Friday, February 25, 2011

Milk: sustinance

Alrighty. Been a while since I posted about milk, yes? well, thats probably because this is the first time I've posted just after breakfast for quite a while as well. So, anyways, i was thinking. about milk. And it's many uses. Yes, of course you can just drink it, but you can also use it to bake cakes (in minecraft too!) biscuits or pie shells or all sorts of other wonderful things! You can obtain both cheese and butter from milk, which both have plenty of uses. But why, we should ask, has the milk of other animals become such a prevalent part of our diet? Well, after several late-night CBC talk shows worth of research,  I believe I have come to a conclusion. Let me start at the beginning: When man was a lone hunter-gatherer, roaming the wild, his primary sources of food where meat and berries/fruits. Each fulfilled an essential to a healthy diet: meat gave fats and proteins, wile the fruits and berries provided sugars. Early hunter-gatherers had little to no carbohydrates in their diets. They exercised a lot and ate quite lean, nothing like the amount of sugars and meat we eat today. on top of that, all of their meat was grass-fed, containing greater amounts of protein and less fat. With this good balance of proteins, fats ( yes. you DO need fats to be healthy) sugars, and exercise, hunter-gatherers where healthy people. then came along agriculture. now, this provided stability and the roots for civilization, but also less than enough fats and proteins and to many carbohydrates and sugars. since we are not cows, digesting the proteins contained in grains is next to impossible, since they are coated in cellulose. So agriculturalists had several options:

A) keep hunts to supplement their food with occasional meat
B) Domesticate beasts for slaughter
C) Domesticate Animals to obtain eggs and milk, the two main edible animal by-products

So this is what they did. they obtained exercise by tilling their fields and all of their nutriments though milk [And some other foods, like pie :)  ] to create a balanced and sustainable lifestyle that would last millennial. Then McDonald's came along and ruined all that. Oh well. the moral of the story is: Drink milk. Do exercises. Live healthy.

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