Milk is bad for you?

Since it seemed like an interesting Topic. I did not think everyone was going to get emotionally attached to "Milk". It seems a little irrational.

Im sorry if I expected more than Emotionally idiocy from a science forum, I wont make that mistake again.

 

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I think you need to reflect upon that.

The natural world is not quite so black and white as you suppose.

Great. But a total red herring.

Chocolate is harmful to dogs, therefore we shouldn't eat cereal.

People are the only ones who cook their meat over a fire too. So what?

Food is not contagious. Me drinking milk does not make you sick.


I still don't get your point. What do you suggest should be done differently? And why?

 

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Where we meant to eat sugar? Sugars are contained in many natural foods - all vegetables and fruit - but it is killing people. It is one of the biggest health issues going. Some scientists have even suggested that it should be regulated like a drug because it is a drug and a huge detriment to public health. But we basically run on sugar.

So were we meant to eat sugars? Should we put a ban on glycolysis?

 

I submit to all that we change the word "meant" to "evolved". What are are "meant" to do or be is a discussion for the religion forum.

Species tend to fall into two groups: specialists and generalists. Koalas are an excellent example of specialists. As long as their food supply is avaiable, they will fluorish, but in a changing environment, their speciality will be a liability. The planet has gone through many cycles of stability and change - both types have their heyday.

We are evolved as omnivores. We eat lots of things. And, like other ominvores, we are able to adapt to new food sources as we expand both geographically and in numbers. That is one of the traits that makes us successful.

We are also outgrowing our ancestral food sources. There are 7 billion of us, and there aren't enough plains with grasses and berry bushes for all of us. The only way we could keep eating the same thing we ate 50,000 years ago is to have the same population that we had 50,000 years ago - before the invention of agriculture.


So, should the human race eat a diet of a few very specific things? Should it not adapt? Should it stagnate? That's not what humans are "meant" to do.

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All my dogs like milk, Cats like milk also

 

Heretic! Don't you know cats are carnivores!??
Carnivores are meant to eat meat!

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No one here is "emotionally attached" to milk. Some people drink it. Some people eat it in products like cheese. Some don't. That's fine.

Your anger at the idea of using it does seem odd, though.

 

I can drink milk and digest it. I'm not lactose intolerant. I didn't adapt to being able to drink milk because I rarely drink it. I can drink it however.

Humans are able to eat many foods and are very adaptable in that regard. Milk and cheese are no different than many other foods.

 

We talk about cow milk. Which isn't meant for us as are the eggs, the meat, the plants, the fruits, the mushrroms and almost anything else that we eat. We eat a lot of things which are not made for us, and we live well with that. Humans are omnivores and can digest quite a lot of food.

People who are lactose-tolerant can drink milk and digest all milk products.

This question is too broad. "People" are not this uniform. Some people can digest milk, for them milk is perfectly fine. Other people cannot digest milk, for them milk is obviously not healthy (it makes them sick).

For those who can digest milk, milk will deliver a lot of high quality nutritients. In so far, I dare to call milk "healthy" for this group of people. But "healthy" is a broad and blurry word again, like "people" is too broad for this discussion, so we might have to narrow this down to get better answers.

 

I believe most people stop producing lactase upon weaning, but if you're not weaned, you may continue to produce the enzyme your whole life. Even low levels are sufficient to break down all lactose.

As an aside, I buy and drink unpasteurized milk. If you haven't had raw milk before, one thing you'll notice is the "milk" smell missing. It may or may not taste much different. I think it tastes different because the smell is different. Actually, IMO, normal milk smells as if it's going off, although I can drink it just fine, I prefer unpasteurized.

 

So what is wrong with it .One way or another the sugar will be converted into CO2 and H2O

 

Nothing is wrong with it. I'm not the one who said that humans weren't made to eat milk.

 

No, you just didn't understand my point. Sugar is one of the biggest killers going but we also live on sugars, which I already said. My post was intended to be ironic to make a point.

 

That was certainly how I read your post. The idea of banning glycolysis is a bit of a giveaway (durrh).

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