I was watching Alton Brown's 'Good Eats' on the Food Network where he was describing his relationship with milk. If you have never seen 'Good Eats' it is important to know that this show uses some unique props to make it's points and explain things. The scene where Brown is explaining his problem with milk is no different. Alton is telling the viewer how he has lost fifty pounds and when it comes to milk he just avoids it because in his words "it makes me do things" (enter the funny man in a milk carton costume holding a plate of cookies) who says "Hey Mr.B you want some cookies" (in drug pusher fashion). I was watching this with my wife who begins to laugh at the realization that I have the same problem which I too dawned a pound but didn't think it was nearly as funny. I truly do not enjoy cookies as much with out milk and I really enjoy cookies, as I really enjoy milk. To be perfectly honest if Half and Half wasn't so bad for me I'd most likely lavish in it's creamy goodness instead of regular milk. I have a cholesterol problem which I am on medication for, and I'm also taking it to prevent strokes since I'm at risk. The cholesterol thing regulates me to skim milk. It took some time to get used to skim milk, yet it's so much better than water on cereal; which just seems lame and gross to me. Every once in awhile my market will be out of skim and I get the treat of 1%, and yes I really can taste a wonderful difference.
Several Moths ago I took a fitness class with the fetching Mrs. Cogbill (that's Sam if you were getting confused) and it was suggested to all attendees to try to go 'organic'. I used to be an Ag student back in high school when this whole organic trend started up and the joke I heard about organic is 'do you know how to tell an organic field from a regular field? It's the low yield field with weeds in it'(I think you have to be in Ag to kind of get this), so I had my doubts. I don't usually buy anything organic, but because it was the one thing that was highly recommended to switch to I tried organic milk. Organic milk cost something like double what normal milk cost and I think the cost of normal milk is way over-priced, yet I have some positive things to say about Organic Milk. After three weeks of drinking organic milk I started to feel different, better, and I didn't think I had felt all that bad before yet there was a definite difference. I'm kind of a strange guy and when something like the change I described above happens I want to test it, so I did. I bought a gallon of regular skim milk, and sure enough I started to feel more moody and lethargic. I was a little disappointed with the result since I was hoping to be able to return to buying the less expensive milk. When looking at the results of my little self imposed test and what little I know about dairy production from my high school Ag class I guess I'm not all that surprised at the reaction milk can have on the body. I think about all the artificial stuff that go into cows for milk production like hormones(that's estrogen guys if you didn't know), and antibiotics which all goes into the milk. Organic milk on the other hand is not supposed to have any of this unnecessary stuff going into it. I understand that dairy farmers want to produce every cow they have and that is why they give them antibiotics (this is a short-term solution and the antibiotics are going to be less affective or even ineffective as viruses become immune to them), and they want the most milk they can get out of each cow and that is why the give them hormones. The affect of the hormones is most likely what I am able to detect, and I just don't like how it makes me feel. This idea that milk can have an effect on a persons mood congers up a thought "docile as a cow"-unknown author- this could just be a paranoid conspiracy theory, but exposing the general public to high doses of estrogen would most likely cause an overall 'docile' effect. If this is true why would you want people more docile and what else might they (those who control such things and want to control more) be doing. If you have ever watched 'Doctor Strange Love' you might be thinking 'fluoridation' but I'm just not going along with that at all.
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