on the Today show.....

Every morning after feeding calves and eating breakfast I go online to read quickly up on dairy news that has been emailed to me. Today it was brought to my attention that there was a little thing about dairy and loosing weight on the Today show so I clicked on the link and watch the little clip. It explains how dairy can be a part of a healthy diet and losing weight but only if you watch what you eat and don't add on a lot of calories by eating more dairy. I guess we need the today show to point that one out to us. To tell us you wont lose weight if you eat already 1000 cal a day more then your body needs and add some more ice cream to it .Duh, as much as I would like to promote a diet that is only made up out of butter, ice-cream, cheese and whole milk it is common sence to me that you should eat a little bit of everything  , eating only dairy is not good, just like eating broccoli only is not good either. Start the day with some yoghurt and cereals , eat a cheese sandwich for lunch, cookies and glass  milk for snack and eat ice cream for dessert. Add fruit and veggies and some meat  and there you have your variation .

I tried to put the link here but my computer skills are not that good So here is was was said on the show

However, pointed out Madelyn Fernstrom, diet and nutrition editor for the Today Show, there is a big “if” attached to that.

“The ‘if’ is you have to be in a calorie-controlled diet to begin with,” she said. “You have to trim your calories. So, it’s not magically adding dairy to what you already eat and adding calories. It’s replacing some of the calories you eat with dairy foods, low- and non-fat.”

Studies continue to show there is an association between dairy products and weight loss, Fernstrom pointed out, but she couldn't pinpoint exactly what it is about milk that causes that. "It could be the protein, it could be the milk solids, the stuff that makes milk white; there's a lot of stuff in milk other than calcium," she said. (See video above.)

http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/47040363#47040363

We have a lot of people tour our farm, retired farmers, grandparents with their grandchildren, rotary clubs and school classes. But nobody has ever asked me why milk is white. The answer in the interview made me look into it some more and yep milk is white because of the milk is rich in calcium= casein that helps contribute to milk's white color. In addition , the cream that is found in milk contains white colored fat.
Next week we will have the 8th graders out here for a tour for career day so at least I will be prepared for that question. Now I only need to come up with a good answer for the question if brown cows give chocolate milk ........(will be continued )