Milk is natures’ most complete food, it contains over 400 nutrients,
with endless possibilities. Milk is not high in calories when it’s low
fat so, don’t remove milk totally from your diet, but choose low fat
milk since it contains all the nutrients found in full cream milk except
for the fat.
Even as an adult, you need to drink milk, bit it is important to know
that not all milks are the same. Fortifying milk with vitamins and
minerals is a very delicate process, and the quality and quantity of the
added nutrients have a direct effect on health.
Stating these facts, President Nutrition Society of Nigeria, Prof.
Ngozi Nnam, recommends regular drinking of milk because of its richness
in calcium and importance for the bones.
“Milk contains more than nine essential nutrients necessary for good
health, strong bones, energy and a stronger immune system,” she noted.
She spoke on World Milk Day, at a forum by FrieslandCampina WAMCO
Nigeria, noting that the 2013 theme: “Do More with Milk” is a central
idea to communicate milk as an essential nutritional beverage for a
healthy life style.
Mnam argued the importance of enabling Nigerians exchange knowledge
on the various ways milk can be used. Nigerians are already versatile
with conventional ways of using milk, hence the awareness is focused on
the goodness of milk and education on other possible milk usages and
their corresponding nutritional benefits.
World Milk Day was created by the Food and Agriculture Organisation
of the United Nations to reflect on all the goodness that milk
represents and its economic importance for rural areas and the food
chain as a whole.
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