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No Need to Avoid Dairy When You鈥檙e Sick

18 Aug 2023

聽This article was first published in聽The Skeptical Inquirer.

Putting Up with the Farts: A Story of Our Ancestors and the Animal Milk They Loved

26 Aug 2022

Flatulence has been immortalized in this children鈥檚 song: 鈥淏eans, beans, the musical fruit / The more you eat, the more you toot.鈥 The same can be said of milk for those of us with lactose...

How does milk become "lactose-free"?

26 Jul 2018

So you鈥檙e walking down the refrigerated section of the grocery store and you see all the milks lined up. You got the 3.5s, the 2s, and those watery skims. But then you see some different coloured...

Chemically How Does Milk Become Butter?

22 Sep 2017

Cows' milk, as well as that of most other mammals, is a complex mixture of聽proteins, fats, water, carbohydrates, minerals, hormones and various other molecules. Some of these components are soluble...

Milk Wars: Trump and Canada's dairy farmers

28 Apr 2017

Donald Trump recently attacked Canada鈥檚 dairy industry, calling our policies unfair. Milk supply in Canada, like poultry and eggs, is strictly regulated by supply management policies. By regulating...

Carnitine Controversy

20 Mar 2017

The strikes against meat keep piling up. This time it's a study implicating carnitine, a compound found in meat and dairy products, as a factor in heart disease. High cholesterol, hypertension,...

What is Lactose Intolerance?

20 Mar 2017

Gas, bloating, stomach pains...that鈥檚 what some people experience after drinking milk. And we鈥檙e not talking about an occasional problem; some seventy percent of the world鈥檚 population can鈥檛 handle...

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