Is drinking milk at night good or bad for you?!

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Good for you..

Drinking cow milk in general is ''bad'' for a human. Milk is nature's perfect food...if you're a calf. A cow is a four-legged, ruminant animal in the taxonomic class Theria. Humans are higher primates. Are you a cow? See the major differences in taxonomic ranks? Can you explain your logic, lack there of, that a human drinking the milk of cow is au naturale? You're drinking milk from an animal that makes and reswallows its own cud, has hooves and horns, has a 4-chambered stomach, and only communicates saying MOOOO!! And don't look to the dairy industry, the corrupt FDA with ties to the dairy industry, or to industry research for your answer.

Look up the consequences of too much saturated fat, calcium, and proteins in your diet. Cow milk hAS more than 20 different complex proteins. This may provoke an immune response on ingestion, with casein being the most well-known allergen. Although they share similar symptoms, milk allergy and milk sensitivity are two distinct conditions with different potential outcomes. Also, the pasteurization process can denature the protein resulting in your kidneys and livers just expelling it through your urine.
Cows are not milk machines. If it is organic, raw, or pasteurized, It is unhealthy for human consumption, The high estrogen and progesterone content in cow milk is off the chart. The link between cancer and dietary hormones - estrogen in particular - has been a source of great concern among scientists.
Butter, meat, eggs, milk, and cheese are implicated in higher rates of hormone-dependent cancers in general. Breast cancer has been linked particularly to consumption of milk and cheese.
Cancer rates linked to dairy are a major concern. In the past 50 years in Japan rising rates of dairy consumption are linked with rising death rates from prostate cancer - from near zero per 100,000 five decades ago to 7 per 100,000 today.
The potential for risk is large. Natural estrogens are up to 100,000 times more potent than their environmental counterparts, such as the estrogen-like compounds in pesticides. Among the routes of human exposure to estrogens, we are mostly concerned about cow's milk, which contains considerable amounts of female sex hormones.
Part of the problem seems to be milk from modern dairy farms, where cows are milked about 300 days a year. For much of that time, the cows are pregnant. The later in pregnancy a cow is, the more hormones appear in her milk.

Milk from a cow in the late stage of pregnancy contains up to 33 times as much estrogen compound than milk from a non-pregnant cow.
Don't think cows ''have to milked.'' They are not milk machines meant to be milk every day of their life. The body produces hormones estrogen that stimulate the growth of the milk duct DURING pregnancy and after birth, meant only for the calf. When the calf weans, the calf is off it for life. The maintenance of milk production requires prolactin and oxytocin. High levels of progesterone inhibit lactation before birth. Disturbance of oxytocin secretion stops lactation just as readily as a lack of the hormones necessary for milk production, for the milk in the breast (udders) is then not extractable by the infant. So, they don't continue lactating for a lifetime.

Solution: Estrogen is an animal hormone, only made by animals. There are no estrogens in plant foods. Pick soy milk, rice milk. almond milk, etc.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf06…
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14729…
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006…

If you have pints, bad.
But the sugar in milk is lactose, which is GOOD for humans, not the kind they need to cut back on. The same way as you don't need to cut back hugely on fruit (fructose sugar)

Milk is full of calcium and other nutrients a human needs, especially young children. Having a glass a night will do more good than harm. You probably won't have bone issues in the future, and you'll have stronger teeth.

Me and my brothers had about 400ml of milk every night until we were about 11. We have strong bones, teeth, and none of us are overweight.

We drank semi skimmed. But a glass of milk is very healthy, the full fat kind should be avoided, but the calories aren't enough to make you obese.

Good Lord John - if you take this attitude to everything that you eat and drink, how are you still alive?
I bet there's someone out there who could tell you how bad tap water, mineral water, fruit juice, soda drinks, coffee, tea, hot chocolate and alcohol are!
Be sensible about the amount of anything you have and it will be fine.

Common Sense

SKimmed milk helps me to fall asleep.Solving bad sleep is very, very difficult, especially after menopause. (It does not help to stay asleep at 4 AM... but you become very well-read!))Yes you can meditate, avoid caffeine for a whole year, talk to a therapist etc.etc.
And altough I have been a vegetarian for 44 years, I dont like the taste soy milk. Rice milk and almond milk are hard to find and very expensive in the healthfoodstore.

This may sound crude but if you are worried about the sugar and calories then burn them off with the usual bedroom activities! Else, add a little honey to the milk, warm it up a little and you'll sleep like a baby.

If you are drinking it because you can't sleep, then you need to address why you can't sleep, then you wouldn't need to have the milk at all!

Drink 1% milk. You can make hot chocolate with splenda or truvia and it helps you sleep

If you are hungry then it is good
if you overeat then it is bad

hmmm...don't drink milk at night , it's not adviceable.

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because it keeps the body healthy

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