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To drink an entire gallon of milk within an hour? I know a gallon of water you can. (done it.) But rumor has it that it's not possible. You're stomach expands and you get really fat. Has anyone tried it? What was the results?

I have not tried it, but I suspect it would be possible, especially if you can handle a gallon of water. Milk is almost entirely water, and I doubt the small percent that is not water would prevent you from doing it. I haven't tried to drink a gallon of anything in one sitting, so I don't know for sure.

Water can go straight through the stomach, but milk needs to be digested a bit first, since there's proteins and fat in it. At 3% fat for a gallon that is about 4 ounces of fat? (unsure about US measures!) Anyway quite a lot to handle in an hour. But maybe low-fat milk and a fast-working stomach can do it.

As someone who drinks several cows worth of milk a week, i've tried to drink a gallon of milk within an hour, and needless to say, it doesn't work.
As pip said, your body needs to digest some of the protein content in the milk before releasing it into the intestinal tract. Now, this takes a bit of time to happen, and the stomach physically cannot expand to store a gallon of milk for the time to digest.
This causes your body to expel the excess milk until it has more managable levels.
You'll also find that the high fat and lactose content causes some serious stomach upsets beyond space constraints.

Find the Jackass episode where 3 people tried to drink a gallon of milk inside an hour for a more graphic illustration of how things like that really don't work.

This reminds me of the teacher who was suspended in 2003 for attempting this same stunt with his students. According to the article, milk is acidic, and needs to be neutralized before it is digested. I checked it out, it is true - perhaps the combination of being digested / neutralized slows it down in the stomach until the body's natural reaction to an overfull stomach takes place.

The article from http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/11...experiment.ap/

Quote:

SMITHFIELD, North Carolina (AP) -- A high school teacher was suspended for a classroom experiment that caused several students to vomit after drinking large amounts of milk.

Jeff Ferguson, a chemistry and physics teacher at Smithfield-Selma High School, organized the experiment last week to test the body's ability to neutralize acids in milk.

It was intended to show the body can handle only so much before a natural reaction occurs and the person vomits. Out of 42 students in two classes, 13 did just that. None required medical attention, and five students chose not to participate.

Parents alerted school administrators about the November 12 incident. Ferguson was sent home the next day and was suspended with pay Tuesday, pending an investigation by a law firm hired by the school district.

Superintendent Jim Causby said the district would decide on further action after the investigation, which could take "days to weeks."

On Wednesday, Ferguson failed to persuade a judge to let him return to the classroom. He wanted a temporary restraining order so that he could return to help his students prepare for end-of-semester exams, but Superior Court Judge Knox Jenkins denied his request.

"It's been rather unpleasant sitting at home and knowing nobody is teaching my class as effectively as I can," Ferguson said after the hearing. "There's not a lot positive about this situation."

The teacher's attorney, Lamar Armstrong, said students were not required to participate in the experiment, and students had receptacles in case they became ill.

"If anybody wanted to quit at any time, they could have," Armstrong said.

About 50 students packed a Johnston County courtroom for Wednesday's hearing to show their support.

Elizabeth Sthuerger, 18, said she drank about a half-gallon of milk, then felt sick. While she said the experiment "may have been a little off-the-wall," Sthuerger said she supported Ferguson.

Jacob Johnson, a 16-year-old junior, added that "it's an advanced class and students are old enough that they should be mature in making those decisions."

The five students who chose not to participate in an experiment to see how much a body can take before it vomits should get an A+ for sanity. Very funny story though! :)

i've most definitely seen a stunt like this pulled on tv. needless to say, the guy vomited like there was no tomorrow.

They do this at my school every year, not sure if its a frat thing or what.

My friend won it once, i really doubt there is a puking disqualification after the hour is up (as long as you don't puke before the hour is up or something).

I can ask and give you more specifics, but i figure some people can train it like those crazy hot dog guys do

This reminds me of a tribe in africa that has a "fatest man wins" competition and all they do is drink goats milk all day and gain like 100lbs in three months.

My friends actually have this feat filmed. It just started off as a gag for a 60 minute movie
they made, but one of my friends took it too far (depending on your views of this kind of thing
:)) and decided to drink the entire gallon carton of milk, and did it in under an hour, but of
course, he threw up the milk at least 24 times (forced himself by sticking fingers in throat) before able to finish the entire carton. I have to say, it was a very amusing, AND DISGUSTING to watch.

If you "trained" with water to the point where you could easily down a gallon (if it's possible), I'd think you could get at least most of the milk down. Good luck ever finding milk appetizing again.