Recognize Milk and Usefulness

Milk has many useful benefits for body.

In healthy menu known term "four of five perfectly healthy". Perfecting this is milk. This term is not excessive because this clean white drinks contain complete nutrition than other beverages that milk has many properties that are very useful for the body. Milk is usually known as a booster drinks bones and teeth because of its calcium content. But, in fact there are many nutrients that exist, such as phosphorus, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin B12, vitamin B2, amino acid and pantothenic acid. Of course nutrition is useful to support the health of your body.


Usefulness of milk

Because it has the nutritional content, the milk has quite a bit of usability, including:

- Prevent osteoporosis and keep bones strong. For children, milk is useful for bone growth make children grow taller.
- Lowering blood pressure.
- Prevents damage to your teeth and maintaining oral health. Milk to reduce the acidity of the mouth, stimulates saliva, reduce plaque and prevent cavities.
- Neutralize toxins such as metal or tin that may be contained in the food.
- Preventing the occurrence of colon cancer or colon cancer.
- Preventing type 2 diabetes.
- Beautify the skin, making it glow.
- Helps for faster sleep. This is because the content of the milk will stimulate the hormone melatonin, which will make the body sleepy.

Types of milk

Milk is also available in the market with various types. There are terms that said as substances found in milk that you may not know. Some of these terms are:

- Full Cream
Contains 4 persenlemak and generally contain lots of vitamin A and vitamin D.
- Low fat
Berkandungan fat milk more or less again, less than 1 percent.
- Milk evaporation
That is milk that has been partly evaporated water so that it becomes thick. Similar to sweetened condensed milk, but it feels kind of fresh milk.
- Milk pasteur
Milk through the process pasteurisais (heated) 65 ° C to 80 ° C for 15 seconds to kill pathogens that can cause disease.
- Flavoured
Actually, full cream milk or low fat is added a certain flavor to variation. For example, milk chocolate, strawberry, banana, and other flavors. Generally contain more sugar because the addition of this flavor.
- Calcium enriched
Milk supplemented with calcium and fat content has been reduced.
- UHT
Stands for Ultra-High Temperature-Treated. This type of milk is milk that is heated in a high temperature (140 ° C) for 2 seconds and then immediately put in airtight cartons. This milk can be stored for a long time.
Why do you drink milk?

Although it has many uses, but many people are reluctant to drink milk. This is evident from the lack of Indonesian milk consumption per year. One reason often cited is the high price of milk. For the price of milk, there are actually a lot of milk that cost has been adjusted. So what is needed is to instill awareness of the usefulness of milk so that people can consume and not think of it as an expensive item.

Other reasons are less likely to drink milk because it makes the nausea or upset stomach after drinking milk. If you feel sick stomach after drinking milk, you are suffering from lactose intolerance. Reason for the lack of production of lactase in the body. Lactase is an enzyme produced small intestine functions to break down lactose in the milk to be absorbed by the body. But for people with lactose intolerance, lactose tercena not be included in the large intestine and is digested by bacteria in it that causes flatulence.

As the solution of a feeling of nausea or abdominal pain, you can replace the milk with dairy products such as cheese, ice cream, evaporated milk or soy milk does not contain lactose. Some milk producers have also made milk without lactose that can be consumed by people.