If the enzyme renin is only in children, then why the production of milk in beverages?
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milk should not be consumed after child years. The Dairy Associations only tell you to drink it for their profit only. Oh, the government gets a cut of the profits, too.\n\nHumans are the only animals that consume milk long after childhood.\n\nThe nutrients found in milk can be attained by eating certain vegetables like broccoli.
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If you ate all those cookies and drank all that milk in one night, you'd be fat too.  I might be wrong, but Santa's love for milk and cookies could have something to do with it.
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milk is a mixture \ncopper is an element
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there is no harm in it. though remember that if the person's milk you are drinking has taken any meds etc.... this will be passed on to you in most cases just as with babies. so be sure you know what you are injesting by doing this.
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"The dairy industry..." nice one Denial.\n\nI've been drinking soy milk for years, and my sons are drinking it now.   No adverse effects -- in fact, my oldest was lactose intolerant, and my youngest had allergies, so they enjoy the soy.  (Rhythm intended).\n\nMy dad has told us that he drank whole milk as a young child, and his bones were always strong.  I just don't know if the milk today is as wholesome as in his days.  \n\nAs far as ethnicity, it could well be that countries which consume a lot of dairy products (Western Europe) or regions where cows are raised, have a genetic affinity to milk.\n\nAnd I can't justify this statement, but I've heard it said that cow's milk is meant for cows.  I know, that sounds naive, but I thought I'd throw it out there.\n\nIf you wanted me to sum it up -- cow's milk, with the additives and hormones removed, is probably just fine, if your body can handle dairy products.\n\nAnd yet, there are so many good, natural alternatives, like green tea.  (Check out the calcium content of green tea).   \n\nSo what is milk good for?   Objectively speaking, yeah, the dairy industry!
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2% milk is less fattening however milk in any form is better than none at all.  Sounds like a smart young man especially the rate in which heart disease is killing people - nothing wrong with being aware at his age may lead to a longer healthier life for him
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You may be lactose intolerant.\n\nLactose intolerance is the inability to digest significant amounts of lactose, the predominant sugar of milk. This inability results from a shortage of the enzyme lactase, which is normally produced by the cells that line the small intestine.\n\nFor those who react to very small amounts of lactose or have trouble limiting their intake of foods that contain it, lactase enzymes are available without a prescription to help people digest foods that contain lactose. The tablets are taken with the first bite of dairy food. Lactase enzyme is also available as a liquid. Adding a few drops of the enzyme will convert the lactose in milk or cream, making it more digestible for people with lactose intolerance.\n\nLactose-reduced milk and other products are available at most supermarkets. The milk contains all of the nutrients found in regular milk and remains fresh for about the same length of time, or longer if it is super-pasteurized.
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There have been strong arguments for and against drinking it for many years. One of the big problems, particularly with large herds of cows, is that no matter how clean the cows or the barns, all milk finishes up containing fecal material. This is what happens when they hose down a cow and then put a vacuum down at the south end of it. But smaller herds  raised on pasture grass, rather than in pens eating corn, are healthy and pathogen-free and more care is taken in the milking process. So if you make sure you get milk from the latter you would be OK. Many people say that pasteurized milk is associated with allergies, increased tooth decay, colic in infants, growth problems in children and even osteoporosis arthritis, heart disease and cancer. Where I live in Mexico many Mexicans will not drink anything other than raw milk which is delivered fresh to their homes every day.
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yes in some situations.  Sometimes a pituitary tumor can hypersecrete a hormone or sometimes a medication can inhibit an inhibitory hormone (that prevents a man from producing prolactin, hormone responsible for milk production) :) this is called GYNECOMASTIA.. men starts to produce milk but I've never heard giving them to babies.  maybe to their wives hahaha
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because they contain acids in them.  You can neutralize it by drinking milk (milk is a base).
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I known there's a substance called rennet which is used to make cheese. It is obtained from the stomachs of calves
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The amount of milk one produces is not based upon breast size. Most breast tissue is FAT, not mammary gland. Your intake of fluids/nutrients, your hormone levels, the letdown reflex (best stimulated by nursing a child, not by using a pump), damage to the breast (IE breast surgeries, etc), and genetic predisposition make the biggest difference in your milk production.
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What?  Okay for the sake that this may be a real question.  A virgin, or any woman who hasn't been pregnant, cannot produce breast milk unless she has prepared herself to induce lactating by pumping her breast regularly for a few months.  Women have been known to do this so they can breast feed adopted babies.  The milks taste changes depending on hormone levels and whatever she ate that day.  And supply meets demand as far as how much.  Age means nothing.
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Because if the composition is too acidic or too basic one way or the other, the soda could be toxic.\n\nAlso, it wouldn't taste good or sell well.
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Milk is a chemical soup of proteins.  Proteins are a specific sequence of amino acids in a very particular conformation.  If you heat a protein, they most stable conformation (shape) of the structure will change and the original may not be recoverable.\n\nLiving things have a lot of complicated, interconnected networks of parts working together to manufacture proteins.  The DNA contains nucleic acid sequences that are transcribed to make RNA sequences.  The RNA sequences are read by ribosomes that add amino acids one at a time based on sequences of 3 nucleotides (3 letter words) read in the RNA sequence.\n\nFurthermore, the transcription rates and degredation rates of RNA and proteins are further regulated by other proteins and structures floating around in the cellular soup.\n\nIn theory, I think that you could take the gene that codes for milk production, splice it into bacteria, and have bacteria make milk for you.  It would be nearly impossible to make milk without a living organism though--the processes for carefully building up piece-by-piece to make particular proteins would be difficult.\n\nI wonder what artificial baby formula is?  Remember in the Matrix when they were eating that disgusting-looking rice pudding stuff?  The guy said it was full of amino acids and vitamins and everything the body needs.  It would be much simpler and cheaper to make an (artificial) supplement that contained the nutritional value of milk without actually having the amino acid sequences right.\n\nAlso, amino acids are chiral (they are not identical with their mirror image) so if you were to manufacture them synthetically  your process must be selective toward the right enantiomer or you must crystallize and separate them.  The wrong enantiomer could be non-nutritous at best (calories but no protein building) or harmful at worst (making the wrong proteins in your body that do nothing good).\n\nBy "plant" I thought you meant "chemical plant".
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First, human adult digestive systems don't handle milk well anyway.\n\nLastose intolerance generally involves abdominal cramps with bloating, gas and/or diarhea.\n\n A glass of milk will generally cause more severe symptoms than a smaller serving of dairy, such as a slice of cheese.
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Renin is relaesed from the kidney to compensate for hypotension as standerd compensatory mechanism,it acts on angiotensin I and converted into angiotensin II which has a role in raising the blood pressure,although renin itself raises the blood pressure directly from the blood vessels.\n\nReceptors involved in that mechanism: AT1(angiotensin1) and some minor receptors lying in the inner wall of the blood vessels that renin itself acts upon)