Posted on 04/27/2015 2:52:07 PM PDT by rickmichaels
An actor named Sean Whalen sits at a desk, spreading a generous helping of peanut butter on a slice of bread, listening to a classical music radio station. The scene of the ad makes it clear he’s surrounded by artifacts from the Burr-Hamilton duel, the historic 1804 showdown between U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and vice-president Aaron Burr; Whalen’s character is, apparently, something of an expert. The song on the radio fades, and the radio host announces that day’s $10,000 trivia question as the subject shoves a peanut butter sandwich — the whole thing! — into his mouth at once: “Who shot Alexander Hamilton?”
Whalen’s eyes widen as his phone rings. He picks up the receiver and, before the DJ can repeat the question, shouts: “Aaron Burr!” But, since his mouth is packed with peanut butter and with nothing to wash it down, Whalen can’t get the words out. The DJ hangs up, Whalen slumps in his desk, the scene fades to black as two words appear onscreen in stark white:
Got milk?
The minute-long TV commercial was the first time North American audiences would meet the Got Milk? campaign, an advertising brainchild of the California Milk Processor Board. The Michael Bay-directed commercial premiered in October 1993; a year later, milk sales in California increased for the first time in more than a decade — a job well done for the CMPB, an organization created by the California Department of Food and Agriculture to do just that.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...
milk is a nutritious drink. it’s a good source of useful nutrients, healthy fats (needed by the body!), and even protein.
i drink a cup of whole milk with 2 scoops of whey protein powder each morning. that’s about 400 calories, 8g of fat, and 56g protein (of which the cup of milk kicks in 8g).
everyone knows that protein is necessary for building muscle mass, but it’s also useful for retaining lean muscle mass while eating at a calorie deficit (during weight loss).
anyone who rants against milk or claims it to be unhealthy... is ignorant about basic nutrition and everything else they say about anything else is therefore suspect.
the only problem that milk poses to many adults are lactose intolerance or dairy allergies. fortunately, lactose-free milk is easily available in the supermarket.
If I remember correctly, the cows are checked in advance for bangs disease (brucellosis) to prevent undulant fever in humans. If their disinfection and storage practices are good (highly likely, with the strict inspections and all), the milk should be fine and healthy. I bought milk from neighboring dairy farmers in the past.
Especially with the high cream content from Jerseys, one can skim the cream off the top of the milk (leaving skim milk) and churn the cream to make butter. Without a churn, the cream can simply be shaken for a long time, until the butter separates from the buttermilk. Pretty neat stuff.
Sale and distribution of raw milk is illegal where we live. We have found a dairy that sells unhomogenized, lower temp pasterurized whole milk. It is close but not quite the real thing. We drank raw for many years before moving here.
I once asked about cream, since the homogenization process extracts the cream and then adds it back in in a process that yields very fine milkfat globules that won't separate out (easily) from the milk. The daughter said that they are not allowed to sell the residual unpasteurized cream... and they dump it (heartbreaking, I know). They would like to make ice cream, and even have the equipment, but the son and daughter are now college-aged and help at the dairy is limited as it is.
I go through 2 gallons a week fairly regularly... the price is up to $3.50/half gallon bottle... but I am willing to pay that price in the hopes that they will continue to produce something really special (these days).
Oatmeal as you describe it is what I eat for breakfast almost every morning. I have a glass of milk every night before bed and I have for my entire life and I am 75 in a few months.
I grew up on raw milk from our own cow, Suzie, and my bone scans are enough to get a doctor to say WOW! I am a woman BTW. No osteoporosis for me!
It is illegal where I live to sell raw milk for human consumption. I am aware of that site. :)
Here’s some information that will help dispel all of those wrongful impressions you might have about “milk”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp6LVOLjJx0
I have so many friends who fall for all of this type of bogus “nutritional” information. The eco-loon left does not like farming, especially wheat and dairy. The most amusing attacks are on “gluten”. We have several friends who have removed all wheat products from their diet. It has mostly been a disaster for each of them. To everyone other than them it seems fairly obvious that their health is going downhill. You wouldn't think that wheat products were so important to our diets, especially when so many wheat products are highly processed. But gluten actually is an important nutrient in most of our diets.
