The Harm of Milk Essay

Have you ever picked up the chocolate milk carton and read the nutrition statement on it? Better yet, have you ever compared it to the nutrition statement on the back of a can of Coke? Flavored milk is regular milk flavored with syrup to make the milk taste like chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, or banana. Flavored milk is regular milk flavored with syrup to make the milk taste like chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, or banana.

You might think that a milk carton that reads, “no artificial hormones added” is hormone-free. But all milk whether raw or pasteurized, naturally contains hormones. Even in Canada, where growth hormones to stimulate milk production in dairy cows are not permitted, natural hormones are still present in milk. The reason, suggests Ganmaa Davaasambuu, a physician and a working scientist for Harvard School of Public Health, cows are milked almost 300 days per year. And for much of that time they’re pregnant. The farther along a cow is, the more hormones appear in her milk.

For many years now humans have been deceived that cow’s milk will provide many health benefits.

There is information on free stuff you can win; there are images of the new 2004 Got Milk magazine ads and even video clips of the commercials that air on T.V. There is a Got Milk club that people can join as well. One of the commercials had the video clip of a teen boy at the post office sending a package marked fragile. The package travel through the post office and into the truck, it is dropped and kicked and thrown around. The truck then proceeds to the house to deliver it, it goes over bumps and the package is again thrown all over. The truck arrives at the destination and the mail man drops the package. There is a dog outside the house shaking it and biting at it. The same boy opens the door to find his package a complete mess; he opens it and inside is his Chocolate Milk. The ad’s catch was “Shake Things Up”. This T.V. commercial would appeal to all people. It is funny for the comic lover and serious for the parent wanting their kid to drink milk. This ad has numerous emotional appeals, everything from not liking the post office for ruining the package, to loving the post office for shaking up the milk. People look for humor in their life and this ad does that while appealing to one’s logical side of needing to drink milk. Advertising companies have many different ways of selling their product, they even succeed at selling emotions such as fun, and making you think about how logical it really is to drink milk.

Lactose Intolerance Lactose intolerance is the inability to digest significant amounts of lactose, the predominant sugar of milk. This inability results from a shortage of the enzyme lactase, which is normally produced by the cells that line the small intestine. Lactase breaks down milk sugar into simpler forms that can then be absorbed into the bloodstream. When there is not enough lactase to digest the amount of lactose consumed, the results, although not usually dangerous, may be very distressing. While not all persons deficient in lactase have symptoms, those who do are considered to be lactose intolerant.

Over the years, healthy, safe, nutritious, and essential milk has increased as a focus of safer and healthier foods in the public health industry2. Today, health Canada distinguishes that a safer and healthier milk is a major

Lactose intolerance is fairly common. It seems to affect guys and girls equally. Some ethnic groups are more likely to be affected than others because their diets traditionally include fewer dairy products: Almost all Asians and Native Americans are lactose intolerant, and up to 80% of African Americans and Hispanic Americans also have symptoms of lactose intolerance. Their ancestors did not eat dairy foods, so their bodies were not prepared to digest dairy, and they passed these genes on from generation to

Throughout our lives we have been told that milk is good for our body and helps to toughen our bones. Drinking milk started when people domesticated animals for food, which happened around 7500 years ago in the central Balkans and central Europe. By that time consuming milk was not as common as it is today. It was only farmers in some specific regions that were using cow’s milk. Milk’s market grew the mass production of meat in the 15th century. Afterwards in the 17th century, the idea of eating out and going to restaurants was born and fast food industries, started using animal’s meat for producing their meals. The rate of milk users grew with the rate of meat users and milk’s market got bigger and bigger every day. Mothers

“Raw milk today is a fringe movement, a crusade of underdogs, a pesky mouse against the entrenched lions of medicine and industry.” The book The Untold Story of Milk begins with the undesirable situation of raw milk in today’s society.

