Milk = Blunder Tonic?
Mark is ranting again. From Mark’s Daily Apple:
We Promise, This Is the Last Dairy Discussion
…for a while, anyway. This is merely to highlight the general conclusion that can be had from all the various dairy-makes-you-skinny debates: dairy obviously does not make you skinny enough. If dairy were the wonder tonic Big Moo would have you believe, wouldn’t we all have noticed by now?
Some of the studies are inconclusive, like this one just out (yet another one!). Some of the studies are
total quackeryquestionable because they’ve been funded by Big Moo. Most of them, actually. Some of the studies make it seem like low-fat dairy is better. A recent one makes a case for regular old fattening dairy. Mark happens to think dairy is the ultimate Blunder Tonic.While there’s no definitive dairy answer, how about some common sense? If you exercise, eat a lot of vegetables, and stay away from things like sugar and French fries, it just might not matter if your beverage of choice is soy milk, cow’s milk or hemp milk (yep, and it’s tasty). Folks who are unhealthy might benefit marginally from foods like dairy, but at the end of the day, no food is the magic answer to your waistline concerns or health goals.
Except, possibly, for spinach.
Mmmmm, spinach. Too bad I only really like it when it’s covered with buttermilk ranch dressing. (Or on a hot ham and cheese croissant from The Filling Station; best smoothies in Kansas City.)
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2 opinions for Milk = Blunder Tonic?
Tommy
Jan 12, 2007 at 10:00 am
Mmmm milk. I still maintain that there is no meal that milk does not go with.
Wade
Jan 12, 2007 at 10:06 am
Most of the time I can take or leave milk, myself. I do love it with starchy sweets like cookies or cake.
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