Quote Originally Posted by Raistlin View Post
It seems that criticizing cow's milk is becoming more trendy these days. But the only sources I've seen do it are, well, dubious at best, with loads of unsourced claims. The actual experts who reference specific nutrients in milk still seem to widely accept it as healthy, and definitely a good thing for children.

I'm open to studies and experts who make contrary claims, but until I hear more legitimate sources, the anti-milk movement seems to be more junk food science.
Yeah, most of the stuff thrown around doesn't seem to have much research backing it up that I've seen.

That first link you posted is pure gold though. Pasteurizing milk kills nutrients including Calcium? I wasn't aware you could kill an element from the periodic table. The process is meant to kill bacteria and potential pathogens. Heating up the milk isn't going to do squat to calcium.

And the claims about osteoporosis in that article, aren't really true. Fact is, the typical western diet pushes the bodies ph balance more into the acidic range than it's comfortable with, and it will use calcium to keep it in a range that won't kill you, even if it has to leach it from the bones. It's not so much a case of milk not preventing osteoporosis, as the rest of people's diet actively making it worse over long periods of time. Don't even get me started on the heart disease claim.