What is milk?
What is milk is known to everyone from childhood. This is a secret that is produced by the mammary glands of female individuals for feeding offspring. Immediately after birth, the child's organism can not process other foods except for mother's milk. Over time, the human diet includes milk of domestic animals. It is an indispensable component of dietary and therapeutic nutrition. Than useful milk?
Useful properties of milk
Children, nurtured by mother's breast milk,grow stronger and healthier than their peers, who were fed artificial milk formula. Breast milk has a balanced composition of fats, proteins and carbohydrates, necessary for the full growth and development of the baby. And the vitamins and trace elements that enter it support immunity.
Milk of farm animals contains a number ofvitamins (A, B-carotene, B1, B2, B9, C, PP, E) and minerals (potassium, magnesium, calcium, sodium, iodine, cobalt, phosphorus, manganese, fluorine, zinc, molybdenum, copper, iron) which determines its benefit to the human body:
- strengthens teeth and bones;
- increases immunity;
- normalizes sleep;
- helps to reduce pressure;
- relieves heartburn.
What to drink milk, depends on personal preferencesand national traditions. In Europe and America, cow and goat milk are the most popular. In the East, they drink milk from horses and camels. In Greece and Italy they prefer sheep, and the people of the North - milk deer.
What kind of milk is best for children - home orpasteurized? Natural milk is indisputably useful and nutritious, but it can contain a pathogenic microflora. Therefore, up to 3 years, it is better to limit yourself to special baby food.
