Do you drink milk?

[Skotty]

Getting a little off topic here, but the study on tooth decay I mentioned was called "Dissolution of dental enamel in soft drinks", by J. Anthony von Fraunhofer, MSc, PhD, FADM, FRSC, and Matthew M. Rogers, DDS.

Here were a few of the results of interest (note that lower pH means higher acidity, pH of 7 is neutral, <7 acidity, >7 base):

Beverage / pH / 14-day weight loss %

Coca-Cola / 2.48 / 1.39
Pepsi-Cola / 2.46 / 1.40
Dr. Pepper / 2.90 / 1.72
Mountain Dew / 3.14 / 6.17
Diet Mountain Dew / 3.27 / 8.01
Sprite / 3.27 / 3.93
Canada Dry ginger ale / 2.94 / 3.48
A&W root beer / 4.80 / 0
Arizona iced tea (canned) / 2.94 / 4.86
Brewed black tea / 5.36 / 0.22
Brewed black coffee / 6.25 / 0.19
Tap water / 6.70 / 0

I don't drink Mt. Dew anymore because of this study.

 

[crt1530]

I don't drink milk because I don't want to raise my odds of getting prostate cancer.

I don't drink soy milk because I don't want to raise my estrogen levels.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

When you're drinking nonfat, it's like drinking water. There's no taste to it. It's creamier, but it's just like thicker water.

2% on the other hand is yummy =)

 

[zerocool1]

i drink 2% generally

 

[Rogodin2]

Hmm

So milk isn't good for your body? Any of you have any data besides the one posted above?

Thanks!

Rogo

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: Rogodin2
Hmm

So milk isn't good for your body? Any of you have any data besides the one posted above?

Thanks!

Rogo

I don't know why you drink milk to begin with. It's pretty destructive to the environment. Do you not care about living sustainably?

 

[Rogodin2]

merrubian

Put a lid on it.

Thanks

Rogo

 

[Paddington]

I drank about a glass of milk each day as a kid. It had to be chocalate milk though.

I think I would puke if I took a single sip of plain milk. I'm not big on milk or milk products. I don't like the taste or the texture. I hate the smell that develops if you spill even a few drops of it here and there. I think I might be somewhat lactose intolerant too.

I wish it wasn't this way. As such, I now swallow calcium pills like a nut, because I don't want to lose height.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Rogodin2
Thanks for posting!

If you enjoy drinking milk what are the reasons?

If you don't like to drink milk what are your reasons?

Rogo

Yes, I love milk.

I make it from fat free powder.

It's good for you.

 

[Rumpltzer]

I use to drink about two gallons of skim milk every two weeks. I'd been doing it since junior high school until the end of grad school.

I went to the doctor for a throat thing and she told me to stop it. She said that milk is for baby cows and asked me to drink soy milk instead.

I guess I drink like a gallon of Silk per week now.


I'm not sure my life or health is any different.

Soy milk costs more.

 

[Kristi2k]

I drink milk with just about everything.

 

[jiggahertz]

"Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer."

-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

[jiggahertz]

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
I drink at least a half-gallon a night. I'm currently drinking from a cup that's probably a pint and a half, and I've filled it up 5 times tonight.

Why?

 

[jiggahertz]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
Unless you're lactose intollerant you'd have to be crazy not to enjoy a cold glass of 2%.

I go through at least 3 gallons every 2 weeks, and I live alone.

Bowl of cereal? Milk in the bowl with a glass of milk.
PB&J? Tall glass of milk.
Chocolate cake? At least three glasses, I mean c'mon! It's chocolate cake!
Pancakes? A glass for each one.
Spaghetti? Milk is the best drink with homemade spaghetti. Mmmmm.
Cookies? Extra wide cup of milk for dunking and drinking!
The perfect before-bed-beverage? MILK! (just brush your teeth afterwards, morning milk breath is baaaaaad).

Ok, most of these I agree with. But with spaghetti is disgusting, especially if you threw up after combining the two at a young age.

 

[Rogodin2]

especially if you threw up after combining the two at a young age.

ewww

Rogo

 

[jiggahertz]

Originally posted by: Ryan
I drink bean juice (soy milk)

That's not milk. Call it what it is... soy juice

 

[BoomerD]

ONLY on a bowl of cereal...and then, only because ceral with water sounds pretty bad!
I've been around too many dairies over the years to want to actually DRINK the nasty stuff..
(once you smell clabbered milk, you never quite forget...)

 

[cbuchach]

I'm from Wisconsin, of course I drink milk.

 

[Rogodin2]

Boomer

Adaptations in evolution are always the effects of particular causes. Humans developing the ability to digest milk into adulthood possessed a survival advantage; such change is the basis of evolution. Put simply, many human beings evolved the ability to easily digest raw milk because raw milk from healthy, grass-fed animals gave them an adaptive advantage

I looked up clabbered milk and it seems that it's just 'raw' milk?

Rogo

 

[biggestmuff]

Milk is for baby cows.

 

[Rogodin2]

Milk is for baby cows.

Why?

Rogo

 

[BoomerD]

It's actually spoiled raw milk Rogo...

IIRC, the stuff that set me so against milk was BAD...May have been more to the problem than just spoilage, that I don't remember, but I always hated delivering to that dairy, because their milkhouse smelled so bad from it.

 

[KoolDrew]

I drink tons of milk. Actually I think I'm going to go have a glass now.

 

[biggestmuff]

Originally posted by: Rogodin2

Milk is for baby cows.

Why?

Rogo

Are you for real?

Why don't you drink human milk? Wouldn't that make more sense?

Why is cow milk an acceptable beverage? Why don't people pour donkey milk on their Rice Crispies or dunk their Oreos into a big glass of rat milk?

 

[Rogodin2]

IIRC, the stuff that set me so against milk was BAD...May have been more to the problem than just spoilage, that I don't remember, but I always hated delivering to that dairy, because their milkhouse smelled so bad from it.

Boomer

That quote from my previous post was then referring to this type of milk, clabbered.

I couldn't drink that milk, and that's understandable.

I was a hand on a farm where we had 150 head and 2000 acres of timothy hay, Charleton Farms. I never did like the branding and testicle removal of the male calves, and I never did have to milk.

Rogo