Cows & Grass. When animals, including milk cows, eat plants containing strontium 90, they reject it selectively in favor of calcium. Therefore milk contains less strontium 90 in proportion to ...

VOSE and Koontz 1 have suggested that because mixed legume-grass herbage contains a higher level of strontium ... dairy cows to an all-grass diet if the level of strontium-90 in milk ever rose ...

President Kennedy last week argued that milk is a good buy. He gently reassured the strontium 90 worriers: “The cow itself, along with other factors, makes our milk very safe.” And he tut ...

Agricultural Research Council Radiobiol. Lab. Rep. 1, Strontium-90 in Human Diet in the United Kingdom 1958. Scott Russell, R., Nature, 182, 834 (1958). Steinhauser ...

This is probably a good thing since milk consumption is associated with a lot of health benefits. Cow milk also has about eight grams of protein—about the same amount as a large egg.

Strontium refers to the radioactive isotope strontium-90. Dairy cows that eat grass contaminated with strontium then produce milk laced with it that can then affect humans who drink it.

Could cow milk be the new cure for diabetes? Researchers have genetically modified a brown cow in Brazil to produce human insulin in its milk, which marks a breakthrough in diabetes treatment ...

“About half were fortified with vitamin D, two-thirds were fortified with calcium, and nearly 20% had protein levels similar to cow’s milk,” said lead study author and registered dietitian ...