How Did Milk Become a Staple Food?

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维罗尼克·格林伍德, 牛奶是如何成为我们日常食物的？ BBC Chinese, July 14, 2015
http://www.bbc.com/ukchina/simp/ ... ecome_a_staple_food

, which is translated from

How Did Milk Become a Staple Food?  Milk is regarded, along with bread, as one of the staples of the Western diet. But, Veronique Greenwood discovers, that’s only a very recent phenomenon. BBC, July 6, 2015.
www.bbc.com/future/story/2015070 ... ecome-a-staple-food

Quote:

"In Europe and the United States in the 19th Century, the people who were supposed to consume cows' milk regularly were primarily children. A tall, frosty glass of the stuff alongside every person's breakfast plate would have been decidedly strange.  Cheese and butter have longer histories as universally consumed goods. For centuries, they've been a good way of preserving milk for later, since both last much longer than fresh milk does.

"Large studies have failed to find associations between milk consumption and fewer bone fractures, one of the supposed benefits. It's possible to have a healthy diet without milk at all

Note:
(a) "Nestle, today known as a multinational company with its roots in the chocolate-making business, actually started out in dairy, making powdered milk and infant formula."
(i) Nestlé
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestlé
(section 1 History: Charles and George Page (condensed milk) and Henri Nestlé (milk-based baby food))
(ii) The Nestlé logo evolution. In History. Nestlé, undated
www.nestle.com/aboutus/history/logo-evolution
("the family name, which means ‘nest’ in German")
(iii)
(A) nest (v; etymology)
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nest
(B) nest (n; etymology)
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nest
(C) I do not think "Nestle" or "Nestlé" is a MODERN German noun.

(b) "John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of the corn flake and head doctor of a famed sanitarium in Michigan,"
(i) John Harvey Kellogg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg
(section 3 Battle Creek Sanitarium)

* The Scottish surname Kellogg is "of uncertain origin."
(ii) Battle Creek, Michigan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Creek,_Michigan
(section 1 History and name origin)

(c) "As researchers deepened their knowledge of nutrition in the early decades of the 20th Century, the idea that milk had fat, carbohydrates, and protein waned as a justification for milk's perfection. But its role as a source of newly discovered vitamins and the idea that it was somehow able to correct the deficiencies in any diet more than took up the slack."

slack (n): "a portion (as of labor or resources) that is required but lacking <hired a temp to take up the slack>"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slack