Experts have been debating for many years whether milk is good or bad, especially for persons of ripe years and elderly people. In the mean time, it remains a favorite drink of millions. In this article, the author of Passion.ru gathered all the information about milk in order to answer the question whether it is good or bad.
There is an opinion that, as the years go, the human body stops producing the ferment that decomposes casein, the milk protein, that’s why milk is not uptaken. What is more, it has a negative influence on the body.
Is it true or false, and should milk be added to your ration? As we know, practice is the criterion of truthfulness, and practice shows the following.
Is milk a liquid product or a nutritious drink? Most probably it is two-in-one as we can satisfy both our hunger and our thirst with it.
Dietarians think that milk is a product: “Milk is one of the basic foods, it contains all substances without which a human body cannot exist normally, namely: complete proteins, fats, carbohydrates, inorganic salts (microelements), vitamins.”
In reality, milk is the sourñe of calcium and vitamin A that are so necessary for skeleton construction and its strength; phosphorus and vitamin A that are necessary for intellectual functioning and eyes; magnesium, potassium, natrium and vitamins of B group that are indispensable for cardiovascular and nervous systems functioning, vitamin C and E that support hormonal and immune systems, as well as human reproductive function.
Milk is basically used to ensure growth and development of a newborn body that is not adapted by nature to take other products. Naturally it has everything!
During the first year of life, the baby grows more than in all other years; it lives on milk and milk formulas. We know a case when a villager reached 90 years, eating only milk and bread.
Besides a nutritious function, milk helps to detoxicate the toxins that are formed in the body in the process of metabolism or get from the outside. That’s why people who work with harmful chemical substances get a daily portion of milk in the amount of 0.5 litres per person in accordance with “Labor Protection Laws”.
High fat content is the peculiarity of goat milk. There were cases of curing serious diseases, such as gastric ulcer and tuberculosis of the lungs, with the help of goat milk.