What is the use of milk?

The benefits of milk have been known for a long time. It has been included in children's and adult rations since ancient times. It is a valuable product for the body and even used as a preventive and medicinal product in medicine.

Milk is considered an easy product, because for its digestion is enough of the weakest concentration of gastric juice.

The use of milk is due to the content in it is quite a lot of vitamins (water and fat-soluble). These are vitamins of group B: thiamine (B1), riboflavin (B2), pyridoxine (B6), cyanocobalamin (B12). Vitamin A and carotene (provitamin A) are dissolved in milk fat. Vitamin C is contained in milk in the amount of 1000-1500 gamma-percent.

No less in milk and beneficial microelements. They are zinc, copper, cobalt, manganese, sulfur, bromine, aluminum, tin, fluorine, titanium, vanadium, silver and others. Also, it contains nicotinic acid (vitamin PP); Biotin (vitamin H); Folic acid, involved in the process of hematopoiesis; Pantothenic, normalizing functions of the nervous and circulatory systems, as well as the skin.

Milk enzymes are very important for health. Among them, especially hydrolyzing: galactase and lactase, lipase and phosphatase, as well as a complex of oxidation-reduction enzymes. In childhood, these enzymes accompany the transformation in the digestive tract of nutrients. But enzymes are active only in raw milk, they are destroyed by boiling.

In order to study the benefits of milk, Finnish scientists observed children for 10 years, taking into account their diet. It turned out that children who have been accustomed to milk since childhood are much less likely to suffer from diabetes (the study was conducted among children who are predisposed to this disease). With the use of milk in the body produces more antibodies to this disease.

Milk, the benefit of which is also explained by a balanced set of mineral salts (compounds of phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, iron, sodium, potassium, also salts of citric, hydrochloric and other acids) that are involved in all vital processes of life. Phosphorus, calcium and magnesium are part of the bone tissue. Magnesium is especially important for the heart, and phosphorus - for the brain and nervous tissue. These substances are not capable of replenishing the body with any other products, except dairy products.

The use of milk is known for the treatment of anemia, physical exhaustion, it is useful for the recovery of people who have had severe illness or who have been injured and injured. The product is priceless in conditions when it is necessary to replace animal proteins (meat, fish, chicken eggs) with lighter ones.

Used milk for heart disease and swelling, because it has diuretic properties. The real remedy is poisoning, for example, acids or alkalis, iodine, bromine, heavy metal salts. It is useful for gastritis, liver and kidney disease, tuberculosis, anemia.

In Russia, there is one original product, of which I hardly know anywhere in the world. This is melted milk. Its use is even more than usual, because thanks to the manufacturing technology it becomes the concentrate of all the useful substances contained in the raw product.

Warm milk with honey is the best natural remedy for insomnia, perfectly calming the body. It well helps to overcome stressful conditions, reduces pressure, soothes nerves.

If you wipe your face with a mixture of acid unpasteurized milk and ethyl alcohol (3: 1) before going to bed, you can achieve a lightening of pigmented spots.

However, the benefits of milk will not be the same for everyone. Children can drink whole milk, which is perfectly absorbed by their organisms. Adults should confine themselves to products of reduced fat content (not more than 2%), because with age, animal fats are processed much more slowly. Even more useful for adults is the use of fermented milk products (yogurt, kefir, cottage cheese, etc.). Be healthy!