Milk

Meat, fish, poultry and all kinds of sweets - of these components can come up with a huge number of dishes that every time, you will agree, it's nice to eat. But such a product is milk - on the one hand, a fairly nondescript drink, and on the other - can take the place of the first and wholesome food in our lives. You know, milk someone loves, and someone just on the spirit can not bear.

1. Milk man began to use animals for almost 10 millennia BC. It was at that time a man could tame domestic goats. As mankind has learned the jaws of these animals, it got into your diet this product in unlimited quantities.

2. Scientists say that people in the Neolithic period did not use milk because their bodies are unable to digest corny this product. In fact, the "indigestible" element was the lactose. But as a result of a genetic mutation, our ancestors got the ability to "digest" the milk. By the way, in our time, adults may also lose the opportunity of mastering milk.

3. One of the wives of Nero named Poppaea Sabina during long journeys on the road took more than five hundred she asses livestock. She liked to take milk baths, which improves the skin and allow to preserve the "eternal" youth.

4. Milk cow is very nutritious. In addition, the milk of the animal in the world consume most. Thus, according to certain statistics, the production of cow's milk exceeds 400 million tons per year.

5. Does sour milk during a thunderstorm? This phenomenon is still not fully understood. Some experts point out that the sour milk during a thunderstorm because of the "presence" in the environment of long-wavelength electromagnetic pulses.

6. Although cow's milk is very nutritious and is used massively in the world, there are other animals that can boast of the highest quality and nutritional value of its milk. So, milk is more nutritious seals, because the fat content in it is more than 50%. Also, the milk is very nutritious whales, which contains a little less amount of fat. But donkey milk and mare - the least nutritious.

7. Recently, it became quite common soymilk. It is used on the basis of cow's milk, and it is often added to culinary specialties. But it is worth remembering that this type of milk of the human body absorbs much less calcium than cow's milk.

8. In nature there are plants that meet its composition milk of animals and humans. For example, almonds (or rather the presence of protein in the grains of this plant) is close to the composition of breast milk. Therefore almonds are often added to milk formula for children. But the composition of the milk of the ass, too much like the milk man.

9. The composition of this beverage contains, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, vitamins A and D, and vitamin B12. A daily intake of milk will protect you from colon cancer, and high blood pressure. But many experts say that the benefits of milk has not been proved. Like, it can be fraught with the danger.

10. Use milk to replenish calcium levels. One glass of milk contains as much calcium as contains seven sardines, three cups of broccoli, the same cup peanuts or black beans.