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Got (Whole) Milk?

Decades of government warnings, regulations and bans against drinking whole milk have been in error. “What we have learned over the last decade is that certain foods that are high in fat seem to be beneficial,” a University of Texas epidemiologist has concluded. In fact government efforts to steer people away…

Decades of government warnings, regulations and bans against drinking whole milk have been in error.

“What we have learned over the last decade is that certain foods that are high in fat seem to be beneficial,” a University of Texas epidemiologist has concluded.

In fact government efforts to steer people away from these choices forces them to miss out on “a huge opportunity for the prevention of disease,” said Marcia Otto, according to The Washington Post.

Making this revelation even more unseemly?  The extent to which government has eliminated whole milk consumption amongst children – who don’t need to cut calories but do need to develop strong immune systems.

Government doesn’t care, though.

“Replace whole milk and full-fat milk products with fat-free or low-fat choices,” the latest federal guidelines insist.

Oops.

The libertarian-leaning Cato Institute said this latest public health failure was the continuation of a “familiar pattern.”

“Previous advice from Washington about the supposed hazards of eggs and other cholesterol-laden foods, the advantages of replacing butter and other animal fats with trans fats, and the gains to be made from switching from regular to diet soda, have all had to be re-evaluated and sometimes reversed in later years,” Walter Olson wrote.  “And yet some in the public health establishment – including a few who are quoted in (the) Post article – still aspire to use the power of government to coerce changes in citizens’ diet.  They seem to imagine that with people like themselves in charge, next time will be different.”

Sort of like the whole “Mo Money” argument …

If we just spend a little bit more, everything will be fine!

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45 comments

Bible Thumper October 7, 2015 at 3:27 pm

Government: And about Climate Change ……… Oops

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erneba October 7, 2015 at 3:45 pm

Yeah, it was cooling in the seventies, and now it is warming. They need to make up their mind. They are wrong on both counts.

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SCBlues October 8, 2015 at 1:07 pm

I always trust FITS to tell me what to eat or drink – oops indeed.

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Squishy123 October 7, 2015 at 3:38 pm

Whole milk, lard, butter… it’s all better for you as long as you eat a healthy diet. Unlike the 75% fat fucks in this country who can’t order a meal without the word “super-size”.

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Rocky Verdad October 7, 2015 at 4:00 pm

I remember as a little boy, we got a McDonalds in town, and your choices were hamburger, cheeseburger, the little fillet of fish – and only one size fries – the little white bag. Now you get a double-quarter pounder (i.e. a half-pounder) with cheese alone is 800 calories, and box of fries. And why call a large coke could float a whale.

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S.O.S. NAZIs Comin' October 7, 2015 at 4:13 pm

I thought you Gestapo Bastards BANNED any food you did not like to see on the menu…

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stumpknocker October 7, 2015 at 4:17 pm

chug all a palm oil you want, i think republicans with clogged arteries are cool

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Rocky Verdad October 7, 2015 at 4:22 pm

Did you hear something?

Banned GrandTango October 7, 2015 at 4:31 pm

If we were banning things we didn’t like you’d be banned from everywhere.

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Squishy123 October 7, 2015 at 4:33 pm

Apparently most people are too stupid to figure this out for themselves. Which is why the fat-ass rate has skyrocketed in this country. Go back a generation and look at pictures, one out of a group of 20-30 was fat, now it’s more like 75%. I was on vacation recently and walked into a Walmart store and was actually repulsed at the land whales that I saw in that store.

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RAkkasan October 7, 2015 at 5:07 pm

Go back a generation before that and a large percentage of draftees in WWII were rejected for being undernourished/too thin–and not enough teeth.

Rocky Verdad October 7, 2015 at 6:12 pm

I have my father’s WWII id – he weighted 125 pounds entering the service. Christ – I didn’t weight that after I turned 12. Of course, I have a theory that cereal made us bigger as a country (not fat – just bigger). I mean come on – how many of us came home from school and sucked down two or three bowls of Michigan’s finest cereals – with – ready for it ——- whole milk.

