Is Adult drinking milk normal ?

[Spiff]

I'm a proud milk drinker. You can call me Abby Normal.

 

[Willie Boy]

And so do Americans who cattle farmed when they first immigrated here. After say. . .100-150+ years, that'd be enough time for families to have mutated a lactose tolerance.

Hmm, not sure about that. I was allergic to it growing up, but I can now drink about 16 ounces at a time, as long as my stomach isn't empty before hand. Lactose-free is fine whenever, though.

Raw would have to be directly from the cow to you. It can't be stored or bought commercially.

Milk isn't the only source of calcium. In fact, there are sources that are far better for calcium:

Let's start with a basic salad staple, like romaine lettuce. Using two cups as our salad base, we are starting off our salad with 40 milligrams of calcium. Adding one half-cup of Swiss chard leaves would bump us up another 25 milligrams, to 65 total. Now let's add 1/2 cup soybeans at 87 milligrams, and 1/3 kidney beans, at 40 milligrams, and we're up to 192 milligrams. Sprinkle on two tablespoons of sesame seeds and we have a salad that provides us with a whopping 277 milligrams of calcium.


In terms of total calcium, the salad we just make is about 33% higher in calcium content than a glass of 2% milk (which has about 300 milligrams of calcium). [...] while there are only 2 milligrams of vitamin C in a cup of milk, there is over 20 times that in the salad's romaine lettuce alone!

What form of math claims 277 milligrams to be about 33% more than 300 milligrams? It is actually 23 milligrams less and would therefor be about 18% less.

 

[Audio Tech]

Europeans* have a mutation that allows us to digest milk as adults. It's NOT "normal" in the sense that most humans do not have this gene.

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* I mean the race, not the location.

Yayyy!!! That explains why I can drink all the milk I want.

Though I only take it in coffee or the occasional cold chocolate milk in the summer now.

But then again, I can drink the water in TJ and not get sick either.

 

[bankside]

Well there is no way I would eat 750 mL of salad. That's insane! I'd still be eating it. But a lovely cold glass of beautiful nutritious milk! Mmmmm... It's how I quench a thirst.

 

[Surgeon General]

Hey, I really like some sarcasim. Is there any where I can get some?

 

[teadrinker]

I don't like drinking milk at all - and even as a child didn't like it. I don't mind it in a bowl of cereal, and of course in my tea - but by itself? Yuk.

-T.

 

[metta]

It's abnormal for Caucasians (that is, people of European extraction). It's normal for everyone else. Some northern-European-descended people also have a mutation called the arterio-venous shunt, which I call "cryostigmata" from the circumstances where it occurs, and the way it feels when it does.



No guarantees; it depends on why you became lactose intolerant in the first place. I lost my lactose tolerance to tetracycline, so repopulating my innards with appropriate commensals was all it took. Eat yogurt (which has the lactobacilli in it; that's how it yoghs). You can also take acidopholus (not sure of the spelling) in a purer form.

Not guaranteed to work, of course, but worth a try.



They overlap but they're different things. Organic milk has been produced without hormones or drugs. Raw milk has not been pasteurized (a process that involves heating the milk to a very high temperature, thus "cooking" it).

Organic makes milk safer. Raw makes it more dangerous.

I'm not a milk drinker at all but I do have friends that would totally disagree with you. According to them, pasteurization is required for milk today because it comes from factory farms where animals are in filthy conditions and are not in their natural environment. With companies like Organic Pastures, they put cows in an environment that is natural for them, constantly moving them to new fields and very clean conditions that you don't see in factory farming. Check out the data on Raw USA Certified. Here is a chart that shows some of the differences:

http://organicpastures.com/whyraw.html

This farm lets people tour it on a regular basis to see how they do it and to see the conditions that these cows live in.

 

[wirega56]

I don't like drinking milk at all - and even as a child didn't like it. I don't mind it in a bowl of cereal, and of course in my tea - but by itself? Yuk.

-T.

