Milk has long been considered a healthy product. It has a positive effect on the human nervous, digestive and skeletal systems. Cow's milk is especially beneficial in childhood due to the many nutrients it needs for a growing body. The most important of them are proteins and amino acids, which are the basis of normal life.
Useful properties of milk and their application
Breast milk is the first essential product that a baby receives when he is just born. Cow's milk in its composition and useful properties is closest to mother's milk, but it contains much more amino acids.
Children simply need milk, as the bone system and other organs are formed, and it is important that they function normally, and milk contains a lot of calcium and other vitamins and nutrients that the body needs. Children who are weakened after serious illnesses are shown to drink goat's milk, it is very nutritious, it contains much more fat than cow's milk.
Often people ask the question: which milk is the healthiest? Children on fresh milk from a domestic cow grow up healthy and cheerful, because it contains the substance tryptophan, which is involved in chemical reactions in the brain, as a result of which serotonin, the hormone of happiness, is produced. Milk with honey at night soothes, normalizes sleep.
Fresh milk is useful only fresh. If it stands for a while, harmful bacteria appear in it, so it is better not to buy fresh milk in plastic bottles from strangers.
Milk can be of different fat content, so overweight people are better off eating with a lower percentage of fat, you can also advise fermented milk products, which are no less useful.
It is recommended to buy milk in an opaque container, since light falls on transparent bottles in the store, under the influence of which the product loses its useful properties. If we talk about commercially available milk, sterilized milk lasts longer, but it contains less nutrients than pasteurized milk.
Milk can also be drunk by the elderly, although there is a different opinion abroad. However, it is recommended to drink it not in one gulp, but in small sips in a warm form, otherwise the milk will be poorly digested in the stomach and intestines. Milk is curative for stomach ulcers and duodenal ulcers, erosive lesions of the stomach, if consumed as the doctor advises.
No less useful are milk-based products - cottage cheese, cheeses, especially from goat and buffalo milk. Milk serum rejuvenates and cleanses the skin, it is used to make masks for the face and hair. A milk bath is good for the body not only in the time of Cleopatra.
Useful substances and vitamins contained in milk:
- vitamin A; - vitamin E; - vitamin B; - vitamin PP; - calcium; - phosphorus; - potassium; - amino acids; - tryptophan; - proteins; - carbohydrates; - fats.
Contraindications to use
Quite often, people have milk intolerance due to an allergy to this product or an insufficient amount of the lactase enzyme, which is necessary to break down the lactose in milk. Milk intolerance is expressed in diarrhea, increased gas production, bloating.
Sometimes the reason for this perception is not an allergy, but a violation of the intestinal microflora. Allergy often occurs due to the fact that a woman drank a lot of milk during pregnancy.
