tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post975774580468413747..comments2024-02-06T07:57:54.467+00:00Comments on underdogs bite upwards: Milky MilkyLeg-ironhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-80139770121829441372010-08-19T13:36:57.724+01:002010-08-19T13:36:57.724+01:00I think I remember more than one study concluding ...I think I remember more than one study concluding that dairy products have a stronger association with lung cancer than passive smoking. However, I actually agree with, if not free milk, but free food to be given out at school. Many children are not cared for properly and both they and their teachers would benefit from their not being hungry during school hours. I find subsidising families with children, in this way, preferable to handing out family tax credits which are subject to massive fraud and don't necessarily benefit the children.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-52227751062705455872010-08-19T11:55:54.201+01:002010-08-19T11:55:54.201+01:00Milk has nowhere near the same calories since they...Milk has nowhere near the same calories since they took the cream out. Remember the birds that used to peck the tops off? They don't do it now, because it's not worth the effort. There aren't enough calories in it to pay for the effort. As for cow's milk not being a natural food for human beings, that's true. Whether that fact automatically makes milk a bad thing is questionable. Probably aphid secretions aren't a natural food for ants, but they've somehow managed to farm it. Also, the Masai staple is milk mixed with blood (ie thin black pudding!) and they're strong. As for apples and pears, no-one normally eats more than one or two pieces of fruit at a time. We aren't chimpanzees.richardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-18760331102164475852010-08-19T11:53:13.749+01:002010-08-19T11:53:13.749+01:00paul said...
99.9% of people have drunk water, o...<i> paul said... <br /><br />99.9% of people have drunk water, or eaten a water filled product, in the 24 hours previous to dying also. (except death by dehydration)<br />That doesnt make water dangerous, correlation is not causation.</i><br /><br />There is only ONE way to discribe you;<br /><br />You fucking dip shit.<br /><br />And I thought us Germans were supposed to be the ones with a sense of humour by-pass!!!<br /><br />And the figures are JUST as relevant as those used by anti smokers.Furor Teutonicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13856575077967523322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-21235872138239190322010-08-19T11:39:56.733+01:002010-08-19T11:39:56.733+01:00That doesnt make water dangerous, correlation is n...<i>That doesnt make water dangerous, correlation is not causation.</i><br />Thanks so much for pointing that out. Der.Little Black Sambohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16699227938165106710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-15019923333250536732010-08-19T11:33:56.642+01:002010-08-19T11:33:56.642+01:00Like timbone says, the reason milk was provided fr...Like timbone says, the reason milk was provided free initially was because working class families at that time were really, seriously poor. Not poor as in "We don't have a 50" plasma TV in each room", but poor as in "We cannot earn enough money to feed all our children properly". Milk just happened to be an easily-available product which could be produced and distributed easily in bulk, which didn't use valuable crop-growing land to produce, and which gave seriously impoverished, malnourished kids a vital extra source of food.<br /><br />Back then, that was the problem being solved: the next generation of children were in danger of not growing and not developing their brains as much as possible, simply because they didn't get enough to eat. This sort of thing was common with medieval peasants; those in the village of Wharram Percy seemed not to stop growing until around age 28 (we cease growing a decade earlier, and grow much, much bigger than they did) and usually only lived into their mid thirties thereafter.<br /><br />That level of malnourishment doesn't happen in Britain any more, save in extremely unusual cases where the parents have a lot of other things wrong with them. So, the case for free milk has gone now; the only reason to carry on is that the political cost is much greater than it really should be; Cameron et al is prepared to back down on small stuff and only fight battles where he has to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-5093698372743339802010-08-19T11:15:48.233+01:002010-08-19T11:15:48.233+01:0099.9% of people have drunk water, or eaten a water...99.9% of people have drunk water, or eaten a water filled product, in the 24 hours previous to dying also. (except death by dehydration)<br />That doesnt make water dangerous, correlation is not causation.paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-9993390955792540002010-08-19T10:42:25.842+01:002010-08-19T10:42:25.842+01:00Don't you think the Telegraph article is simpl...Don't you think the Telegraph article is simply following the dietary police line? - more rubbish about fat and cholesterol based on studies that have been comprehensively debunked themselves. <br /><br />On cholesterol and fat:<br />http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CAE78.htm<br /><br /><i>The statin market alone is worth more than £20billion each year.</i>Snakeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-57620000643630119352010-08-19T08:49:31.574+01:002010-08-19T08:49:31.574+01:00I will say it again MILK IS DANGEROUS!
99% of peo...I will say it again MILK IS DANGEROUS!<br /><br />99% of people that die have drunk milk, or eaten a milk product, in the 24 hours previous to onset of "snuffed".<br /><br />THAT is how many thousand times more dangerous than even...SMOKING, lets say. It make Russian roulette look like a sport for poofters and H&S nutters. And at LEAST the statistics on milk can be PROVED. Just spend three weeks in ANY old peoples home, or geriatric ward and watch the milk drinkers just DROP of the perch.Furor Teutonicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13856575077967523322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-74956548189224717492010-08-19T06:48:14.575+01:002010-08-19T06:48:14.575+01:00As a physiologist I feel it is my duty to inform y...As a physiologist I feel it is my duty to inform you that the three essential food groups are caffeine, nicotine and alcohol. Don't let anyone try and convince you otherwise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-4471946536545668012010-08-19T05:49:09.914+01:002010-08-19T05:49:09.914+01:00"Since milk isn't natural, why then doesn...<i>"Since milk isn't natural, why then doesn't it have calories on it?<br /><br />It contains a hell of a lot of calories. Watch a calf grow up fast, on nothing but milk. It contains a tremendous amount of energy."</i><br /><br />We should switch to whale's milk. It's 99.99% fat. The Righteous would have heart attacks. <br /><br /><i>Second-hand</i> heart attacks... ;)JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-61093902597451672072010-08-19T02:19:10.132+01:002010-08-19T02:19:10.132+01:00Licking slime off a fish or fellating a goat? I w...Licking slime off a fish or fellating a goat? I <i>was</i> going to put cream in my coffee. Don't think I'll bother now.Bill Stickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05285528897339442436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-3959764839805233672010-08-19T00:57:57.594+01:002010-08-19T00:57:57.594+01:00I can see why, in a time of rationing, it would be...I can see why, in a time of rationing, it would be essential to make sure children were getting their share of calcium as well as lots of energy. <br /><br />Now, however, the milk is too much energy. It contributes to making them overweight because they aren't on rations at home.<br /><br />They're on Doritos and burgers.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-30611187463232251842010-08-19T00:46:35.471+01:002010-08-19T00:46:35.471+01:00The 1944 Education Act included a 1/3 pint of free...The 1944 Education Act included a 1/3 pint of free milk every day. It was a different world then. Up until post war Britain, education was until the age of 14, there was no NHS, and children from working class families still got rickets. Rickets? Lack of calcium. Milk? Provider of calcium.<br /><br />The abolition of free school milk by Thatcher (actually. it was already in the pipeline before she became Ed Sec) was quite a legitimate money saving exercise, as it was no longer necessary. It only remains for Nursery school now. The trouble with British people is, they receive a benefit (that is what free school milk was), then, when it is no longer needed, they don't look at the history of it, why it was introduced, and why it is no longer needed, they complain that something free is being stolen from them!timbonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06985165416240833253noreply@blogger.com