Talk:Skimmed milk

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Skimmed milk article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Food and drink Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Food and drink, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of food and drink related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Food and drinkWikipedia:WikiProject Food and drinkTemplate:WikiProject Food and drinkFood and drink articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Food and Drink task list:

To edit this page, select here

Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Food and drink:

Help bring these Top Importance articles currently B Status or below up to GA status: Agaricus bisporus (i.e. mushroom), Beef, Bread, Curry, Drink, Food, Ham and eggs, Soy sauce, Sushi, Yogurt
Bring these Top Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Beer, French cuisine, Sugar
Bring these High Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Apple, Burger King, Fish
Participate in project-related deletion discussions.
Delete unrelated trivia sections found in articles. Please review WP:Trivia and WP:Handling trivia to learn how to do this.
Add the {{WikiProject Food and drink}} project banner to food and drink related articles and content to help bring them to the attention of members. For a complete list of banners for WikiProject Food and drink and its child projects, select here.
Provide photographs and images for Category:Wikipedia requested images of food
Consider joining this project's Assessment task force. List any project ideas in this section

Note: These lists are transcluded from the project's tasks pages.

Untitled

Perhaps someone can explain the statement "It is also common for different cows to be used that eat more nutritional grass making the cow lighter". Lighter cows have no obvious connection to skim milk.

That was vandalism. DS (talk) 23:14, 12 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Dubious

I don't think one study should be used to support this statement: "consumption of low fat and non-fat milk may be correlated with an increased risk of localized or low-grade prostate cancer tumors" when reviews of this study make the finding about calcium and not fat and there are contradicting findings about the benefit of calcium in regards to cancer.

Compare with

Baron JA, Beach M, Wallace K; et al. (2005). "Risk of prostate cancer in a randomized clinical trial of calcium supplementation". Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. 14 (3): 586–9. doi:10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-04-0319. PMID 15767334. {{cite journal}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

as cited in

Kristal AR, Arnold KB, Neuhouser ML; et al. (2010). "Diet, supplement use, and prostate cancer risk: results from the prostate cancer prevention trial". American Journal of Epidemiology. 172 (5): 566–77. doi:10.1093/aje/kwq148. PMC 2950820. PMID 20693267. Both dietary and supplemental calcium have been associated with increased risk in many observational studies, but calcium supplementation was found to be protective in a randomized clinical trial. {{cite journal}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

—Chris Capoccia ^T⁄_C 22:21, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm an IP address and I agree. Correlation does not imply causation. 2601:246:4400:333:DBA:E50A:4C85:FCD3 (talk) 09:39, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done - Taken out of the article as it did not have enough citations to stand on it's own. -- Dane2007 ^talk 21:51, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Missing text

The article segues abruptly from animal fattening to a paragraph that continues rather than introduces the subject of recent studies on dairy fat and nutrition, disease and weight loss. At least one paragraph is missing. In fact the entire subject deserves its own heading. Merry medievalist (talk) 20:21, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Milk Delivery in the UK

The article as of the current date (2017/08/10) states "Today, milkman delivery is non existent in the UK." citing a book reference that I am unable to readily check.

Whilst it's true that milk delivery in the UK has greatly diminished from its heyday of the 1960s & 1970s, and is now unavailable in some areas, it still very much exists in others. My elderly housebound mother lives in a village on the Herts/Essex/London borders and gets her milk delivered from Hertford Dairy three times a week; I know because I pay the bill for her!

The foil top colours are indeed still as described in the article.

Loathe though I am to remove a cited statement when I have no evidence to hand but my own experience, I felt I had to point up this inaccuracy; perhaps someone more versed in the ways of Wikipedia than I could correct this? Thank you. A.S. 2A02:C7D:7479:D600:2436:A85F:F73:8B23 (talk) 02:01, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

-- Just to add, although Hertford Dairy doesn't have much of a web presence, Walden Dairy, which delivered my own milk in another town throughout the 1990s, still seems to.exist with an active web presence here: http://waldendairy.co.uk -- don't know if this is enough to qualify as independent evidence. A.S. 2A02:C7D:7479:D600:2436:A85F:F73:8B23 (talk) 02:09, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

-- Finally (sorry!), Wikipedia's own main milk article indicates, with citations, that around 6%-7% of UK milk is still delivered by milkman: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Milk#United_Kingdom And with that, I'll leave you alone now! A.S. 2A02:C7D:7479:D600:2436:A85F:F73:8B23 (talk) 02:18, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Health effects

The paragraph is biased towards the negative. Heath risks would be a better title. The paragraph is also cited with links to non-scientific sources. Some of those citation links are dead. I propose to delete the paragraph. Sciencefact (talk) 14:24, 28 July 2019 (UTC)Finn Stapelkamp[reply]

Article is not about skimmed milk

I've corrected content but don't feel this page is about skimmed milk more about milk in general. Randomduded (talk) 07:50, 28 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]