Health Benefits : Milk

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Cow's milk as all the advertisements remind us, is an extremely nutritious foodstuff, a first class protein, and a rich source of calcium, as well as some B vitamin and a little iron and zinc.
As a fast food, accordingly, and as a regular part of a child's diet, it can be warmly recommended.


However, cow's milk, and goat's milk too, is a fatty food.
If you order skimmed milk to avoid the fat, you will also lose the vitamins A, D and E present in whole milk.

Moreover, the mineral calcium needs to be in balance with another important mineral, magnesium, deficiency of which is very common in modern Western diets, and milk is a poor source of magnesium.

Numbers of adults too, and whole populations in the eastern and southern hemispheres lack the digestive enzyme lactase needed in order to absorb all the goodies in milk.
Many more people may be intolerant to milk and to other dairy products such as butter and cheese.