Mutant Milk!? New Research Fuels the Flames on Hushed Up Concerns About Ill Health Effects of Homogenized Milk
Image 1: Wolverine could be the only face of the "Got Milk" campaign who does not have to care about potential negative health effects of homogenized milk. In view of the fact that even the Wikipedia article on milk mentions the long-touted hypothesis that the release of the membrane bound (bovine) xanthine oxidase during the homogenization process and it's potential to generate reactive oxygen specimen could pose a serious health risk, it's quite funny that none of the multitude of papers on the pro- or anti-atheriogenic effects of milk ever mentions mentions the issue of homogenization. Now even if we discard the potential negative effects of BXO, the results of a recently published paper from the Center of Specialized Nutrition in the Netherlands would still suggest that milk does at least lose some of it's beneficial health effects in the course of the homogenization process (Oosting. 2012). Large and fluffy or small? That does ring a bell, doesn...