Originally posted by: Roguestar
Originally posted by: Vic
If you're an adult, it is one of the least healthy things you can put in your body.
That is a total exaggeration.
No, it's not.
Originally posted by: GPett
Umm explain your logic. I am curious as to why you think it is unhealthy.
I can understand your point that it comes from a cow and nature intended it to be meant for a calf. But that in no way makes it unhealthy for humans with a balanced diet.
Two of the most common alements that affect the elderly are dehydration and bone loss due to lack of calcium. Milk is a solution to both.
Any type of milk is unhealthy for adult consumption, cow or otherwise (even human). Lactose is the waste poison that your muscles give off after exercise. It's what causes the "burn."
Milk is a horrible source of calcium. The human body has to retain a precise pH balance. While milk does contain calcium, it is also quite acidic (whereas calcium is an alkaline). So in order to digest the milk, the human body actually has to process all the calcium it can from within the milk, as well as leeching additional calcium from the body, resulting in a net calcium loss.
This is why Americans have far and away the highest calcium intake in the world and yet still have the highest incidence of bone loss. We get most of our calcium from milk (most Americans also don't get enough strenuous exercise, which leads to a lack of bone density, etc., but that's another issue).
Basically what's been said here in favor of milk is decades-old government propaganda created for the benefit of the dairy subsidies. Milk doesn't do a body good (at least, not an adult body). In fact, milk has been strongly linked to Chrohns Disease and various cancers (particularly breast and prostate). Think of it as similar to the low fat craze of the past decade or so. Complete nonsense used to sell people into eating more sugars and refined flours, and now America is fat and diabetic.
Stop drinking milk and eat your leafy green vegetables.
edit: BTW, I am not vegan in any way, shape, or form. I am a proud carnivore. Nor am I saying that all dairy products are bad for you, I have a cup of yogurt almost every morning (cultured milk products are quite healthy for you), and I do put a splash of cream in my coffee. But drinking straight milk every single day? That's just horrible.