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Milk is the most nutritious commodity in the world. It contains 18 of the 22 nutrients you need every day. Milk is specially rich on calcium, A-. D and B vitamins and high grade protein.
Calcium and D-vitamin builds up your skeleton. Until you are about 25-30 years old you need extra much calcium because you build up your skeleton until that age.
Vitamin A is good for your sight and resistance against infections. Skimmed milk does not have much vitamin A or D naturally so that is added before it goes to the store.
The milk we drink come from cows. It is basically the cows breast milk. A cow can't produce milk until it has given birth to a little calf.
There are some substitutes for milk, like soy milk or oat milk. These are often advertised to be better for you than regular milk but that is not true so don't listen to them.
Milk tastes good and is very healthy. So unless you are allergic you should drink lots of it.
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Got milk?
Needless to say, you got milk.
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i just got up and drank some
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In Dutch we have a nice saying for this: 'Melk is goed voor elk'. (Milk is good for everyone.)
It used to be the slogan in all the commercials of milk producers.
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All right, I'll be the first dissenting voice. I hate milk.
Also, beyond me just not liking the taste, it's incredibly bizarre to me that [adult] humans are so big on [cow] milk. Milk makes a lot of sense. It's a great way to get lots of nutrients to an infant/child who would be incapable of acquiring them otherwise. Like, say, if you're a baby calf. Then cow's milk is perfect for you. I am neither a baby nor a calf. As far as I know, no other mammal continues to have milk into adulthood, and no other mammal consumes the milk of another species to begin with :\
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I'm pretty sure that after a certain point in childhood the enzymes that process lactose stop being replaced, as your body isn't built to consume milk past infancy. As a result, people who drink lots of milk run a higher risk of becoming lactose-intolerant. So be careful, milk-lovers, each glass of milk is one closer to your last.
There is a remote possibility that everything I just said is entirely false. Thought you should know that.
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I used to love milk, but now I'm lactose-intolerant. Shit sucks, man.
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On March 22 2013 07:02 Iranon wrote:
All right, I'll be the first dissenting voice. I hate milk.
Also, beyond me just not liking the taste, it's incredibly bizarre to me that [adult] humans are so big on [cow] milk. Milk makes a lot of sense. It's a great way to get lots of nutrients to an infant/child who would be incapable of acquiring them otherwise. Like, say, if you're a baby calf. Then cow's milk is perfect for you. I am neither a baby nor a calf. As far as I know, no other mammal continues to have milk into adulthood, and no other mammal consumes the milk of another species to begin with :\
No other animal does a lot of things that make perfects sense for humans. People always say how wierd it is that we drink cow milk...but its really not.
humans are all about domesticated animals, cows make a asston of milk. We are similar mammals, and we've bred and engineered them to make basically exactly the nutritious substance we want to drink. Basically nobody would say its fucking wierd that we eat eggs or meat or any other animal product, but its the exact same thing except no other animal has figured it out. This is not a small category when it comes to humans vs other animals.
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Drinking milk causes you to produce a lot of mucous, too. There is an average of 8.4-12g/dl of hemoglobin in the milk. Hemoglobin is a major part of red blood cells. There are more than 22 nutrients you need every day. I could go on. Milk isn't that great for you. I'd rather not drink it, I try to stay away from it as much as I can. I don't like how it tastes and I don't consider it healthier than almonds.
Vampirism = not for me.
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your Country52798 Posts
Milk is the teamliquid of drinks imo.
Milk is awesome <3
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On March 22 2013 07:33 hp.Shell wrote:
Drinking milk causes you to produce a lot of mucous, too. There is an average of 8.4-12g/dl of hemoglobin in the milk. Hemoglobin is a major part of red blood cells. There are more than 22 nutrients you need every day. I could go on. Milk isn't that great for you. I'd rather not drink it, I try to stay away from it as much as I can. I don't like how it tastes and I don't consider it healthier than almonds.
Vampirism = not for me.
There were actually several studies in the last few years that found that the old adage of milk increasing phlegm or mucous is basically just an old wives tale.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/10/health/really.html
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On March 22 2013 07:42 sob3k wrote:Show nested quote +On March 22 2013 07:33 hp.Shell wrote:
Drinking milk causes you to produce a lot of mucous, too. There is an average of 8.4-12g/dl of hemoglobin in the milk. Hemoglobin is a major part of red blood cells. There are more than 22 nutrients you need every day. I could go on. Milk isn't that great for you. I'd rather not drink it, I try to stay away from it as much as I can. I don't like how it tastes and I don't consider it healthier than almonds.
Vampirism = not for me. There were actually several studies in the last few years that found that the old adage of milk increasing phlegm or mucous is basically just an old wives tale. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/10/health/really.html
I must be allergic to the protein then because it sure makes my nose stuffed.
Edit: I have an aversion to anything that we have to "cure" to make it safe before ingesting. Milk must be pasteurized to make it safe to drink. The real question is, what ISN'T being removed during pasteurization that could potentially harm us? There are studies that show that cow's milk can induce blood and iron loss in the intestine and colon, anemia, and heart disease.
"More patients who had suffered a myocardial infarction had elevated levels of antibodies against milk proteins than was found in a comparable group of patients without coronary heart disease."
-Davies, Antibodies and Myocardial Infarction, The Lancet, ii: 205-207, 1980
Here's what I could find from the source.
