I’m all for whole milk over skim, but it would be much better to bring in A2 whole milk. Yes, the fat is needed that’s iin whole milk but we should be getting back to the fat that was in A2, not what our industrial dairy production created, which I believe is responsible for milk allergies. I’m just a lay person, but it seems obvious to me that the lactose intolerance among Americans is due, in part at least, to the breeding of industrial milk cows. Alexandre and Strauss dairies are two of the ones that produce and sell A2. https://alexandrefamilyfarm.com/
I spent years avoiding milk because I thought I was lactose intolerance. We bought 2% milk for many years because we were told it was healthier. I realized some months ago that is I travel and I have “cafe con leche” or latte, it’s usually regular whole milk and it never causes me any issues… we just switched to whole milk in the house and I have it with coffee with no problems at all! There’s something about altering the milk compounds that makes the difference! Thanks for bringing it back for the kids. They need natural fats for their brains to develop!
At some future point perhaps HHS will be able to address the damage ultra pasteurization does to milk, to its nutrients and enzymes. Raw milk in schools seems a fantasy now but just imagine what that would do for children's health ... and local food systems. Interesting fact: Germany sells raw milk, at least in natural food ... calls it "preferred milk".
I am a US Citizen living in Mexico because I couldn't afford to retire in the US. I believe I have figured out at least a part of why the US decided that only low- or non-fat milk was "healthy." Here in Mexico, whole milk is 3%, not 4% as in the US. (NB Different cows produce milk with different percentages of fats. Both 3% and 4% are contrived figures.). Why would Mexico have chosen a lower percentage for "whole" milk? My observation is that Mexico has very little good pasture land, and that cows have a hard time producing milk with a high percentage of milk fat. Butter and cream support higher prices, hence the limitation on putting more fat into milk. I'm pretty sure there was similar motivation for the rulings re what constituted "healthy" milk for children. Somehow, it always comes down to $$$, not what the citizenry actually needs.
AS I recall, whole milk has lactose and fats and so on. 2% and non-fat have to reintroduce sugars to make it drinkable. That means you replaced lactose(milk sugar) with fructose(God knows where that comes from if not cane sugar.) RFK making great inroads with the system and also dealing with "the Jerk" president
Regular milk is full of artificial hormones, antibiotics, vaccines, animal medications, herbicides, pesticides, and possibly gmo's from the feed cows eat.
Hey, Huge MAHA supporter! But, this one is pretty hollow...whole pasteurized and homogenized milk from factory farms will be doing nothing good for the nation's children. And everyone knows that. Fat is where many of the toxins in our food hide and milk is no exception. The genetically modified growth hormone, the pesticides and herbicides spread on the grass and grain the cows eat, the inhumane way factory cows are treated, the destruction of all that is actually good in the milk via the pasteurization process, just don't bother, give the kids clean water and call it a day. Now if you want to give them raw whole milk raised on small, environmentally sustainable family farms, that's another story....
I breastfed each of my babies until they were nearly four. They weaned themselves when they were ready, which is the natural way still practiced in indigenous cultures. This is only possible, of course, for a one-paycheck family.
I grew up on a gallon of whole milk a day, until my parents couldn't afford it. We switched to powdered milk. And I was a fat kid (my mom's doctors told her not to breastfeed, but to feed me evaporated/condensed milk). A Depression-era mentality still existed among pediatricians in the 1950s, leading them to fatten kids intentionally (while they were also endorsing Chesterfield and Camel cigarettes). If it weren't for taking up sports and running through most of my life, I would probably be dead from heart disease (as my grandfather was) or diabetes (as my grandmother and father were). I'm glad they've kept options for 1 and 2 percent milk, but whole milk is 4% saturated fat, which is NOT GOOD FOR YOU. Those who do not learn from history are going to repeat it.
That disqualifies you from commenting about anything. Please tell me you're not that stupid. Wait, don't bother. Instead, let me know how your next doctor's visit goes, and be sure to tell him or her that.
I’m all for whole milk over skim, but it would be much better to bring in A2 whole milk. Yes, the fat is needed that’s iin whole milk but we should be getting back to the fat that was in A2, not what our industrial dairy production created, which I believe is responsible for milk allergies. I’m just a lay person, but it seems obvious to me that the lactose intolerance among Americans is due, in part at least, to the breeding of industrial milk cows. Alexandre and Strauss dairies are two of the ones that produce and sell A2. https://alexandrefamilyfarm.com/
Alexandre and Strauss - yes and yes! Available near my home and that's what I buy! "A2" is not just a freeway in England!
Thanks for sharing the link above. Good info, and store locator in your area.
Here’s more information about A2 milk https://www.a2milk.com/
It’s a welcome recommendation.
But you should also recommend that the whole milk should be organic, as the fats in milk carry with it, pesticide and toxins.
