my 2 cents

Milk

I have done abit of reading on milk of late and discovered interesting things. It seems that pasteurised milk is not good anymore for us. I grew up knowing that that was the way to go. For some time now I have been searching on the internet to see if I could by whole milk in Montreal but I have not been able to find any. I wonder if anyone knows where I could buy whole milk.

I have had to settle for organic milk ( from maxi) which I find as close to the whole milk I was used to back in Kenya. I use a lot of milk and I think the predictions about pasteurised milk are true as I find a big difference in the taste and also in the way my body reacts to it-- I think regular milk contains way too much 'chemicals' (or is it the pasteurising process?)for anyone's good. I did try an experiment- I used regular milk for two months then went back to organic. Big difference with regular milk my face broke out, I was more tired, the taste was not very good and I felt that I tended to put on weight when using regular milk( because of all the toxins in there?). With the organic milk I had less of these symptoms and the longer I used it, the better it got.

On www.mercola.com Dr. Mercola recommends unpasteurised milk obtained from cows that feed purely on grass as the best milk to take. No wonder milk back home tasted so good!

Elsewhere I have come across arguments that blame milk for many health problems. In Kenya ( and especially among the pastoral communities) we drink milk day and night - in tea/coffee, whole, with or to finish meals and we have never had any problems. Indeed milk might be the 'secret weapon' of many of our record breaking athletes. Scientists are already investigating this fact. For me, I still believe milk is a nutritious drink and I will keep drinking until someone presents me the facts to the contrary.

posted by my 2 shillings @ 7:05 AM