Consuming adequate amounts of milk and dairy may help stave off the chronic diseases at various stages of life, says a latest study published in the journal ‘Advances in Nutrition’. The study illustrated that there could be a positive link between the moderate intake of milk during pregnancy and birth weight, length, and bone mineral content during childhood. Researchers also said that daily intake of milk and dairy products in elderly people may reduce the risk of frailty and sarcopenia.The following study reviewed global scientific literature on the role of dairy products in health and in the prevention of chronic diseases including cardiovascular, metabolic syndrome, colon or bladder cancer, and type 2 diabetes.It also examined the effects of milk and dairy products on the growth, bone mineral density, generation of muscle mass, and during pregnancy or breastfeeding. Milk is replete with nutrients that can benefits your body and overall health. Milk especially, is teeming with protein, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, selenium, vitamin A, riboflavin, vitamin B12, and pantothenic acid.In the following study, researchers also found that a higher intake of dairy products depicted an association with decreased vertebral fracture risk.However, in the analysis of the differences between high vs. low consumption of dairy products, no association was identified between dairy product consumption and increased risk of mortality.According to the findings, total intake of low-fat dairy products was associated with a reduced risk of metabolic syndrome, thereby suggesting that consumption of dairy may have a link with healthy heart.Previous studies have also shown that controlled consumption of this food group is associated with a lower risk of colorectal cancer and bladder cancer, while no associations were found for prostate cancer.The findings also suggested that the consumption of such products, especially low-fat dairy and yogurt, may be associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes. Milk, quite simply, is a liquid that mammals create in mammary glands in order to feed their young ones. The reason mammals have this is because this is what their babies are naturally supposed to consume until they are strong or old enough to hunt for food themselves or eat what their parents typically eat. Humans also have this ability, which is why we have begun to explore the interesting world of milk from other animals, in the hopes that milk could continue to nourish us throughout our lives, rather than simply at the beginning of it.Many animals can provide us with this vital health substance, but cow’s milk is considered the best wholesome supplement for children as well as for adults. [1] It is also the most accessible, while the milk of other animals like buffalo, goats, sheep, camels, reindeer, and yak is much more difficult to acquire.Milk from horses and donkeys can also be consumed by humans, but that is even less common, and much less pleasant to extract. The health benefits of milk can be achieved from drinking it directly or by consuming dairy products such as cheese, butter, curd, clarified butter or ghee, dairy whitener, ice cream, cottage cheese or paneer, flavored milk or milk sweets. Put it this way, around the world, there are more than 6 billion people who regularly consume some type of food that is based on milk from an animal; it is one of the essential elements of the human diet since these animals that create milk are on almost every continent and country.
