When was skim milk first sold

Whole, natural foods are healthy. Would like to hear a differing opinion. This is such a contrarian point of view I would like to hear another opinion. A differing opinion? Good for you for questioning that. Wow, There are a lot of comments on this post. I have to tell you that your post is right on track and I for one am pleased at how straight forward you are. To all the comments that are negative: I believe that she is just trying to show how to eat and drink foods that are real and whole, and therefore good for you.

That is what has happened to me, she is right. Thank you for your post, I am now following your posts and have a long story, but understand what you are saying. Looking forward to the rest of your site and learning more of the right kinds of eating. Have a great day. Great tip, Sarah! My husband even has a family history of heart disease.

And yes, animals can be healthy and give milk without any vaccines, anti-biotics, de-wormers or hormones! Regarding the arguments for and against when the first heart attack happened and whether or not heart disease was around, just not known about. Yes pathology techniques have changed grossly, but that only affects what the human eye cannot see. The techniques of autopsy have remained much the same and diagnosis back at the turn of the century was based on what could be seen with the eye.

Artery hardening and plaque formations are quite grossly obvious to the naked human eye, so it is quite possible that heart disease was simply not around back then! Its funny how you say that nobody had heart attacks prior to industrialization, then you say that cardiology was not around until industrialization. Just saying..

For me, I just focus on common sense, which sometimes needs to be based on the science of human physiology to make sense. That does seem to make sense, but if you learn more about how the human body works, it stops sounding logical.

Eating natural things is key. Common sense and listening to my body is what works for me. I believe that raw milk is best for you, so I agree with most of what you say in this article. Hi…just had to add my Thank You for this article…my mother grew up in wartorn Germany, in a town…a kind of farm girl.

As she was raising us here in America she was way ahead of her time, in terms of nutrition and raising us on a healthy diet. Loved your post about your mother. Dairy cows do not stand in knee deep in their own waste.. I have worked at several of these places and pens are kept in as good as shape as possible. Beef factory farms are a whole nother story!!! Come to Ramona, CA and you will see cows in hock deep mud and feces. Their calves are born in this mess and more than once I have seen a calf dead and lying in this mess for a day or two.

Yet another ridiculous rule thanks to Michelle Obama!!!! As a doctor who grew up in dairy country, I find several of your exaggerated claims to be poorly supported and offensive. So, pasteurized whole milk and skim milk are adulterated beyond any other food; pasteurization or cooking milk at high temps destroys all nutrition in the milk and homogenization breaks down the fat particles so they get into the blood vessels too easily causing plaque build up. Always, unprocessed everything is best.

Would you please correct the grammar for 4? I want to pass this article on but I know a couple friends who that grammar mistake would be a major distraction from the message.

Great article! And I now realize my own grammar in that last sentence is terrible. Sure there are flaws in the system: the FDA allows a certain amount of insect parts into your granola bars. The truth is that as humans, we can really eat just about anything and live through it, and probably even benefit from it. Milk has so many health benefits and this whole anit-dairy fad is going to hurt us all in the long run. One thing that is true: Dietary fat and cholesterol are not related to blood cholesterol and heart disease.

We have trans fats to blame for that more than anything else, along with a long list of stuff that can be completely avoided by avoiding processed foods, medication and a lazy lifestyle. I only have experience with my own personal metabolism, but when I eat a high calorie diet which include whole milk and butter, I gain weight. About 7 years ago, I weighed I switched to skim milk, low calorie low fat margarine, and artificial sweetners. I now weigh about This might not work for everybody, but it does for me.

I would like to know how relevant all this is in Canada. Being pregnant right now, I am especially aware and careful of what I put in and on my body. For some reason I am l. As a farmer in Canada, I know that dairy cows are not fed antibiotics. Antibiotics may be given to the cows if they are ill, but then their milk is withheld from the rest and dumped down the drain until past the withdrawl time.

A sample is taken from the bulk tank on each farm as the truck picks it up and those are all tested and each truck is tested before it is emptied at the processor. If there happens to be ANY antibiotic residue on the load, the entire load is dumped out and the farmer responsible has to pay for the whole truckload of milk. The milk from each farm is also tested for the somatic cell count, which is a measurement of how many white blood cells are present in the milk.

White blood cells are the infection fighters in our body and so an elevated white blood cell presence on a dairy farm or an elevated SCC is a signal that there may be an infection that a cow is fighting. Farmers get notifications of any high SCC counts and then will take action by studying their cows closer and if necessary treating and removing the milk from any ill cows.

Even cows that are fed grain still have a large part of their diet as forage grass and legume, often alfalfa based. This is usually a combination of hay dried and silage fermented and still sometimes fresh forages.

