Milk builds strong bones! It also helps to rebuild muscles, improve the health and beauty of your hair, nails, and skin, helps women with the hormone inbalance during PMS, prevents cavities, and helps you to fall alseep.
But what kind of milk are you drinking?
You should not stop feeding babies breast milk until they are at least one year. After that, you should begin feeding them whole milk. Whole milk has high levels of fat- 1 gram per ounce- which is necessary for their bodily and cognitive development. Once the child reaches two years, you should switch them to lowfat or skim milk.
Many people our age and older still drink whole milk. Our bodies do not need to consume that much fat. The problem is that if a child does not like the taste of skim milk, parents simply allow them to continue drinking whole milk. As you get older, it becomes more difficult to switch because you prefer one taste over the other. Just by switching from whole milk to 1% milk can reduce your daily caloric intake and decrease your chances of hypertension (since animal products contain saturated fats).
So if you haven't made the switch yet to lowfat or skim milk, its high time you did. To learn more about the benefits of milk, visit the interactive website <www.gotmilk.com>
http://pediatrics.about.com/od/milk/i/05_milk.htm
But what kind of milk are you drinking?
You should not stop feeding babies breast milk until they are at least one year. After that, you should begin feeding them whole milk. Whole milk has high levels of fat- 1 gram per ounce- which is necessary for their bodily and cognitive development. Once the child reaches two years, you should switch them to lowfat or skim milk.
Many people our age and older still drink whole milk. Our bodies do not need to consume that much fat. The problem is that if a child does not like the taste of skim milk, parents simply allow them to continue drinking whole milk. As you get older, it becomes more difficult to switch because you prefer one taste over the other. Just by switching from whole milk to 1% milk can reduce your daily caloric intake and decrease your chances of hypertension (since animal products contain saturated fats).
So if you haven't made the switch yet to lowfat or skim milk, its high time you did. To learn more about the benefits of milk, visit the interactive website <www.gotmilk.com>
http://pediatrics.about.com/od/milk/i/05_milk.htm
I agree that milk is probably one of the best components of our diets. especially here at college where we are probably not reaching our goals for complete protein and vitamin intake is when we should be drinking it the most. good blog overall to make us aware of what we should be doing.
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