The presence and level of serum anti-Summary body to reconstituted heat-dried cow's milk, boiled egg white, and gluten, have been determined in 216 patients who had had a myocardial infarction (M.I.) and in 144 control hospital patients. A higher proportion of M.I. patients than controls had antibodies to dried milk and probably to egg, but not to gluten. These differences in proportion were very striking in the M.I. patients who died within six months of infarction. The possession of antibody to cow's milk protein and egg white in blood-samples taken soon after infarction seems, therefore, to be highly predictive of death. Mortality was increased almost threefold if either antibody was present. It is considered that they are of considerable significance and have a causal relationship with myocardial infarction through an immunological mechanism. The results support an immunological hypothesis of coronary heart-disease and atheroma.
Davies, Antibodies and Myocardial Infarction
Edit2: I found the full article, however you have to buy it for $30. :/
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GOMAD 
I don't quite get a gallon per day, maybe like 3/4.
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On March 22 2013 07:36 The_Templar wrote:
Milk is the teamliquid of drinks imo.
Milk is awesome <3
:/ I remember that thread, it was hilarious. Also, normal milk is pretty good haha, I like raw milk and goats milk a lot too :D.
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Lactose intolerance is devastating 
I never drink milk, eat cheese sometimes.
Also in USA, companies are currently trying to add fake sugar in milk and still have the right to call it milk. That's fucking ridiculous. Hope this bill never passes even if I don't live in USA nor even drink milk.
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On March 22 2013 08:59 endy wrote:Lactose intolerance is devastating I never drink milk, eat cheese sometimes. Also in USA, companies are currently trying to add fake sugar in milk and still have the right to call it milk. That's fucking ridiculous. Hope this bill never passes even if I don't live in USA nor even drink milk.
More specifically they are trying to add aspartame to the milk as a sweetening agent for kids, and at the same time are asking to NOT put aspartame on the label so milk can still look healthy. I dunno about anyone else, but aspartame is soo terrible for you, it would single handedly stop me from drinking milk ever again if it passed.
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Written by a dairy cow that is being threatened with slaughter.
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On March 22 2013 07:46 hp.Shell wrote:Show nested quote +On March 22 2013 07:42 sob3k wrote:On March 22 2013 07:33 hp.Shell wrote:
Drinking milk causes you to produce a lot of mucous, too. There is an average of 8.4-12g/dl of hemoglobin in the milk. Hemoglobin is a major part of red blood cells. There are more than 22 nutrients you need every day. I could go on. Milk isn't that great for you. I'd rather not drink it, I try to stay away from it as much as I can. I don't like how it tastes and I don't consider it healthier than almonds.
Vampirism = not for me. There were actually several studies in the last few years that found that the old adage of milk increasing phlegm or mucous is basically just an old wives tale. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/10/health/really.html I must be allergic to the protein then because it sure makes my nose stuffed. Edit: I have an aversion to anything that we have to "cure" to make it safe before ingesting. Milk must be pasteurized to make it safe to drink. The real question is, what ISN'T being removed during pasteurization that could potentially harm us? There are studies that show that cow's milk can induce blood and iron loss in the intestine and colon, anemia, and heart disease. Show nested quote +"More patients who had suffered a myocardial infarction had elevated levels of antibodies against milk proteins than was found in a comparable group of patients without coronary heart disease."
-Davies, Antibodies and Myocardial Infarction, The Lancet, ii: 205-207, 1980 Here's what I could find from the source. Show nested quote +The presence and level of serum anti-Summary body to reconstituted heat-dried cow's milk, boiled egg white, and gluten, have been determined in 216 patients who had had a myocardial infarction (M.I.) and in 144 control hospital patients. A higher proportion of M.I. patients than controls had antibodies to dried milk and probably to egg, but not to gluten. These differences in proportion were very striking in the M.I. patients who died within six months of infarction. The possession of antibody to cow's milk protein and egg white in blood-samples taken soon after infarction seems, therefore, to be highly predictive of death. Mortality was increased almost threefold if either antibody was present. It is considered that they are of considerable significance and have a causal relationship with myocardial infarction through an immunological mechanism. The results support an immunological hypothesis of coronary heart-disease and atheroma. Davies, Antibodies and Myocardial InfarctionEdit2: I found the full article, however you have to buy it for $30. :/
You most certainly do not have to pasteurize milk in order to make it safe to drink.....uhhh what do you think they did for like all of human history. You can go to a dairy farm right now and chug it right out of the cow as long as you aren't intolerant of the lactose and they follow basic health regulations.
Pasteurization is used on every single perishable food item in the world in order to prevent the growth of harmful bacteria...like all juice, canned food, dairy.....water. Anything perishable. These items are all perfectly safe to eat fresh, heating them up just makes sure nothing grows in transit and storage and solves any health issue that did manage to sneak in.
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United States24777 Posts
I think the apparent benefit to your bone health of milk due to calcium is compensated for by its slight acidity (milk has a ph of approximately 6.6 due to lactic acid). Your body will be forced to remove calcium from your bones in order to neutralize the acidity, which roughly compensates for the intake of new calcium.
Also, milk contains animal based protein which is generally not as good for you as plant based protein. Regardless, I still drink it from time to time. I just don't know if it's actually that good for you or if we are just brainwashed by whatever lobbies support milk sales.
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I'm allergic to milk
I just drink soy milk instead, which does have its benefits over cow milk in some ways I guess.
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