Food Theory: Stop Drinking Milk! (No Really, Stop!)

Here at Food Theory HQ we are always moving towards where the truth is hidden. We are completely un

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pable when it comes to exposing the truth of the

food

industry. We are not cow talk and we do more than just skim the surface. Oh, since when? everyone is so lactose intolerant around here oh wait forever because we are all fine hello internet welcome to

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, the program that is good for the body unlike

milk

, or so I plan to convince you today, that's right, welcome to part 4 7 25. who knows There have been so many at this point in our ongoing series titled The Food You Think Is Good For You Isn't Actually Good For You And You Only Think It's Due To A Combination Of Propaganda And Fearmongering.

It's a working title, but today's episode addresses what is probably for most of us in North America and Europe the most basic healthy eating advice we receive as children, drink your

milk

, it's good for the body , drink your milk, build better bones, there are members of my family. You are literally forced to drink an eight ounce glass of milk at every meal and why not, it strengthens your bones, helps you grow and of course, will help you get women. I would like to meet you, but I bet. You're waiting for a hunk. I'm

drinking

milk, although milk is the best thing I can drink right now to help me develop strong arms, powerful legs and a supportive chest and when all my work is done, will you love me just for my body?

Oh boy, oh this doesn't age well here, pretty lady in a swimsuit, let me interrupt you from several generations of my life. Honestly, this is what kids were taught in the 80s. Will you love me for my milk body? Because all I have now is sensitivity, intelligence and charm, please someone drew well and Danny Gonzalez, please someone watch these commercials, oh they are a big mistake, I admit this is not the first strange commercial we have had on the show, so I have to say that the teenager's fantasy is an Objectification has been turned up to 11 here, so he has that going for him, but the most unexpected thing about this is that it comes from an organization that seems reputable, America's Dairy Farmers, the national dairy board, but note that there are no real statistics that are I did not mention references to medical terms beyond the vague words of vitamins, calcium, and bones.

Same goes for all these other star-studded celebrity commercials where I got this one that uses Scare Tactics to convince us that without milk we'll surely lose our arms. Many of these are meant to be fun, obviously, but they are also meant to be taken seriously. It's important to drink milk, it will help you grow and get stronger, because who would run ads to promote the whole concept of milk? This has to be some kind of Public Health announcement coming from the dairy board. Well, actually, it's all propaganda in the case of our sensitive, intelligent, charming hunk who was actually a commercial created by a consortium of companies primarily based in California. dairy producers, as well as the marketing company McCann Erickson San Francisco Super Progressive of California, this was not just one company, it was as if all the dairy producers in California came together to do a broader advertising campaign, something that several know groups in the US.

The food world has been doing it for decades. Remember that meat is what's for dinner. I actually barely remember that, but in the early '90s, the Meat Industry Council of America, whatever that was, made a big deal about how exciting and easy it was to cook beef and pork. white meat, yes that is coming straight from the mouths of America's pork producers, these types of campaigns are very misleading because we think of ads that come from individual companies that want to sell you their particular version of a product, but in the case of the main food producers.

They are all working together to sell you the idea of ​​an individual food product. Every dairy company would prefer you drink their brand of milk, but what they all have in common is that they at least want you to drink some milk so they can all band together to produce things like this, yeah, oh no, it's good for the body, but at least in the case of milk, all this hype is justified, since it is full of calcium, strengthens bones, isn't it a superfood? The answer is like you. You can probably guess, since you're watching this channel, historically milk is not a super powerful tool that humanity has used from cavemen to colonizers to stay alive and also further their own agendas, yes that milk, but as a result has been one of the hardest Food Trends to eliminate and is literally one of the hardest foods to digest, so let's start at the beginning.

We all know that milk comes from cows and eventually we all realize that there is not much difference between the milk we drink. a carton and the milk we drank as babies, as uncomfortable as they are, both are designed as a primary food source for baby animals and yes, there are many different types of milk, such as almond milk, pea milk, oat milk, Yoo-hoo, but we're just talking about the OG straight from the source, so to speak, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that when human babies come out, they're not fully cooked yet and the milk maternal with its complex mix of nutrients and vitamins. proteins beneficial bacteria antibodies and lymphocytes literally act as an energy shake for babies, but it's still the best as we get older.

What is this breast milk? Evolution would not agree with you. Mad Max sees one of the main components of the milk of all mammals. It is a disaccharide sugar called lactose whose chemical composition is actually very difficult to break down in the digestive system of adult mammals. You need a hit of an extra enzyme called lactase to do the job thoroughly and a special pro tip here if you see A at the end of a protein name it means the protein's job is to cut up another protein so it can be used in your body , lactase cuts lactose and here we all thought science was difficult anyway without lactase in our system, lactose becomes uncomfortable to process. and that's when we have the old stomach problem, the potty party, if you know what I mean, and the thing is that when people reach their 20s, our bodies are designed to no longer produce enough lactase to break down milk, which means that evolutionarily all adults are supposed to be lactose intolerant, so what's the problem?

So why can I still eat 20 scoops of Monster every year for my birthday with limited health issues, other than you know the huge weight gain that comes with it? Well, it all comes down to one word. We all know that evolution occurs through natural selection through random genetic mutations over thousands and millions of years, humans have been able to survive in some of the most varied habitats on Earth due to our genetic variety, We live in a

really

sunny place. place where you've probably evolved to produce more protective melanin you need to be able to eat literally anything don't worry our teeth come in all kinds of different shapes so we can basically walk through garbage disposals there's nothing to eat or drink except the milk.

