Aspartame In Milk: Dairy Industry Seeks Approval To Drop Label For
Artificial Sweeteners
No, you have read it right!
Flavoured Milk already contains Aspartame
or High Fructose Corn Syrup and the Milk Industry wants the FDA to give them
permission not to mention it in the ingredients.
(From Huffington Post 26 Feb. 2013)
This ploy is to make the children drink
more “milk” instead of Soda! Argue the industry.
While the consensus is slowly building over
the damage done to our bodies by the incredible amount of un natural products
entering our bodies, overwhelming its metabolic pathways (perhaps that is why
there is a high rate of Fat in the Liver even among children in America), we
are going further into plastic food parading as nutritious food.
One of my favourite questions when I am
educating people about Nutrition is:
Do you think any one in the world would
die, if all the Coca Cola were to disappear tomorrow?
Another question?
Which costs more, Coca Cola or Gasoline or
Petrol?
Almost everywhere, it is Coca Cola and of
course in Petrol producing countries such as Dubai and the Emirates, a litre of
Coke costs three times as much as a litre of Petrol/Gasoline!
There is a consensus that Milk drinking
started soon after domestication of cattle/dairy animals around 9000 to 7000
years before the Common Era. (Pottery evidence from South West Asia). Cheese
consumption or manufacture can be reasonably stated to have been present 5000
years before the Common Era.
So it is a habit of some historic standing
among Human beings.
(cheese making, 14th century depiction)
Along with reducing everything Fat (except
the People of course!), many new types of Milk entered the market place and
most people think that 2 per cent refers to the entire milk rather than the
percentage of Fat in the milk where as whole milk has only 3.5 % so it is not
even a 50% reduction!
And there is more news yet to come!
Arch Dis Child doi:10.1136/archdischild-2012-302941
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Original
article
Longitudinal evaluation of
milk type consumed and weight status in preschoolers
Consumption of
1%/skim milk is more common among overweight/obese preschoolers, potentially
reflecting the choice of parents to give overweight/obese children low-fat milk
to drink. Nevertheless, 1%/skim milk does not appear to restrain body weight
gain between 2 and 4 years of age in this age range, emphasizing a need for
weight-targeted recommendations with a stronger evidence base.
This has been widely known
but not publicized. Look at this study from 2005
(From
Harvard University)
Children
who drank the most milk gained more weight, but the added
calories appeared responsible. Contrary to our hypotheses, dietary
calcium and skim and 1% milk were associated with weight
gain, but dairy fat was not. Drinking large amounts of milk may
provide excess energy to some children
J
Am Diet Assoc. 2010
Apr;110(4):563-70. doi: 10.1016/j.jada.2009.12.025.
Prospective
association between milk intake
and adiposity in preschool-aged children.
Neither consuming more dairy products, nor
switching from whole milk to reduced-fat milk at age 2
years, appears likely to prevent overweight in early childhood.
In the west, there is a habit of wanting to find a quick fix to the
problems which have deep seated societal origins, and they are desperate to
find the “ magic Bullet” which can show us to erase this problem with a “magic
wand”, thus the popularity of herbal supplements, anti oxidants, resveratrol
pills etc.
With obesity in children surging around the world, along with sales
of McDo, Dunkin Donuts and other palm oil related products and tainted
ingredients, perhaps the best nutritional advice, where there is no food
insecurity, would be to eat natural, cook natural and eat according to your
genes.
