Is there any truth at all to Tommy's statement about our stomachs not being used to any dairy products yet? Or was that just his character rambling ignorantly, and that was just used for the purpose of making him throw the milk out the window in that scene?
shareI don't have ant links, but I have read literature about that. There's some to the contrary as well. Personally, I've cut out all milk from my diet, and feel a lot better. I'd question how much anyone who drinks milk really is a fan of Snatch. ;-) hehe
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Milk is really great. It's probably the healthiest thing I consume.
But it does go against the grain of a couple of aspects of my lifestyle, namely drinking and smoking. Milk does not go well with either of those habits.
A good measure of whether I'm drinking too much is if the milk in my fridge spoils before I finish it.
I don't buy this argument that humans are not adapted to drinking milk. How different is it from human milk? It's full of protein and calcium and it's generally full of vitamin D which humans actually need and might be lacking in if they are not out in the sunlight enough.
Milk is really great. It's probably the healthiest thing I consume.
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Cows' milk is for calves; mothers' milk is for young humans. The makeup of the milks do differ dramatically.
Furthermore, that which most people pick up in modern-day supermarkets is fortified (please pardon the sarcasm) with hormones (administered to dairy cattle for growth) & antibiotics (administered because the majority are confined and fed an unnatural diet consisting primarily of grains & legumes which cause them illness & disease, whereas they're biologically designed to freely pasture and consume mostly grasses) which humans not only don't need, but ought not to eat. Indeed, those drugs are contributing to the proliferation of "super-bugs" afflicting a range of domesticated species, including humans.
Not to mention those cows are not treated the least bit humanely.
Depending on geographical ancestry, some cultures tolerate others species' milks better or worse than others. Generally, even humans eventually stop producing the enzymes required to properly digest any milk sometime during childhood.
As for the supposed nutrients of commercially produced cows' milk.... The calcium is far less bioavailable than that consumed via many vegetables such as green leafies and cruciferous veggies. Same applies to the Vitamin D (that has to be added to those vats of milk, not naturally in the milk). Just 20 minutes daily in some sun -- even on a not-so-sunny day -- gets us our daily supply.
Lastly, I also enjoy occasional alcohol, especially fizzy fermented fruit (i.e., champagne). However, nowadays instead of smoking, I vape, which I've come to far prefer over smoking.
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We've only been drinking milk other than human milk since animals were first domesticated, roughly 10,000 years ago. That's not long enough in terms of human evolution to properely assimilate it, although I'm not sure it's that harmful. But if you think about it, all mammals only drink milk in their infancy, so consuming it beyond that point isn't natural, particularly that from other species.
We've got lumps of it round the back
that actually makes sense when you put it that way. i guess i don't feel bad for not really ever drinking milk except for with cereal and the occasional chocolate milk then lol.
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Which ones do you have in mind, out of interest? 90% seems a little high, as a species we've been eating much the same stuff for a very long time. Not always cooked but still.
We've got lumps of it round the back
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The whole thing about being lactose intolerant is that certain cultures have dairy products as a normal and healthy part of their diet, whereas others don't. The body produces the correct enzymes to break down lactose (the active ingredient in dairy products that people are allergic to) accordingly - if you have been raised to consume dairy products, then your body will be used to producing lactase and won't have a problem; if you never ate many dairy products growing up, then your body doesn't produce the necessary lactase.
That's basically what Tommy was talking about.
Thats not it. Plenty of people are lactose intolerant who were raised drinking it. Its more complicated than that.
shareevolution is a lie, and to understand the milk and bean digestive issues, watch alton brown
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evolution is a lie, and to understand the milk and bean digestive issues, watch alton brown
those are two really great reasons to believe evolution, really
"Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem."
No, they're not the reasons, the reasons is that there are scientists who studied, observed, and experimented all their life on the subject as opposed to just believing a book that was written thousands of years ago by a bunch of uneducated people who lived in the desert.
shareTommy was referring to cow's milk, not human/breast-fed milk.
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The body produces the correct enzymes to break down lactose (the active ingredient in dairy products that people are allergic to) accordingly
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60-80% of the world is lactose intolerant. Most mammals stop drinking milk past infancy, so they stop producing enzymes that break it down. The people who are most tolerant are descendant of the groups people who started cultivating it first. That being said if you don't drink it often your tolerance for it is probably a bit low. Its kinda like alcohol. You drink alot and often and a couple beers don't phase you, but if you rarely drink you get knocked on your ass by the slightest amount. Eat cereal every day and you should have a pretty good tolerance, if you don't then your going to have a case of explosive diarrhea.
shareHe was right. Humans are NOT meant to drink COW milk. It's actually not natural and causes many illnesses.. brittle bones, inflammation etc.
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