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Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by harryf on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:53AM (#35724645)
Nutrition tip of the day: if someone is spending serious ad money to try to get you to eat or drink something, don’t. What ever it is. Don’t. It’s not going to be good for you

Once upon a time consumers were being encouraged to “drink radium water” https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec...

… as a species we have not become significantly smarter since then

Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by Freedom2 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:01AM (#35724717)
> It’s not going to be good for you

How about water ads? Can you specifically address how water isn't good for us, leaving aside absurd arguments such as "drink too much, and you'll drown!"

Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by Raed667 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:23AM (#35724898)
Water ads are not selling water, they're selling plastic bottles.
Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by Freedom2 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:17AM (#35728439)
So when people go to buy a bottle of water, they really want the bottle itself, and not what's inside it?
Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by wink on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:27AM (#35728648)
I'll have you know that our local utilities actually do run billboard campaigns to drink tap water. Yes, it's excellent and many people do :P
Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by zamnos on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:20AM (#35724873)
The water ads I've seen aren't for water from the tap, but are instead pushing bottled water which aren't quite the same thing.
Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by dTal on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:12AM (#35724803)
I've never seen an ad for fresh running water from the tap. Bottled water on the other hand, in addition to being overpriced, often contains microplastics.
Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by exitb on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:45AM (#35725082)
Just pointing out that these do exist in some [1] places. But yeah, generally you're right.

[1] https://en.prostozkranu.krakow.pl

Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by fenring on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:52AM (#35725143)
Drink tap watet campaign all over the Wrocław city https://pijkranowke.pl/#start
Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by WastingMyTime89 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:06AM (#35724762)
Cheeky caveat: the government here spends a lot of money to get people to eat more greens.

Then, what it does it actually means to be good for you? Clearly, people consumme milk/vegetable milk because they like the taste of it and not because it's healthy.

I mean, milk is completely dispensable and some people can't digest it but it's not particularly bad either. It gots sugar and fat, a lot of calcium, not a panacea but nothing particularly awful. You could do worse. The issue mostly boils down to how it's produced.

Meanwhile, nutritionally speaking, most vegetable milks end up in the same dispensable category as far as I'm concerned. Oat milk for exemple is mostly water, sugar and supplements. I think soy milk does better protein wise but not by much.

Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by AmericanChopper on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:21AM (#35724881)
It’s not really a cheeky caveat. The parent commenter is just making silly unfounded claims, supported mainly be their use of the word “don’t” as an entire sentence. Plenty of healthy products are marketed to the public. There’s plenty of nutritional value in milk too, and nothing fundamentally wrong with it.
Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by kikokikokiko on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:56AM (#35724675)
Real milk is bad for you now? Talk about being influenced by propaganda.
Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by Karuma on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:59AM (#35724702)
It's always been bad for you.
Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by kikokikokiko on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:04AM (#35724746)
Tell that to the Massai, that live basically on a diet of milk, meat and blood. Just because you wish it to be bad it doesn't change reality my dude.
Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by denton-scratch on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:22AM (#35724889)
https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/lactose-intoleran...

"Lactase nonpersistence is most prevalent in people of East Asian descent, with 70 to 100 percent of people affected in these communities."

Masai herdsmen are East Africans; so I find that statistic bewildering. "Lactase nonpersistence" means the decline of the production of the enzyme lactase beyond infancy. I don't know whether lactase nonpersistence is equivalent to lactose intolerance.

Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by kikokikokiko on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:35AM (#35724997)
A (very small) percentage of the population is alergic to peanuts. They can even die if they ingest a peanut by accident. Does it make so that "peanuts are bad for you"? Can I make this argument? Milk is perfectly fine and is an important part of a healthy diet, for 90% of the population of the Americas, Europe, Africa etc. The magnitude of the propaganda to make people think otherwise simply baffles me.
Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by foogazi on Thursday April 27, 2023 @09:58AM (#35728185)
> Milk is perfectly fine and is an important part of a healthy diet, for 90% of the population of the Americas

Is this true ? I’ve understood milk is for babies and adults don’t need it

Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by jitix on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:25AM (#35724911)
They specifically adapted to survive on that diet due to both group level isolation and individual upbringing (gut bacteria development). Different socio-cultural groups often have different tolerance for common food items.
Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by throwaway2056 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:09AM (#35724781)
Comparing hn-ers lifestyle/needs to that of Massai? not the best idea.
Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by kikokikokiko on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:15AM (#35724828)
It's indifferent to the question. Some food is either healthy for human consumption or it's not. The argument is: if a population of humans exist that makes milk a very substantial portion of their diet, and is perfectly fine, arguing that it's bad for humans is complete stupidity.
Re:Aubrey Plaza Is the Unfortunate New Face of the Milk Wars... by helsinkiandrew on Thursday April 27, 2023 @06:34AM (#35726004)
> Tell that to the Massai, that live basically on a diet of milk, meat and blood

They also live a mainly active, nomadic lifestyle herding cows rather than sitting down staring at a computer screen - and usually die in their forties.