milk

Sorry, I heard about this on a podcast and I'm not sure where the original study is but apparently it was a meta-analysis. But what it found was that drinking milk was actually associated with lower, not higher rates of obesity in children, for example. None of the studies found it associated...

Looking for Skeptic Views on "Joseph Keon" and his book "Whitewash" A family member is on the verge of emptying all his milk down the drain because he's been reading this book. I haven't read it, but it sounds rife with propaganda and psuedoscience. However, I can't find any skeptical...

When I was younger, so much younger than today, I learned that drinking milk before consuming large amounts of alcohol (now, who would do *that*) the milk would help by blocking the alcohol getting into your blood. Apparently the fat in the milk blocked the alcohol or some such. Is there...

Raw milk causes most illnesses from dairy, study finds Quelle surprise. Will it change any minds? ETA: That's 1950 times more likely to cause illness requiring hospitalization if I'm not mistaken.

Does anyone here drink 'raw' milk, as in, fresh from the cow? I ask because my family has recently been offered some, free of charge, from an acquaintance dairy farmer. I understand that there is some debate about the health benefits/risks associated with its consumption. This arises due to the...

http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/05/a-raw-political-fight-ron-paul-battles-the-fd the federal goverment considers raw milk an illegal substance just like heroin and marijuana. "help please i need the nanny state to make laws to protect me from dangerous animal by products :( " LMAO...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/geneticmodification/8423536/Genetically-modified-cows-produce-human-milk.html Genetically modified cows produce 'human' milk I certainly didn't see this one coming, cows producing human milk! I won't be surprised when protesters come out of the...

A friend of mine linked to this study @ Facebook: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21335995 The title of the study is: "Evidence for acne-promoting effects of milk and other insulinotropic dairy products." ...but the abstract ends with this: ...and this is where the fun begins, the...

Surly Amy over on Skepchicks skewers the naturalistic fallacy with regards to homogenized milk. http://skepchick.org/blog/2010/09/ask-surly-amy-homogenization-how-does-that-work/ Yet there's one bit that I'm having a little difficulty digesting. "and homogenized milk is slightly more...

The latest slap your forehead lawsuit is Lindsay Lohan suing over E*Trades milkaholic baby commercial. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35780790/ns/business-media_biz/ I saw the commercial during the Super Bowl and have seen it a couple times since, it's pretty funny. Not once did I ever think of...

You read that right; there are in fact animals that feed their young with bodily secretions that are not mammals. Some folks are real persnickety and won't call something "milk" unless it came from a mammal, but that's just prejudice. For some strange reason, Middle Age scholars believed that...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hlHi3D4I14h_aQROMkNHpQRJZg1w It is illegal to sell raw milk in Canada. The farmer in this case, Michael Schmidt, feels the law is unjust and that people should have the freedom to purchase raw milk if they wish. He claims raw milk is...

http://www.peta.org/feat_autism.asp It's time for the nonsense train. I mean, they could have actually linked to the studies..

Please could we have some good sound scientific arguments either supporting or refuting the claim that milk actually contributes to bone weakening, in both men and women. The theory is that since milk contains a high amount of protein, the stomach has to produce a large amount of HCl to digest...

...or for one that poops this. This is pretty cool, because it's a natural mutation, and because of how they found her. And omega3 oils? Whodathunkit?

I found this in a Guardian article. Made me think about milk. I've sort of dismissed the anti-milk people for a while now as they tend to have other flakey ideas but this has me wondering. Of particular interest were the claims that calcium deficiency in diet is not what causes osteoporosis and...

I happened upon this strawman of a site: http://www.stoplabelinglies.com, which seems to revolve around calling organic food companies on the carpet for mislabeling their products, and touting them as equal to factory farmed products. While in Horizon's case, this is interesting, the rest is...

So I went to this anti-nuclear “Mothball Millstone” gathering near my home. I went because it burns me up the amount of junk science being used by these anti-nuke people who are attempting to shut down a valuable source of energy. I really went to see and I didn’t heckle the speakers….too...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/23/MNGN7BFH7N1.DTL&type=health The title is enough to rock ya but to learn that there is actually a "safe daily dose" of rocket fuel as determined by the NAS? Oh boy. Well, at least it gives the 'bottle feed' coalition new ammo against...

Hey all I've got a question. My parents have started buying raw milk. I mean literally, raw milk. Straight from the cow to the bottle. Needless to say, I am reluctant to drink it. My parents claim that store-bought milk is unhealthy, and that raw milk is better for you, and what's more, goes...

My mother called me up today to talk about Christmas presents. Then we got talking about my sister and some health issues. My mom said that my sister said she just learned that all those added vitamins you read on the cereal box?...are (get ready...if this is true...)...sprayed on. My sister...