Well Catrina, I have been drinking milk for just over 32 years now and I'm still not making MOOING noises.

The other milk forms that you specify are ok, but, it's your personal opinion that these are better.

At no point has the Health Visitor advised me to nourish my two young children (2 years and 1 Year olds) with any of your varients. This is because they don't contain the fat needed to promote and maintain health. And as you say "It makes no more sense to drink milk from cows than from dogs or rats", if this is so, why should it make sense to drink oat, rice or quinoa milk instead??

Maybe your extensive research can dissolve my thoughts- if you would like to share your research I'd enjoy reviewing it further.

As it is, milk comes in so many varieties and all amount of fat content, the real main stay of "full fat milk" is old people and young children.

As stated, semi skimmed is the most popular, however, skimmed milk is always growing more sales.


Regards

benthemilk, essex, uk

What happens to all the fat?. I belive it is turned into other more expensive foods for people to eat. If this is the case what good does removing it from milk do?

darrent chapman, trowbridge,

There are many different milks to drink which are far, far healthier than cows milk, for example rice, oat and quinoa.

I used to keep a herd of quinoas when I lived in Narnia.

Stephen Phillips, London, UK,

This concept stems from Ancel Keys and his disgracefully biased and selective studies. However, if one examines the fat intake data (total and saturated) taken from the EU-MONICA study report which you can check for yourself at the shown website (http://www.ehnheart.org/files/statistics 2005).

This analysis of fat intake and Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) was based on data taken from the European Cardiovascular Statistics for1998-1999 The national data was tabulated (country, fat intake %age of diet and CHD rate) and then sorted on fat intake (total or saturated) and then plotted with fat% (total or saturated) on the x-axis.

Both analyses (Multiple R 0.667; Regression p = 5.43 E-07; Multiple R = 0.584; Regression = "p" < 0.00001) show that doubling the national fat intake reduces the national CHD rate by half! On this data there are 7 paradoxes of hi fat/lowCHD and another 7 of low fat/hi CHD
Check Kendrick, M. The Great Cholesterol Con, ISBN 978-1-84454-360-1.

M. J. Hope Cawdery, Portadown, UK`

The real problem is that many types of milk are homogenised and is part of the process for many semi-skimmed and full fat milks.

Not enough research has been done with regards to the intake of homogenised milk, however myself and others have had to avoid it due to problems it can cause.

Aubrey, London,

This is pure manipulation. They are trying to decieve us.

And if it works it could well mean that real full-fat milk will become hard to find. I prefer full-fat myself, and am upset at this prospect.

Ironically skimmed and semi skimmed milk has been shown to produce more problems than full-fat in those sensitive to milk.

Further the jury is very much out on whether the anti-fat medical scares of the past had any substance. It appears that the real culprits look to be hardened vegetable fats (ie. Margarine) and light vegetable oils (excluding olive oil). After all if we come from hunter-gatherers it seems unlikely that animal fat should be so harmful. That heart disease began in the 20's is pertinant.

Britain is one of the sickest nations in the west: we should not be exporting our nutritional wisdom as it is riddled with half-truth and distortion. We eat too much fruit and carbs, and deny ourselves pleasurable and natural animal fats with our puritanical approach to health.

Greg Lorriman, Leatherhead, UK

Milk from cows is intended for calves not humans, the nutritional content is 'designed' for the needs of calves not humans - it makes no more sense to drink milk from cows than it would to drink milk from dogs or rats.

There are many different milks to drink which are far, far healthier than cows milk, for example rice, oat and quinoa.

Catrina, London, UK