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First they came after milk and now juice

brianwawok 10y ago
The article actually mentions you should drink Milk but not Juice. I bet we can find a juice industry blog where they advise Juice but not Milk. Personally I avoid both for my kids. Juice is sugar water, and my kids are not calves, so they have no need for baby cow food.
- praneshp 10y ago
  What do they drink after they are past breast-feeding age? Or are you saying that milk is not all that necessary once you are not a baby anymore?
  - brianwawok 10y ago
    99% water. Correct human babies past say 1 don't need 10 more years of cow milk to be healthy or have strong bones. Youngest is lactose intolerant so that makes it a bit easier. Can do almond milk but she doesn't love it.
    - praneshp 10y ago
      Okay, thanks for answering!
goda90 10y ago
It's more a push to whole foods. Before they thought fat was the issue, so skim milk wass better than whole. But now we know that the satiating effect of fat means that whole milk is a better choice. Whole fruit, or smoothies/full pulp juices are better than the highly filtered juice.
- dom0 10y ago
  It's pretty much always the same story with "food science" and has been for the last few decades ever since it came up as a "discipline". "Don't eat that, it's totally bad ... [literally 5 minutes later] ... what? You really ought to eat that, it's so healthy and reduces X and Y risks". I have literally no idea why (a) this stuff is still perpetuated (b) people still take this seriosuly (c) in extension of (b), why it makes it somewhat regularly to the HN front page. It's junk science in it's finest form.
  - Retra 10y ago
    You're not talking about food science, you're talking about reporting. Dietary science is as valid a science as any other. It is the people who eagerly impose their dogma and zeal onto it in the same way they do subjects like sex, child-rearing, and religion that cause these inconsistencies.
    - kpil 10y ago
      But is it really, for instance the process of finding 'recommended' amounts of nutrients seems to be more or less as good as picking numbers out of a hat.
  - kpil 10y ago
    I guess it's hard to test, so they discovered that they can just continue to make shit up...

The article actually mentions you should drink Milk but not Juice. I bet we can find a juice industry blog where they advise Juice but not Milk. Personally I avoid both for my kids. Juice is sugar water, and my kids are not calves, so they have no need for baby cow food.

praneshp 10y ago
What do they drink after they are past breast-feeding age? Or are you saying that milk is not all that necessary once you are not a baby anymore?
- brianwawok 10y ago
  99% water. Correct human babies past say 1 don't need 10 more years of cow milk to be healthy or have strong bones. Youngest is lactose intolerant so that makes it a bit easier. Can do almond milk but she doesn't love it.
  - praneshp 10y ago
    Okay, thanks for answering!

goda90 10y ago

It's more a push to whole foods. Before they thought fat was the issue, so skim milk wass better than whole. But now we know that the satiating effect of fat means that whole milk is a better choice. Whole fruit, or smoothies/full pulp juices are better than the highly filtered juice.

dom0 10y ago
It's pretty much always the same story with "food science" and has been for the last few decades ever since it came up as a "discipline". "Don't eat that, it's totally bad ... [literally 5 minutes later] ... what? You really ought to eat that, it's so healthy and reduces X and Y risks". I have literally no idea why (a) this stuff is still perpetuated (b) people still take this seriosuly (c) in extension of (b), why it makes it somewhat regularly to the HN front page. It's junk science in it's finest form.
- Retra 10y ago
  You're not talking about food science, you're talking about reporting. Dietary science is as valid a science as any other. It is the people who eagerly impose their dogma and zeal onto it in the same way they do subjects like sex, child-rearing, and religion that cause these inconsistencies.
  - kpil 10y ago
    But is it really, for instance the process of finding 'recommended' amounts of nutrients seems to be more or less as good as picking numbers out of a hat.
- kpil 10y ago
  I guess it's hard to test, so they discovered that they can just continue to make shit up...