Unless you’ve been living under a rock since you were an infant, you’ve heard the saying that milk gives you strong bones.
It’s a piece of information that has been ingrained in us from a young age, and even used in marketing schemes to sell billions of gallons of the product. If it’s such a known thing, it must be true.
Colt McCoy might be the exception to that notion.
Last season, the Washington Redskins backup QB broke his fibula in a game on December 3rd, sidelining him for the remainder of the season. On Tuesday, Redskins coach Jay Gruden gave the media an interesting bit of information: Colt McCoy drinks a gallon of milk per day. Non-pasteurized.
Amount of additional water intake aside, that seems like a lot of dairy to be putting in your body. Ask anyone who has tried to complete the milk challenge.
But something doesn’t add up. If McCoy ingests such a large amount of milk each day, how did his leg snap? Shouldn’t his bones be that much stronger than the rest of ours?
This probably isn’t enough to debunk the whole wives tale as completely false, or render the Got Milk marketing campaign as fraud, but it does make you wonder.
Has our entire livelihood been a lie?
