Is that healthy to drink milk?

Question

It might will sound silly, but is it good for my health ?

Answer 1

It is not a silly question.
Most people have bought wholesale into the 'milk is good for you' idea - put forward and aggressively promoted in the post WW1 years by..... the Milk Marketing Board! Although the 'Board' itself is non-profit making, it is there to generate profits for milk producers. There is a similar system in place in the US. They then make lots of money, and put pressure on sensitive governments (sensitive to holding power, not sensitive to our needs) to agree with them.

The countries with the highest consumption of milk & dairy products (UK
If you think logically, milk - as humans tend to drink it - comes from cows. It is designed to turn very little calves into great big cows fairly quickly... animals that have a digestive system and metabolism very different our own. Why should this be of any use to us? It is also very harmful to the cows themselves that we use them in such an industrial way to produce the milk that the milk sellers say we 'need'.

We did not evolve as a result of crawling under bovine ancestors to suckle!

Milk is promoted as being healthy, life-giving and so on, yet there are strong links between dairly consumption and cancer, crohn's disease, iron deficiency, insulin-dependent diabetes, colic and the rise of allergies in our society.

"Professor Walter Willett, head of nutrition at Harvard University School of Public Health and the principal investigator in the Nurses’ Health Study (which has followed the diet and lifestyle habits of 72,000 women for 25 years), says that there is “no solid evidence that merely increasing the amount of milk in your diet will protect you from breaking a hip or crushing a backbone in later years.”

Professor Willett found instead that women who drank a glass of milk twice a day for many years were as likely to a suffer broken bone as those who drank only a glass a week. In a separate study of 43,000 men, the Harvard research team also failed to link long-term low-dairy consumption with brittle bones.

It has also been suggested that dairy foods and meat can even promote a leaching of calcium from the bones. According to Professor Colin Campbell, of the department of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University, these foods contain good amounts of animal protein, which makes blood more acidic; the body tries to neutralise this by drawing calcium from the bones.

Professor Campbell argues that the more dairy people eat, the more calcium they will need to consume to balance these losses. His research has shown that in Asian countries, where dairy intakes are low, their populations suffer one fifth fewer broken bones than in Britain or America. “Those countries that use the most cows’ milk and its related products have the highest fracture rates and the worst bone health,” he says.

Bridget McKevith, a nutrition scientist for the British Nutrition Foundation, says that adults and children need no more than 0.8g of protein per kilogram of bodyweight every day, the equivalent of two servings.

“Too high an intake of animal protein is known to affect bone health adversely,” she says. “The same is true of highly processed foods and products that cause high levels of acidity, such as fizzy drinks.”
(Report in www.timesonline.co.uk)

The following report is from the US group 'Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine'

"WASHINGTON—In a new scientific review scheduled to appear in the March issue of the peer-reviewed journal, Pediatrics, Cornell-trained nutritionist Amy Joy Lanou, Ph.D., and co-authors show that dairy products do not promote bone health in children and young adults. Physical activity does have a positive impact on bone health, while evidence linking bone health with dairy product consumption is weak, at best.

“Under scientific scrutiny, the support for the milk myth crumbles. This analysis of 58 published studies shows that the evidence on which U.S. dairy intake recommendations are based is scant,” says Dr. Lanou, lead author of the study. “A clear majority of the studies we examined for this review found no relationship between dairy or dietary calcium intake and measures of bone health. In the remaining reports, the evidence was sketchy. In some, the effects on bone health were small, and in others, the results were confounded by vitamin D intake from milk fortified with vitamin D. To build strong bones and healthy bodies, children need exercise, sunshine, and a diet rich in fruits and vegetables that helps them maintain a healthy body weight.”

"The level of dairy product consumption in the United States is among the highest in the world, and yet osteoporosis and fracture rates are also among the highest. This “calcium paradox” was an impetus for the current investigation. “We found no evidence to support the notion that milk is a preferred source of calcium,” the authors conclude. Dr. Lanou is nutrition director for the non-profit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), and her co-authors are Susan E. Berkow, Ph.D., C.N.S., and Neal D. Barnard, M.D."

Answer 2

If your not a child, you DONT need it!!!
First off, think about this.
Animals dont drink milkm unless they are babies. They recently did a study on milk, and teen girls. They noticed the more young girls that drank milk developed more and faster, than girls that didnt drink milk, and also they linked milk to ovarian problems. Your body does need calcium, but theres other things you can get it from. If you are going to drink milk, you should drink the stuff from a farm, not the milk out of the stores, another study showed that if we gave a cow milk that we drink from the store, it would kill them!

Answer 3

when i was pregnant i had a craving for glasses upon glasses of full fat milk, and it was the only part of my diet that changed (once i got over the sickness that is!),

previously i had only drank skimmed and that was in tea.

needless to say i put on shed loads of weight!! and midwife said it was probably because of the milk.

so not so healthy there.

good for my teeth though, no fillings this pregnancy compared to my first.

might just be coincidence,

but guess as with all things it is good for you in moderation.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Milk is good for your bones. Beer is good for your heart. Milk is loaded with fat and calories, beer is (sometimes) less so. Both are good for you in moderation, both are bad for you in excess. Assuming you're talking about a normal tolerance and fairly typical beer, neither will make you drunk (a liter is about two pints). In short: The question you're asking is too simple. It depends on the milk, the beer, and what aspects of health you're considering.

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

Yes it is very healthy to drink milk it is full of vitamins and minerals to aid healthy bones and teeth also when pregnant for you and baby.
Now I will be shot down by the Food Police for this full fat milk is the one to drink how can others be healthy our grandparents drank it and they are ok.

Answer 8

One glass of 2% milk aday is good for you.Other ways to get calcium is with cheese, cottage cheese,brocoli,and sour cream.Oh I forgot yogurt ,ice cream,and tofu.Grandparents might of drank it but back then farmers were'nt cheating and giving hormones to the cows.

Answer 9

Yes. All kinds of milk are one of the best sources of calcium out there, and whole milk has plenty of vitamin D.

Answer 10

calcium very important mainly in women but yes very good to drink if you don't want to eat yogurt or drink soy milk or make strawberry or chocolate milk

Answer 11

Yes, milk is good for your bones, and alot of other things, also yogurt and cheese, and ice cream in moderation of course.