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- Compared to humanity’s 300,000-year history, drinking milk is a new habit (Credit: Getty) Set against the 300,000-year history of our species, drinking milk is quite a new habit. Before about 10,000 years ago or so, hardly anybody drank milk, and then only on rare occasions.
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The ability to digest milk evolved independently in ancient populations around the world. Researchers have mapped the trait to gene variants that instruct cells to produce high levels of lactase. The variant that most people of European ancestry carry is one of the strongest examples of natural selection on the human genome. Yet scientists have str...
With that idea scotched, the researchers looked at how lactose tolerance relates to milk drinking in modern Europeans. In the UK Biobank, a repository of health and genomic data from half a million people in the United Kingdom, they found little correlation between milk consumption and lactose tolerance, with 92% of lactose-intolerant participants ...
“Are they right? I don’t know. It’s hard to say,” says Wilkin. Even if people didn’t die from the effects of lactose intolerance during hard times, it could have made them less likely to procreate than people who could digest milk, allowing lactose persistence to flourish. But she’s not sure that this fully explains why the trait is absent, or very...
- Ewen Callaway
Jan 7, 2021 · Dose–response analyses indicated that an increment of 200 ml (approximately 1 cup) milk intake per day was associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, hypertension, colorectal cancer, metabolic syndrome, obesity and osteoporosis.
- Xingxia Zhang, Xinrong Chen, Yujie Xu, Jie Yang, Liang Du, Ka Li, Yong Zhou
- 2021
Oct 15, 2020 · Drinking milk used to be known across the board as a healthy habit. But it's nearly impossible to know who or what to believe when it comes to healthy eating and staying fit these days. With the conflicting information about dairy, we asked the experts for the skinny on milk.
- Joey Keogh
In recent years, there's been a lot of debate about whether drinking the milk of other animals is good for us. But how do the arguments for and against drinking dairy milk stack up?
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Apr 4, 2023 · To the marketers trying to reboot milk as a sports drink for Generation Z, Yvonne Zapata seemed like the perfect ambassador.
Sep 5, 2023 · Those who consumed more dairy lived significantly shorter lives. Every half serving more of regular milk a day was associated with 9 percent increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, 11 percent increased risk of dying from cancer, and an 11 percent increased risk of dying from all causes put together.
