Posted on 10/08/2015 3:18:52 AM PDT by RockyTCB
If you look up "whole milk" in the government's official Dietary Guidelines, it states pretty definitively that people should only drink skim or 1% milk. "If you currently drink whole milk," it says, "gradually switch to lower fat versions."
This is the same advice the government has been issuing for many years. And it's wrong
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The journey to skim i believe to not be government-driven, but marketing-driven. Dairy producers, selling more cream, heavy cream, whipping, half-n-half, found they could sell the byproducts as well.
I stopped believing anything the government said about food decades ago. People with an agenda get in charge and they push their agenda.
Come to think of it, I don’t believe anything said by a government employee or politician either. Nothing. If they said it was raining I’d have to check myself.
That’s why we like non-pols like Trump
2 percent milk? Might as well drink water.
I am at the point that if the government says it is bad for me, (and applying some common sense), I'll make mine a double.
If they told me that the best way to drive from Wilmington, NC to California was to go west on I-40 I would head East across the Atlantic.
Most advice the govt gives is wrong. The govt is composed of people that work in their best interests, not ours.
Or buy whole milk and water it down. Much cheaper that way.
Wife didn’t much care for the “heft” of the whole milk, but I’ve convinced her to keep buying it. I eat less cereal when I do eat it, and I feel fuller longer when I drink it with meals. Health trends are starting to recognize that fat isn’t making us fat after all, and that’s good all around. The only industry that will suffer from that is “big sugar.”
My wife prefers it for coffee (I drink mine black, but like it better on cereal, too).
Hey it’s just more settled science like global warming.
I switched to skim milk for years... gained 40 pounds
switched back to WHOLE mile - lost it all
When your body gets what it needs, you are not constantly hungry.
Milk is not the only change- I stopped eating bread, and it made a huge difference too (a HUGE difference)
Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called "wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk."
Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or... hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy... precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
When I was a kid during WW-2 I would shake up the milk as soon as the milkman delivered it so my mother couldn't skim it for the cream.
I’ve always thought the low fat diet was absurd. Fat is needed to absorb certain nutrients. I love REAL whole milk - before the cream separates.
Milk is for children. I might put some in my coffee now and then.
I do like cheese. I really like cheese.
2% milk has half the fat of whole milk.
A lot of folks here like to badmouth Whole Foods as a hippy, granola, tree-hugging business, but I do go there for some foods I can’t find elsewhere. I’m on a low carb, high protein diet and still have the same 32” waist I had when I left the Army 16 years ago. I get the Promised Land Dairy whole milk. It’s from steroid/hormone free, grass fed milk cows and has the thick, rich texture and flavor of the fresh dairy milk my folks bought when we were kids. I drink at least one glass a day, and refuse to touch any lowfat, skim milk. To me they taste like chalk in water.
Yep, Sleeper was pretty prophetic in that regard. They thought they were making a joke.
Consider all the reversals of “x is bad for you” over the last few decades. No Salt was the latest one to be found wrong.
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