Remember when your mother told you to drink your milk so you would grow up strong and healthy?  But is it all that healthy?

What is up with “nature’s perfect  food”?

1. It’s high in calories and saturated fat
Ounce for ounce, milk has about “the same calorie load as soda,” Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, tells The New York Times. Lactose is still a sugar, and contributes about 55 percent of skim milk’s calories. Plus, milk and other dairy products are big sources of saturated fat, “and there are very credible links between dairy consumption and both Type 1 diabetes and the most dangerous form of prostate cancer.” One serving of 2 percent milk has even been found to have the same saturated fat count as a serving of french fries.

2. A lot of people can’t drink it
In the United States, as many as 50 million people are lactose intolerant: Roughly 90 percent of Asian-Americans can’t drink milk, and 75 percent of all African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and Jewish-Americans are similarly lactose intolerant. Recent studies suggest soy milk might not be much better: An article published in the Journal of Dentistrysuggests that soy milk encourages bacteria in our mouth to produce five to six times more acid than usual, leading to plaque, tooth decay, and cavities.

3. Milk is often full of chemicals
“Commercial milk is disgusting,” says Deborah Dunham at Blisstree. The mass-produced stuff is filled with growth hormones and antibiotics used to make cows lactate unnaturally. These additives may make the milk appear white and creamy-looking, but “all of this has been blamed for skin problems, acne, allergies, inflammation of the body,” and much more. “Not to mention the fact that drinking cow’s milk is simply unnatural — no other species drinks milk from another species except us.”

4. Many people are allergic
Sure, the peanut allergy is the number one food allergy in the country. But did you know that the second most common type is “milk allergy”? It affects an estimated 3 million children in the United States. Like peanut allergy, the severity of milk allergy can range from mild reactions to being life-threatening.

5. You don’t need milk for strong bones
“You don’t need milk, or large amounts of calcium, for bone integrity, says the Times‘ Bittman. Not only are fracture rates the highest in milk-drinking countries, but it turns out that the biggest two factors contributing to bone strength are “lifelong exercise and vitamin D, which you could get from sunshine.” All of this isn’t to say that milk doesn’t have its health benefits, says Adam Dachis at Lifehacker. But now there seems to be a likelihood that “dairy is a food you should eat because you enjoy it and not for its claims of better health.”

It is a CON JOB!  Marketing at its best!  You may like milk and consume it everyday ……good for you…..but it is NOT all it is cracked up to be…….all benefits can be replaced by the consumption of other foods.

I am waiting to see when the millionaire hacks that champion a ban on sugary drinks, especially those like Mika and others in the media,  will turn their attention to milk…..answer….they will not!  Bet some of their high wages comes from agri-business and the like……personally, I am SICK of millionaire pricks telling people who have a hard time making 3 meals a day what they should eat….walk a mile in their shoes or keep your opinions to yourself!

If you are one of those “health nuts” this might not be the perfect food for your lifestyle.  I was weaned and have not consumed much milk since and I am just as healthy, maybe more so than others who must have milk daily.