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Milky way ...
Sorry, I am not going to talk about the galaxy's milky way. In fact, I am going to write about a white coloured 'food of life'. And that is milk – the essence of our concept of cleanliness.
Milk and other dairy products could be the perfect drink and food of life. Both children and adult need diary for different reasons. Although for the children, full cream milk is all right but low fat milk is advisable for most adults. We have been listening since childhood that dairy products are one of the four basic food groups we all need for proper nutrition. In fact, it is more than that.
The following nutrients found in milk are amazing, like Vit A, Vit B12, Calcium, Carbohydrate, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Potasium, Protein, Riboflavin, and Zinc. Sufficient amount of dairy food, either milk, yogurt or Dohi, not only helps build healthy bones in children, also needed for vision, production of erythrocyte (a cell that contains hemoglobin and can carry oxygen to the body) and can also help prevent many diseases in both ages.
Milk is the major source of calcium in our diet. Even more important is the fact that the calcium in milk is more easily absorbed by the body than any other food source. This is the foundation on which strong bones and teeth are built. Even though most parents cannot imagine of raising their children without milk but it is very sad these days that many young Bangladeshis especially teenagers neither drink milk nor eat enough calcium in their diets. And in an even more strange revelation – majority of them are female.
The best way to look after bones is to have sufficient calcium before their mid-to-late 20s and subsequently consume a well balanced diet with lot of weight-bearing activity like walking and running and exercises which will strengthen bones. But don't forget about the high calories of full cream milk, yogurt and cheese as well. So don't drink or eat in excess.
In case of breast milk the picture is a bit little different but more distinct. Although cows milk is ideal for calves, but it was not designed by nature for neonates and infants. A lot of articles have pinpointed that allergies to dairy products begin in a newborns' small intestine as a result of bottle feeding (either cow's milk or formula). Bottle fed babies suffer more pneumonia, middle-ear infections, respiratory infections, bacterial meningitis, neo-natal septicemia, thrush, and viral illnesses, including polio and herpes simplex.
It is not wise of human being to think that he or she can replace breast milk with milks of his own formulation. Certain trace elements, amino acids and essential fatty acids are present in human breast milk that are not available in the same form elsewhere. Biochemistry is not yet sufficiently advanced to be able to identify every single substance in maternal breast milk. There are more than 200 known substances in it. All doctors throughout the world feel that breast milk must be the finest food for a baby.
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