Although in most of Canada it is not possible to feed fresh forages for a good part of the year because of the extended winter especially this year. It is illegal in Canada for dairy farmers so inject cows with BST or rBGH as it is called here , so there are no added hormones in any milk.

All farmers that I know and that is a lot! Most of these farms are mid-sized; family owned operations that may be corporations to make the transfer to the next generation easier with less taxes involved. I have also seen larger dairy farms in Canada that milk a few hundred to a couple of thousand cows.

These farms are super clean and the cows are clean and content. The farmers are using new technologies to improve the lives of their animals, land and themselves. Here is the blog of a dairy farmer she is an American who addresses a lot of the issues that she faces and there are a lot of similarities in Canada. What are your thoughts on this? I have pledged to never buy milk at the store again.

My poor kids! Thanks for a great post! This post is perfect. Now, how to get everyone in this country to read this right now…. How exactly do you see your role as a dietician and food scientist?? It would appear you have no advice to give as you think it is ok to eat anything. I am sure the people reading this blog would rather be given some well researched information highlighting the bad practice that goes on in the food industry than be told — they can eat anything.

I nursed my infants with human milk until they were old enough to consume enough calories and nutrition from table foods. Imagine my suprise when I saw that skim milk was listed second on the list of ingredients in the milk I bought! You can comment on this proposed regulation at regulations. It wants to not label the aspartame on the front of the bottles, but it WILL be listed in the ingredient list on the back.

This would include real ,whole milk. Eat well! Skim milk is a migraine trigger for me,,whole milk doesnt trigger so something they add gives me headaches, Istopped drinking it many years ago and,,nothing wrong with real butter in moderation,,. Why do you insist on mixing facts like the additives in skim milk with outright untruths? Because this is a blog, not a medical journal. But margarine had already been invented fifty years prior, plus the advent of vegetable shortening was already giving people heart attacks by that time.

Go back years though, and heart disease was nearly nonexistent before that. Saturated Fat protects our bodies, it does not cause heart disease, period. My dad had a heart attack at 57 years old, I went in for all the tests — just to see. So they start with me filling out what I eat, etc. After answering all these questions, according to the American Medical Association and American Heart Association — I am one moment away from having a heart attack.

My risks were off the charts. One of the biggest reasons is I have a very high intake of saturated fats; butter, milk, grass fed meats, eggs. So the next test is an ultrasound to see if everything is in working order, it is! Well off to the last person, she gets to check my blood, the first think she says to me, Wow your triglyceride levels are amazing — this is a sign of a really healthy diet!! This was several years ago, I do not even remember my numbers.

What I do remember is how excited the nurse was to see the kind of numbers I had — do you know what I believe really screw up your numbers, not enough healthy fats and to much sugar!!! So these wars people have going on, I am not saying people have to eat meat, but please do not forget to eat your fats!! Which is going to include butter, coconut oil, fish oil and raw milk. I having read The China Study, think all dairy is non compatible with humans.

Milk from cows is designed for their calves, not for us, and therefore neither skimmed nor whole is good for us. DrCampbell who wrote The China Study was not employed by anyone to get the results he did, therefore I have to say I believe his findings. I remember the first time I was told what milk was made of, essentially fat and water. Even as a 4th grader I dismissed skim milk as being almost worthless, if they take all the fat out of it all you are left with is cloudy water, or so I thought in elementary school.

Great article, thanks for sharing! I have linked it up on two of my post this week to make sure people read it. I recently found a small produce store that sell organic products. They sell full fat milk and cream from a local dairy in returnable glass bottles.

What a difference! We believe my husband has somewhat of a lactose or whey intolerance. But he can eat organic butter and organic non-fat yogurt with no problem as well. Should we try switching to a full-fat organic yogurt to avoid any added sugars or do you think it fine the way we have it right now? This is a good article. Just recently, I started sucking the fat off the top of our raw milk with a baster because my kefir seems happier when I do this and we get the cream!

I do leave some of the fat. I agree with everything you said about milk….. I keep telling her she needs a certain amt. I still eat butter, do not like margarine, have 2 sisters who eat margarine and I keep telling them how bad it is for them…..

Oz show this week, they had 2 doctors on who now say that everything we have been told about cholesterol is now wrong….. I believe in everything in moderation. But when I want to have milk only this will do. It also makes delicious kefir and my kids prefer the flavour of the full-fat raw milk compared to the non-fat rubbish their grandparents serve them.

I was wondering if anyone has heard, or has any information regarding something a pediatric CRNP told me last week when I disclosed that my children drink whole milk. Anyone have any info? In adults and adolescents , one can become lactose intolerant, and what such people feel is in fact tearing of the stomach and intestine micro-tears, but still can be quite painful. This is the acid that is doing this.

