Healthy milk

I do like threads like this.
I tend to then modify slightly what I eat.

Milest0ne

A friend who is a doctor/consultant told me that everyone should drink a glass of milk and eat a banana every day, That gives you most of the vitamins and minerals you need. A good diet for me with a handful of nuts.

Can’t drink a glass of any milk but do like my lattes and I do eat a small ( am quite averse to big bananas - put me off eating them) banana a day..yes I must be a bit bananas 🍌
Good to know Milest0ne am getting some vitamins and minerals.. just wish my bones agreed

I stopped drinking milk when they started homogensing it in the 1970s as not even full-fat milk tastes as it should, I do drink butter-milk, and I have always used cream in my coffee.

I have never believed all the advice about diet we were given, as it dawned upon me when I was in my twenties, that in the properous decades, potatoes are bad for you, but when a finacially difficult decades start, suddenly there is nothing but recipes for potatoes and pasta in women's magazines.

Butter was bad for us for years, and everything from mayonaise to cheese had to be "light" - now we are told this adulterated provisions are bad for us.

The truth of the matter is perhaps that barring allergies or other health issues we should eat what we want, as long as we do so in moderation.

And in case you are wondering, until I was 50 I weighed 50 kilos, since then I crept up to 56, then back down to 54, so eating butter and full-fat cheese, fat pork and such like hasn't given me a weight problem, presumably because I am one of those who just cannot put on weight, rather than because of what I eat.

A friend who is a doctor/consultant told me that everyone should drink a glass of milk and eat a banana every day, That gives you most of the vitamins and minerals you need. A good diet for me with a handful of nuts.

I drank practically nothing but full fat (4%) milk until I was seventeen and felt I should learn to like tea. My mum made tea like boot polish so it was quite hard and I initially took a lot of sugar in it!

But then I decided that as full cream milk is good for kids and also good for old people, it must be good for everyone else as well.

I'm not convinced by all the food fat scaremongering that goes on.

The doctor advised me to drink skimmed milk because of high cholesterol, I have been doing so for 30 years. Full fat milk is a real treat, seems like full cream!

I have skimmed milk in tea and full fat organic for cooking and drinking,
I can remember as a child my GM always drank the cream off the top of her glass bottles of milk,, she had to have a leg amputated, not sure if it was connected..

There was IMO a very good article in a recent Sunday Times about milk - by Jeremy Clarkson (yes, I know, but he does sometimes hit nails on heads) saying among other things that the supposedly ‘green’ almond milk favoured by people in Islington, uses 10,000 gallons of water per tree, much of which in the drought-ridden areas of California.

I hated milk until semi skimmed was introduced so I'll stick where I am. Zz

mum2three

All we have to do is look at our forebears and consider their diet. They did well enough on it.

Yes you’re right …my uncles lived to 95 and 93 .. full fat milk straight from their cows.. butter, red meat and potatoes and lots bread and cake!

Witzend

I have an aversion to milk, probably dating back to school milk going slightly off in the sun. I will have skimmed in coffee (none in tea). We also have semi-skimmed, but only dh uses that, though I’ll use it in sauces.

Dh would happily use Gold Top, not that we ever have any - apparently he and his brothers used to fight about who had the cream off the top! Even the look of that makes me feel a bit ill.

IMO it’s genetic, though - My father wouldn’t touch milk in any shape or form, and my younger sister is even more averse than I am - she can’t bear butter, either.

Oh that’s a lovely memory the cream at the top of the bottle…no I didn’t like it either.. too sickly for me

25Avalon

But unhomogenised organic milk.

Good advice.
I've read that allergies from milk and milk products come from the effects of killing the bugs with heat (or other methods I presume). They give off some kindness toxicity when they die which stays in the milk.

I don't know how well researched this is.

Plus as M0nica pointed out, once you have a problem with it, you never really get over the reaction your body has.

I've been buying raw organic milk for some time now. I haven't noticed a change one way or the other in my health so can't comment from that point of view.
I'm just happy to support small independent farmers where ever I can.

My late MiL was like that - couldn't stand milk in any shape or form and couldn't abide butter either.

I have an aversion to milk, probably dating back to school milk going slightly off in the sun. I will have skimmed in coffee (none in tea). We also have semi-skimmed, but only dh uses that, though I’ll use it in sauces.

Dh would happily use Gold Top, not that we ever have any - apparently he and his brothers used to fight about who had the cream off the top! Even the look of that makes me feel a bit ill.

IMO it’s genetic, though - My father wouldn’t touch milk in any shape or form, and my younger sister is even more averse than I am - she can’t bear butter, either.

Full fat milk makes me feel nauseous, for some reason. It really does. So I only have skimmed now and feel fine on it.

All we have to do is look at our forebears and consider their diet. They did well enough on it.

But unhomogenised organic milk.

Buy organic milk.

It’s not that healthy anymore. It contains antibiotics (dairy cows often suffer from terrible mastitis) and now some brands are adding Bovaer.

I don't think cows milk can ever be good for you

Unhomogenised milk is the healthiest.

It is strange how lactose intolerance ata the mild end gets you. DS, who has the same problem I have can eat yoghourt, which I cannot.

I recently got caught out with burrata. It came in a salad and I thought it was mozzarella, the outside is but the inside is cream and within a few mouthfuls I was feeling queezy and it was 24 hours before I felt fully recovered.

I understand Monica, I’m not a fan of milk either, I never have it plain in drinks or on cereals. I do like custard and sauces made with milk though, and I can enjoy them with Lacto free milk without the consequences. My son is lactose intolerant too, and he is fine with it on his cereals,

After years of suffering the very watery skimmed milk, I have decided to revert back to 4% fat milk. Oh bliss, have found a cornish farm supplier, in Tesco , I've also found small glass bottles of single and double cream, so handy for 1 person household, especially if only need small amount. Low fat food is full of sugar, so no more for me, pay a little more , but as it's not low fat you don't need so much. Same with yoghurt.

Casdon

M0nica

I am mildy lacto-intolerant so this new edict will have no effect on me. I will still not be consuming milk, cream cottage cheese, cream cheese or yoghourt in any form.

Thankfully I can eat hard cheese.

Lacto free milk is excellent Monica, and has the huge advantage of lasting longer than ordinary milk. I don’t like full fat milk, it brings back memories of school milk with that disgusting yellowish fatty top in the summer. The thought of it still turns my stomach.

Casdon An idea, but I think after 80 years I am so habituated to retching at even the sight of milk, that I suspect it may be too late to habituate myself to soemthing so close to milk.