Microblog: Fruit Smoothie vs. Whole Milk
Note: This isn’t a brand endorsement. I could care less. It’s sharing two common companies that the average American frequents. You can get milk and half & half anywhere. It’s sharing real life with real life examples.
Smoothies have become a superfood.
❓Why?
❓Because they make sugar go down faster?
❓Or because they allow us to drink all our greens faster so we don’t have to taste them?
🧸When I was a Cal student, I worked at the Jamba Juice across the street from campus. I know how every single drink is made.
🍨Trust me when I say there’s a lot of sugar in each drink.
🧃They use pasteurized, highly processed fruit drinks to add sugar (and to help the smoothie blend).
🍧They use non-fat sorbets and frozen yogurts to increase the sugar content without making the calorie content higher (gram for gram, fat has higher calories than sugar or protein).
🚫In the US, in 2010, the federal government banned all whole milk in U.S. schools.
❓Why?
The only milk options are now:
❗️1% milk
❗️Skim milk (non-fat milk)
❗️And skim chocolate milk
❓Why?
⭐️We need fat for sex hormones
⭐️We need fat for brain health.
⭐️Every cell’s outer layer is made of fat.
❓Why are they demonizing whole milk (fat) and adding more sugar to the children’s diet?
Are they trying to make our children:
⚠️dumbed down with less proper nutrition for brain growth?
⚠️sick and fat?
⚠️depressed and anxious?
⚠️not properly develop hormonally?
💔Our children’s generation is the first generation expected to die earlier than the generation prior.
First ever.
🧬Yet somehow science has come a long way and we’ve even mapped the human genome.
🥩Yet we don’t know how to feed humans proper nutrition.
🧐Something is clearly wrong.
⁉️Our diet recommendations are wrong. At what point are we going to realize this?
⚠️99.999% of people would see the fruit smoothie vs. the milk smoothie and consider the fruit a la natural drink to be far healthier than the milk.
❓Why? The nutrition facts say otherwise.
☣️As Dr. Lustig says, just because toxin comes with vitamin c, doesn’t mean the toxin isn’t a toxin. Vitamin C does not outweigh the risks of high fructose and added sugar.
🥛(Raw) Milk does a body good. But low-fat, fat-free milks are trash—fortified with synthetic vitamins and added sugars. And frankly, making our children sick and fat.