Eating dairy that has been de-acidified is that a word? Cow milk was never really intended for human consumption BUT in its original unpasteurized whole form, it was a lot healthier. Cow milk was made for baby cows. Then I heard how cows used to poop and pee into the milk pail while being milked…until more modern technology was invented. Human breast milk was intended for human babies.

Yes, I use real butter as well as Smart Balance. Thanks for allowing me to type this. I was raised on raw milk as are my children.

But one should still consume some form of dairy, even if minimal. I make my own greek-style yogurt at home plain, no jams and jellies and other such things added. Here again, though, the food industry has convinced people that eating non-fat yogurt with aspartamed sweeteners and cooked fruit is better than eating whole milk yogurt plain.

Yes, it causes tears anal fissure being an extreme example. Asians do quite well without dairy. Hey, I remember when skim milk was bluish… If you drink skim milk before they add chalk and stuff too it would that be fine?

My only thought is that years ago… before low fat milk… people worked a lot harder than we do now… and long hours.. Even babies need while milk to thrive. In fact it often spoils and gets dumped down the drain before a quart gets consumed.

I occasionally will make chocolate milk and do use milk in cooking. The rare bowl of cereal gets some milk into me. I still only buy whole milk and real butter! My cholesterol has always been perfect!.. I have made a few converts in my day. Keep spreading the facts!!!!! My son drinks organic whole milk and that is what matters to me. My biggest concern with conventional skim milk is that it comes from factory farms. I have 2 small boys and our family is only growing…as it is, we go through 5 gallons a week!!

I basically deemed it to be organic without going through the red-tape an expense of being certified organic. My mom only gave us skim milk to drink, and worked to cut out all fat from our diet. Yet fed us scads of carbs and sugar, and so on.

So I do know what works for me, and that is it. I am sure there are some people who cannot drink milk and consume other dairy; certainly there are whole cultures that live that way and thrive.

However, drinking skim milk just never seems like a good idea. I should note, I do not like the taste of whole milk, and used to love the taste of the blue skim milk, but have not since they made it white. I totally agree with this article! This article is full of bad science and poor conclusions.

Point 1 is dead on, and in dairy land skim milk is usually cheaper. Point 3 is irrelevent. Yes, there are lots of unhealthy hormones and antibiotics, but those are same whether it is skim milk or whole milk. They are also a tiny fraction of they stuff you get in most meats, and less damaging than the pesticides on commercial lettuce and some fruits. Point 4 is the most laughable. First of all, milk contains protein, vitamin D, and most importantly, calcium. If skim milk lacks those essential nutrients, then whole milk, which displaces some of those nutrients with fat, is even less nutritious.

Finally, point 5 that it does not help you lose weight is wrong. That is why smart athletic trainers, from professional sports to bodybuilders to medical rehab trainers all promote low-fat dairy. I hate that there is so much trash, lies and red tape to get through to know what we are eating these days! Thanks for this article. Looking forward to the day that I can have my own cow.

Another good source is Weston A Price Organization online.. Thanks again beautiful little lady! A friend of mine sent me the link to this article and the information is pretty scary when you think about it. A lot of people fight with me and my articles daily about how dietary fats are not good for you, egg yolks are the devil and skim milk is the most healthy milk choice. But now I am going to change this. Thank you! My son sent me this article. This was a very thought provoking article and goes against not just what the public has been taught but what is taught in medical schools as well.

You grow up with the idea that your govt is supposed to look out for your best interests but then learn that idea is somewhat naive. What is your opinion as to what 2nd best would be? Thanks for the informative article and keep fighting the good fight. I live in Albuquerque, NM where it is legal to sell Raw milk in the state with a permit but no one sells raw milk.

I would encourage you to visit ANY dairy farm and actually look at what dairy cows are fed. See this link for information. I took a 10 week course on just this subject as part of my degree. Additionally, corn does not give cows some disease that then requires them to be given antibiotics such as your article suggests.

Corn is used for the energy and as a starch source. However, corn prices have been extremely high the last couple years and more and more farms are turning to alternative sources. And, as others have said, any product milk or meat from an animal treated with antibiotics CANNOT be sold for consumption.

The milk must be dumped. I have done this myself. Animals for meat consumption must go through a waiting period for the antibiotic to clear their system before being harvested. While I agree wholeheartedly in your protest against skim milk mine just based on taste , some of your other facts need real research instead of a quick google search.

