OT: Harbaugh's influence on America's diet...
Looks like Harbaugh's whole milk diet was right all along... Glad to see he's influencing the health of our great nation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/06/for-decades-t…
October 7th, 2015 at 2:05 PM ^
I knew fat was good for you, this is why I load up on chicken hot wings whenever possible
October 7th, 2015 at 3:45 PM ^
I knew this as well. First off, my great grandmother had bacon, eggs, toast with real butter, and whole milk every morning for most of her life. She passed at the age of 103. Also, if it wasn't good for you, it wouldn't taste so awesome.
I like how the gov't just goes "whoops, eggs and red meat and most animal fats are really not that bad for you, sorry for 50 years of incompetence."
October 7th, 2015 at 2:09 PM ^
Grew up on whole milk. Grew nice and tall.
Stopped drinking milk all together after college, went for the drink water so you don't drink your calories "diet".
Got married and the wife only buys candy ass skim milk.
After Harbaugh I've been buying whole milk again. The dairy industry can thank Harbaugh for that because I'm drinking about half a gallon of whole milk a week now.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:43 PM ^
Spent most of my life drinking skim until my daughter came along. Pediatrician said we should switch to 2% when she turned two, which was around the same time as the HBO interview. I said, "No thanks. I trust Jim Harbaugh. He'd make a great pediatrician."
October 7th, 2015 at 3:14 PM ^
No thanks. I trust Jim Harbaugh. He'd make a great pediatrician.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:49 PM ^
A whole half gallon a week?! Bet the fat cats in dairy are swimming in their gold coins Donald Duck style now!
October 7th, 2015 at 2:15 PM ^
My son only drinks whole milk and he is conistently in the 90-100 percentile for height and can throw a tight spiral at 18 months.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:30 PM ^
But what's his 40? To be a Harbaugh QB you have to be athletic.
October 7th, 2015 at 3:17 PM ^
Fast enough...I use the broom a la George Whitfield with him in the living room and he can get out of trouble.
October 7th, 2015 at 3:30 PM ^
Pad level?
October 7th, 2015 at 3:32 PM ^
He's a QB, man! Hopefully horizontal.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:16 PM ^
Was Jim fired? He must have been if this thread is labled as off topic.
October 7th, 2015 at 4:18 PM ^
He can't be fired. Because he IS fire.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:16 PM ^
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October 7th, 2015 at 2:21 PM ^
Which is why in michigan if you make homemade cheese you have to buy a share of a dairy cow in order to get the raw milk.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:26 PM ^
I'm convinced that the entire avoid fat and eat whole grain movement pushed by the govt. is one of the worst things to happen to this country health wise.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:31 PM ^
And it's all because of money. The entire food pyramid comes from one fraudulent researcher who worked at a lab funded by general mills. The world's preeminent nutritionists 100 years ago all knew grains were bad and meat and fat were good for you but they were all german and instantly 'discredited' due to being german in the age of hitler. The above is all a rather condensed version of history, heh.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:44 PM ^
Processed carbohydrates are a bigger issue than fats in the American diet.
All this article tells me is that there is a correlation.
And as to your point regarding meats, America might as well get used to the vegetarian or white meat diet b/c fresh water will be a rare commodity at the rate we're using it on cows.
October 7th, 2015 at 3:11 PM ^
I read somewhere that lettuce is the worst food in terms of the environment. It's mostly water and requires a bunch of energy to be transported in refrigerated trucks and stored in refrigerated units at the store. Almonds are awful for water usage. Half of California's water usage is taken up by almond trees, or something like that.
October 7th, 2015 at 3:16 PM ^
Almonds and other "trendy" foods like pistachios just recently got an uptick in water usage due to the popularity and huge profits.
Cows are still the biggest users of water in an archaic agriculture industry that refuses to modernize.
October 7th, 2015 at 3:48 PM ^
but try to take cow away from me or most other Americans and all out hell will break loose.
October 7th, 2015 at 10:06 PM ^
October 7th, 2015 at 3:12 PM ^
Absolutely. The encouragement of low-fat diets starting in the 70s and 80s was an absolute disaster and has at least contributed to increasing obesity rates in this country. All it did was cause people to eat more calories (thus causing weight gain). Fat satiates hunger.
October 7th, 2015 at 3:18 PM ^
Very true.
Health science is very fluid and the government's need to make rigid rulings on it is quite unfortunate.
Now that I think about it... the government's rulings on most things are too rigid... drugs, food etc.
Sigh... $$$ must be too much for common sense.
October 8th, 2015 at 12:12 AM ^
I find that when I do drink milk, skim or 2% NEVER satisfies.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:30 PM ^
... Science is not fact. it is ever evolving. That is the beauty of it. You can choose to ignore the latest advice. No one is putting a gun to your head.
My greater concern is when industry interests gain a foothold in public policy and influence the design of research. For example, sugar and corn lobby influencing public policy without using independent science to inform that policy.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:27 PM ^
Milk is for babies.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:34 PM ^
October 7th, 2015 at 3:49 PM ^
And Harbaughs
October 7th, 2015 at 2:27 PM ^
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October 7th, 2015 at 2:42 PM ^
October 7th, 2015 at 2:28 PM ^
You know what else is good? Butter, damn it. Real freakin' butter. :-)
October 7th, 2015 at 2:31 PM ^
butt hair
October 7th, 2015 at 2:35 PM ^
Butter is awesome on pancakes with maple syrup.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:38 PM ^
You know what's really really good? Ghee. Clarified butter made from grass-fed cows. I buy it to cook with because it doesn't burn, but the smell alone is unreal.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:29 PM ^
October 7th, 2015 at 2:33 PM ^
Chocolate milk is very similar macronutrient wise to post workout recovery shakes. It's also cheaper and more widely available so its commonly used for that purpose in the world of fitness.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:37 PM ^
After my son does his baseball workouts, I make chocolate milk shakes: lowfat chocolate milk, a scoop of whey protein and ice cubes, blended into a shake. It's also how I get my daughter to drink milk, minus the whey protein. What kid won't drink a chocolate shake?
October 7th, 2015 at 3:40 PM ^
Baseball players work out?
October 7th, 2015 at 3:47 PM ^
Only under duress.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:38 PM ^
October 7th, 2015 at 2:52 PM ^
The body continues burning calories after workouts are complete, if you were to drink straight protien your body will convert some of that to energy. The carbs (sugar) and fat in chocolate milk will provide some of that post-workout energy allowing the body to keep the protein for muscles rather than energy.
October 7th, 2015 at 4:26 PM ^
But chocolate milk is supposedly an especially good post-workout drink because it apparently has, more or less, the right proportions of sugar and protein for optimizing the whole digestion/absorption/muscle building process.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:36 PM ^
Barwis isn't the only who had a fascination with chocolate milk for recovery.
It isn't perfect, but it has ideal carb to protein ratios at a fraction of the price of supplements.
October 7th, 2015 at 3:56 PM ^
Back when I played hockey seriously (1992-1996) we would always go out for chocolate shakes at Pizza Bob's after practice/offseason workouts. Outstanding energy boost after burning a couple thousand calories.
October 7th, 2015 at 4:46 PM ^
October 7th, 2015 at 7:55 PM ^
Easy way to get anyone to drink milk is to lace it with chocolate.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:30 PM ^
In order to balance out all the 2%-drinking wimps, I have been consuming prodigous quantities of heavy cream lately.
October 7th, 2015 at 2:33 PM ^
and over blueberries or strawberries I bet.
Goddammit I love milk cows and I don't care anymore if the whole world knows it.