipped out the whey. But maybe, back then, whey was the only source of protein available to Little Miss Muffet. Perhaps her poor mother couldn’t afford to give her meat or fish. If rhymes.org.uk is to be believed:
“Little Miss Muffet was a small girl whose name was Patience Muffet. Her stepfather, Dr. Muffet (1553-1604) was a famous entomologist who wrote the first scientific catalogue of British Insects. Whilst eating her breakfast of curds and whey Little Miss Muffet was frightened by one of his spiders and ran away.”
So how does eating whey for breakfast substitute for other sources of protein? What ARE curds and whey?
“Milk contains hundreds of types of protein,” advises food-info.net ( Really Long Link ), “most of them in very small amounts. The proteins can be classified in various ways according to their chemical or physical properties and their biological functions. Traditionally milk proteins were classified into caseins, whey proteins and minor proteins.”
When you make cheese, you start out with milk. Kurma.net explains:
“The first step in cheese making is the addition of a starter culture of Streptococci and Lactobacilli. These bacteria ferment the lactose to lactic acid and reduce the milk's pH to the proper range for the rennet to coagulate the casein. Then the rennet is added. The active enzyme in rennet, called rennin, is remarkably efficient. In pure form, one part will coagulate 5 million parts of milk.”
So the goo coagulates. It separates into curds (solid bit, eventually becomes the cheese, contains the casein protein group) and whey (liquid bit, contains the whey proteins).
Instead of feeding the whey to little kiddies - or pouring it down the sink - these days, they save it to make whey protein sources.
According to the Innovate With Dairy web site ( Really Long Link ),
“Whey protein isolate (WPI) is a white to cream-colored product with a clean neutral flavor. WPI is manufactured by drying pasteurized liquid whey and removing nonprotein constituents by a variety of separation techniques that include precipitation, filtration and dialysis. The resulting dry product contains 90% or more protein.”
Its medical uses, say PDR Health ( Really Long Link &contentId=564 ), include the following:
“Whey is a dietary supplement used in cancer prevention and treatment, for babies and malnourished people to help them gain weight, as a substitute for cow milk in allergic children, to treat phenylketonuria, and to help prevent tooth plaque and cavities.
Other names for Whey include: Whey protein.”
No mention there of getting buff. Why not?
Protein has long been the darling of body builders and crash dieters, mostly because the body is not very good at storing it. If you eat too much carbohydrates or fat, the body can store it in your liver or in great wobbly slabs on your thighs. Eat too much steak, however, and the excess is broken down and eliminated through urine.
Sounds ideal, doesn’t it? Not necessarily. Dr Gabriel Cousins ( Really Long Link ) warns us that eating excess protein…
“…has been associated with creating an over-acidic system due to the accumulation of toxic wastes such as uric acids and purines in the tissues.
The late nutrition expert, Paavo Airola, Ph.D., pointed out that overeating protein “contributes to the development of many of our most common and serious diseases, such as arthritis, kidney damage, pyorrhea, schizophrenia, osteoporosis, atherosclerosis, heart disease, and cancer: and that a “high protein diet causes premature aging and lowers life expectancy.”
But why bother about that if you’re trying to impress the beach babes at Christmas time?
Women’s Health Information is also wary of excess protein intake ( Really Long Link ):
“The average American eats about twice as much protein than what is actually required. Some people, in the pursuit of thinness, are going on high-protein diets and are eating up to four times the amount of protein that their body needs. Protein deficiency is certainly not a problem in America. So exactly how much protein does your body really need? Much less than you think. According to the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health, as little as 50-60 grams of protein is enough for most adults. This breaks down to about 10-12% of total calories.”
Maybe Little Miss Muffet needed a daily dose of whey because her 1580’s diet was otherwise protein-deficient, but it doesn’t appear to be healthy in the long term to chow down on massive doses of Balance Ultra Ripped.
Hopefully, those who use the product would only use it for a short period. The thing is, protein supplements are no substitute for hard work. You can’t get chiselled muscles without putting in hours at the gym. Scoffing Ultra Ripped by itself won’t do anything except give you heart disease.
The Bodybuilding Supplement Guide ( Really Long Link ) points out that:
“Protein supplements made up of amino acids are the fundamental building blocks of muscle. Even though your body needs fat and carbohydrates to function, you simply cannot build muscle without protein. That is why a high quality source should be included in your bodybuilding strategy.”
As far as I'm concerned, the most important part of that paragraph is the phrase, “INCLUDED in your bodybuilding strategy.” It’s not the ONLY thing you have to do if you want a bulging bod.
You can’t get ultra ripped just by eating whey. And so, I’m afraid, the Miss Muffet variation is not true.
Besides, she ate the curds and whey together, getting carbs and protein, vitamins and minerals, and, yes, even milk fats, all together.
I guess cows know what they’re doing, if they can produce lean, ripped bodies like this:
…without using precipitation, filtration and dialysis to create a high-protein isolate.
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Cib: Actually, I don't know if she uses whey products, I just used her as an example of a female bodybuilder. I can't find any transcripts of her interviews, but perhaps if you bought her DVD ( Really Long Link ) you could let the rest of us know?
Johnny: Yes, she is female. And yes, she is scary, just like the other women at the USA nationals:
"The heavyweights were disputed heavily, Michele Neil edging Sheila Bleck who was the crowd favorite. Neil might have been more shredded but Sheila Bleck's physique painted a canvas of ethereal balance."
Slacko: She must have some, or why wear a bikini?