Squishy123 October 7, 2015 at 6:55 pm

So we’ve gone from one extreme to the next, bypassing the healthy weight period somewhere around 1950-1980.

Back when a “mushroom top” was called a “spare tire”, and neither was/is sexy on a girl.

RogueElephant October 8, 2015 at 8:22 am

I don’t know how true it is but a historian friend told me that, during the War for Southern Independence , perspective soldiers were required to have two teeth that aligned so as to bite the end off the powder charge for the musket.

Rocky Verdad October 7, 2015 at 6:10 pm

Try taking kids to Disneyworld. Remember the stroller parking areas? Now they have them for the little fat-mobiles people rent. And those rides that fit four to six people across – like Pirates – well now only three fit across (on a good day) and the water is about coming over the sides. They didn’t get rid of 20,000 Leagues under the Sea to upgrade. They got rid of it because most fat ass Americans can’t fit in the little fake subs anymore. And they get out of the rides you think they get a hot dog or a banana – hell no – they get a freakin’ turkey leg off some beast of a turkey. Leg’s bigger than on a small kid. And wash it down with a 32-oz Coke. And don’t even get me started on funnel cake.

shifty henry October 7, 2015 at 6:48 pm

(DEEP.. HYPNOTIC .. VOICE)
“tell — us — about — the — funnel — cake”

Rakkasan October 7, 2015 at 5:06 pm

I didn’t know the FBI and intel services had moved into food. Damn mission creep!

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Rakkasan October 7, 2015 at 4:53 pm

“All-American meal” was 45 cents. which in today’s bucks in $3.40. Wait. WTF happened? Dammit it Ronald. You been jammin us all these years. Fucking clown. I got news for you Ronald. I know you’re a sex offender. You scare the be Jesus outta kids truth be known. So take your clown ass outta her and go marry someone your style, assclown Ted Cruz. You can be his VP–at least when you play dress up

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Rakkasan October 7, 2015 at 5:02 pm

Healthy diet? Well, I guess that leaves out most of the folks in the heart attack and stroke zone in the U.S.(that would be in a SW sweep from Baltimore to Texas) See CDC epidemiological maps. How about a bacon flavored lard and tomato sandwich for lunch, with a side of green beans or collards cooked with bacon flavored lard and TONS of salt. Yum! It’s culture! It’s love!

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Woman's Day Clone October 7, 2015 at 4:12 pm

Hey FITSNews…will you add horoscopes next? ….How bout a Scramble…LMAO…

Man, this site is becoming like ‘Better Homes and Garden’…I guess the GOP hate’s not working out to well in Conservative state?

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Better Blogs Than SCPTSD October 7, 2015 at 4:30 pm

Here’s a tip, make a blog that is actually successful and then lecture Will on how to run a successful blog.

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Twilight Zone Liberals October 7, 2015 at 4:49 pm

WTF are you talking about…you ignorant, paranoid Fuck?

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Open Your Ears Dummy October 7, 2015 at 5:29 pm

I’m talking about your shitty failed blog, chump. Are you that dumb?

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Rocky Verdad October 7, 2015 at 6:14 pm

Failed like Old Mill Pond dam. Damn it failed.

Rakkasan October 7, 2015 at 5:34 pm

I’ll see your Ignorant Paranoid Fuck (your basic IPF card ) and raise you a Life’s Perennial Loser

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Rakasan October 7, 2015 at 4:56 pm

If you consider this a successful blog you either a) don’t get out much (i.e. live in a small bubble), or 2) are on Wil’s payroll

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Success Is Relative October 7, 2015 at 5:29 pm

Will gets plenty of people clicking and commenting.

SCPTSD hasn’t been updated in almost a year and barely got any traffic.

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Rocky Verdad October 7, 2015 at 6:14 pm

SCPTSD should have been on the list of failed dams – because it was dam failure.

