Quote Originally Posted by Owlie View Post
If anyone's got links to peer-reviewed studies for some of this stuff, that would be awesome. It makes sense that dairy-derived calcium and plant-derived calcium would be absorbed differently. I'd have to go a little deeper into the chemistry and what's bound to what, though.

I don't mean to be snarky, and if it works for you, keep on doing what you're doing, but:
I know I do better on a lower-carb, higher-fat/protein diet (which is why I don't eat pasta without some meat in it, among other things), but I have intellectual difficulty with the idea that one should cut out whole food groups without a good reason (allergy or they make your digestive system unhappy). Especially considering that, with the exception of dairy, you're eliminating food groups that people all over the world have been eating for generations with no apparent issues. (I'm thinking beans and grains.)
No, the Standard American Diet isn't the healthiest, but I'm not sure that rejecting whole groups of food is a great idea either.
There isn't good evidence that whole grains, low-fat dairy, and legumes should be eliminated from a typical person's diet.