No, really ? Seems that milk doesn't kill you from obesity, legionnaires disease, swine flu, salmonella or any of the other things that they threatened us with as they destroyed the old fashioned Milk Round.
In fact, " Researchers found that drinking more than half a litre of milk a day – just under a pint – reduces your chances of suffering heart attacks and strokes by up to a fifth."
No, really ? Guess what, I have always drunk about a pint of milk a day yet remain lithe & supple and am still blithely convinced that milk Is good for you as hammered in throughout my 1960's childhood.
The report cheapens itself by claiming "The findings appear to reverse the commonly held view that drinking too much milk is bad for you " No, it is not a 'commonly held view', it is commonly reported by bansturbating control freaks that most adults have ignored for years.
Professor Ian Givens, a nutritionist at the University of Reading said "it is believed that proteins in the milk help reduce blood pressure which in turn reduces stress on the heart and blood vessels. Which is what my old Mum always said and also that milk helps with growth and healthy bones.
"I think that this shows that the bad press milk has been getting is undeserved" he said. "Other studies had shown that milk had beneficial to health but the extent was a surprise to us."
Really ? Not a surprise to us.
The study also discovered the incidence of diabetes was also reduced by between four and nine per cent and colon cancer rates were also lowered.
The demise of the Milk Round is a bit puzzling since milk came in 99% reclycled glass bottles and was delivered in electric diven carts ( see top pic ).
Right, hands up all those who remember School Milk ?
And we collected the Metallic Milk Bottle Tops for the blind kids charity WTF happened to that ?.
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I remember school milk. Cool and delicious in winter, warm and cheesy in summer. Store it in a fridge? - no, leave it in the hot sun! Those were the days.
I drink milk in coffee and have it on cereals, but I don't drink it on it's own anymore.
Things that were bad for you, suddenly are very good for you. It happens all the time. I'm waiting for the turnaround on Strongbow by the gallon ;-)
Who funded the study?
Gigits, remember when it froze before morning break and extruded out of the top of the bottles ?
Rab, dunno who funded it but "Scientists at the University of Reading and University of Cardiff analysed more than 324 studies from across the world, which covered health and milk consumption in thousands of people."
So the research was a bit phoney, just a collection of other stuff which is often the case these days.
They have not got a clue from one year to the next what they are talking about. I remember school milk at primary school in those little bottles and as you say the bottles were 99% recycled except for breakages and petrol bombs,(N. Ireland) and what with the electric delivery carts the whole system was more environmentally friendly than the supposed "green" shit they spout on about today.
I recall that cute little milk bottle but I didnt realise the milk vans were electric. I've learned something new
Confession, my lot were guilty of firing Firework rockets at each other using milk bottles as the cannon; they generally lasted 5-6 shoots before shattering in the shootists hand !
Also, if you let off a banger in one they became extemely brittle and were liable to likewise shatter when some gentlefolk picked it off the wall to return to Milkie.
We used to do similar things but with 'Bangers' inside the bottles. Remember Bangers? I think they were banned about ten years ago.
I drink at least two bottles a day fucking love the stuff,when i was a kid i use to help the milkman on a Saturday morning if i dropped a bottle he would deduct 50p out of my wages, one week i tripped up and dropped a crate load he never paid me for two weeks,god my old man was a miserable old sod!
They really fucked up on the Green front, the biggest content, by size, in my green wheelie bin is empty plastic milk cartons which can be recycled but have no commercial value. Also the Council has to employ someone with a prick-on-a-stick to pierce those that stupid people have binned after screwring the lid back on. Why do people do tht ?
That always puzzled me, what did they do with the metal bottle tops that was of particular relevance to blind kids?
Were the tops aluminium (a particularly valuable scrap metal) and if so, why didn't they ask you to bring in other aluminium stuff, like drinks cans? Or didn't we have so many drinks cans - that was back in the day when drinks came in deposit bottles.
Fuck knows. Either we were doing it right then, and we're doing it wrong now, or we were doing it wrong then and we're getting it right now.
watch out watch out theres an humprhey about?
long before you´ve been tango´d
the blind kids bit was a bit of a mystery, but my theory was that if you got enough milk bottle tops and placed them on the eyes of blind kids, they would see again.
I hated school milk, it was always either frozen with the cream poking out of the top or turned practically into yoghurt by being near the radiator for three hours. And the straws were always waxy and yet they disintegrated to a soggy pulp.
I havn't drunk milk on its own for years.
School always stank of sour milk and body odour. No wonder I hated the whole experience.
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