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The most common health-related Google search terms of 2017

With even the slightest sniffle, most of us head online to pose a quick question to Dr. Google. “How long does the flu last?” “Why am I so tired?” “What is lupus?” Google spokesperson Evan Barbour Grippi provided CNN with a list of the most commonly searched health questions in the United States since January 2017. So what is it that Americans are asking? The top question for 2017 was “What causes hiccups?” A quick Google search would reveal that hiccups are sudden, involuntary contractions of the diaphragm muscle. Causes include everything from smoking or alcohol, chewing gum, eating too fast, or guzzling soda. Next up was the age-old question asked by husbands and wives everywhere, “How to stop snoring”. The first answers Google gives range from losing weight to changing your pillows. “What is lupus”, was another popular search in 2017. The condition causes the immune system to attack organs and tissues. Perhaps singer and actor…

Meet the world’s first Milk Sommelier

At a time when Millennials are taking food to to ridiculous heights — drinking perfect latte art out of an avocado, anyone? — it’s easy to see how the job of a Milk Sommelier can actually exists. Bas de Groot is the world’s one and only milk sommelier as far as he’s aware. You might mock it, but he does actually has some smart things to say about the world’s favorite white dairy drink. “It’s a liquid of serious complexity akin to a fine wine,” Groot says in a mini-doc by CNN’s Great Big Story. “The main thing I do is tell the story of the rich diversity of milk.” Groot hosts an on-screen tasting at Clover Dairy Farm in California with farmer John Bucher. Just like a wine sommelier’s knowledge of a specific region’s soil, Groot credits the farm’s soil, plants and farmer’s practices with imparting specific flavors to the cow’s milk. “Milk and wine are…

Non-cows milk linked to shorter kids, new study finds

“Got Milk?” isn’t such a simple question in today’s grocery store. Beyond the old skim or 2% battle, there are so many other options out there. Soy? Almond? Rice? What was once the simplest of transactions, with a one-size-fits-all home delivery from the milkman, has become pretty darn complicated. But a new study falls in favors of traditional cow’s milk. It turns out Mom was right in telling you you’ll get taller if you drink your milk — but only if that was cow’s milk. A study published this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that kids who drank non-cows milks had shorter statures than their cow milk drinking peers. Canadian researchers studied 5,034 healthy kids ages two to six over several years. They tracked what type and how much milk the children were consuming, and found that each cup of non-cow’s milk consumed was associated with 0.15 inches (0.4 centimeters) lower…