Pretty happy I grew up with hippy parents who raised me on almond and soy milks 😤
Ironic, I feel exactly the same way as one of the other commenters further up the thread, but about rice milk, because my parents forced me to drink it with dinner.
Big Milk is so powerful, I’ve had older women in China ask me how I got so tall if I don’t drink milk.
This is China, with no history of drinking cows milk and like 90% of the population is lactose intolerant.
China, with no history of drinking cows milk and like 90% of the population is lactose intolerant.
So much for the tolerant left smdh
Lactose tolerance in adulthood is the mutation. Intolerance is the normal case for most humans. And most humans are tolerant to lactose in childhood.
In fairness, China’s southern and western provinces have historically been on the shorter side. But also, like… Yao Ming.
90% of the population is lactose intolerant
You can improve lactose tolerance if you introduce milk to kids at an early age and drink it continuously. My 50s-era Jewish family are all horribly lactose intolerant, but I grew up chugging the stuff and do just fine with it. Plenty of ABCs can and do drink milk and eat dairy, just as a matter of living in a country so full of cows and cow-products.
What happens in another 20-40 years, as we obliterate our grazing lands and drive the cost cow products skyward? Idk, man. But milk is a consumer staple for a reason. Calorically dense. Very useful in cooking/baking. Relatively cheap to produce and distribute. Goes well over cereal.
If milk did not exist, we would have to invent it.
Calorically dense.
Pretty sure most people in USA don’t need more calories.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK611097/
Relatively cheap to produce and distribute.
Dairy is literally the least sustainable and least efficient form of food production next to meat and palm oil.
https://www.trvst.world/sustainable-living/worst-foods-for-the-environment/
Pretty sure most people in USA don’t need more calories.
Milk is a highly effective method of fattening kids up who are malnourished or otherwise underfed. Whole milk is the go-to for toddlers coming off breastmilk/formula for a reason.
Dairy is literally the least sustainable and least efficient form of food production next to meat and palm oil.
Natural gas is a leading contributor to climate change. It is also the cheapest (for the moment) form of energy per kWh.
“Sustainability” is not the same thing as “Cheap” or “Easy to Distribute”. Quite the opposite.
Now, a lot of our cheap milk is a byproduct of our intensive animal agriculture, which is highly profitable but dismally inefficient. If that changes (because we killed a big chunk of our cow herds by mismanaging grazing land and water rights and fucking up disease mitigation) then I can see a world in which cow-milk drops off the menu quickly.
So, hey, let me know if that changes.
We did invent superior forms of milk, such as oat milk.
We invented alternatives, definitely. But there are still plenty of trade-offs. Much lower in calories and saturated fats, for instance.
If you’re trying to fatten up a skinny little baby (as I’m currently working on, having placed with a toddler a few months back) the pediatrician is going to stare daggers at you if you say you’ve been giving the kid oat milk rather than whole milk. Literally had this conversation already and got hit in the head with a stack of literature just for asking.
So needlessly hostile. Rawr!
When I was growing up we went through a gallon a day. Fucking love milk.
I can remember when I’d come home from high school, if I smelled oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, I’d know my mom would have saved me some of the dough in a Tupperware in the fridge. I’d get it, a spoon, and a half gallon jug of milk and sit down in front of the TV until they were both gone.
I was super active, and really skinny, but it still seems funny to think about now.
Milk used to make me so sick my little ten year old body projectile vomitted it across the breakfast table and my parents, who’d seen 10¹⁰ milk commercials, were like “maybe you’re not drinking enough milk.”
my god… that’s ten billion ads… if each ad lasts 30s, then your parents started watching milk ads 9510 years ago… that puts us roughly… no wait… -it can’t be…!
Lmao. I was too skeptical to accept this at first, so I double-checked both the math and the date.
Incredibly, everything checks out.
Hm, now I’m imagining OP’s parents having lived so long due to being the first vampires. They saw others drinking milk and thought, “Wait, so we’re all cool with draining and consuming fluids from others’ bodies?”
They make me cringe so hard. When I got my first job interview at McDonalds they came by in red and yellow tabbards to show our family’s loyalty to their house.
Maybe this is common knowledge, but the Maasai herd cows and will drain a non-lethal amount of blood from their necks to drink.
We also had the food pyramid, which said we should eat tons and tons of bread and grain.
Like so much. I couldn’t keep up.
From a general population health perspective, the pyramid was a pretty good system. It was basically an attempt to simplify the Mediterranean pattern. I like the Power Plate better though.
I was raised on the food shape, so my diet shunned fancy foods and consisted mostly of aspic and curried cheese
Ah yes, cigarettes and milk. My favorite food group.
I’d have a cigarette for breakfast followed by a bowl of heavy cream. Then I’d go work one half-hour, two half-hour…
Honest representation of the health effects of milk.
:shrug🤷
You forgot satanic panic and how Harry potter was gonna send us to hell
The interspecies dance between millennials who read Harry Potter when it was considered subversive and anti-christian, and Gen Zers who call it racist TERF propaganda, is one of my favorite culture schisms.
millennial here. glad to hear the next gen is more literate, i’ve been putting hp’s piss poor quality and shitty ethics on blast since like 2005 and people acted like i was regurgitating rush limbaugh or something because stupid fucking boomers went and made it a tribal thing.
