I'm going to introduce Deepa Verma who is the founder of Synergistiq Integrative Health. She is against the idea of drinking cow's milk for health. I got the article from- Verma, D. (2016, August 22). The Fallacy of ‘Milk Does the Body Good' . Synergistiq Integrative Health. https://www.synergistiqhealth.com/fallacy-milk-body-good/#:~:text=That's%20supposed%20to%20be%20beneficial,strength%20created%20the%20milk%20myth. We seem to be the only species of mammals that drink milk after infancy, and definitely the only species that drinks another species’ milk. Cow’s milk is NOT designed for human consumption. Cow’s milk contains on average about three times the amount of protein than human milk does, which creates metabolic disturbances in humans that have detrimental bone health consequences, according to a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. How is this possible when a glass of milk is touted to have 300 mg of calcium? That’s supposed to be benefic...
You have some fascinating questions. I especially like the questions about other types of animal milks (like goat milk and yak milk). It's interesting that when most people these days think of milk, they automatically think "cow's milk."
ReplyDeleteOne of your questions is worded in a rather biased way, I thought:
"Which type of milk is the healthiest to drink — fat free, low fat, reduced fat or whole milk?"
The question seems to assume that cow's milk is healthy, not just that some types are more healthy than others.
Your question about whether milk is healthy for cancer patients is particularly interesting. In some cases things that would be extremely unhealthy for normally healthy people (like chemotherapy drugs) are life-saving for cancer patients. So, there could be some paradoxical effect regarding milk given to cancer patients. It's a unique questions to address.
I found question 23 particularly interesting because I didn't know that there were different types of milk other than cow! I don't like milk very much, but I wanted to try the other kinds because maybe they taste different. One question I have is that in Japanese, milk is written as “牛乳(cow's milk)", but is milk from other animals also written as "牛乳" in Japan!?
ReplyDeleteI also found question 29 interesting! Because when I was in elementary school, I gave most of the school lunch milk to my friends, but I am taller than the average height of Japanese women. I would like to know what is the relationship between drinking milk and growing taller.