Benefits of Milk
Milk usually known as the beverage brace bone matrix and teeth because it has a calcium. But, in fact there are many nutrients that have in the composition of milk, such as phosphorus, zinc, vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin B12, vitamin B2, amino acids and acid pantotenat. Actually that nutrition support is beneficial for your health especially our kid’s.
Because milk has contain many nutrition, so it has many benefits,among others:
- Prevent osteoporosis and maintain strong bones remain. For children, milk work for the growth of the bones to make children grow to be high.
- Lower blood pressure.
- Prevents damage to teeth and maintain oral health. The milk able to reduce mouth acidity, stimulates saliva, reduce plaque and prevent tooth hollow.
- Neutralize toxic metals such as lead or that may be contained in food.
- Prevent the occurrence of cancer or cancer kolon intestine.
- Prevent type 2 diabetes.
- Refine skin, make it more shining.
- Helping to be more quickly to sleep. This is because the contain of milk will stimulate melatonin hormone,that make our feely sleepy.
Types of milk available in the market is also diverse. There are the terms of the substance contained in the milk that you may not know. Some of these terms are:
- Full Cream, containing 4% fat and usually contain lot of vitamin A and vitamin D.
- Low Fat, because the fat of it composition only half of full cream milk.
- Skim, milk which contain very low fat, less than 1%.
- Evaporation Milk, milk which that part of the water has evaporated so that it becomes thick. Similar to the sweet condensed milk, but taste of this type is insipidity.
- Pasteur Milk, the milk that through the process pasteurisais (heated) 65 ° to 80 ° C for 15 seconds to kill pathogenic bacteria that can cause disease.
- Flavoured, actual full cream milk or low fat is added to a flavour of variation. For example, chocolate milk, strawberry, banana, and other flavour. It contain more sugar because of the addition of this flavour.
- Calcium enriched, high calcium milk, and it fat has been reduced.
- UHT, Is the abbreviation of Ultra-High-Temperature Treated. This type is milk which heated in a high temperature (140 ° C) for 2 seconds and then immediately placed in cardboard hermetic. It can be stored for a long time.
- CLA, this milk useful for people who want to streamline the body. The representative of the CLA is Conjugated Linoleic Acid, which will help in accelerating the formation of muscle and burn fat.