Milk Nutrition Facts

Milk nutrition facts - Is milk healthy? Or is milk a harmful food? Can we get calcium from alternative sources?

If milk is healthy or not is something that is being discussed a lot. The media says yes to milk, while many health professionals say no. Milk is advertised to be very healthy for growing bones, but actually cows milk is not very good for us.

Drinking milk regularly can cause a few different health problems such as digestive problems and allergies.

Milk hinders the absorption of important nutrients in our food and causes the immune system to weaken.

Milk also causes the formation of mucous in the body.

Giving cow's milk to children is not a very wise thing to do, because kids' milk consumption has been linked to asthma and respiratory infections.

When milk is pasteurized, it is heated to a high temperature. When doing this the milk protein changes to a form that cannot easily be broken down by the body. When we drink this kind of milk regularly, it irritates the lining of the stommach, causes constipation and allergies as well as the other health problems mentioned above.

But don't we need to drink milk because of the calcium it gives us?

No, we can get calcium from other sources as well. For example dark green leafy vegetables, fruits such as oranges and from nuts and seeds. Spinach, oranges, almonds and sesame seeds are great sources of calcium.

How much calcium do we need per day?

The %DV of calcium is 1000 mg.

One cup skim milk contains 306 grams of calcium.

One ounce or 28 grams of sesame seeds contain 277 mg of calcium
(277 mg is about 28 percent of the %DV).

Yogurt Nutrition Facts

But most yogurts are full of synthetic colors and unnecessary sugar though.

In yogurt you can also find some saturated fat (bad fat), some cholesterol and sodium.

To get the good bacterias found in yoghurt without having to eat yoghurt itself, you can instead eat fermented foods, like for example fermented kale.

If you want to give yoghurt to your child, give him/her plain yoghurt and add some honey (for kids older than 1 years old) as well as some berries or fruit pieces.

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Sources:

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/dairy-and-egg-products/167/2

http://www.juicing-for-health.com/harmful-foods.html

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/nut-and-seed-products/3071/2

http://www.iloveindia.com/nutrition/calcium/sources-of-calcium.html

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