Drinking too much milk?

[AlexOC]

About a month ago i found myself drinking about 2 litres of coke a day.

So in an attempt to improve my health i have swapped all the drinking i do at home to milk. This is making me have about 3 pints of milk a day..

And although it is better for my body and teeth... is there any side effects of drinking too much milk?

[buttons]

why milk? water is so so much healthier.
too much of pretty much anything is bad for you but with milk it'll be even worse. what kind of milk is it anyway? you might start putting on weight.
tbh i always thought it was more important for kids who were still developing to drink a lot of it but it's not so wise for your bones when you're older, not sure how true that is but i learn it in childcare so yknow :P i don't think it's all that great, maybe with your cereal and a glass before bed but water is better imo

[Pix]

i have an obsession with apple juice :'(

[AlexOC]

Its the milk with a green cap.

[jackass]

i have an obsession with apple juice :'(

I used to, but now I drink orange juice. :8

[AlexOC]

I used to, but now I drink orange juice. :8

Isnt lots of fruit juice bad for you?

[iAdam]

As Jen said, if you're drinking normal milk, it'll put weight on, depending on your age that could be very unhealthy.

I suggest swapping some of the milk for water, or fruit juices.

[AlexOC]

As Jen said, if you're drinking normal milk, it'll put weight on, depending on your age that could be very unhealthy.

I suggest swapping some of the milk for water, or fruit juices.

I lovveee apple juice. But i thought lots of that was bad for your health. And teeth for that matter.

[jackass]

Isnt lots of fruit juice bad for you?

Probably, but I couldn't care in the slightest, I hate water AND milk. :P

[AlexOC]

Probably, but I couldn't care in the slightest, I hate water AND milk. :P

Seeee i dont like water that much, but its decent i guess. I love milk!!

[Arch]

Milk gives you acne tbh

[MrGazet]

ugh..I dislike milk and I dnt drink it that much which is bad I know

I have an obsession with ribena though :(

[AlexOC]

ugh..I dislike milk and I dnt drink it that much which is bad I know

I have an obsession with ribena though :(

Drink Ribena light!!

Anyway so im guessing Water is like the healthiest thing you can drink...

surely if you only drink water you can get ill aswell, lack of protein or something?? (dont understand biology sorry)

[Alkaz]

Like you already stated, milk is good for your teeth and you need it in your diet but drinking 21l of milk a week is a lot. Not only is it incredibly expensive but like others have already said aswell, it will make you put on weight which is bad for you aswell. Best to stick to water/flavoured water or cordial to be honest.

[AlexOC]

Like you already stated, milk is good for your teeth and you need it in your diet but drinking 21l of milk a week is a lot. Not only is it incredibly expensive but like others have already said aswell, it will make you put on weight which is bad for you aswell. Best to stick to water/flavoured water or cordial to be honest.

So like i could drink as much volvic flavoured water as i want and its fine??

[Wig44.]

Bottled water is subpar to the water from your tap. Drinking milk is fine, but it could lead to some fat gains. If you were to start working out however, it's commonly said that for beginners, milk is better than steroids.

[AlexOC]

So if i want to drink lots of milk the only downside is weight gain?

And it would be fine if i kept active?

I also have a high metabolism-thingy, i eat loads and dont put on anything.

[Black_Apalachi]

I love milk! Usually drink loads except recently while I've not been well I've stuck to flavoured water.


Milk gives you acne tbh

When I'm at home I drink milk more than anything else and all my life until very recently I was drinking the blue cap stuff. It doesn't give me acne though nor does it do anything to my weight. My mum always gets the green cap now although I'd rather stay with the blue one.

[iAdam]

So if i want to drink lots of milk the only downside is weight gain?

And it would be fine if i kept active?

I also have a high metabolism-thingy, i eat loads and dont put on anything.

Well, The only noticeable short term effect yes, your body only want's high levels of something every so often, drinking milk all the time forever constantly is building up these high levels which it doesn't want, variety is always good remember.

[adaym]

I used to drink 2 pints plus a day for about 5 years. Bought on way home from school. People thought I was weird but it's nice, I have a good metabolism so it has no bearing that way and I've never broken a bone and I was a pretty sporty guy.

Milk can only be good.

[Alkaz]

Stick to cordial/water. Cant go wrong.

[Arch]

I love milk! Usually drink loads except recently while I've not been well I've stuck to flavoured water.



When I'm at home I drink milk more than anything else and all my life until very recently I was drinking the blue cap stuff. It doesn't give me acne though nor does it do anything to my weight. My mum always gets the green cap now although I'd rather stay with the blue one.

True although i read somewhere its proven that alot of milk can increase acne although everyone is different. Also you can drink your milk and youll be fine just dont drink as much as you've said you have been switch it up and have water, or some juice.