Believe it or not there was a time when jk Rowling kept her moronic views to herself. Then one day after she’d become a gazillionaire she was like "fuck it im rich now, im gonna pull a elon musk and show the world what I truly believe "
That’s a pretty innacurate assessment of Rowling, as much as I dislike her.
There’s this whole thing people do whenever we watch someone fall from grace, scrutinizing their past through the bias of the present to find “clues,” so we can better avoid people like that in the future.
But JK was and still is fairly progressive. A number of people close to her have said her opinions on trans people were, in part, radicalized as a result the fame that exposed her to vitriolic opposition.
I want to be very clear there is no excuse for what she’s done or said about trans people, only that it’s innacurate to say her shitty views came in a package deal and have always been the same.
Bruh, thats some serious word salad. Im really not sure what the heck youre trying to say
I think that the pearl clutching Christians freaking out over the “Devil magic” had the effect of people just convincing themselves the series as a whole was more progressive than it ever actually was.
That was the sentiment when I read it. Those things were progressive for us, when groups of parents were petitioning to get it taken from the school library — in a white prairie town before everyone had a cell phone, interracial couples were the subject of gossip and it was normal to compare trans people to aspiring attack helicopters.
Obviously I don’t support the TERFy cunt now.
Depends, because as a Gen Z I still am forced to drink it daily
The aggression and name calling in that second image reminded me of r/neverbrokeabone. I don’t miss much about reddit, but that particular subreddit was pretty damn funny usually.
Someone would post an X-ray of a broken pinky they got in a car crash and everyone would be like “GTFO of here with your little baby bird bones, you calcium-deficient piece of shit!”
Hey I’m part of the club!
“GTFO of here with your little
baby bird bones, you calcium-deficient piece of shit!”BBB, brittle bone bitch.
An X-ray of me, after I’ve finished my 10th daily glass of milk.
when I was a kid, among the things I would never have expected to stumble upon, near the top of the list in fact, there was “calcium supremacism abuse kink”
I did not wake up with any expectations of learning about Calcium Supremacism Abuse Kink this fine hallowed morning, nor any other morning for that matter thank you very much!
Giving up dairy was surprisingly more challenging than giving up animal flesh. I felt subtle withdrawal symptoms for months on a physical level, that was reminiscent of quitting nicotine. But on the plus side my body as a whole felt distinctly better, far less inflamed after quitting all of that and replacing it with foods that are mostly anti-inflammatory (except when I binge on chips or popcorn).
But sometimes I wonder, how much does carrying guilt impact the body?
Could you recommend some easy to digest foods, which work well as anti inflammatories? Like, which have you noticed having a great effect compared to some with a low effect?
I ask as I get gut inflammation quite badly.
One thing to keep in mind is that reducing and removing pro-inflammatory foods is equal, if not more important, because otherwise you are just perpetually trying to heal from the same wounds you keep freshly laying down. When it comes to gastrointestinal problems, things get complicated. I’ve found three specialists on the subject whose work might help you. One is Dr. Sean Spencer. The other, whose books might be exactly what you’re looking for, is Dr. Will Bulsiewicz. And the last is Dr. Alan Desmond.
I’d like to give you a convenient list of foods, but for those of us with these illnesses, each one is a unique quagmire to untangle and I haven’t even fully solved my own gut illness yet (though my symptoms are consistently much better than they used to be).
This is incredibly helpful, thank you so much!
I have diverticular disease, which occasionally gets set off. It can be a real mess sometimes!
Having a healthy gut microbiome is itself anti-inflammatory, so you want to feed your little guys lots of prebiotic foods like crucifers, garlic, oats, and more. Some healthy bacteria thrive on the mucus you generate while fasting, a practice which also reduces inflammation.
If you’re having problems with your digestive system enough to ask about it, it’s possible you have an undiagnosed allergy or sensitivity. Many digestive sensitivities are identifiable only through an elimination diet since they don’t provoke an immune response to test the blood for. A food diary is a good place to start, but it can be really difficult to notice patterns. You should definitely work with a doctor if that’s a realistic option for you.
Guilt probably raises cortisol levels.
give me and place
kinky.
Malk
I used to have to drink a glass of milk with every meal when I was growing up, I didn’t even have the option of water, it was milk or nothing. I stopped drinking milk when I moved out. I haven’t had a glass of milk in 25 years. I still consume dairy, I just don’t drink a glass of straight milk.
I don’t drink much milk nowadays just because I mostly drink water, but when I do have milk on the fridge… it’s gone in two days max unless I carefully ration it.
nothin’ like a cold glass o’ melk
Well no wonder you didn’t fulfill your potential.
I mean, milk is nowhere near the super food they sold us back in the day… but it’s far from the toxic sludge people put in their bodies daily nowadays.
Even a coke seems mild compared to the monster drinks and whatever other crap Logan Paul is peddling today
I am doing a lean bulk and it turns out milk is incredibly high protein so now I’m drinking more than I probably did as a kid. Easy way to get the calories and feel full. And chocolate milk… well.
I am a manly man and I only put soy milk in my coffee. You can pry the bean milk from my unbreakable bones!
Has anybody else been surprised what an ‘r’ could have done to the last sentence?
If you drink some vanilla soy latte sprinkled with cocoa powder, you basically have a 4-bean soup
