The Low Fat Milk Deception
If you wanted to get less fat in your diet and decided to drink low fat 2 percent milk, how much less fat do you think you would be drinking versus whole milk? If you guessed 98 percent less, guess again because you are way off. The sad truth and deception is that the difference between whole milk and 2 percent milk is a scant 14 percent less fat.
The deception comes in how the fat content in milk is counted. What the 2 percent fat in milk really means is that there is 2 percent fat by weight in milk. So called low fat milk is mostly water, but it is anything from being a low fat food. When you measure the fat content in 2 percent milk by its caloric content, what actually counts in your diet, you get a whopping 35 percent of calories from fat. And whole milk gets 49 percent of its calories from fat. The fact is, even low fat milk is a high fat food.
Fat content is counted this way, by weight, in may foods, especially high fat foods. This way you may think you are eating a healthy diet when in fact you aren’t. It’s another myth put out by the meat and dairy industry to promote their unhealthy products. Fat content in meat is counted by the weight method as well, not by the caloric content method.
Of course, if you eat a raw vegan diet you don’t have to worry about the deceptive way fat calories are counted.
Alan
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July 23rd, 2007 at 1:57 pm
This is why I have turned to Raw Milk from a small local Organic farm in my area. Pasturization destroys many of the important enzymes and beneifical bacteria that is good for our bodies. The local farm uses only grass fed traditionally bred cows (Non-Holsteins). The animals are well cared for and as a result you get a high quality and safe product.
I realize that raw Milk is a not a Vegan food, but for non-vegans I think it can be highly beneficial food due to the Probitotics, CLA, and other important nutirents that are destroyed during pasurization. I find raw milk very digestable and much better tasting than commerical Pasturizied milk.
July 23rd, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Thanks for your input Matt. Jean and I aren’t 100% vegan because we believe if a food is truly nutritions and good for you, then there isn’t any reason not to eat it. We believe in eating the most nutrient dense food possible and know that raw milk has benefits that pasturized milk doesn’t.
We have tried raw milk in the past and didn’t really like the taste, but it sounds like you do!
Eat Healthy, Be Healthy,
Alan
July 28th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Like Matt, we drink raw milk. We buy it from a local farmers market.
Not sure why alan does not like the taste.
We find it very refreshing.