The California Milk Processor Board needed to reverse plunging industry sales fast. Ever since, they have been credited with great increasing milk sales in California. Starting out with commericials, the campaign showed actors eating dried foods such as, peanut butter & jelly, peanuts, crackers, or cookies and then the actor would be stuck with a dried mouth and no milk. By the end of the commercial would be the words “Got Milk.” The consumption of fluid milk had steadily declined from 0.96 (1970) cups per person to 0.59 (2011). People had other options to drink such as sodas, waters, juices, and energy drinks. Although the campaign didn’t actually get people to buy more

It is on the myplate as a needed food item which is endorsed by the U.S. government. (“Choose MyPlate”) Milk is promoted because calcium can reduce the risk of getting osteoporosis. The truth is that calcium from milk is barely absorbed in the bones. The amount of people with osteoporosis in the U.S. rose from 10 million in 2002 to 12 million in 2010 and is expected to be more than 14 million by 2020. (“Facts and Statistics”) In a report done on whether three servings of milk a day was an evidence based recommendation it provides evidence against milk being good and nutritious. This report was done by two medical doctors who each had Phds from the Harvard School of Public Health. They explained how the milk everyday was promoted because of the sugar content in milk that got kids to drink it. They also explained how humans have no nutritional requirement from milk and countries that do not consume milk have a much lower bone fracture rate than countries that do consume milk. They also provide results from a meta-analysis that showed that milk consumption had no benefit for bone protection in adults. A meta-analysis is a combined report of multiple scientific studies. (Ludwig) Green vegetables such as kale provide just as much calcium as milk and this calcium is better absorbed by bones. Three cups of kale provide the same amount of calcium as one cup of cow's milk without the added fat and cholesterol adding in vitamin a and e. Oranges have about the same amount of calcium as kale and oranges have vitamin c which helps the immune system. Given that three cups is a lot one cup of soy milk has the same amount of calcium as cow's milk and only one ounce of sesame seeds have the same amount of calcium as a cup of milk. That is just one spoonful of seeds that also gives iron and omega-3 fatty acids which are both nutritional requirements. cow's milk is clearly very

The milk in the school cafeterias was not good,and I hope it's not really a good idea to serving milk in the school cafeterias because milk produces gas and gives lots of unhealthy energy . Why it is not good? For example milk can make you diarrhea and this problem is really dangerous sometime diarrhea can make ulcer also ulcer can kill the people another example.Why it is not good because milk can also make people weak. According to (source 2) “the condition is more common in people of Asian, African, Native American or Mediterranean ethnicity, and, while not dangerous, it can cause nausea, bloating, gas and diarrhea.” This quote shows condition is more common in people of Asian, African, and others country because lots of young people drinks

"Milk consumptions has plummeted from 25 to 20 gallons per year of chocolate milk since 199" I think chocolate milk should be banned from schools because flavored milk can give kid diseases. Also to much sugar leads to obesity. Most importantly if kids are served white milk they will drink it. All this connects to adults

You may find yourself wondering from time to time about why we humans drink cow’s milk, a liquid from a species that we've ended up loving so much that we’ve domesticated it and turned into a profitable industry, but, just because you like something, doesn’t mean it’s always good for you and considering more and more families are using cow milk instead of breast milk to feed their infants, we should be more aware of the benefits and possible drawbacks it has. Should we ditch cows milk entirely and pick up the humans milk to replace it, or are we going to be just fine?

During the Cold War, the Soviets were trying to spread communism throughout Europe and Asia by exalting its achievements, and undermining democracy. Part of their approach was by launching ‘Hate-America’ propaganda. “As the Cold War intensified, the Truman administration launched an aggressive “Campaign of Truth” […] to counter the Soviet Union propaganda machine (Ubah, 2012).” The Campaign of Truth was created to help convince the world that the United States has “no purpose of going to war, except in the defense of freedom. (Vaccaro, 1950)” Truman encouraged the media to show the world that the United States was ‘wholly dedicated to the cause of peace (Vaccaro,