How to Drink Milk

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 14, 1913

How to Drink Milk

DON'T swallow milk fast and in such big gulps. Sip it slowly. Take four minutes at least to finish that glassful, and don't take more than a good teaspoonful at one sip.

When milk goes into your stomach, it is instantly curdled into one big mass, on the outside of which only the juices of the stomach can work. If you drink it in little sips, each little sip is curdled by itself, and the whole glassful finally finds itself in a loose lump made up of little lumps, through, around, and among which the stomach's juices may percolate and dissolve the whole speedily and simultaneously.

Many persons who like milk and know its value as a strength giver, think they cannot use it because it gives them indigestion. Most of them could use it freely if they would drink it only in the way I have described, or if they would better still, drink it hot. Hot milk seems to lose a great deal of its density; you would almost think it had been watered; and it also seems to lose much of its sweetness, which is cloying to some appetites.

If the poor only knew and appreciated the value of milk taken in this way, I am sure there would not be so much beer drinking among them. There are thousands of hard-working scrub-women, washerwomen, factory-girls, and even shop-girls in this city, who drink beer with their meals because it gives a little stimulant to their tired bodies; they do not understand that it is only like applying a whip to a weary horse instead of giving him oats. If they only knew, they would find in this simple draft as much real strength as in a barrel of beer.—New York Tribune.