Thai ministry wants longer Thai through milk

It is another ridiculous comment from someone from the Thai ministry who have been put on a chair by Taksin because they have always supported him.
Do something about the diet of a Thai (especially due to foreign influence).
They only get thicker and certainly no longer.
Diabetes was already number one. Cardiovascular disease is now number two.
Due to the enormous environmental pollution, lung diseases will come to number one.
The picture and pack of cigarettes don't help that.
That government must guide Thailand in the right direction.
Abroad you make yourself ridiculous by such statements.
Cor van Kampen.

Can agree with Cor and have some additional information from a number of doctors, the Red Cross (where I am a blood donor) and my friend, who has been the director of a large private hospital in Bangkok for 15 years.

1. Many Thais may not be fat (in the sense of being overweight) but their cholesterol is sky-high. Cause: way too much pork, way too much roasting in the wrong (or old) oil and eating too many eggs (2 per week is the healthy maximum).
2. Due to the excessive alcohol consumption (Thai are among the top three in the world when it comes to drinking spirits, after the Uzbeks and the Russians)) of mostly Thai men (but not forgetting the women sometimes), the fertility strength goes of male semen over the age of 45 strongly declined. My wife's doctor finds it almost unbelievable that at my age I am still able to get my wife pregnant. This alcohol consumption also leads to – I thought – 26.000 road deaths per year. especially among young people (on a moped). They therefore do not grow old and significantly reduce average life expectancy. No white engine helps against that.
3. Due to a lot of tension in families (especially due to unfaithful husbands and wives, not to mention the debts and the constant, daily search for money), the blood pressure of the Thai is also very high on average. (and the fuse is often short, about which you can read more on this blog)
4. I was once asked by a top chef: do you know any mammal on this earth that still drinks milk when it is independent and leaves its mother? Answer: no. Only man. But even a person does not need milk or dairy products throughout his life IF he eats a balanced and varied diet.
chris

In 10 years, the Thai will not really have grown if he starts drinking milk now. However, in the long run it will be noticeable that the Thai people grow wider, firmer and taller if this is stimulated by a healthier diet. Let's assume that the Ministry of Health intended that impetus.

Incidentally, the question is whether Thai people will enjoy the white stuff. After all: ninety percent of Asians (but also seventy percent of Africans and fifty percent of South Americans) are lactose intolerant. So also Thailand.
While only fifteen percent of Europeans and North Americans are aware of this lactose intolerance. No fewer than seventy percent of the world's population cannot tolerate milk.

All these people get intestinal complaints from drinking milk. The cause is milk sugar (lactose), which is not (properly) digested. That was not the case in the early years of one's life. Breast milk contains lactose, which babies digest because of a lactase enzyme in the gut. When breastfeeding is gradually stopped, intolerance arises because physiologically the production of the lactase enzyme also stops.

Most Asians can't just get to the milk spout, that turns out not to be the case with Europeans and North Americans. They have evolved in such a way that they can continue to drink milk. A cultural evolution – not a genetic one.
In Europe, the Dutch, North Germans and Scandinavians are the champions of drinking milk. In Southern Europe, about half of the people can drink milk without any problems. Americans also use lactase tablets, in addition to many other dietary supplements.
As an aside, there are scientists who are convinced that the human body is not built to drink cow's milk. According to them, cow's milk is meant for the calf, just as mother's milk is meant for the baby.

So most Asians only get a stomach ache from milk. It is not for nothing that there are so many soy-based alternatives, also cheap and traditionally known.
On the site below of the Dutch Product Board for Dairy http://www.prodzuivel.nl/index.asp?frame=http%3A//www.prodzuivel.nl/pz/productschap/publicaties/artikelen/Zuivelzicht20081127.htm
there are nice things to read about this.

Regards, Ruud