Milk: Liquid, white and hip
Milk - just a drink? No, milk is above all a feeling that everyone knows about us. At first milk was motherly love. First from the chest, later from the glass - hot milk with honey, brought to the bedside. Milk was hope: it makes you big and strong when you only drink it regularly. Milk was also disgusting, heated it made a nasty skin. Later, milk was stupid and cola cooler. And she was fat, the girls did not like that. They drank sweet tea or vitamin water. The gender segregation had begun.
Perhaps the adolescent career break would have been less severe if the girls had known what nutrition researchers found out now. Milk can be much more than big and strong. It can melt pounds, and that - Tusch! - just where they bother the most: at the waist. Why is that? Milk contains a lot of calcium, which tells the body to store less fat. He throttles the production of a hormone called calcitriol. This causes the cells to turn sugar into fat. Also, the mobilization of the body's fat reserves is activated.
And as if that was not enough, the amino acid leucine, which is contained in the milk whey, boosts muscle growth. In a diet study at Tennessee University, milk drinkers lost eleven percent of their body weight within 24 weeks, while the dairy-free group dropped to just over six percent. This works best with low-fat milk. And with a bit of luck, it will soon be straight from the udder: In New Zealand, one is currently looking for a suitable man for dairy cow margin. The has a sensational genetic peculiarity: It gives only skimmed milk.
Those who have already found the right man should prefer to leave margin and their milk on the left and grab milk. Because women who eat high-fat dairy products are more likely to get pregnant, has found a study at the Harvard School of Public Health. Thereafter, the risk of infertility in women, who ate mainly low-fat dairy products, compared to the full-fat fans by a fabulous 85 percent. This is bitter, especially as health experts warn us constantly about the milk fat: unhealthy fatty acids, too many calories.
And it gets even thicker: milk consumption favors twin births. The researchers suspect that this is due to the insulin-like growth factor IGF, which is almost exclusively contained in animal products. And just to complete the all-round care: Babies of milk-drinking pregnant women are on average significantly larger and heavier than those of milk abstainers, a study showed.
Then you would prefer no milk at all? And join the faction of opponents who vehemently claim that milk is meant only for calves and have lost nothing in our organism?
Enough of it. Actually, it's not about research results, studies and dogmas. It's about childhood and security and a hundred memories. Blankets pulled up to the nose and the question of how much cocoa powder you get into a glass of milk without it clumping. To disgusting skin and the hope to still be able to train broad shoulders, if you only drink a lot of milk. To girls and guys and what the world demands of them.
For a drink that has only gotten back to women since it's served in trendy coffeeshops with names that sound like Italian lovers, to Vespas on cobbled streets and warm summer nights. Maybe Starbucks & Co even made sure that the gender segregation is finally overcome.