Sorry but milk in tea is not the sign of a true tea drinker, try it without and brew to personal taste

 

[Fucker29]

You're asking this on a gay forum?

 

[Surgeon General]

Sorry but milk in tea is not the sign of a true tea drinker, try it without and brew to personal taste

People who pretend to know everything are annoying an unattractive.
Just so you know.

 

[cinnamontea]

are you refering to human breast milk or from cows?

 

[evanrick]

Maybe if the prices of Milk go down, then people will buy it more often. here in Tucson Az, milk per Gallon is like $3.50 range. I am on the verge of just buying the powdered stuff.

HOLY SHIT. 3.50? Maybe at a fancey grocer name brand like QFC, but its about 1.99-2.39 where i work.

safeway, alberstons have bad milk prices as well.

and this english humor is sorta creepy.

 

[freefall]

Actually it's normal but not that often. The mutation in milk-digesting enzymes occurs in many races, albeit more frequently in Caucasians and rarely in Asians. We don't call this mutation abnormal since the mutated gene actually exists in large number in the gene pool although fewer than the normal diminished one. We speak of abnormal while talking about lactose intolerance in infants and children smaller than the age of 5.

 

[Nomenclature]

HOLY SHIT. 3.50? Maybe at a fancey grocer name brand like QFC, but its about 1.99-2.39 where i work.

Around here, the gas stations that have Two For Five deals sell milk like crazy. The store brand of the lactose-free stuff goes for about $2.88 for a half-gallon.




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Actually it's normal but not that often. The mutation in milk-digesting enzymes occurs in many races, albeit more frequently in Caucasians and rarely in Asians. We don't call this mutation abnormal since the mutated gene actually exists in large number in the gene pool although fewer than the normal diminished one. We speak of abnormal while talking about lactose intolerance in infants and children smaller than the age of 5.

I've heard that over 90% of people of African descent are lactose intolerant. In the US, black people consume the most milk of any other race per capita.

 

[resonance]

I don't know where you got this, but it's crap. We have a huge milk surplus in the US right now, because of the recession: people don't buy as much, but the dairy farmers can't cut back production...you can't just stop milking a cow and put her in storage.

When don't we ever have a milk surplus? Even during non-recession, farmers get rid of milk by turning it into powder and exporting it to third world countries and pouring the rest into the sewer.

 

[Willie Boy]

For those who suffer lactose intolerance I would suggest trying goat milk. It is an acquired taste and is much richer, but doesn't affect those who are lactose intolerant.

 

[jaycee style]

It becomes normal if people keep doing it; People who farmed cows for generations are mutating to naturally produce lactase, which humans cannot naturally do. If it's part of your family's diet, they'll eventually evolve to be able to handle it.





That's probably true for commercial cows who're given a ton of antibiotics; when cows have an unnatural diet, are kept artificially pregnant, etc etc. . . they get sick and have a lot of infections. The white blood cells come out through their udders.

Grass-fed, pasture-raised cows are healthy and naturally don't even require antibiotics; so there's no infections and thus no pus.

thank you for making me paranoid about something else in this crazy life.

now i'm only getting my milk at the organic store.

SERIOUSLY

 

[Telstra]

anyone watch post 1 video before commenting?

its about fun thats all

 

[CumAlong]

Milk is only beneficial to babies, however we still drink it as adults to be 'normal' I suppose. Milk is meant to fatten and deliver essential nutrients and protection to babies. Why we drink it past babies is beyond me, but we do, i do, and its yummy.

Though, I guess its stupid for someone to complain about being overweight if they drink something intended to make you fat, regardless of what the fat content has been changed to...

 

[Blk_Thickness]

Maybe if the prices of Milk go down, then people will buy it more often. here in Tucson Az, milk per Gallon is like $3.50 range. I am on the verge of just buying the powdered stuff.

Places like Giant Eagle or Krogers milk is most of the time on sale around $1.98. I only see the $3.50 prices in like corner stores.