From her family's cow we have a mutation because it turns out that shortly after humans began domesticating animals for agriculture, they discovered that in times of famine and when they stole the Hellofresh box from the porch, they could turn to old Bessie. in the front yard to literally help them survive, sure that the milk that was excreted from their udders might not have originally been on the top menu, but it was certainly better to have a sore stomach than a dead stomach, you know, like dying of famine and It turns out that a very small percentage of the population in areas where this happened most frequently, i.e.

Central and Northern Europe, had a small mutation that helped them with this very circumstance. This mutation is called lactase persistence because instead of losing lactase when you grow, you retain it along with the ability to break down lactose itself. Lactase persistent people are better able to survive food shortages with the help of old Daisy and Dolores in the barn. In general, they are also less farting. Alive and less smelly make them more likely to mate and procreate in the last five or six thousand years. A simple blink of an eye in terms of evolution. A decent portion of the world's population has now become mutants.

Lactase mutants, not like telekinesis mutants or anything interesting. So, as time went on, people developed many milk derivatives, such as cheese, yogurt, and butter, so if you didn't make it so hot with milk, maybe you could handle some of them and, for Therefore, the obsession with dairy products was born from the desire not to die of hunger. Until death, this is all totally logical, but it begs the question of whether this 5,000-year-old food trend

really

needs to continue to exist. I mean, gelatin molds went away in the 1930s and honestly, they were a lot more fun.

Surely basic food products like milk were important. In times and places where food is a limited resource but milk is so nutritionally excellent for us that we need to keep

drinking

it when our bodies may or may not be able to process it in the first place, is the hype around milk really justified? Is milk really bad for you? The answer has nuances. If you watched our Chicken McNuggets episode, you know that even the supposedly neutral nutritional advice we receive is often manufactured through corporations or, just as often, filtered through our own governments to benefit certain industries.

So where do all the things we've heard about milk fall into place? It turns out that milk has some clear benefits, as milk has been clinically shown to make children grow taller, no joke, it is estimated that if an extra serving of milk is added to a child's diet every day, can add a full centimeter to their final adult height and makes some sense as milk is designed to make cow calves grow as quickly as possible as in the wild they need to be big and tall if they don't want to be picked on. eat lions, wolves or literally any other predator, so yes, milk can make you bigger if you drink it as a child and also very consistently over the years, but that's when we start to get a little bigger. big.

The older things get doubtful, for example, research from Jama Pediatrics tracked teenagers who had consumed large amounts of milk in their childhood and showed that their risk of suffering a bone fracture was not only the same as that of non-drinkers of milk, but was actually older, especially when we were talking about taller children, this is one of several studies that show that if you are taller, your bones are bigger, which means you have more body mass to support and This leads to an increased risk of fractures and breaks, including those really dangerous hip fractures. and older people, so milk made you taller but also led to more brittle bones later in life that actually break more easily.

Interestingly, what science I could find shows that yogurt does not have a pronounced effect on height, in fact, it may have a slight effect. decrease the risk of fracture, but there is still no consensus on that, maybe we can call it balance, on top of that, we know where milk comes from, from lactating cows that have natural hormones in their bodies, just like a person who recently had a baby, not Your fault, but in many countries additional hormones or steroids are added to cows to make them produce more milk, in addition to the lactose that adults are not supposed to consume.

High milk consumption can actually upset some of the hormonal balances in our own bodies, but you know that the results in this case are quite mixed. Drinking milk in children and adolescents may increase their risk of prostate cancer later in life, but drinking milk and eating cheese may decrease their risk of colon cancer. Milk seems to be quite a mixed bag, whole milk can raise your cholesterol, skim milk can lower your blood pressure, this list goes on and on and on and it's hard to know where the science ends and where the bias begins. I mean, it has everything from one.

On the side of the spectrum where Peta has her seven reasons why you should never eat dairy, on the other side of the spectrum with Wisconsin dairy farmers who make tens of billions of dollars a year from dairy tirelessly promoting its benefits to the world. . Obviously somewhere between those twoextremes, the big question here is that milk is worse than other sources of calcium and nutrients you can get. No, no, it really is better. No, either, if the main reason you drink milk is to get calcium and vitamin D so you can grow bigger and stronger and impress all the swimsuit models with your body instead of your sensitivity consider ways to get the same or better nutrition with less controversy and less money green vegetables like broccoli and kale more calcium than milk If you hate green things, try eating some beans, you know those fun little round guys that come in burritos and chili, more calcium than milk.

Yes, I was also surprised that tofu is also a main source of protein and calcium in places in the world where lactose intolerance is high and it is cheaper and healthier than milk, do you know what else has the nutrients in milk? in a hurry? a good calcium supplement and a drop of vitamin D from the supermarket pharmacy. Fortunately we live in a time where those options are available to us. It's not that hard, folks, so concluding this Trilogy by Trilogy, whatever our series of episodes about the conspiracies lurking in every corner of the supermarket, the food is different, but the conclusion remains largely the same each time. that we read a nutritional label. from an Advertisement Don't force yourself to eat or drink something because you saw a commercial on television, and for God's sake, if the Poultry Association produces a chicken commercial or a Cruciferous Educational Council lettuce commercial appears, consider which may not be the most impartial source of information.

Every food ad you see is designed to make you believe that you will be taller, smarter, stronger, and more beautiful if you eat. that food, but lo and behold, doing a little research on a more reliable source of information will actually make you smarter, which in turn will make you more beautiful, from what I heard, but hey, that's just a

theory

, a theory of the food, bon appetit, foreign.