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Vitamin D is added to milk because before they did that there were a lot of people with Vitamin D deficiency. The same thing is true of iodine in salt. Most p
by guyzero 12y ago
Vitamin D is added to milk because before they did that there were a lot of people with Vitamin D deficiency. The same thing is true of iodine in salt.
Most people can remove any one or two things from their diet and they won't suddenly get scurvy or pellagra.
- imanaccount247 12y agoThat shows that vitamin D supplements are useful, not that milk is. Vitamin D can be added to anything (it is already in lots of orange juice for example). Coke with vitamin D in it isn't suddenly "a healthy part of a complete breakfast!". If most people removed carrots or beef from their diet without replacing it with some other source of the vitamins those provide, they would become deficient. If most people removed milk from their diet, nothing would happen. That's the point.
- HeyLaughingBoy 12y agoI have to agree. When I was into bodybuiding and gaining, I drank milk (and protein shakes) at about a gallon a day. I'm naturally lactose intolerant, but drinking lots of it seemed to make me produce enough lactase that I could digest it without much trouble. But when I stopped working out, I soon stopped drinking milk and now I hardly touch the stuff except for a little in coffee or the occasional milkshake. As far as I can tell, it made no difference in my health. I'm becoming a fat fuck, but that's lack of exercise, not lack of milk ;-)