Interesting Facts About Milk

 

The Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre in New Delhi with collaboration with the Drug Rehabilitation Centre in New Delhi listed some interesting facts about milk. As we human beings are literally very comical. We have different things in our mind and life as well. We lead a very hectic life too. But we have to eat food. We literally forgot the concept of "Healthy food". At Least our instincts say that. Habit is everything. Our life revolves around our habit. Our life makes us machines. Apart from that, our food habit also makes us a little bit sluggish.

The Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre in New Delhi also stated that we cannot deny the fact that we all have a huge fascination towards junk food or street food. Nothing can be better than this. But these things make our life miserable at the same time. We always give excuses that we do not have time. Every puzzle has to be solved in its own way. We hardly pass a day without stress and anxiety. But at the end of the day, we really need something healthy. For this milk is the best option. Milk is loaded with nutrients such as vitamin A, B1, B2, B12 etc. There is no need to mention that milk is the best source of protein and calcium. It is dubbed as a complete food.

From our very childhood, we have always had milk because of its nutritious value that our parents felt was important for us. Questioning milk in our diet could never have been questioned. Whether we liked it or not, we were made to have milk either by adding a flavor to change its taste or giving it in some other form like curd, lassi and what not. So here is some mind – blowing and unknown facts about the milk that has always been playing a major role in your life.

• Lactase Persistence, the ability of humans to digest milk as an adult, is only common among Europeans and those of European ancestry, as a unique mutation. Most of the global population, including 90% of Asians and 100% of Native Americans, has some degree of lactose intolerance.

• People who drink whole milk are less likely to be fat than those who drink low-fat milk.

• Milk can be used for creating a type of plastic that is odorless, biodegradable, antistatic, and insoluble in water and virtually non flammable.

• Breast milk contains substances which are not digestible by human infants, but which serve as food for desirable gut bacteria.

• 65% of the milk consumption worldwide is from goat’s milk.

• Milk is the only food that you can survive wholly on, having every nutrient your body needs to live.

• Milk is the most hydrating beverage you can drink.

• Fresh milk will stay fresher longer if you add a pinch of salt to each quart.

•A cow gives milk for the first time, only after she gives birth to a calf.

• The entire skeleton of a young child is replaced about every two years. That’s why a child’s demand for calcium is so high.

• Hippo's Milk Is Pink in color.

• Buffalo milk has 25 per cent more protein than cow’s milk; also only whole milk contains vitamin D. Nearly Half of Americans Get Their Vitamin D from Milk.