Ever hear of rumenal acidosis? The dozens of other diseases that dairy cattle get as a result of not only their diet, but their living conditions? I research this stuff for a living. I can guarantee you I know a lot more about it than what you supposedly learned in a 10 week course. Butter Believer, I thought of something that did not come up in your blog post and I wondered if you knew the answer. In store bought dairy — which we occasionally have to get because all other options are sold out from time to time — I know that all milk is pasteurized, the fat is separated out, and then percentages are added back in.

Then the milk is homogenized, which forces the fat to remain suspended and completely destroys it! It seems to me that if they can get away with it in skin milk, they would want to bulk up the other milks too. Also, just where is this powdered milk coming from? So it seems to me that it would have to be powdered skim milk. That seems like an all around bad idea to me…. What kind of milk is natural and healthy to drink? Try almond milk.

You drinking their milk only helps the veal industry. Chris, we are talking about responsible grass-feeding dairy farmers, here. And yes, responsibly-farmed veal is a byproduct of this. Cardiologists and researchers have come forward with published studies stating that heart disease is caused by inflammation.

Doctors here and there are beginning to realize the science they were taught is wrong. Just as in every century when major changes are proposed the majority who has only known this method clings to it. He told my husband if he had ANY side effects to stop them immediately. Were you ever convinced that skim milk is healthy?

Have you since changed your mind? Tell us about it in the comments below. I buy organic non-fat milk that is delivered to my door straight from the dairy. It is less than 24 hours old by the time it gets to me. That sounds great! Wish I could have milk delivered! But would circumstance be any different if the whole milk was used to make kefir?

This has always been back and forth…some say it is ok to have and others saying absolutely no. But am wondering whether whole milk is an exception? I have never liked any kind of reduced fat milk, always getting the Vitamin D enhanced, pasteurized, homogenized whole milk at the local supermarket. My pregnancy has been easy and uncomplicated. The best part is: raw milk at my Farm is cheaper than whole milk at the grocer! So since my pastured brown eggs are the same price as the cheapest refined eggs at the store, the extra gets used on my favourite raw milk yogurt from my Farm!

Happy Mama here! Only in America is this a heated topic of discussion. As an expat I can tell you that most of your food, the standard grocery store boxed Mac and cheese, fast food and other variants. The ice cream tastes different. And all this has added up to make people healthier maybe? No quite the opposite. K seems to be the place where things are this backward.

Most food comes cheaper in its actual natural form and has to be prepped from scratch….. These people, in spite of what most may consider a starch heavy, high fat diet, have very low incidences of cancer and when those do occur they are more from environmental factors than unknown ones things like lung cancer and meso… still quite rare Also rare are heart disease and especially obesity. One only needs to shop from a foreign clothing designer to know what I mean. Size 8 here is size 10 or 12 elsewhere.

Snacks are mostly composed of fruit and nuts…. Soda is not an after dinner drink. Wine just may be. Water is the standard…. But recently, a few researchers and writers have begun to doubt the nutritional value of the big push to drink skim.

They argued that drinking low-fat milk leaves people feeling hungry, leading them to eat more—usually carbs. Companies also create sugar-filled, flavored alternatives to make milk more appealing to kids, which offsets the potential benefits of low-fat content.

A different study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood this spring suggested that skim and low-fat milk don't prevent childhood weight gain—in fact, they make kids heavier. Kids who drank whole or two-percent milk between ages two and four had a slightly lower body mass index than kids who drank one percent or skim milk. Another study had a similar finding in These are just a few studies, and other factors might have been involved: In the study of two- and four-year-olds, for example, parents may have given their children low-fat milk in an effort to combat weight problems that were already present.

But the fact is that scientists don't agree, while public health officials still seem adamant about the importance of skim, and this points to larger complications in obesity prevention. But the ability to do so as an adult developed fairly recently, likely in the past years. A handful of mutations allows adults to produce the enzyme lactase, which can break down the milk sugar lactose. Without lactase, we cannot properly digest the lactose in milk. But then evolution kicked in: some people began to keep their lactase enzymes active into adulthood.

The genetic change that enabled early Europeans to drink milk without getting sick has been mapped to dairying farmers who lived around 7, years ago in a region between the central Balkans and central Europe. Aside from private label whole milk brands, all Dean Foods had the highest level of sales, at The United States is home to around 9. There are 0. After being centrifuged, the fatty part is used to make cream and butter, or it may be added back into the skimmed milk to raise the fat percentage.

Low fat or semi-skimmed milk has a fat percentage ranging between one and two percent. Many dairies label their one and two percent milk separately, giving consumers more options. Whole milk has a fat content of around 3. Creams and butters, made from the fatty part of the milk, have a much higher fat content. A dairy may also choose to supplement its dairy products with useful vitamins and minerals such as calcium and vitamin D.