Posted on 09/18/2014 11:10:04 AM PDT by EveningStar
Chances are chocolate milk was a staple for you growing up. Kids chug the stuff no matter what the occasion, whether it’s with breakfast, lunch, or as an after-school snack. Chocolate powder, chocolate syrup — it’s all good. That is, until you get older.
Chocolate milk is for kids, right? So as an adult, it’s either regular milk (almond milk if you’re about that non-dairy life) or bust. But a scoop or drizzle of chocolate isn’t only totally OK to have as an adult, it boasts some serious benefits.
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it’s about the best post-exercise recovery drink available
Im trying to drink a box after every workout. It kinda makes me a little naseuous, but it DOES help after a good workout.
Really sorry, the headline harks me back to my early teens when a friends uncle had a bad car accident in South Central L.A. at 3 A.M. When they asked what he was doing there at that time his reply had to do with chocolate milk. Again, Sorry about that.
didn’t michelle just campaign to get rid of chocolate milk in schools?
No doubt. I drink a quart of skim milk with two scoops of protein supplement every morning after my workout.
Are you drinking organic or off the shelve? OTS is full of antibiotics, pus and other crap. Growing up as a kid we drank milk that was free of that stuff. In the last 10 years I noticed an intolerance to milk. I would cramp up and generally feel bad. I switched to organic (the milk I grew up on) and all symptoms disappeared. I was really sad on the thought of not being able to drink milk and have my nightly bowl of cereal.
That’s what I’ve heard.
I buy organic milk, stir in some Dutch cocoa powder — no sugar, no crud — and take a handful of vitamins with it. A good way to remember to take my pills:)
Am 73. In hospital four months ago they gave me Boost. For potassium, I guess. So I started drinking Boost/Ensure 3 times a day. Got expensive. Now drink one a day and two glasses of chocolate milk. Works for me. But I do know, with some children, that chocolate milk can set off a sugar high. Kid will be bouncing off walls, ceiling.
I heard doctors used to advertise that cigarettes were good for you, too. — the milk’s ok, so is the chocolate, but the sugar is problem.
Most of the chocolate milk I see at stores uses High fructose Corn Syrup. Though I love chocolate milk, I try to avoid the HFCS where I can.
Ovaltine is BOSSS!!
Happy you can drink milk again.
Logically, since you are aging you probably lost some ability to digest any milk, but with the placebo effect going on, you reassured yourself that organic milk would be OK ... you started drinking more and your system re-adjusted to dairy.
As a dairy farmer it’s irritating to hear people toss around factoids about antibiotics in milk when we jump through so many hoops to be sure everything is OK.
If we would ship “hot” milk to the dairy, guess what. We just bought the whole tanker load. That’s an incentive to take care of everything right.
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