Milk can provide most of the calories a child needs
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Young children who retain the ability to digest cow’s milk benefit from a significant increase in available calories. This may explain why the mutation that allows this spread so rapidly in some human populations thousands of years ago.
Alexandre Fabre, a pediatrician at the Timone Children’s Hospital in Marseille, France, who led the study, said that undernourished children are more likely to die if they become seriously ill, so those extra calories could help children become infected. It will greatly increase your chances of surviving the disease.
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