Mitchel Cohen
Author, “the fight against Monsanto’s round up: the politics of pesticides”
I spent years avoiding milk because I thought I was lactose intolerance. We bought 2% milk for many years because we were told it was healthier. I realized some months ago that is I travel and I have “cafe con leche” or latte, it’s usually regular whole milk and it never causes me any issues… we just switched to whole milk in the house and I have it with coffee with no problems at all! There’s something about altering the milk compounds that makes the difference! Thanks for bringing it back for the kids. They need natural fats for their brains to develop!
At some future point perhaps HHS will be able to address the damage ultra pasteurization does to milk, to its nutrients and enzymes. Raw milk in schools seems a fantasy now but just imagine what that would do for children's health ... and local food systems. Interesting fact: Germany sells raw milk, at least in natural food ... calls it "preferred milk".
What is truly amazing is fundamental knowledge about health is lacking from the top down.
Fully admit that some change is incremental.
Costco has humongous shopping carts usually filled with junk "foods"
They also have a nice selection of organic- nuts, berries, assorted veggies and fruits
That is what sustains health...
Loving you, Bobby Kennedy!
I am a US Citizen living in Mexico because I couldn't afford to retire in the US. I believe I have figured out at least a part of why the US decided that only low- or non-fat milk was "healthy." Here in Mexico, whole milk is 3%, not 4% as in the US. (NB Different cows produce milk with different percentages of fats. Both 3% and 4% are contrived figures.). Why would Mexico have chosen a lower percentage for "whole" milk? My observation is that Mexico has very little good pasture land, and that cows have a hard time producing milk with a high percentage of milk fat. Butter and cream support higher prices, hence the limitation on putting more fat into milk. I'm pretty sure there was similar motivation for the rulings re what constituted "healthy" milk for children. Somehow, it always comes down to $$$, not what the citizenry actually needs.
AS I recall, whole milk has lactose and fats and so on. 2% and non-fat have to reintroduce sugars to make it drinkable. That means you replaced lactose(milk sugar) with fructose(God knows where that comes from if not cane sugar.) RFK making great inroads with the system and also dealing with "the Jerk" president
Regular milk is full of artificial hormones, antibiotics, vaccines, animal medications, herbicides, pesticides, and possibly gmo's from the feed cows eat.
Hey, Huge MAHA supporter! But, this one is pretty hollow...whole pasteurized and homogenized milk from factory farms will be doing nothing good for the nation's children. And everyone knows that. Fat is where many of the toxins in our food hide and milk is no exception. The genetically modified growth hormone, the pesticides and herbicides spread on the grass and grain the cows eat, the inhumane way factory cows are treated, the destruction of all that is actually good in the milk via the pasteurization process, just don't bother, give the kids clean water and call it a day. Now if you want to give them raw whole milk raised on small, environmentally sustainable family farms, that's another story....
Whole cows milk is a "wonderful" food. A baby calf is about 60#'s at birth,
in a year about 1000#s. Last I checked human babies weigh about 7#'s at birth
and about 25 after a year. Human milk is for humans who require tremendous brain and neurological development.
Cows have an enormous musculoskeletal system. Cows milk is for.... cows...
Suckling another species is a bizarre learned behavior. Anyone have an intelligent response?
No human eats human milk after age 2 or so. What happens after that? In any case we eats animals, so why not their milk?
Really?? Some moms nurse until 3-4, so what??
Have not eaten animals nor drunk their secretions in many decades.
In life one can only make the best possible decision, even if late to the party.
I breastfed each of my babies until they were nearly four. They weaned themselves when they were ready, which is the natural way still practiced in indigenous cultures. This is only possible, of course, for a one-paycheck family.
I grew up on a gallon of whole milk a day, until my parents couldn't afford it. We switched to powdered milk. And I was a fat kid (my mom's doctors told her not to breastfeed, but to feed me evaporated/condensed milk). A Depression-era mentality still existed among pediatricians in the 1950s, leading them to fatten kids intentionally (while they were also endorsing Chesterfield and Camel cigarettes). If it weren't for taking up sports and running through most of my life, I would probably be dead from heart disease (as my grandfather was) or diabetes (as my grandmother and father were). I'm glad they've kept options for 1 and 2 percent milk, but whole milk is 4% saturated fat, which is NOT GOOD FOR YOU. Those who do not learn from history are going to repeat it.
Listening to "doctors" is seriously stupid.
Have known the details for over 4 decades and was tardy.
The saturated fat fear mongering was just that.
Suckling a cow?? truly bizare
"Listening to 'doctors' is seriously stupid."
That disqualifies you from commenting about anything. Please tell me you're not that stupid. Wait, don't bother. Instead, let me know how your next doctor's visit goes, and be sure to tell him or her that.