“Chocolate Milk May Reduce Inflammation”

Response to New York Times headline required  IMMEDIATELY!

Exactly the kind of headlines keeping Americans fat, sick & disease-ridden.

I don’t recommend drinking pasteurized milk at all. I generally refer to it as puke or slime rather than milk. I do understand not everyone is an advocate, wants to drink, or has access to Raw Milk.

Milk Info:

• For the folk who intentionally drink pasteurized milk…
  See: Mercola’s comments (scroll dow the page a little).
• For Folks with no access to raw dairy… I suggest you do yourself a favor and ditch dairy (except butter) altogether. You can thank me later.

 

So let’s disassemble and get to the bottom of this article!

“Move over, red wine. Make room for chocolate milk. A new study suggests that regular consumption of skim milk with flavonoid-rich cocoa may reduce inflammation, potentially slowing or preventing development of atherosclerosis.”

Milk mixed with cocoa is not “Chocolate Milk”!
From Wikipedia: “Chocolate milk is a sweetened, cocoa-flavored milk drink. It can be purchased pre-mixed or made at home with either cocoa powder and a sweetener (such as sugar), or with melted chocolate, chocolate syrup, or chocolate milk mix. Other ingredients, such as starch, salt, carrageenan, vanilla, or artificial flavoring may be added.”

Chocolate milk is processed w/alkali
(Dutch cocoa) which destroys/diminishes the Antioxidant content. To your right you will see the exact chart hot-linked from Hershey’s website. Note that milk chocolate is way down the list. This is also solid milk chocolate. I’m betting that it contains much more cocoa than milk’s milk chocolate.

How much cocoa is in chocolate milk?
Short answer = Very little. It’s mostly sugar.

The chart below shows the AOX value for 100g of cocoa. If you don’t know how much that is… it’s about 20 TABLESPOONS (½ can of baking cocoa) or roughly 3½ ounces of pure 100% cacao (baking bar). You’re probably better off eating the 100% cacao bar or spicing the crap out of stuff with cinnamon. It’s pretty easy to throw a tablespoon of cinnamon into things here and there (at least for me anyway). Cinnamon is my paleo sugar

“Half were given 20-gram sachets of soluble cocoa powder to drink with skim milk twice a day, while the rest drank plain skim milk.”

Here’s a fun little test for you right now… Go put 4 tablespoons of 100% baking cocoa in a glass of Skim milk (why do you have skim milk in your fridge!) and see if it tastes ANYTHING like chocolate milk!

I’m betting most (at least SAD people) would vomit before they could get it down.
 

Study flaw. Where’s the third group?

As most people well know, pasteurized milk is an inflammatory in itself, so why didn’t they use a third control group and feed them cocoa off a spoon? I mean come on people!

And the title of the Original Study?
“Effect of cocoa powder on the modulation of inflammatory biomarkers in patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease”

NYT version:
“Chocolate Milk May Reduce Inflammation”

Study Objective:
The objective was to evaluate the effects of chronic cocoa consumption on cellular and serum biomarkers related to atherosclerosis in high-risk patients.

Study Conclusions:
These results suggest that the intake of cocoa polyphenols may modulate inflammatory mediators in patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease. These antiinflammatory effects may contribute to the overall benefits of cocoa consumption against atherosclerosis.

Poor bastards!

I’m very on board with the benefits of cocoa, so I just hate seeing garbage like this produced by the mainstream channels. Nothing new I guess This was published on the New York Times website! Just think how many millions of poor uneducated bastards are going to read this and think “chocolate milk is heathy” for them now! We’re going to have guys with huge guts and heart disease washing down statins with bottles of Quik. Good grief!

 

Cold weather AOX powerhouse drinks!

- Cocoa Power -

• One big mug of piping hot water
• Add a Peppermint tea bag or two (Stash Peppermint)
• 1-2T of organic pure cocoa or cacao (I like Repunzel)
• 1-2T of virgin coconut oil (Nutiva is my Fav)
• Real Butter will work too.

Play around with the levels of the ingredients to suite your tastes, but I think you’ll find this drink very delightful! I often use it as a dessert

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- Cinnamon Power -

• 3 raw eggs
• 1 cup boiling water
• 1T cinnamon
• 1T coconut oil

Oh yeah! That’s what I’m talking about. Once again adjust the levels to taste.