Importance of Drinking Milk

Importance of Drinking Milk - Although it has many benefits, many people are reluctant to drink milk. This is evident from the lack of milk consumption in Indonesia annually. One reason often cited is the high price of milk. For the price of milk, there are actually a lot of milk that cost has been adjusted. And given the many nutrients it contains, it is necessary is to instill awareness of the benefits of milk so that people would take it and not take it as an expensive necessity.

The other reason do not like to drink milk is that drinking milk can make nausea or abdominal pain. When a person feels sick stomach after drinking milk, it means the person is suffering from lactose intolerance. The reason is because of the lack of production of the enzyme lactase in the body. Lactase is an enzyme produced by the small intestine that serves to break down lactose in the milk so that it can be absorbed by the body. But for people with lactose intolerance, lactose-solving process is complete so that undigested lactose will enter the large intestine and is digested by bacteria in it that cause flatulence, and diarrhea.

As a solution to the feeling of nausea or upset stomach from drinking milk, milk can be replaced with other dairy products, such as cheese, yogurt, ice cream, evaporated milk or soy milk contains no lactose. Some milk producers have also made milk without lactose that can be consumed by people with lactose intolerance.

In consuming milk, you should not consume sweetened condensed milk because milk is kind of lower nutritional content. It also contains a lot of fat and sugar is not good for health. The recommended consumption of milk is 3 X 250 ml of milk is equivalent to 35 grams of cheese or 200 grams or 200 grams of yogurt ice cream.