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For a healthy heart, drinking a pint of milk a day can improve your heart health.
This is really good news for all of us and especially me and my family as I have always loved dairy and have never skimped on it.
I have only eaten and used butter mainly because there are usually no additives other than salt, while in many margarines or butter substitutes I am unaware of some of the listed additives and also the fact that I have never managed to find one that I liked the taste of. .
For quite some time, dairy products have been labeled as bad for our health, but new studies by researchers show and affirm the opposite. They say that dairy products actually help protect our bodies against a wide variety of serious health conditions, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and stroke.
The study found that having a regular consumption of dairy products – and this doesn’t matter if it’s cheese, yoghurts or any type of milk – actually halved the chances of developing metabolic syndrome, which in the UK affects up to a quarter of the population. population.
Metabolic syndrome is also known as insulin resistance and affects the body’s metabolism by increasing cholesterol, body fat, blood glucose levels, and blood pressure.
People with this condition have nearly twice the risk of coronary artery disease and are four times more likely to develop diabetes than people without metabolic syndrome. Also more alarming is that these people are fifty percent more likely to die sooner; a study of twenty-five years has been shown.
Over the past twenty-five years, milk consumption has plummeted, thought to be due to concerns about the effect high saturated fat content can have on the heart and overall health.
Mounting evidence suggests this is false, as worldwide reviews on dairy and vascular disease show that the benefits also include rates of heart disease and stroke.
Evidence has shown that there is a very powerful effect that goes completely against the current public perception that milk and milk products are bad for the heart.
There have been over 300 publications of this study and they all point in the same direction, and the evidence shows that the effect is the same for men and women.
The study found that those who ate and drank dairy products regularly were much less likely to have the syndrome than those who drank and ate little or nothing.
By drinking a pint of milk a day, they were also 62 percent less likely to have the syndrome, and if they ate other dairy products regularly, they were 56 percent less likely.
Researchers have also found that milk is more effective than anything else, including water and expensive specially formulated sports drinks, at replacing fluids and salts lost through sweat.
For this reason, after any type of effort such as sports, fitness and manual work, a glass of milk is the best way to rehydrate. Tests show that milk keeps the body rehydrated for at least four times longer than water or powerade, Cola’s sports drink.
Milk is naturally rich in potassium, sodium and other vital salts that the body loses in large quantities through sweat.
The combination of protein, sugar, and fat found in milk is the reason why it is eliminated from the body much more slowly than other beverages.
Milk really is a great drink and it’s very versatile, I know a lot of people don’t like milk but you can always make it into custard, rice pudding or semolina etc – to get your daily intake.
Our youngest daughter was always against drinking a glass of milk, and still is, but she actually consumes more milk than the rest of the family.
She absolutely adores cereal, eats up to four bowls a day, and of course this is with milk, summer or winter. She also loves chocolate shakes and fruit shakes with a bit of ice cream, but the shakes are often left to me to make since she doesn’t like to clean up the blender afterwards: teens!
It’s a shame that schools don’t provide the daily drink of milk that as a youngster was such a big part of the school day. I believe that if this were still the case in primary schools, more children would be happy to drink milk and less likely to opt for the available soft drinks.
I hope you find this interesting, and now don’t worry so much about eating dairy. Think of all the great sauces you can make to improve your cooking skills, and know that they really are good for you. My favorite has always been the cheese sauce, but I am equally partial to the white sauce with fish or with broad beans.
Cheese toasties are a staple in our daughter’s diet, so much so that cheese is one of the first things to run out of our kitchen, and now they laugh and say they can eat even more! Too bad they don’t know where Sainsbury’s is.
Remember to eat good food for good health.