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Nutrition tip of the day: if someone is spending serious ad money to try to get you to eat or drink something, don’t. What ever it is. Don’t. It’s not going to
by harryf 3y ago
Nutrition tip of the day: if someone is spending serious ad money to try to get you to eat or drink something, don’t. What ever it is. Don’t. It’s not going to be good for you
Once upon a time consumers were being encouraged to “drink radium water” https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-flash-radium-elixir-fad-cure-cocktails-0304-20180220-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec...
… as a species we have not become significantly smarter since then
- kikokikokiko 3y agoReal milk is bad for you now? Talk about being influenced by propaganda.
- Karuma 3y agoIt's always been bad for you.
- kikokikokiko 3y agoTell that to the Massai, that live basically on a diet of milk, meat and blood. Just because you wish it to be bad it doesn't change reality my dude.
- throwaway2056 3y agoComparing hn-ers lifestyle/needs to that of Massai? not the best idea.
- kikokikokiko 3y agoIt's indifferent to the question. Some food is either healthy for human consumption or it's not. The argument is: if a population of humans exist that makes milk a very substantial portion of their diet, and is perfectly fine, arguing that it's bad for humans is complete stupidity.
- denton-scratch 3y agohttps://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/lactose-intolerance/#frequency https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/lactose-intoleran... "Lactase nonpersistence is most prevalent in people of East Asian descent, with 70 to 100 percent of people affected in these communities." Masai herdsmen are East Africans; so I find that statistic bewildering. "Lactase nonpersistence" means the decline of the production of the enzyme lactase beyond infancy. I don't know whether lactase nonpersistence is equivalent to lactose intolerance.
- kikokikokiko 3y agoA (very small) percentage of the population is alergic to peanuts. They can even die if they ingest a peanut by accident. Does it make so that "peanuts are bad for you"? Can I make this argument? Milk is perfectly fine and is an important part of a healthy diet, for 90% of the population of the Americas, Europe, Africa etc. The magnitude of the propaganda to make people think otherwise simply baffles me.
- foogazi 3y ago> Milk is perfectly fine and is an important part of a healthy diet, for 90% of the population of the Americas Is this true ? I’ve understood milk is for babies and adults don’t need it
- jitix 3y agoThey specifically adapted to survive on that diet due to both group level isolation and individual upbringing (gut bacteria development). Different socio-cultural groups often have different tolerance for common food items.
- helsinkiandrew 3y ago> Tell that to the Massai, that live basically on a diet of milk, meat and blood They also live a mainly active, nomadic lifestyle herding cows rather than sitting down staring at a computer screen - and usually die in their forties.
- Freedom2 3y ago> It’s not going to be good for you How about water ads? Can you specifically address how water isn't good for us, leaving aside absurd arguments such as "drink too much, and you'll drown!"
- dTal 3y agoI've never seen an ad for fresh running water from the tap. Bottled water on the other hand, in addition to being overpriced, often contains microplastics.
- zamnos 3y agoThe water ads I've seen aren't for water from the tap, but are instead pushing bottled water which aren't quite the same thing.
- Raed667 3y agoWater ads are not selling water, they're selling plastic bottles.
- WastingMyTime89 3y agoCheeky caveat: the government here spends a lot of money to get people to eat more greens. Then, what it does it actually means to be good for you? Clearly, people consumme milk/vegetable milk because they like the taste of it and not because it's healthy. I mean, milk is completely dispensable and some people can't digest it but it's not particularly bad either. It gots sugar and fat, a lot of calcium, not a panacea but nothing particularly awful. You could do worse. The issue mostly boils down to how it's produced. Meanwhile, nutritionally speaking, most vegetable milks end up in the same dispensable category as far as I'm concerned. Oat milk for exemple is mostly water, sugar and supplements. I think soy milk does better protein wise but not by much.
- AmericanChopper 3y agoIt’s not really a cheeky caveat. The parent commenter is just making silly unfounded claims, supported mainly be their use of the word “don’t” as an entire sentence. Plenty of healthy products are marketed to the public. There’s plenty of nutritional value in milk too, and nothing fundamentally wrong with it.