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What kind of milk is most healthy, 1%, 2%, or whole?

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Healthier? Don't know. I prefer whole milk. And sometimes I buy half-and-half, and have a few ounces at a time, kind of like people might enjoy wine. That stuff is just excellent.😀


But skim milk? I'll just drink water. It tastes better, is cheaper, and has about the same nutrition content.
 
1% is probably the "healthiest" in that it has less fat and probably less everything else, including actual milk 😛
...but I drink only whole milk. Anything less, and it's just white water.
 
Skim is fine. Seriously. Go with 2% and drop to 1%, and you'll make it to skim. 2% now tastes like a bite of butter now. It's too creamy.

Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: Kelemvor
Skim is the healthiest regardless of how you think it tastes...
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I'm not sure that's true for any meaningful value of true.

You need some fat in your diet, and if you're a healthy, active person who consumes a normal amount of milk every day, I can't see their being any health benefits whatsoever to drinking skim over whole milk.

In fact, whichever way you slice it, for a person on a relatively normal diet I can't see your choice of milk having any meaningful effect on your health whatsoever (unless you lived off it, and drank 11ty billion gallons a day).
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I hate seeing this argument. You need some fat, so don't bother with nonfat milk. You'll get plenty of fat from other things, so cut down where you can like milk. That fat easily adds up from the milk. Just like people say oh you need some bacteria in your system, so feel free to pick up food from the ground. Worst argument ever. Fat free milk is fine.
 
Whole" or "Homogenized" milk tastes the best to me...mmmm...but I rarely use it. I try to control my sodium intake from other non-salt sources, (that way I can use MORE salt!) 😉 and (at least with the brands here) 1% milk has quite a bit more sodium than 2%, yet only has a few less calories....I'm fat already, so the extra fat content doesn't concern me...and the "whole/homogenized" milk...mmmm, the creamy goodness...
(my wife is seriously lactose intolerant so she just buys whatever I want)

Sheesh...fixed things for the high school kiddies on here...
 
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Whole" or "Homogenized" milk tastes the best to me...mmmm...but I rarely use it. I try to control my sodium intake from other non-salt sources, (that way I can use MORE salt!) 😉 and (at least with the brands here) 1% milk has quite a bit more sodium than 2%, yet only has a few less calories....I'm fat already, so the extra fat content doesn't concern me...and the "whole/homogenized" milk...mmmm, the creamy goodness...
(my wife is seriously lactose intolerant so she just buys whatever I want)

Sheesh...fixed things for the high school kiddies on here...
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WTF 1% has more sodium? I didn't know that was even used in reducing the fat content of the milk.
 
Originally posted by: upsciLLion
Originally posted by: BoomerD
I didn't walk into anything...are you "homo"-phobic or something?
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You walked into me quoting you for posterity.

Let's make love and forget this ever happened.
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Well, OK, but if I fuck ya, I gotta kill ya...I'm just that way...

for some reason, I never get second dates...
 
Originally posted by: DLeRium
Skim is fine. Seriously. Go with 2% and drop to 1%, and you'll make it to skim. 2% now tastes like a bite of butter now. It's too creamy.

Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: Kelemvor
Skim is the healthiest regardless of how you think it tastes...
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I'm not sure that's true for any meaningful value of true.

You need some fat in your diet, and if you're a healthy, active person who consumes a normal amount of milk every day, I can't see their being any health benefits whatsoever to drinking skim over whole milk.

In fact, whichever way you slice it, for a person on a relatively normal diet I can't see your choice of milk having any meaningful effect on your health whatsoever (unless you lived off it, and drank 11ty billion gallons a day).
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I hate seeing this argument. You need some fat, so don't bother with nonfat milk. You'll get plenty of fat from other things, so cut down where you can like milk. That fat easily adds up from the milk. Just like people say oh you need some bacteria in your system, so feel free to pick up food from the ground. Worst argument ever. Fat free milk is fine.
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😕

If you don't like drinking water with some white colouring in it, then why not cut the fat elsewhere? What you've just said doesn't, in any shape or form, constitute an argument against drinking whole milk 😛 You're also putting words in my mouth, because I never said there was anything wrong with skim milk in my original comments.

Let's see how your 'zomg the fat from whole milk adds up so easily' argument works out:

Whole milk is approx 3.8g of fat per 100g

Skim is ~0.1g/100g

A suggest average daily milk intake figure for Canada is ~260ml (from wiki, and no NA figure was provided).

That means you consume an astonishing ~10g of fat more a day as a result of drinking whole milk instead of skim. Which equates to an extra ~370kj/88kcal(if I've done that right), which is a whopping ~3.5% of your daily energy intake, if you're a bloke, and a almost ~4.5% if you're a chick.

If you're dieting I guess every little helps, and if you happen to like skim (which is beyond my comprehension 😉) then good onya and it makes perfect sense, but the case for skim milk being healthier by any meaningful margin for most people seems pretty slim to non existent to me.

I like it, and so I drink it, and I would prefer it rather than more lollies, or chocolates in my diet.

So bite my shiny metal daffodil 😉
 
Originally posted by: Chiropteran
Drinking cow's milk is unnatural. If I crave something that tastes like milk, I drink soy milk.
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How do you get drinking cows milk (which is not amazingly dissimilar to your mothers milk), and can be drunk completely unprocessed, being more 'unnatural' than drinking soy milk?

Soy milk preparation from wiki:

Soy milk can be made from whole soybeans or full-fat soy flour. The dry beans are soaked in water overnight or for a minimum of 3 hours or more depending on the temperature of the water. The rehydrated beans then undergo wet grinding with enough added water to give the desired solids content to the final product. The ratio of water to beans on a weight basis should be about 10:1. The resulting slurry or purée is brought to a boil in order to improve its nutritional value by heat inactivating soybean trypsin inhibitor, improve its flavor and to sterilize the product. Heating at or near the boiling point is continued for a period of time, 15-20 minutes, followed by the removal of an insoluble residue (soy pulp or okara) by filtration.

Neither seem entirely 'natural', but your confidence that this is more 'natural' than something which pops out of a cow in drinkable form, quite naturally, amazes me 😉

If you crave something that tastes like milk, it seems more 'natural' to drink milk, not some byproduct of soy bean processing which is mass produced because it tastes like milk...
 
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