27 March 2018 - Does Milk Do the Body Good?

Make Sure Your Family Gets Enough Milk

"Milk is an excellent source of calcium, protein, and riboflavin. It also supplies fat and sugar, and contains many other vitamins and minerals."

Yes milk is a great package of many things.

Vitamins, minerals, fats, sugar, protein. It is almost like some kind of super food.

However,

It is not essential to have.

There are many people in the world that are lactose intolerant. Many of the same nutrients present in milk can be found in whole plant foods.

Many food companies like Nestle would tell you that you shouldn't eliminate milk from your diet. As you get older you should go to fortified and low fat milks.

BUT

Nestle isn't the greatest source when it comes to nutritional advice.

You can read here about their:

1. Infant Formula Controvery

2. Environment and Product safety that includes mixing horse meat with beef and stealing water. You can watch a documentary called "Tapped" for more info on that.

3. Labor, where they have been accused of straight up child slavery

4. Human Rights violations and Spying

Chairman Peter Brabeck even went as far as to suggest that water isn't a Human Right and should be privatized and not regulated by the government.

Call me a skeptic about this but I just don't trust information from a brand trying to make money.

Have you ever heard that drinking cranberry juice can help a urinary tract infection?

Yep that study was funded by Ocean Spray. The company that sells cranberry juice.

I'm not writing this all down to be a Debbie Downer.

(although I'm told I'm good at it)

I write this down to help you, the reader, make informed decisions.

A glass of milk a day is good. Whatever.

If you want milk just make sure you are drinking it for the right reason and not because you are a consumer puppet.

I don't drink milk.

I don't need it.

I am an adult who takes gummy daily vitamins.

I eats all my vegetables!

I take a probiotic to keep me regular.

AND

Honestly, milk isn't as appetizing to me anymore. Cows are fed hormones and antibiotics to keep them healthy and high producing. Some farms even treat their cows with pesticides. PESTICIDES!

I could go on and on but I feel that this is already too much.

So in closing for today's Almanac post, cows are really gorgeous loving animals that deserve more than we give them sometimes.

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