The eco-diet folks will actually resist normal food, in a quest to prove someone wrong. Usually a parent. It is interesting, as to how far wrong headed ideas, can penetrate the human soul. Dang, if only someone knew the answer to full living.
For Breakfast? I would have slipped an egg in it. I hope you enjoyed a nice--er--glass of milk to wash it down.
I asked my doctor about the gluten hysteria. Only a very small percent of the population have the genetic sensitivity to gluten. The culprit causing the gastrointestinal problems may be FODMAPs, the acronym for Fermentable Oligo-, Di-, Mono-saccharides And Polyols. These exist in such foods as bread products, chocolate, energy bars that include artificial sweeteners, mushrooms, beans, apples, and anything with high fructose corn syrup. But, the list is even longer when you look up FODMAP in Wikipedia. However, I would consider limiting High fructose corn syrup. This chemically derived corn sugar does tricks to the appetite mechanism in the body that causes you to over eat.
I am lusting for a Snickers bar.
Instant oatmeal can have their list of chemistry:
For the Quaker’s Apples and Cinnamon ingredients: Whole grain rolled oats, sugar, dehydrated apples (treated with sodium sulfite to promote color retention), natural and artificial flavor, salt, cinnamon, calcium carbonate, citric acid, guar gum, malic acid, niacinamide (one of the B vitamins), reduced iron, vitamin A palmitate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin, thiamin mononitrate, folic acid, and caramel color. Sugars: 12 grams.
For Kellogg’s Crispix cereal ingrediants, on the other hand: Rice, milled corn, sugar, contains 2% or less of salt, molasses, brown rice syrup, baking soda, turmeric extract color. Sugars: 4 grams. I eat it because it is packed with vitamins.
I add about a cup of crushed Crispix to my meat loaf along with cubed bread and left over rice.
I go hard core rolled oats and leave the instant stuff for others who live by the microwave.
When I lived near someone with goats, I was able to buy from them milk from their goats. It was unpasteurized. The milk tastes just like cow’s milk—no gamey flavor at all— and it tasted better than cow’s milk. It was a very full-bodied milk and very refreshing.
I talked to someone in the dairy industry at a food fair. He said that most commercial milk is Pasteurized at too high of a temperature; causing some loss in nutrients and a loss in flavor. This told me why that unpasteurized goat milk tasted so good. Look for sources of milk that is soft pasteurized. If you can find it, you are fortunate. It may expire sooner, but that makes you drink it up before the expiration date.
“i drink a cup of whole milk with 2 scoops of whey protein powder each morning. that’s about 400 calories, 8g of fat, and 56g protein (of which the cup of milk kicks in 8g).”
After my heart attack I made a big change, now I workout daily at the house and twice a week at the fitness center. Weights are involved in all workouts along with cardio. I went from almost 200 lbs to 155 then started to rebuild. I watch my diet closely and now concentrate on building muscle. My morning meal consists of 3 raw egg’s (I know don’t bother) and a glass of milk. I’m now 172 and stronger than I’ve ever been, getting scary close to bench pressing 250 lbs. May not sound like much to some but for a man fixing to be 65 it’s a chunk. My wife refuses to watch me eat raw egg’s.
I wonder how you can tell if milk is soft pasteurized?
Very interested in this.
Those in the milk industry know how their milk is pasteurized. The method is a function of the time and temperature the milk is heated. The High Temperature Short Time (HTST) process heats raw milk at 171 degrees Fahrenheit for 18 seconds and then immediately cools it to 40°F. Ultra-Pasteurized (UP), to increase shelf life, requires milk to be heated to or above 280°F for at least two seconds. That high temperature will affect flavor.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.