Thais prefer booze to milk

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Published: 28 Sep 2012 at 14.09
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Thais drink three litres of alcoholic beverages per head for every litre of milk they consume, according to figures released as part of a campaign to steer people away from alcohol towards healthier alternatives.

Songkran Phakchokdee, director of the Stop Drink Network of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation, was supporting the campaign for people to refrain from consuming alcohol during Buddhist Lent.

He pointed out while Thais consume only about 14.19 litres of milk per head each year, well below the Southeast Asian average of 60 litres, Public Health Ministry data shows they drink about 2.69 billion litres of alcoholic beverages per year, or about 44 litres per head - an alarming figure and the cause of serious health concerns.

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bern1005
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Discussion 29 : 04 Oct 2012 at 14.0329
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Most opinions here seem sensible but there are a few wildly inaccurate and unscientific comments about calcium (D13 confuses calcium and vitamin D and D3 has the completely incorrect ideas that 'mineral calcium' is in any way connected to arteriosclerosis or arthritis). Only a small percentage of previously ill individuals have any need to avoid milk products for any reason other that weight control.
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Discussion 28 : 29 Sep 2012 at 12.2728
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D#19 Khun Yik, Have you ever seen how bauxite altered into aluminum and hard metal? There you go it is the same with calcium.
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Discussion 27 : 29 Sep 2012 at 11.5727
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D#21 Khun Soltair, Milk used to be a pure food, then government and big business got a strangle
hold on the industry and destroyed it. Tragically, They turned milk into a non-food, and they have ruined this nourishing food by taking the cattle out of grassy pastures where, in the good old days they were free to absorb the life-giving nutrients nature provided. They are now fed the cheapest, most unhealthful grains, dosed with drugs & hormones, and treated inhumanely. People should avoid this non-food, take your child off milk and cheese unless you can locate a dairy that allows their cows to live according to the laws of nature, their milk will be high in life-giving fats and minerals and will nourish your family.
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Discussion 26 : 29 Sep 2012 at 10.1026
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I knew an old bush character who used to drink a pint of Bundaberg Rum and a pint of milk each night. He lived into his seventies, but he looked 99!
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Discussion 25 : 29 Sep 2012 at 02.0825
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This tastes like the Thai Milk Board doing some product pushing to me. Compare alcohol to water for a more realistic outcome as milk is not a culturally typical dietary supplement for Thais, much like they don't eat reindeer or seal meat. And stop adding sugar to all milk products.
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Discussion 24 : 29 Sep 2012 at 02.0624
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@ Discussion 21 (soltair):

Yes, I remember the milkmen with their horse drawn carriages; the “modern” ones had motor carrier tricycles or even DKW or Volkswagen buses.
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Discussion 23 : 29 Sep 2012 at 01.4023
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@ Discussion 16 (bedouin):

If you had ever bought milk in Thailand, you would know that it is widely available and cheaper (84.50 baht for 2 litres) than any alcoholic drink, Archa beer and Siam Sato included.
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Discussion 22 : 28 Sep 2012 at 23.1022
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If as much money were invested in milk production as alcohol then we might have milk that tasted better .
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Discussion 21 : 28 Sep 2012 at 22.0321
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Somnamna is spot on with her info. I drink very little fresh goat milk, it taste like the cow milk when I was very young. What cartons or even glass bottles,the milkman came with very large metal containers (with a horse drawn carriage) and every household had a pan ready. Two fingers cream on top. The "milk" nowadays is as Somnamna describes full of alien "what shall we call it", basically unfit for human consumption, it doesn't even taste like milk.
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Discussion 20 : 28 Sep 2012 at 21.3720
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Wow! Alcoholics win over babies. Something to celebrate !
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