3% milk.
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mongostomp said:
is 3% milk bad or wat kind of milk is better?
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I'm the worst person to comment on this, I still go with whole milk, the hard stuff, Vitamin D baby. I mostly eat pretty right, but this is one area where I have not been able to make the switch to the blue water that most people call skim milk. It's kind of like that abominable fat-free ranch dressing; until they can do the healthy stuff at least close to right, I have to stick with the real thing (in moderation, of course).
Brick said:
mongostomp said:
is 3% milk bad or wat kind of milk is better?
help.
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I'm the worst person to comment on this, I still go with whole milk, the hard stuff, Vitamin D baby. I mostly eat pretty right, but this is one area where I have not been able to make the switch to the blue water that most people call skim milk. It's kind of like that abominable fat-free ranch dressing; until they can do the healthy stuff at least close to right, I have to stick with the real thing (in moderation, of course).
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I agree with you there Brick, skim milk is absolutely disgusting.
but when did they start making 3% milk??? or am I just looking at a typo?
Johnny419 said:
I agree with you there Brick, skim milk is absolutely disgusting.
but when did they start making 3% milk??? or am I just looking at a typo?
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I had never heard of it either. And it got me thinking, what percentage is whole milk? Wiki indicates:
Cow's milk contains, on average, 3.4% protein, 3.6% fat, and 4.6% lactose, 0.7% minerals[23] and supplies 66 kcal of energy per 100 grams. See also Nutritional value further on.
The way everyone says how bad it is, I figured it would be 10% or something. So, it seems, 3% milk provides minimal reduction of fat content, while 2% reduces it by 45% or so.
I'd probably worry more about it if I drank more milk, but these days I just have it on cereal once or twice a week, and maybe another glass with a peanut butter sammich.
Johnny419 said:
Back at school I used to drink 3-4 glasses a day, but at 19 that may not be too bad :?
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Yeah, when I was younger, probably up until I left home at 18, I drank a TON of milk. Lots of cereal, huge glasses of it with food, homemade milkshakes 2-3 times a week. At that age the fattening effects aren't sucha concern, so drink away. Plus, I credit that with my strong bones (I have never in my life had a broken bone, despite the childhood bicycle daredeviling, college drunken foolery, car accidents, and of course the MMA training, cage match, and BJJ tourneys).
Whole milk only for me the rest of the diet is healthy, my cholesterols and tri are good so the fat is a non issue plus I loath the taste of skim. The biggest gain outside low fat is that skim milk actually contains more calcium than whole does due to the way it is processed.
I drink skim. I used to not like skim at all, but I just bought a whole gallon one day and used it in my cereal and with cookies and everything and it works. It's so much more healthier than whole or 1% or 2%. I can't even really drink whole milk it's so damn thick now. I love skim.