[Black_Apalachi]

Yeah I go through phases really. At one point I was drinking nothing but pure orange juice but now I can't stand the stuff. I don't think I drink milk as much as I used to, I just have it in my cereal and sometimes with food. I'm trying to drink flavoured water as much as possible now because I loved it and I definitely don't drink enough water.

[Blinger1]

you'll turn into a cow, and when you squeeze your nipples you squirt milk.. yes i am serious!

[AlexOC]

After some research i have found the milk from my fridge which we always get is semi-skimmed.

Thoughts?

[Blinger1]

its the bad alternative to normal milk.

[Stryderman]

If you have acne or achne or however its spelt, Drinking milk excessively can dramatically increase your acne.
Learned that off embarrasing illness's too cool? (h)

[jack-bristol]

I drink around 6-8 pints of milk a day.

[Stryderman]

I drink around 6-8 pints of milk a day.

Dnt take offence but are you obese?

[Wig44.]

I drink around 6-8 pints of milk a day.

I'm finding that hard to believe, unless you don't get a great amount of calories from whole food.

[luce]

i drink alot of milk and i can't see it doing that much harm. I wouldn't drink more than you are now because too much of a good thing and all that.. variety is good drink coke, water, milk, juices all in moderation :D

[leah]

it's fattening

[AlexOC]

i have a high metabolismthingy, so if i drink me semi-skimmed milk and nodge up my excercise a bit i should be ok??

[Stryderman]

i have a high metabolismthingy, so if i drink me semi-skimmed milk and nodge up my excercise a bit i should be ok??




Yes... milk is Mother Nature's "perfect food" ...for a calf... until it is weaned. Everything you know about cow's milk and dairy is probably part of a Dairy industry MYTH. Cow's milk is an unhealthy fluid from diseased animals that contains a wide range of dangerous and disease-causing substances that have a cumulative negative effect on all who consume it. MILK'S BASIC CONTENTS *ALL* cow's milk (regular and 'organic') has 59 active hormones, scores of allergens, fat and cholesterol. Most cow's milk has measurable quantities of herbicides, pesticides, dioxins (up to 200 times the safe levels), up to 52 powerful antibiotics (perhaps 53, with LS-50), blood, pus, feces, bacteria and viruses. (Cow's milk can have traces of anything the cow ate... including such things as radioactive fallout from nuke testing ... (the 50's strontium-90 problem). LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH IN AMERICA Rank Total Description 1 724,859 Heart Disease (think fats/cholesterol: meat/dairy) 2 541,532 Malignant Neoplasms (cancer: think toxins/milk/dairy) 3 158,448 Cerebro-vascular (think meat milk and dairy) 4 112,584 Bronchitis Emphysema Asthma (think toxins/milk/dairy) 5 97,835 Unintentional Injuries and Adverse Effects 7 64,751 Diabetes (think milk/dairy)

Drinking too much milk can be bad for you. Apart from the fats involved, the excess calcium can give you kidney stones, which you will have to pass through your urinary tract and can be exceedingly painful.


Excesive milk consumtion cuses anemia.


Drinking more than a quart of milk in a day results in vitamin D overdose, resulting in calcium to be deposited in the soft tissue of the body and mental lethargy.

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[Black_Apalachi]

Yeah Alex, I have a high metabolism too and as I say I've been drinking the full fat stuff all my life but as a few people around here like to have a little snigger about, I'm as thin as. I feel lucky because I love milk and it has none of these bad effects on me that people are saying :D

[Wig44.]

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Excess calcium does not cause kidney stones.
Saturated fat/cholesterol does not cause CHD.
Cows in the EU (and even more stringently so in the UK) are not treated with hormones, cows in the US are however, hence why the writer of your quote (undoubtedly in the US) preaches the dangers of hormone laiden milk. Milk contains hormones anyway, but nothing near the amount mentioned in your quote.
Cows consuming radioactive fallout = US, not UK.

Milk containing blood, pus, faeces, bacteria and viruses = Healthy cows (i.e ones not treated with hormones) and farmers not milking cows that are unhealthy, and the tests in place to ensure these criteria are met in the EU/UK, mean that a lot of the milk you buy in the UK is fit to be consumed raw, the pasteurisation process then reduced bacteria/viruses in the milk further and blood, pus and faeces will not contaminate milk in sanitary farms with healthy cows (this, again, is a problem that the UK is free of).

There is no doubt that there are small concentrations in milk of the cells that taken together in large quantities make up pus, and also very small concentrations of all the cells that make up blood. In essence, you could call milk filtered blood (but it is not blood). But to say that blood and pus are in milk is simply misinforming people and is, well... stupid. Human breastmilk, if you believe that cows milk contains pus, also contains pus.

