Originally Posted by
cruiserhead
The majority of the world does not live on a dairy based diet.
Why? Because cow's milk (let's call it what it is- mucus and white blood cells) is for calves.
Milk IS for babies! That's a fact. Are you being serious?
Milk is the "perfect" recovery food because that's all you know or has been pounded into your head.
Just in case your post isn't snark, I'll venture a reply. However my generally optimistic nature tells me that it must be snark.
Your first statement is conveniently easy to check:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ion_per_capita
Per capita consumption varies from ~360kg/year in Finland to ~79kg/year in the Maldives. This greatly outpaces the Finns' vodka consumption of only ~10 liters per capita/year. I wonder how vodka consumption has been this winter in the American Midwest?
A fun aside is that of course the traditional beverage of steppe horse nomads is fermented mares milk. I've always wondered what that tastes like.
The second statement is just funny, at least I hope we can find it humorous.
The third statement is simply false: rather it's because most of us have tried many different beverages and found that milk, especially chocolate milk, is the perfect recovery food. I don't usually have chocolate milk handy, so I mix ~5T sugar into a pint of milk. That brings the carb/protein ratio into approximately the recommended range.