Beta-CM-7 protein

Catchy header?

It would be an important collection of letters and a number to know if you are a phlegm producing machine. Which, we all know, is a singularly undesirable, unattractive and not a good way to make friends, way to be. Unless you were Rose, standing next to Jack on the Titantic, learning how to master projectile spitting, without it dribbling down your chin. Thankfully, an act that James Cameron decided not to reprise in Avatar.

I digress.

Here is what the article I read  goes on to explain. This protein, when present in some milk, stimulates the mucus gland to overproduce. 

This, I imagine, presents an interesting packaging problem for Borden's, Organic, or any other milk manufacturing, carton designing, consumer informing, way to present their milk in the refrigerated cases. Unless, for example, their specific product came with a small packet of tissues. A spitoon would probably just take up too much room, edging out the space alloted for juices.

So then, the old wives tale about not drinking milk if you have a cold, in this case, has some merit. 

Along with the one that says, 'heartburn in pregnancy means a hairy baby'.

Really?

Really.