Excessive milk consumption causes anemia = it has only been found in young children

[AlexOC]

So today i got my mummy to buy me some flavoured water, raspberry was one of them, and something else.

Its nice, and healthy :) So ima stick to that for a while, and milk at night for getting to bo-bos :)

[Black_Apalachi]

I love flavoured water! As long as it's still. We've been out of it for a couple days now though and my mother hasn't got any more so I've been forced to drink Fanta ;l

[AlexOC]

I love flavoured water! As long as it's still. We've been out of it for a couple days now though and my mother hasn't got any more so I've been forced to drink Fanta ;l

Fanta is the devil!!

What flavour water is your fav??

[Black_Apalachi]

I used to be addicted to Fanta Fruit Twist. Not really a fan of Orange and I don't think I've even had the Lemon one. My favourite water was the Lemon and Lime one but I think I prefer the other one we get now, not really sure what it is - Raspberry and something

[jack-bristol]

Dnt take offence but are you obese?

No lol - just a normal person


I'm finding that hard to believe, unless you don't get a great amount of calories from whole food.

Most of the time I skip breakfast and lunch

[AlexOC]

So i followed you guys' help and i bought lots of flavoured water from tesco, asda, morrisons to see which one was the best...

http://alexoc.com/temp/flavwater.png

Hehe. Gonna take a while to drink all this.

[jack-bristol]

So i followed you guys' help and i bought lots of flavoured water from tesco, asda, morrisons to see which one was the best...

http://alexoc.com/temp/flavwater.png

Hehe. Gonna take a while to drink all this.

Looks nice :P

[AlexOC]

Looks nice :P

Yeh, i even have some sparkling just to try it out, im on the blackcurrant sparkling atm. its nice its nice!

[Zak]

"The answer is the former as long as it's consumed as part of a balanced diet.

Milk is a hugely beneficial food because of its high levels of calcium and vitamin D, both of which are essential for healthy bones and teeth."



Personally, I think drinking milk is ok, just don't go nuts on it.. any bad side affects seem to centre around the fat content in it.

[AlexOC]

Yeah, i dont wanna get fat, just like you!

But i might stick to drinking flavoured water all day, then a hot glass of milk at night to help me sleep :)

[Soy]

I went on GOMAD last year,

gallon of milk a day diet.. gained lots of lean muscle but it's high in calories.

Aslong as you have a high metabolism then it shouldn't really harm you,
although there are harmful effects from having too much vitamin B in your diet.

And depends on how well your body copes with the lactose

[AlexOC]

Hmm i am not sure if my body is good with lactose, i'm not intolerant for sure.

[United-Clowgon]

I love milk too! :P

[Inspiration]

Milk is the Shex :D

[dbgtz]

Milks disgusting unless with nice flavours, the taste is just icky.
I'm a water man now and it's probs helped me alot in terms of health as I only drank squash, fizzy drinks and juices (which was alot of sugar in the juice). So less sugar and less acids :D But yer water is delicious when you're dieing for a drink.

[brandon]

Milk with Nesquik chocolate powder, you can't beat it.

I find Milk on it's own too boring :(

[dbgtz]

Yes lovely, but frijj is nicest but too much badness in it so nesquik is the next best thing.

[Wig44.]

I went on GOMAD last year,

gallon of milk a day diet.. gained lots of lean muscle but it's high in calories.

Aslong as you have a high metabolism then it shouldn't really harm you,
although there are harmful effects from having too much vitamin B in your diet.

And depends on how well your body copes with the lactose

Nice, but you did eat normally on top of that right? Should've been pushing 5k cals+

I'd love to GOMAD but it's the constant buying milk, trying to store it, the cost and convincing my parents to let me do it. How much did you gain?

[AlexOC]

Yeh that GOMAD must cost alot.

[Wig44.]

Some guys can gain 25lbs in 25 days on GOMAD if they eat right on top of it. Crazy.

[AlexOC]

Some guys can gain 25lbs in 25 days on GOMAD if they eat right on top of it. Crazy.

Wow, thats crazehhh!

[Soy]

Some guys can gain 25lbs in 25 days on GOMAD if they eat right on top of it. Crazy.

Haha majority of that is water, I only gained about 9lbs mainly fat. After cutting probably left me with about 3lbs muscle gained?

In a month that is

[jack-bristol]

Yeh, i even have some sparkling just to try it out, im on the blackcurrant sparkling atm. its nice its nice!

Better than Milk? lol


gallon of milk a day diet.. gained lots of lean muscle but it's high in calories.

I'm dumb - Someone explain lean muscle for me plz.

[Black_Apalachi]

So i followed you guys' help and i bought lots of flavoured water from tesco, asda, morrisons to see which one was the best... ...

