Truth behind Maneka Gandhi video-sweeping generalisations cannot be made about milk
Is drinking milk depleting you of calcium instead of building its reserves? A recent video of BJP leader Maneka Gandhi, where she can be heard saying that people who drink the most milk have the least amount of calcium, is doing the rounds on social media. She argues that it leads to lactic acid build-up…
How lactose tolerance in humans became widespread
Milk has often been branded as a superfood as it is rich in most of the nutrients necessary for health. However, how milk came to be an integral part of the human diet has been a conundrum to scientists because most of the world can’t digest the product. Studies on the global prevalence of this…
Ancient Europeans farmed dairy—but couldn’t digest milk
Over the past 10,000 years, populations living far apart in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East separately acquired a key genetic change: the ability to digest the milk sugar lactose as adults. Researchers thought people who had that ability and lived in dairy farming cultures got a nutritional boost and had more children,…