02/07/2021
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So that is why our milk is best! 🤗
When recently asked, 'Which is the best milk?'
I replied, 'Full fat and minimally processed.'
'No', the lady responded, 'Between cow, almond, oat or soy milk?'
'Ah, let me be very clear. Nut, soy, oat or any other kinds of alternative milk are not milk. They are white drinks that illegally piggyback on the wonderful health benefits of cow’s milk. Please do not think that by choosing nut milk, you are choosing a healthier alternative. They cannot offer anywhere near same amount of nutritional benefits.’
Whole fat milk is one of the most nutrient-dense drinks around. Cow’s milk offers wonderful health-promoting saturated fatty acids, vitamin b12, iodine (UK milk provides 45% of the daily iodine requirement for children - no other food is as such a good source), calcium, B2, K2 and protein.
In recent years there have been misleading research headlines, thrown around claiming cow’s milk is bad for us and driving diseases such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes. All of which have been disproven.
Researchers such as Campbell claim that the protein casein drives cancer and Cordain suggests it is a pathogenesis for diabetes, but neither has any human research to back up such claims. Human evidence is always more convincing than proposed mechanisms.
The problem with isolating specific effects of a nutrient or food, and then to make predictions based on those effects, is that we might miss some other quality about that food that negates the proposed outcome.
Human studies are clear; milk causes no harm and has many health benefits such as lowering stroke and heart risk.
What IS becoming apparent is the need to consume whole fat milk as unprocessed as possible.
So, my advice to you is to find milk from smaller farms, from grass-fed cows, where they have access to summer pasture and process their milk as little as possible. You might even have a milk shed near to you. Take a look here to find out: www.produceandprovideuk.co.uk
Come back tomorrow for information on the environmental issues around dairy.
