Interesting facts you probably didn’t know about milk

There are a number of facts that speak to milk’s positive effect on building and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Few foods can compete.

• Drinking milk is perfectly natural
• Milk is the only food that you can survive on wholly on, having every nutrient your body needs to live
• Milk has purifying properties and a milk cleanse is a great way to detox your body
• Milk not only feeds you, but also feeds the bacteria in your gut and many nutrients in milk act as prebiotics to keep your gut bacteria healthy

READ: Boost your immune system by sipping on nutritious ‘golden milk’

• People who drink more milk during formative years, are likely to grow taller
• Milk is the best recovery drink after a workout or other physical activity. The combination of carbohydrates, fat, protein, and other micronutrients makes milk the premier recovery drink, possibly even more effective than commercially available sports drinks at promoting recovery from strength and endurance exercise

• Milk is the most hydrating beverage you can drink – researchers used water as a control and assigned a value of 1.0 on the Body Hydrating Index (BHI). Skim milk (1.58) and full-fat milk (1.50) were more hydrating than water itself 
• Lactose Intolerance can be cured
• Milk is one of the most nutritionally dense food you can buy -At about 25 cents per serving, milk is a low-cost option with nine nutrients essential to our health including protein, calcium, potassium, phosphorous, riboflavin, niacin as well as vitamins A, D and B12.

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