so...... we shouldnt drink milk?

You know.. I have seen SO MANY studies that show that milk can CAUSE obesity, asthma, diabetes, ear infections, allergies, eczema, acne.

I kinda figured when I saw this that it had to be funded, at least in part, by the dairy industry. Want some ammo on the anti-milk front? http://www.milksucks.com

For the record, I grew up drinking milk, I still like the taste, I miss cheese but I have a zillion reasons to want it out of my diet. Especially for the simple reason that cow's milk is designed to help a baby calf grow, a creature made to grow very large in a small amount of time, a creature with 4 stomachs. Our bodies just can't break it down. I could go on, but for your sanity I won't

I came in this thread to say this very thing. We don't give milk to our infants, because we don't want them to grow up to be cows. Drinking milk is one of the hundreds of ways to get calcium, I am very tired of hearing everyone say that milk is such a great source for calcium.

Also, I think people should look FAR more at the fact children now days are far more inactive and eat worse than ever. More and more meals come out of a box or a fastfood restaurant. I can't believe that children becoming increasingly obese has anything to do with dairy.

I heard that on the radio while driving. I remember thinking that one of the stupidest things that I had heard recently. (It reminded me of that KFC ad campaign a few weeks ago where they were touting how "healthy" their chicken was.) I would be curious to see how they were logically able to distort the figures to reach that conclusion. It just goes to show that you have to very sceptical of statistics.

Goat's milk is actually much more like the milk that humans produce, I think it's the potassium or phosphorus to calcium ratio that is important.

But yes, there are a lot of cases of milk causing leukotrine reactions (I think it's leukotrines) which are the mechanism behind inflammatory diseases like asthma and lactose intolerance.

Okay, so maybe milk has a lot wrong with it, but it DOES have some benefits, like bone growth as a child and maintaining bone density as you grow older. When I was in high school, I drank almost a gallon of milk every day, it was ok because i was very physically active, and it was 1%, so it wasn't all that fattening, but I credit it for not breaking a bone since I was two.

My first thought when I read this was "If milk makes people obese, how come there weren't so many fat people in the last few ages?" Then I read the replies and figured goat milk was more common, and milking cows for human consumption didn't happen all that much until someone invented mass production. That, or there aren't as many wild animal attacks these days...hm...

When it comes to diet, I tend to try to eat/drink whatever I feel like eating/drinking. If I want something salty, I open a bag of crisps, and I don't finish off the whole bag if the urge for salt abates before I'm done (I think this has become a habit among many people).

I'm not one to clutter up instinct with scientific facts. However, I'm sure a glass of milk is healthier than a glass of milk and a twinkie.

*draws up plans to clone T-Rexes and set them loose across North America*

Milk is the most biologically available source of calcium.

Cows have four stomachs becasue they eat fodder, and it in no way helps them to digest milk better.


MMmmm. cheese.

"You shouldn't drink that stuff anyway."


[Edited on Mar 07, 2004 by TANK_Ex_Mortis]

There are SO many other ways you can get calcium. Soy products, vegetables and supplements. Plus the plethora of calcium fortified foods/beverages like orange juice. The consideration needs to be made that they're linking a whole lot more problems to dairy allergies (not lactose intolorance, but allergies). A lot of people who thought they had no problems with dairy but have things like eczema. Cut out the dairy and skin clears up. What a shocker. I'm living proof of such allergies.

Litlte personal story here. When I'm consuming dairy my face breaks out into pretty bad acne. Also my scalp gets all scaly and disgusting in the adult form of "cradle cap," Seborrheic Dermatitis. When I cut out all dairy, its gone. (by the way, this is how I cleared up my skin before my weddin, just simply avo

Speaking of milk, tummies, politics and the money trail, check out this.

In addition to being an unnatural food for humans, cow’s milk, like other dairy products, is unhealthful. Dr. John A. McDougall calls dairy foods “liquid meat” because their nutritional contents are so similar. Rich in fat and cholesterol, dairy products, including cheese, milk, butter, cream, yogurt, and whey (found in many margarines and baked goods), contribute to the development of heart disease, certain cancers, and stroke—our nation’s three deadliest killers. Robert Cohen, author of Milk: The Deadly Poison, estimates that, by the time the average American is 50, he or she has consumed from dairy foods the same amount of cholesterol found in 1 million slices of bacon. Perhaps most surprisingly, the consumption of dairy foods has also been linked to osteoporosis—the very disease milk is supposed to prevent.

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