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The Miracle of Milk

An important message for people of all ages

Dairy Department, Louisiana State University

ABSTRACT

Centuries ago alchemists in laboratories in many lands secretly tried to discover the "elixir of life." This drink or concoction would make it possible for man to have good health, long life, and perpetual youth and would enable him to perform miraculous feats, such as the prevention and cure of disease. There were those who would have paid fabulous sums for its discovery.

The early Spanish seafarers and explorers searched for this "fountain of youth" in the new world of the Americas. It took many years for man to realize that the elixir of life was close at hand, for cow's milk, recognized all aver the world as "nature's most nearly perfect food," has been performing the feats that were expected of the mythical elixir of life. Within the last quarter century science has been peering into a drop of milk and has discovered the "miracle"—for no other food in the world can compare with milk in its outstanding nutritive values.