Centurion

You should not believe all the crap that the milk marketing board writes or studies they fund.

Milk has been introduced into the human diet only very briefly in timeline terms. Paleolithic man might have had trouble trying to milk wild animals. Important food group ? I think not. In fact, given that most people illicit an inflamatory response from diary products to some degree, it could be considered completely the opposite.

Also the saturated fat argument sadly holds no water. Man has existed on saturated fats from animal meat for far longer than our technical ability to process it and remove it from food.

Bottom line. Place a human on a diet of fatty fish, meat, vegetables, some fruit and some seeds and they will achieve their genetically peak form. Sadly the same cannot be said for most of the people who wobble around woolies buying fat free products.

northernbird

Sugar is the spawn of the devil

HelenTD

I do not get taken in by dairy marketing blurb, I make up my own mind . Early man probably chewed on animal or fish bones to get calcium. Ancient skeletons have also been found with signs of osteoporosis and rickets. Dairy is an important source of calcium, but some people might prefer to take tablets, or drink non-dairy alternatives, or access calcium from traditional methods. Me, I drink skimmed milk and eat low-fat yoghurt or cheese. Probably as I get older, I will have to supplement that with calcium/Vit D tablets.

If humans are placed on your suggested diet, do they really achieve their genetically peak form and how long do they maintain it for? What's their life expectancy?

hevs

My son did a project about a greek island (Ikaria??)where the people ate fish, olive oil, olives etc on a daily basis, hardly any red meat, just goat! No processed dairy foods, just milk and cheese that they made themselves etc. They only ate what they could grow, pick and store, nothing in packets at all. The average life expectancy was 90 +........

Of course tourism is well underway now...I wonder whats happening there now? British breakfasts a gogo?

hevs

I also have a bit of a dairy intolerance, really dislike milk and detest yougurt. Dont mind cheese and dislike cream....I really must remember the caltrate more often

BadgeIsBack

I love milk.. I would drink it by the pint if I had the time. I go through several pints a day. Love yoghurt too.

Not sure where I get such a dairy urge from.

Infact, if I am put on a non-fresh diet, like on a hiking trip, it's the milk that seems to bring me back from a sort of lethargy/ feeling of nutritional deficiency. Milk also does me for a meal if I have to say skip breakfast.

HelenTD

The classic Mediterranean diet is usually veg, fruit, grains, legumes, nuts, olives and olive oil, fish, poultry, dairy, eggs, wine, small amount of meat (once a week or less). There are local variations, as there are so many countries around the Mediterranean.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/med...n-diet/CL00011

Unfortunately, some people in the Mediterranean have been abandoning their healthy, traditional diet and lifestyle: http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/...871/index.html. Ikaria seems to still have traditional foods, but some fast food and other stuff is creeping in:
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/2...and-longevity/
http://gregcarver.com/blog/2009/long...eek-blue-zone/.

paulry

I know what you mean. Same here.

As a kid I used to love drinking the fist couple of inches of milk from a freshly opened pint of milk. In those days we sterilised milk (tasted foul), silver top, gold top and long life milk. Skimmed milk came in powder form only.

Tiawamutu

Whinging poms

Tiawamutu

Does it give you the sh*ts?

Bit crap that

I have a delicate stomach with undercooked meat

Bernieboy

That's why you left scotland

Pollyana

Noooo, that's beetroot

eddie007

Nope, the devils spawn is grated carrot

Bernieboy

Nope,mushrooms

Pollyana

Sometimes you're a heathen Mr Barfly, mushrooms are the food of the Gods