They're the ones we get! The Perfectly Clear ones. There's the berries one, peach and there's a lemon & lime one.


Yeh, i even have some sparkling just to try it out, im on the blackcurrant sparkling atm. its nice its nice!

Nah I hate the sparkling ones

[Wig44.]

Haha majority of that is water, I only gained about 9lbs mainly fat. After cutting probably left me with about 3lbs muscle gained?

In a month that is

Undoubtedly it is, but 3lbs muscle in a month (thats if you guess that no muscle was lost during the cut, there was probably slightly more than 3lbs) is still very good imo.

[AlexOC]

Are the sparkling ones bad for you???

I got them by mistake tbh.

[Black_Apalachi]

I think even the still ones will be more sugary than you think. It's just like anything else; in moderation it's fine but in excess it becomes bad for you

[Wig44.]

If they have sucralose/aspartame dump them, that stuff is horrifically bad, bordering on poison.

Aspartame side effects: (MASSIVE LIST)
Eye
blindness in one or both eyes
decreased vision and/or other eye problems such as: blurring, bright flashes, squiggly lines, tunnel vision, decreased night vision
pain in one or both eyes
decreased tears
trouble with contact lenses
bulging eyes
Ear
tinnitus - ringing or buzzing sound
severe intolerance of noise
marked hearing impairment
Neurologic
epileptic seizures
headaches, migraines and (some severe)
dizziness, unsteadiness, both
confusion, memory loss, both
severe drowsiness and sleepiness
paresthesia or numbness of the limbs
severe slurring of speech
severe hyperactivity and restless legs
atypical facial pain
severe tremors
Psychological/Psychiatric
severe depression
irritability
aggression
anxiety
personality changes
insomnia
phobias
Chest
palpitations, tachycardia
shortness of breath
recent high blood pressure
Gastrointestinal
nausea
diarrhea, sometimes with blood in stools
abdominal pain
pain when swallowing
Skin and Allergies
itching without a rash
lip and mouth reactions
hives
aggravated respiratory allergies such as asthma
Endocrine and Metabolic
loss of control of diabetes
menstrual changes
marked thinning or loss of hair
marked weight loss
gradual weight gain
aggravated low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)
severe PMS
Other
frequency of voiding and burning during urination
excessive thirst, fluid retention, leg swelling, and bloating
increased susceptibility to infection
Additional Symptoms of Aspartame Toxicity include the most critical symptoms of all
death
irreversible brain damage
birth defects, including mental ******ation
peptic ulcers
aspartame addiction and increased craving for sweets
hyperactivity in children
severe depression
aggressive behavior
suicidal tendencies
Aspartame may trigger, mimic, or cause the following illnesses:
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Epstein-Barr
Post-Polio Syndrome
Lyme Disease
Grave’s Disease
Meniere’s Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease
ALS
Epilepsy
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
EMS
Hypothyroidism
Mercury sensitivity from Amalgam fillings
Fibromyalgia
Lupus
non-Hodgkins
Lymphoma
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)


Sucralose Side effects
These are in animals, mainly rabbits and rodents


Shrunken thymus glands (up to 40% shrinkage) (EO56)
Enlarged liver and kidneys. (EO57 & E161)
Atrophy of lymph follicles in the spleen and thymus (EO51, EO56, EO151)
Increased cecal weight (E151)
Reduced growth rate (EO57)
Decreased red blood cell count (EO55)
Hyperplasia of the pelvis (EO57)
Aborted pregnancy (Maternal & Fetal Toxicity) (E134)
Decreased fetal body weights and placental weights (EO32)
Increase glycosylation of hemoglobin (HbA1c) for diabetics (E157)

Sucralose has had NO proper trials in humans, and is in the same stage aspartame was in 20 years ago. It is displaying similarities to aspartame and, whilst probably not as bad, still a serious risk to your health.


Plus plastic leaches into the water from the bottles due to it being in there for days prior to consumption. Unless the water in your area is fluorinated artificially (naturally is fine), there is no need to purchase water other than tap water.

[Black_Apalachi]

... Unless the water in your area is fluorinated artificially (naturally is fine), there is no need to purchase water other than tap water.

Tap water isn't flavoured though

[Wig44.]

With all due respect, if you don't like the taste of water you need to get over it.

[Hiro]

Are the sparkling ones bad for you???

I got them by mistake tbh.

There's nothing wrong with sparkling water, it's just carbonated water. If you're getting flavoured water, try and get the sugar free ones.

[Black_Apalachi]

With all due respect, if you don't like the taste of water you need to get over it.

I don't dislike it, I just also like the taste of flavoured water :S

[Anamations]

ew @ drinking milk plain i only have it in drinks like : hot choclate tea ect...

Yeah i drink alot of coke (fizzy drinks Tbh)