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9 comments:
My mum used to work for a naturopath who said the very same thing. He refused to drink it, or comsume any other white foods - it was always wholemeal bread, brown rice etc. He was seventy but looked about 50, so there may have been something to it.
Oh, and I very rarely drink milk myself. I have soya milk on my cereal for breakfast. I'll only ever use milk if a certain recipe calls for it and soya milk wouldn't work well.
Though cheese is a completely different story, isn't it Grommit?
I imagine that humans fed their babies animal milk if they couldn't produce their own - not uncommon. Grandma had to stop nursing me because she had the mumps - she tried cow's milk but i was allergic so I was raised on goat's milk.
Milk is gooooooooooooood, i could't live without it. :D Im seroius, id better die if someone tell me i must not drink milk anymore.
Same with cheese. :D
(i read somewhere that among the other animals milk, the horsemilk is the most similar to the human, and healthy and rich, but it is very expensive)
I must admit I enjoy milk very much, but only if it's quite cold. And I don't like whole milk, it's too creamy. I've been inculcated to prefer lowfat milk - first 2%, what we grew up on, mostly. Then, nonfat milk as I tried to become more health conscious, and finally, 1%, which seems like a good mix of taste and not TOO much fat.
I am also lactose intolerant, something which only occurred in my very early 20s when I was drinking a lot of milk in the form of protein shakes whilst working out with weights, trying to put on muscle. So now if I can get it I drink 1% fat lactose-free milk. Amazing how specialized the market is now.
As to the odd nature of us drinking cow's milk (or goat's milk, or the milk of other mammals) in the first place, I agree with empath that it probably arose sheerly out of necessity. Why it's become commonplace even for many adults to drink it, though, seems a bit odd to me. You don't see human milk being sold at the supermarket, and would be staggered if you did, yet that would actually be a more natural thing to sell! At least it's a product of our own species.
I don't buy the argument about milk being bad for us any more than old-fashioned ideas about it being essential for "building strong bodies." It's just another source of protein and vitamins, and whether you love it or hate it is up to you. I've never seen convincing arguments that it's required beyond the nursing phase, nor that it's detrimental to human health when drunk later in life. If someone has access to such a study, let me know. Until then all I have heard are anecdotes, which fall short of scientific proof.
And until then I'll continue to enjoy a cold glass of milk once in awhile.
And cheese goes without saying.
Though cheese is a whole other level of dietary weirdness. It begins with the milk of another species and then allows it to age and ferment into kurds. This somehow makes for a delicious treat for Western societies!
Notice the absence of cheese or most dairy products altogether from Eastern menus. Maybe they know something we don't? Like I said though, until I see some rigorous studies done, and as long as I know that life expectancies are relatively the same in all first-world countries, I'm not going to think twice about drinking milk or eating cheese, except to the extent that indulging too heartily will make me fat.
There _is_ human milk being sold - not in supermarkets. but special places for mothers, Women who dont have enough milk to feed their child, can be helped out with this, although it is very, very expensive.
I think there're some interesting studies showing cow milk might have something to do with kids getting type I diabetes, maybe due to the antibiotics but i don't think it's reason enough to stop drinking milk. A cold milk with a good hamburger still sounds good to me.
I'll have to look into those studies, although since my kid is all grown up it probably doesn't matter.
And human milk being sold... all the people in that line had BETTER be mothers who can't produce their own for some reason.
Anyone else in that line, for fetish reasons or whatever... gross.
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