The benefits of milk
Milk is rich in protein, fat, sugar, rich minerals, trace elements and vitamins needed for body growth, and has good nutritional value and excellent dietotherapy and health care effects.
Milk is an indispensable nutritional product in daily life, and there are many kinds of milk, including pure milk, yogurt, high-calcium milk, low-fat milk, skim milk and so on.
Milk has the function of calming the nerves. Drinking milk before going to bed is helpful to sleep, which can make people fall asleep quickly and have a solid and stable sleep.
Milk has a beauty function. Milk is rich in protein, milk fat, vitamins, minerals, etc. It has a natural moisturizing effect and is easily absorbed by the skin. Milk bath takes advantage of the beauty effect of milk.
Milk is rich in calcium. Every 100ml of milk contains calcium 1 15mg, especially high-calcium milk, which is beneficial to the growth of bones and teeth. Drinking more milk for teenagers can enhance bone development and keep fit.
Milk is rich in trace elements, which is very beneficial to the health of middle-aged and elderly people. Middle-aged and elderly people often drink milk to delay aging and reduce the incidence of hypertension and cerebrovascular diseases. Small babies should not drink pure milk and should be diluted appropriately. In short, the current understanding of milk is a very good evaluation!
Why doesn't Chinese medicine advocate drinking milk often? Many people may not understand it, but they may understand it after reading it.
Even though the nutritional value of milk is very high, it may not be suitable for all people to drink, so why do many old Chinese medicine practitioners not recommend drinking milk often? Keep exploring!
First of all, the theories of western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine are different. If western medicine doesn't work, many people often go to see traditional Chinese medicine, and they can recuperate after drinking traditional Chinese medicine.
So in the theory of Chinese medicine, milk belongs to yin and cold food. In the concept of Chinese medicine, if you want to make your body better, you must add more warm food to your body. Chinese medicine pays more attention to the harmony of yin and yang.
In life, most people are cold constitution, and there are relatively many women. If you drink milk at this time, it will only bring more cold to the body, which is not conducive to dampness.
Of course, milk will aggravate the moisture in the body. Milk is a slightly cooler food in Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that dampness is not warm, just like in nature, when the temperature rises in spring, the melted water can evaporate quickly.
Cool food will keep moisture in the body. Secondly, milk is a cool food, which will reduce the function of the spleen and stomach after use, so moisture will not be excreted, but will stay in the body.
In addition, if you drink too much, it is easy to make the qi and blood in the body unable to circulate normally, which can increase the probability of human body lumps. Moreover, if you drink milk often in peacetime, it will make your body fat, and milk will reduce the yang of your body.
If you drink milk for a long time in daily life, you will have diarrhea, abdominal pain in severe cases, and even a rash.
What should I pay attention to when drinking milk?
First: First of all, don't drink refrigerated milk on an empty stomach, otherwise it will easily cause irritation to gastrointestinal mucosa and produce symptoms such as abdominal pain and diarrhea, which is not good for gastrointestinal health.
Second: avoid drinking expired milk to prevent the ingredients from deteriorating, causing symptoms such as nausea and vomiting after drinking, leading to food poisoning.
Third: avoid drinking milk with strong tea, otherwise it will affect the absorption of nutrients, and avoid drinking with acidic milk, otherwise it will destroy the nutrients in milk and lead to a decline in nutritional value.
Fourth: Milk is a high-nutrient substance, so don't drink too much every day, and for some people (spleen and stomach weakness, overnutrition), milk is not only unhelpful, but also affects their health, so when drinking milk, it must be moderate, generally controlled at about 250-450 ml.
Reading extension:
Generally speaking, it is best for babies under 1 year-old not to drink milk, because milk contains a lot of protein and minerals, and there are too few complex unsaturated fatty acids and trace elements, so it is not easy to be digested and absorbed by the baby's delicate intestine, which is not conducive to the baby's growth and development. In addition, milk may also be the cause of milk protein allergy.
Then the baby over 6 months old can let him adapt to the milk slowly, provided that the baby shows no signs of allergy after drinking the milk, starting with a spoonful, and then gradually increasing to cooking cereal with milk.
When the baby is 2 years old, he can be given milk and dairy products regularly, about 300,350g a day.