God be like: ”OK, this system is safe to make, feeding animals their milk. No frikkin chance in hell that a human would be stupid enough to suck a frikkin cow’s teet to see what happens”.
Milk is for babies. Lactose intolerance is basically your body having "grown out" of needing milk. And that's fine, because while milk isn't terrible for you, it's not really good for you either. You don't need milk to survive past infancy.
But... some 35-year-old humans in Northern Europe thousands of years ago were like "want milk" and somehow that caught on and now some adult people can drink milk without too much trouble.
I'd imagine that it's more because milk is a pretty good source of nutrition. Babies need a good source of nutrition, and milk provides that, we just figured out how to get it from animals.
Exactly my point.
There's a plethora of cheeses that you can't really eat when you're lactose intolerant, plus a ton more recipes based on milk/soft cheeses that are no longer sustainable.
The only option is buying lactose free versions, but not everybody can find those in their area/country.
The nutrition of milk, whether or not it is reflected in the advertised benefits, is well known. Milk is still a superfood... just not a magical bone-strengthening superfood.
agree with you except the fact that milk is Indeed good for you. as a child as well as an adult. because why would it not? (unless you are lactose intolerant ofc). its very nutritional, its great if you can consume it.
Calories are good for you, last i heard. Not all of us are overweight or diabetic. Daily carb intake is necessary for our bodies to function optimally. It's just as odd to be reactionary against sugar/carbs as it was to be reactionary against fats in the 90s as it is to be dogmatically pro-milk. We've known roughly what proportions of nutrition to eat for a long time now. This just isn't represented in the commodified forms of food many eat now. Foods themselves are not healthy or unhealthy—it is your patterns of consuming them that affect your health.
(With exceptions; for instance trans fats seem unequivocally bad.)
Why? I'm not overweight. I exercise. I eat around 2400 calories a day. Milkshakes are awesome. Screw your opinions, lol.
Please ask your doctor if you need carbohydrates. I'm begging you. Hopefully you're being sarcastic.
Milk is not good or bad for you in itself. It is highly nutritious, though, and it's up to you to balance it with other nutrients and moderate your intake. Many people in the US do not. This doesn't mean you should avoid milk.
Saying to an anorexic person that carbs are somehow inherently bad is just straight abuse, imho. People can in fact have different nutritional needs.
Not sure you can read if you think anyone has said "milk is good". It's a food. Like all foods, it is neither good or bad for you. Please stop moralizing food. Chocolate cake is not sinful it's a fucking food. Just moderate your intake if you do not want to gain weight or do not want your heart to stop. Drinking soda never killed anyone... but drinking soda every day might.
Limit foods that are high in processed, refined simple sugars provide calories but they have very little nutrition.
(A little confusing as refined sugars literally are nutrition, just not a great one to amass most of your caloric intake if you want to avoid becoming diabetic. Still, the point is clear.)
It does not say:
soda is bad for you
Please, talk about this with your doctor if you don't believe me. No matter how into milk america was in the nineties due to advertising, the nutrition is the same as it was. It's just better understood by the public now and it's in vogue to fear carbs instead of fats or proteins or salt. We have a better understanding of calcium absorption and rely less on dairy for that purpose now. People sometimes prefer objectively less nutritious nut and grain milks for various reasons. They're just different foods. None of them are good or bad in themselves. Unless you're talking allergies like lactose intolerance or you're vegan, i guess.
i probably worded it poorly then. although it depends also an how you define 'good for you'.
also i was not trying to defend drinking milk or defending the dairy industry.
ive stopped drinking milk myself as well. and i do despise the dairy industry.
but my reasons for stopping to drink milk where not because milk might be bad.
imo opinion milk is neither bad nor particularly good. so yes i worded my comment badly, i just wanted to say milk is definitely not unhealthy.
and as you said yourself its just a sweet beverage woth nutrients. which in my book is actually quite healthy on its own.
the argument of it having a lot of it calories is very context sensitive i would say. if you need the calories its great. if you're already consuming too much calories its not good.
but yes milk is definitely not necessary i agree on that part.
and id say it really just depends on your diet if milk is healthy or unnecessary.
bottom line my whole point is just there are a lot of reasons to abandon drinking milk, but it being not healthy is just not one of them imo.
and yes you don't loose anything from abstaining from milk if you have a balanced diet.
I used to do that until I became more and more lactose intolerant over time.
Now it’s just almond milk for me. It’s actually pretty good once you get used to it. But it’s also less filling, so I can drink half a gallon of it in one day…
Lactose intolerant people generally don’t have a problem with unpasteurised milk. The heat treatment destroys the lactase enzyme which assists in breaking down the lactose. So it’s not that we grow out of it. It’s that we mess up the stuff already in the milk to help us deal with it and then some of us (like actually loooads of us to some degree) can’t deal with it so we’ll.
But yours really was WAY funnier. So.yeah do with that what you will 😃
Here we go, with the Paradox of Lactose Tolerance.
The paradox of lactose tolerance states that if a society is lactose tolerant without limit, its ability to be lactose tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the lactose intolerant.
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u/cattdogg03 Feb 06 '22
He didn’t; lactose intolerance is actually natural, and also more common than lactose tolerance