“Milk is the biggest scam in the 21st century. In order to make money, capitalists deliberately exaggerate the efficacy of milk. In fact, milk is just a pool of water!”
“Chinese people are not suitable for drinking milk!”
“Humans were sent to the grave of cancer by milk, and studies have shown that the hormones in milk can cause cancer!”
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Milk As a healthy drink, it has been popular for a long time, but there have been many rumors about milk, which is not nutritious, unsuitable for Chinese people, carcinogenic, etc. Even the traditional medicine of neighboring India has publicly listed milk as one of the five “white poisons”. . Is milk really so bad?
I. Milk is white poison? Chinese people are not born to drink milk?
In 1949, there were only 120,000 cows in our country, and only a few people could drink milk, but now there has been a sea change. According to the summary of the my country Dairy Industry Association, my country’s per capita milk consumption will reach 14.4 kg in 2021, and it will increase again.
Increased milk consumption has had a visible impact on the Chinese population, according to a study published in The Lancet that in my country, the number of 19-year-old men and women The average height ranks first in East Asia. From 1985 to 2019, my country is one of the fastest growing countries in the average height of adolescents and children aged 5-19.
Milk is rich in nutrients and is good for children’s growth and development. It is a food with high nutritional value. It is rich in calcium and vitamin D. Calcium is an important part of human body. It is an important raw material for bone growth, and vitamin D can promote the absorption of calcium by the body. Therefore, drinking milk is really good for bone health and height.
However, there are indeed many Chinese people who are lactose intolerant. According to the “2021 China Dairy Merchant Index Report”, there are about 190 million people in my country who say they are lactose intolerant. received. Therefore, many people think that Chinese people are not suitable for drinking milk.
However, Tong Li, deputy director of the Nutrition Department of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine explained that lactose intolerance does not mean that you cannot drink dairy products, because with the physiological changes of the human body and the strengthening of the immune system Wait, people who were once lactose intolerant does not mean that they are intolerant all their lives. In addition, adverse reactions can be avoided by a small amount of drinking, avoiding fasting, and supplementing lactase.
Second, drinking milk often, will it cause cancer?
Many people believe that drinking milk regularly can cause cancer because milk contains hormones. Zheng Xixi, a clinician of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, introduced that because mammals need a certain level of estrogen and progesterone to produce milk, milk does contain a very small amount of natural endogenous Estrogen.
However, the hormones ingested by the human body do not necessarily affect the hormone levels in the blood circulation. After ingesting such hormones, the human body needs to be metabolized by the liver before they can be absorbed by the blood, but most of the hormones will be absorbed by the blood. The liver breaks it down and enters the blood in a largely negligible amount. Therefore, the hormones in milk do not increase the risk of cancer in humans.
Third, some “fake milk” should really drink less!
When drinking milk, pay attention to some hidden “fake milk”. Many people often regard modified milk with a lot of sugar, flavor, etc. Real milk, such as these two kinds of “milk”, should drink less:
1. “Breakfast milk”
Breakfast milk tastes better than pure milk Diverse, usually divided into a variety of flavors, such as walnuts, red dates, oats, etc., taste better when drinking. But in fact, breakfast milk is not pure milk. It is just diluted pure milk with sugar, nuts or cereals, etc., and even flavors are added during the preparation process. As a result, breakfast milk tends to be less nutritious than regular milk.
2. “Children’s milk”
Children’s milk is not higher than ordinary milk, most of which are added on the basis of ordinary milk Sugar and other ingredients, such as aspartame, sodium citrate, flavorings, xanthan gum and other food additives, some of which are not recommended to be added to children’s food, so it is not recommended Buy baby milk for your child to drink.
Fourth, when buying milk, it is not a loss to distinguish three serial numbers
The types of milk on the market include Many, you may wish to recognize these numbers when choosing milk:
1, GB 19645
According to GB 19645-2010 “National Food Safety Standard” According to the requirements of “Pasteurized Milk”, the raw material of pasteurized milk is only raw milk, and then it is produced through pasteurization and other processes. It belongs to fresh milk and can maximize the nutrients of milk. Reserved, but requires low temperature storage and has a short shelf life.
2. GB 25190
According to the provisions of GB 25190-2010 “National Food Safety Standard Sterilized Milk”, sterilized milk mainly includes maintaining sterilization. The main raw materials of milk and UHT milk are raw milk. Although the immunoglobulins and active substances lactoferrin are less affected than fresh milk, they are easy to store and have a relatively long shelf life.
3. GB 25191
According to the requirements of GB 25191-2010 “National Food Safety Standard Modulated Milk”, among the main raw materials of modulated milk, raw milk or reconstituted milk Milk cannot be less than 80%, and some nutritional fortifiers, food additives and other raw materials are added to produce liquid products through proper sterilization or sterilization. In fact, modulated milk is not milk.
In short, milk is a kind of nutrient-rich food, but we should pay attention to choosing real pure milk when buying milk, and learn to distinguish “fake milk”. “.
References:
[1] “Food Safety Science | Can Drinking Milk Help You Grow Taller?” “. Guangdong Market Supervision. 2019-04-25
[2]”Is there really hormones in milk? “. Medicine Herald. 2020-11-09
[3] “The Lancet: The average height of 19-year-old men and women in China is the highest in East Asia”. Guangming.com. 2020-11-11