Healthy milk

We’ve been drinking skimmed milk for years due to being told that drinking full fat milk would be bad for us. Hated skimmed milk to start with but got used to it, now I don’t like the taste of full fat milk in my coffee/tea. 🧐

Know what you mean.. also buy semi skimmed and hated it at first… but with my AD telling me that I repeat myself over and over again and making up words… thought I’d better keep up with the Healthy milk👌

I've never stopped drinking full fat milk. Full fat milk contains 4%fat which at one time was considered the threshold for a low fat food. I much prefer eating and drinking food that has had the least processing as possible.

It's annoying when a consensus is overturned. We follow gov. advice and if it changes all we can do is change with it.

Or perhaps decide for ourselves maybe?

I use skimmed in tea but full fat for cereal and everything else.

I am mildy lacto-intolerant so this new edict will have no effect on me. I will still not be consuming milk, cream cottage cheese, cream cheese or yoghourt in any form.

Thankfully I can eat hard cheese.

Namsnanny

It's annoying when a consensus is overturned. We follow gov. advice and if it changes all we can do is change with it.

Or perhaps decide for ourselves maybe?

Yes another study that shows we should change with it

Agree we should decide for ourselves.. had 2uncles and aunt who lived to. 93 eating full fat milk, butter and bread, meat and potatoes every day.. 🤷‍♀️

DH always prefers full-fat milk whereas I have semi-skimmed.

I have recently returned to full cream after many years of fully skimmed. Straight consumption is a joy but the coffee sensation is taking a bit of getting used to. I'm toying with reverting in that arena but will persevere just a little longer as I don't remember any difficulty when I first moved to FS many years ago.

My Granny always had gold top milk 😋
She lived until she was 98.
She had her gall bladder removed but I can't remember any other health problems.

M0nica

I am mildy lacto-intolerant so this new edict will have no effect on me. I will still not be consuming milk, cream cottage cheese, cream cheese or yoghourt in any form.

Thankfully I can eat hard cheese.

Lacto free milk is excellent Monica, and has the huge advantage of lasting longer than ordinary milk. I don’t like full fat milk, it brings back memories of school milk with that disgusting yellowish fatty top in the summer. The thought of it still turns my stomach.

I've always bought 2% skimmed; anything less tastes watery to me. I did give my kids full fat milk up until they were about 6 years old, then converted.

I hate when 'they' backtrack on advice, remembering the 80's when we were told butter was bad for us and we should have margarine instead. I never gave up my butter!

Never gave up full fat milk.

srn63

I've never stopped drinking full fat milk. Full fat milk contains 4%fat which at one time was considered the threshold for a low fat food. I much prefer eating and drinking food that has had the least processing as possible.

Agreed.

Though I dont always stick to that.

Namsnanny

It's annoying when a consensus is overturned. We follow gov. advice and if it changes all we can do is change with it.

Or perhaps decide for ourselves maybe?

I am about 20 years past deciding for myself.

Eggs was the one that did it for me.
Eggs not healthy? Yeah right. Not.

Bea65

Namsnanny

It's annoying when a consensus is overturned. We follow gov. advice and if it changes all we can do is change with it.

Or perhaps decide for ourselves maybe?

Yes another study that shows we should change with it

Agree we should decide for ourselves.. had 2uncles and aunt who lived to. 93 eating full fat milk, butter and bread, meat and potatoes every day.. 🤷‍♀️

I know plenty of people like this.

They all eat much the same thing. As you describe.
The other thing they all have in common, is that they do not overeat. Nor have many snacks. They are too full from their main meals[without overeating].

Casdon

M0nica

I am mildy lacto-intolerant so this new edict will have no effect on me. I will still not be consuming milk, cream cottage cheese, cream cheese or yoghourt in any form.

Thankfully I can eat hard cheese.

Lacto free milk is excellent Monica, and has the huge advantage of lasting longer than ordinary milk. I don’t like full fat milk, it brings back memories of school milk with that disgusting yellowish fatty top in the summer. The thought of it still turns my stomach.

Casdon An idea, but I think after 80 years I am so habituated to retching at even the sight of milk, that I suspect it may be too late to habituate myself to soemthing so close to milk.

After years of suffering the very watery skimmed milk, I have decided to revert back to 4% fat milk. Oh bliss, have found a cornish farm supplier, in Tesco , I've also found small glass bottles of single and double cream, so handy for 1 person household, especially if only need small amount. Low fat food is full of sugar, so no more for me, pay a little more , but as it's not low fat you don't need so much. Same with yoghurt.

I understand Monica, I’m not a fan of milk either, I never have it plain in drinks or on cereals. I do like custard and sauces made with milk though, and I can enjoy them with Lacto free milk without the consequences. My son is lactose intolerant too, and he is fine with it on his cereals,

It is strange how lactose intolerance ata the mild end gets you. DS, who has the same problem I have can eat yoghourt, which I cannot.

I recently got caught out with burrata. It came in a salad and I thought it was mozzarella, the outside is but the inside is cream and within a few mouthfuls I was feeling queezy and it was 24 hours before I felt fully recovered.

Unhomogenised milk is the healthiest.

I don't think cows milk can ever be good for you

It’s not that healthy anymore. It contains antibiotics (dairy cows often suffer from terrible mastitis) and now some brands are adding Bovaer.

Buy organic milk.