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Jul 6, 2015 · As researchers deepened their knowledge of nutrition in the early decades of the 20th Century, the idea that milk had fat, carbohydrates, and protein waned as a justification for milk's...
Jul 13, 2015 · Deborah Valenze, the author of Milk: A Local and Global History, believes that milk’s rise to fame was due to several factors that coincided at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries: * As infant mortality rose in cities, practices for making milk safer began to emerge.
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.
May 7, 2018 · Its merits and dangers have been argued over for at least the past ten thousand years, making it the center of humanity’s longest-standing health-related, moral, and economic food debates. In ...
- Mark Kurlansky
Thousands of years ago, millennia before refrigeration, animal milk would quickly turn to yogurt in warm climates, allowing lactose-intolerant humans to eat a nutritious and calorie-rich food (bacteria break down the lactose in yogurt, so even lactose-intolerant people can usually enjoy it).
- Melissa Petruzzello
Milk was held up as an icon of ‘good health’ by both the British state and the dairy industry. It became embedded in British diets through welfare schemes such as school milk and was considered key to strengthening the nation during World War II.
May 6, 2018 · The Salt. Milk! The 'Most Over-Argued Food In History' May 6, 20188:33 AM ET. Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday. By. Lulu Garcia-Navarro. 5-Minute Listen. Playlist. Enlarge this image. A man pours...
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