How famine and disease supercharged the spread of lactose tolerance in Europe
The story of how some human populations gained lactose tolerance may be more gruesome than you might have imagined.
Tag: milk
A milk peptide could lead us to new, non-addictive sleep medication
It's like a glass of warm milk before bed, but better!
The dairy industry today is much cleaner and more efficient than 60 years ago
But is it clean enough for our current needs?
America’s largest milk producer filed for bankruptcy. Are plant-based alternatives to blame?
Can we add another entry to the list of things millennials have killed?
Tiny, ancient, animal-shaped pots were likely the first baby bottles
Tea, plastic-flavored.
Earliest evidence of milk consumption comes from Stone Age Britain
I don't know how I could live without cheese.
New research paints the history of East Africa’s farmers, and how they evolved to eat dairy
It's a surprisingly rich history.
Mothers’ breast milk protects children against infection for their entire lives
A mother's immune system is transferred to infants in remarkable ways, a new study finds.
Spider milk is a thing, and it’s 4 times more nutritious than cow’s milk
The spiders also nurse their young for a long time -- another unique feature among spiders.
Cockroach milk might become the next superfood on millenials’ wish list
Roach list has three times the energy content of dairy milk.
What is pasteurization, and how does it keep milk fresh for 9 months at a time?
What wizardry is this!? Find out here.
Tasmanian devil milk might be the secret weapon against superbugs we’ve been waiting for
Watch out, bugs, the devil's out for ya!
Cockroach milk: superfood of the future?
What better way to top off your meal?
Foamy gold is mostly empty, floats on coffee
Imagine a nugget of real, 20 carat gold floating merrily on the milk foam of your cup of warm cappuccino ...
Is Dairy Addiction Real? Here’s what science says
Dairy Addiction is one idea toted not only as a notion, but as a fact by a significant number of ...
Cheese has a 7500 year history
Polish researchers have found the earliest evidence of prehistoric cheese-making from a study of 7,500-year-old pottery fragments that are perforated ...
Shorties: US is the only developed nation to drink milk from cows given artificial hormones
As an European, it often seems to me like the US is a land of striking contrasts - it is ...