That's only an argument based on taste, assuming someone really -only- likes whole milk, which I am assuming is the case for you.
If you like skim milk and not whole milk, instead, there's no reason to drink whole milk, at all. You can have skim milk and if you want butter just add it in places where it's more tasty, like on vegetables or pasta or toast etc.
To people who don't like the taste of whole milk, whole milk is like putting butter in your drink, which is pointless since things will still be digested together anyways.
Wrong.
Skim milk especially is made up of just sugars + proteins which tend to spike insulin.
Steve,
Actually, no. Skim milk is made up of milk minus butter. That's it. And insulin is spiked almost as much by protein alone. Lactose is a slower-digestion sugar and the ratio of it to proteins is quite acceptable, making it a very good food.
Also as I said, if you are having milk for breakfast and want also some milkfat, which is fine, nutritionally there is ZERO difference in choosing to put it on your toast, in your skim milk or in your coffee, except the middle one is a matter of taste (you seem to really like the taste of whole milk) and the last one just sounds a bit gross.
In addition, the exact ratio of fat to milk in whole milk is not any special magical number that needs to be preserved at all costs. It might be reasonably optimized for growing cows (calves? not sure..) but as adult human omnivores it is just a convenient food we choose to add to our diet and can definitely be optimized to our much different needs.
Also it is not a realistic concern to worry that people might drink skim milk like water (too much), not just because people don't do that, and because it's not even a calorie-dense food, but most importantly because they simply CAN'T. Have you ever seen someone being dared to drink a gallon of skim milk in under an hour? You can't, and will throw up trying, because milk proteins alone ensure that milk will not clear out quickly enough from your gut (plus they do other good things like suppress your appetite much as fat does).
In contrast you can drink gallons of sugar soda drinks because that clears out almost right away as you know (sugar can be completely absorbed in the stomach).
Aside from those points, I can relate to your preference of a certain % of milk, because I consider what you call "white water" as the delicious normal food, and as I mentioned I find instead whole milk or even 0.5% undrinkable and tasting like a stick of butter stirred in my drink (and note, I really like the taste of butter when I cook, just not in my drink). But those are differences in taste, hence my position that it doesn't matter if you get your butter stirred in the milk or not.
On everything else like the benefits of adding good fats in your diet (and milkfat being one of them), we agree. But actually separating them out gives a bit more flexibility in how you rotate your essential fats and other flavors while cooking, so I think that's another plus too.
I guess the argument can be made that you could say that about any comfort food but who eats soy as comfort food?!!
I do. There are a lot of delicious soy-based foods in Chinese cuisine, and many of them are linked to my childhood.
Soy can be a huge detriment to people if its given in large portions during developmental parts of their life. I think its pretty well agreed on that giving kids lots of soy is just stupid and harmful.
Got a citation on that?
EDIT:
How do you define "lots of soy"? How do you define "kids"? There's a lot of soy-based food in Chinese cuisine, but I hesitate to say that Chinese culture stunts their children with diet.
Patrick, I agree with you, there is no such studies or evidence.
I think there were some concerns in poverty-stricken places because it's harder to fully extract all nutrients from soy (due to fibers and a few extra things) and if you were barely surviving and only ate soy you might eventually get some nutritional deficiencies.
Still you would be better off trying to live off of only soy compared to almost only anything else. Only milk or only meat or only eggs etc will give you health problems much more quickly (e.g., pirates' scurvy etc).
Aside from that, it's very difficult to eat "a lot of soy" and even harder to eat too much soy, because it tastes like beans. They are good occasionally as a side to other dishes, but you can get tired of it very quickly.
But while too much of anything is bad, in normal amounts (for example the same amount as any other veggie you rotate in your diet), there is no negative side effect, and it's actually one of your best legumes/beans, although variety is still the spice of life and a good practice.
