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Have you ever drank raw milk?

Lliam

I fell for the low-fat craze in the mid-1980s and started buying low-fat milk.
A couple decades later, I read that it was completely devoid of nutrition and went back to whole milk because it has more omega 3 fatty acids and nutrition. Plus I learned that natural fats (as opposed to vegetable fats) are essential to a healthy diet.

Supported by scientific studies, promoted by the federal government, the food industry, and the popular media, low fat became the dominant dietary belief of health care practitioners, health popularizers, and a substantial part of the American populace. But that resulted in the consumption of processed foods, chemicals, unhealthy ingredients, and higher levels of sugar and salt.

The low-fat fad ignored the fact that a small amount of fat is an essential part of a healthy, balanced diet. Fat is a source of essential fatty acids, which the body cannot make itself. Fat helps the body absorb vitamins A, D and E. These vitamins are fat-soluble, which means they can only be absorbed with the help of fats.

Federal law mandates that most skim milk has to be fortified with vitamin A and sometimes vitamin D. This is due to the fact that even though whole milk naturally has a fair amount of both, the vitamins are fat soluble and thus lost when the milk fat is removed during the skimming process.

I had also read that pasteurization (cooking under pressure) destroys milk’s nutritional value.

When milk is homogenized, the fat molecules are broken into smaller particles to make them stay in suspension. There is evidence that this process causes oxidation of the fat, which contributes to heart disease.

So store-bought milk isn't a very nutritious food. It's kinda fake.

My wife brought home some raw milk recently. Someone she knows has a small dairy. Her cows are pasture fed and not treated with antibiotics or drugs.

It's 100% healthy and nutritious and I was surprised by how delicious it is. Store-bought milk doesn't even compare.



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4 mo
My parents used to talk about having milk delivered to their door steps when they were kids. They would leave the empty bottles on the stoop and the milk man would pick them up when he delivered fresh milk from the local dairy.

My dad said when it was cold, the milk on the porch would freeze and the cream would rise out of the neck of the bottle like a popsicle. It was the greatest treat to break it off and eat it.

Have you ever drank raw milk?
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