Mike at the Beach October 7, 2015 at 4:14 pm

But…but…but…it’s SCIENCE! It can NEVER be wrong…or evolve…or change…or be influenced by governmental interference…

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Rakkasan October 7, 2015 at 4:46 pm

Yeah Mike. It started in the 50s (margarine is better. Crisco is better; processed cheese). Let me see. What administration ran the 50s in the US? Rhymes with Mike. And who had the products that were being substituted for lard, butter, ? Do the letters ADM mean anything to you? How about any corporation included in what we call Big Ag (they’re cousins with Big Pharma). The 50s were a great time in America. Think Mad Men. Think Mike Wallace doing commercials for Lucky Strike saying, “They’re good for you”. So, it is hardly new and it ain’t just the gubmint. Let’s make sure we add corporate America and Madison Avenue

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Mike at the Beach October 7, 2015 at 5:12 pm

Absolutely…no argument from me on your point. I just didn’t get that far down that road. Scientists aren’t magic, they’re people. They can be right; they can be wrong; they can be bought by corporate interests; they can get swept up in political fervor; they can stand their ideological ground. No particular party or side is wholly pure here…

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Leeches cure disease October 7, 2015 at 10:13 pm

“Scientists aren’t magic”

Science IS magic!

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Bible Thumper October 7, 2015 at 11:38 pm

Too often, scientists are lemings. Only one respected scientist said that bacteria could not survive in the stomach. Stomach viruses yes, but not bacteria.

For decades it was accepted that stomach ulcers were caused by stress. Then doctors, while treating for another health issue descovered that simple antibiotics cures most stomach ulcers.

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Terry October 8, 2015 at 12:07 pm

Typical Republican attitude. What the hell do you know about science? Absolutely nothing. You go out and find an instance were scientists were wrong and hold that up as important, ignoring the thousands of times they were right. I swear you brain dead wingnuts will be the death of us all.

Bible Thumper October 8, 2015 at 12:27 pm

Oh no! I support science.
Scientists define a fetus as “an unborn offspring of a mammal, in particular an unborn human baby more than eight weeks after conception”.

If scientists define a fetus as a human baby, that’s good enough for me and they deserve the protection of the law and Constitution, just like a born human baby.

SCBlues October 8, 2015 at 1:08 pm

Milk to global warming to fetuses – makes sense to me . . .

Just Me October 8, 2015 at 5:29 pm

It’s a matter of seeing the big picture. Something the lemmings in the democrat party don’t seem to be able to do.

Mark October 8, 2015 at 12:10 pm

Independent scientists (typically at universities and colleges) are rarely influenced by governmental interference and they are right far more than they are wrong. Corporate scientist are influenced by the people who hired them to obtain a specific result. If you listened only to the scientist working for Philip Morris, you would have believed through the 1960s and into the 1970s that there was no proof of a link between smoking and cancer or heart disease. If you listened to independent scientist you would have know about that connection twenty years earlier. In fact if it were not for tobacco law suits we would probably never have found out the tobacco industry knew in the late 1940s their product was causing health problems and covered it up.

What I think is crazy, is the eyes closed, hands over their ears mentality that seems to pervade in the Republican party. You have to look at the best evidence you have and yet you guys choose to trust industry over independent scientist as to what the best evidence is. You choose to make fun of the people telling you there is a problem and you should do something about it, because its not what you want to hear. You guys would have been the people who died of emphysema in the 1970s swearing it had nothing to do with their 3 pack a day cigarette habit.

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Rocky Verdad October 7, 2015 at 4:23 pm

Actually, given the great marketing of Milk in the 1990s, what we need here is a pic of a nice hottie in tight cloths – recalling that – Milk!!! I does a body good!!!!

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shifty henry October 7, 2015 at 6:45 pm

MAMMARIES..!!

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Todd October 7, 2015 at 4:35 pm

So you’re telling me those crossfit douchebags had it right all along?

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Bible Thumper October 7, 2015 at 11:28 pm

If I poured milk like that as a child, I would cry.

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GaryJR October 8, 2015 at 8:45 am

Dairy fat will slam your arteries. This has been well known for decades.

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Squishy123 October 8, 2015 at 9:03 am

So you’re saying we should instead drink that tasty 0% fat milk?

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