Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Milk - good for you or not?

For many, in wholistic medicine, there is almost a mantra of "stay away from milk". It is considered unhealthy. Being a bit of a contrarian and free thinker, I question that.

Milk that we buy at the supermarket is a processed food. It is no longer the same product that our ancestors drank and used. We've seen it before in other things that mankind tried to make "better" (medicines, GM foods, etc) we often discover (too late) that we've made things worse. With medicine we have "purified" plant chemicals into measurable single chemicals (drugs) which also raises the chances, and intensity, of side effects. GM food studies are coming out about the organ damage that they do. Mankind is always finding new ways to "improve nature" and I fear that it's a genie we won't get back in the bottle.

So, is milk another one of these natural substances that mankind has tried to make "better", "safer"? Is all milk bad?

What's your opinion?