Here is how much milk that the US Government recommends that you and your children consume every day:
Aside from the fact that the US Government doesn’t exactly have a great history of getting the recommended daily allowances correct (go check out what was on the 1950s “choosemyplate” plate and compare it to what scientists know), I don’t actually know many people who drink 3 cups of milk per day. That’s 24 ounces – well more than a pint of milk.
Well, “everyone just knows” fat is bad for you. Ummm, really? That doesn’t exactly seem to be the case.
math check:
cola.
44 grams of sugar / 21 oz — we are mixing our measuring systems…
44*12/21 = 25 g/ 12 oz… how do they get 33?
There must be an allowance for ice in the 21 oz cup.
milk
13 g / 8 oz = 19.5 g / 12 oz
For an equivalent volume of milk, milk has less sugar. You are only getting 18% more sugar from milk if you compare 24 oz of milk to 12 oz of cola.
Interesting that the USDA is recommending 3 cups of milk for ALL demographics other than 8. I suppose from a messaging point of view they are trying to suggest that everyone should be drinking milk. But for its informational value the table is pretty meaningless.
Another inspirational message from the demand-side nannies (figuratively speaking, not the nannies that are milked) at the USDA, promoting generic milk. How come the corn lobby, having found success with getting moonshine in our gasoline, has not gotten the USDA to promote generic bourbon?
Several years ago our county commissioners did a tour where they got photographed with milk mustaches, hoping to endear themselves to the hicks, as if the role of the county government were to be worried about how much calcium everybody gets, as opposed to administering the courts and repairing the county roads and bridges. Thank you for your concern.
For the record, I prefer whole milk on my cereal and berries. Also, there is nothing better for lunch than a chocolate/vanilla malted milk shake; to lower the carb intake, I add no sugar Nestle’s Quik and add in a capful of real vanilla extract. I do this not in response to any USDA program.
By the way, milk does contain lactose, a sugar. My understanding is that the body metabolizes lactose more slowly than fructose. So if you drink a case of Pepsi a day, or six big milkshakes a day, along with whole pies and cakes, pretty soon you will look like Diamond Jim Brady. At that point, the quantity of generic bourbon you consume is meaningless.
The protein found in milk is the best protein available for building the muscle which is so critical to healthy living.
To answer Professor WC’s last question, not all milk promoters are climate deniers, but many milkshake lovers are climate deniers, and some milkshake lovers/deniers are not invited to fancy university faculty cocktail parties. Some dairy farmers think the USDA is a gift. All farmers wish there were shale gas under their farm, and some people in New York State wish that the drillers would come to their back yard to drill, and resent Governor Cuomo. There is a 100 percent difference between two percent milk and one percent milk. All people who say they would not like a milkshake are liars. No man can do “no milkshake” voluntarily, nor can he credibly deny the climate is changing.
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