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Picture this, milk is very healthy
Inquiring cows want to know, are you drinking milk? Granted, said cows are most assuredly paragons of economic self-interest worried about job security, as opposed to being avatars of altruism. Besides cows are really lousy with noun declensions, thereby mucking up the entire communicative process and … sorry, got a bit off track. To milk, we all chant!
We all heard the mantra of “Drink your milk, it’s good for you” when we were growing up. Even now, as adults, we enjoy milk with our breakfast cereal. Ah, therein lays the rub, bub. The point being, unless you eat cereal daily, are you getting milk in your diet daily?
Our supplier of liquid luxuriant physical (not fiscal, which is monetary) health comes in a variety of fat contents. Working from the accepted premise of restricting dietary fat intake, it stands as good sense that milk in its lower fat forms is the best for you. Whole milk has 3.5% fat by weight, and then there is 2% and 1%. Non-fat milk has less than ½ gram of fat per cup. Reduced fat milk is fortified with vitamin A, which is a fat soluble vitamin lost with the removal of milk fat.
Enough of this technical milk babble! Let’s find out why the stuff is good for you. We all know milk is a very good source of calcium, but also in the very good category is vitamins D and B2, phosphorus and iodine (helps promote proper thyroid gland functioning). Milk is also a good source of protein, potassium and vitamins B12, K and A.
There is goat’s milk which has slightly different properties than cow’s milk. Those who are lactose intolerant may be able to drink goat’s milk. Some people do have an allergic reaction to milk. For those of us who can drink milk, do it. It is available as a low-fat nutrient rich drink that will give your body the healthy teeth and bones we remember hearing about in our childhoods in addition to many other benefits. We can profit from drinking milk regardless of our age, so bottoms up! Now back to communicating with cows, they also seem to be a bit confused by subjunctive clauses.
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Good for you! Encouraging consumers to drink 'real' milk is healthy advice. Goat's milk is obviously my favorite because our family has been raised on the stuff for five generations. My research shows goat's milk is higher in calcium by 14%, vitamins A & B6, and minerals. Its easier to digest because the fat globules are five times smaller than cow's milk, has only a trace amount of the alpha-S1 casein protein (which is prominent in cow's milk and very allergenic) and goat's milk taste darn good! Okay, okay...I went off on my chant...but afterall, everyday is a school day to learn about health!
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