Got Milk? Might Not Be Doing You Much Good (Milk & Calcium)

The New York Times ^ | Nov. 17, 2014 | Aaron E. Carroll

[steve86]

I it weren’t for my own lactose intolerance I would as well.

[momincombatboots]

Good to know! I drink 2 to 3 gallons a week. I would probably drink 3 to 4 if I could keep it at work. My addiction.

[smokingfrog]

Unfortunately, everyone that drinks milk will eventually die.

[JRandomFreeper]

No, but I will die very happy with my years of bleu cheese and my milk and sausage gravy. That's two things I'll never give up.

/johnny

[hinckley buzzard]

Risk factors for osteoporosis are known. Milk consumption or lack of it is not one of them.

[raybbr]

The milk only works when mixed with cookies.

Calcium absorption from ice cream is increased by a factor of 4 when eaten with chocolate chip cookies....

[Seaplaner]

You are correct, my FRiend.

Without sufficient vitamin D, your bod's chemical messengers put calcium in arteries rather than bones.

(Info very googlable.)

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[familyop]

The quacks still refuse to take exercise into account properly.

[hinckley buzzard]

Personally, I think most of these experts don’t know what the bleep they’re talking about.

The experts probably do know. It's the "science writers" and other excuses for reporter that don't.

[grumpygresh]

Almond milk is better.

[Gasshog]

Yep if your lactose intolerant best not to chug it down.

I get my milk from ice cream and coffee creamer!

[MeshugeMikey]

their source of INCOME is inane studies.....what are they gonna do except to continue in the same tired old vein?

Likely as not Government Funded Studies..

[right way right]

Hey, waddayouknow Bob Dole was right.

[djf]

Even bigger than D and K, I think it’s magnesium.

People don’t drink groundwater anymore... something like 80% of Americans are deficient in magnesium.

And no magnesium means bad or absent calcium utilization.

[MeshugeMikey]

The Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

A just-released study in The BMJ

hmm hows that for Constentcy? maybe its the Bone Medical Journal..too??

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I think bananas are suppose to make you fat now.

Some of what the experts say is good or bad for you makes no sense at all. I’ll go with what seems right to me and not worry about it too much. Death will come to us all no matter what.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

LOL to post 10. You’re a real animal.

[Friendofgeorge]

I only read the intro, have no idea what the entire article said, but I bet the milk consumption mentioned was not connected with fat free skim milk, the only kind of milk I have in my home.

Yes I am guessing it was only being discussed in relation with calcium and bone benefit.

But certainly skim milk is not bad for you, not harmful to arteries for those of us from a family with a history of heart disease

[Bullish]

Beer is better for you than milk. That’s my claim and no amount of evidence can dissuade me from believing it.

[steve86]

Several of the comments to the NYT article mention low-fat and fat-free milk. The difference in calories isn’t that much.