You're Drinking the Wrong Kind of Milk

Mother Jones ^ | Wed Mar. 12, 2014 3:00 AM PDT | Josh Harkinson

[SoFloFreeper]

I love milk. Love it.

But have begun to drink more almond milk, unsweetened. Fewer calories, and as I age it seems to be more appropriate.

I still have some 2%, but usually as a snack, not for breakfast.

[Dusty Road]

I was raised on raw milk. Had my first taste of pasteurized milk when I started school and hated it. When I was 14 they shut down the local dairy and I never drank milk again until about 4 years ago when a friend started his own little back yard dairy. Every morning I have one 12 ounce glass of raw milk for breakfast, skip lunch and eat a good supper. I’m 64 now and my doctor is amazed at how good of shape I’m in.

[Caipirabob]

I'll tell you what, American milk has become crap. If anyone has traveled abroad and tasted the local milk, the flavor is spectacular under the most surprising of circumstances. I mean to the point where you get home, drink a bit of grade A whole milk and it tastes like paper in comparison.

Whatever they are producing under demand of government standards, it's crap.

[PraiseTheLord]

[Having been thru a long and gruesome digestive problem myself, and having learned a lot of new things along the way, I like to pass on some things, here is another:]

Probiotics. really helpful

There are lots of pill-types. But probiotics are live things, so how do they do well in a dry pill. Anyway, what I take, on a regular basis - keeps intestinal bacteria better even when no particular problem - is a liquid which comes in a bottle, 16 oz. ‘2TB after each meal’ ‘promotes intestinal health’

I get it at WholeFoods. It should be kept refrigerated in the display. One of the WF stores around me was keeping it not refrigerated and I didnt like the looks of what I saw when I opened that. I get it now only from the other store that refer’s it.

I too often - bad - leave leftovers too long, and do bad to my insides. So I have kinda regular experience with how well this liquid probiotic works, and I do really think it works well.

(My problem went on for years, thru all sorts of things - bad doctors, defective lab work, strong antibiotics and still it went on - until I had appendicitis, in old age!)

[null and void]

Well played.

[MeshugeMikey]

WIne as far as the eye can see.

[Twinkie]

Thanks for the information. I take probiotics; just not on a daily basis - maybe I should take them daily. I take Jordan Rubin’s brand of probiotics; don’t know if I should try some other brand. - I just ate a little thin crust pizza, first bit of gluten in days. Guess I’ll regret it later. Anyway, this digestive thing really is a bummer. :o(

[Fledermaus]

Mind your own business Mother Jones. And I’ll mind mine.