I am a 51 years old male. Which milk should I have- full cream or low fat skimmed milk?
A. Though milk is a complete protein food when consumed raw, it also contains fat, which means that it combines poorly with any other food except itself. Yet adults today routinely ‘wash down’ other foods with cold milk. Milk curdles immediately upon entering the stomach, so if there is other food present the curd coagulates around other food particles and insulates them from exposure to gastric juices, delaying digestion long enough to permit the onset of putrefaction. Therefore, the first and foremost rule of milk consumption is, ‘Drink it alone, or leave it alone.’ Today, milk is made even more indigestible by the universal practice of pasteurization, which destroys its natural enzymes and alters its delicate proteins. Milk is now routinely ‘homogenized’ to prevent the cream from separating from the milk. This involves the fragmentation and pulverization of the fat molecules to the point that they will not separate from the rest of the milk. But it also permits their tiny fragments
