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 There is a narrative that salt and sugar are unhealthy even toxic ; this narrative can be seen to be false when you know that oral rehydration treatment and intravenous fluid treatment consist of only salt and sugar. Also breast milk contains salt and sugar .

https://m.primal.net/IJIf.jpg 
 milk is evolved to add body weight as quickly as possible
it's great for infants
it's not great for adults 
 Milk is very good for adults .
The masai drink huge quantities.
https://m.primal.net/IJIm.jpg 
 different populations have different levels of adaptation to adult dairy consumption

most of the world is lactose intolerant 
 True but not the English speaking world. 🙂 
 I like this 
 This is fucking retarded.

Those doses are measured.

Not a pint of ice cream and 17 full sugar cokes a day.

Fuck an A, what full retard wrote this? 
 Thank you for pointing out that doses are important .😊