The Danger of Drinking Milk

Mar 31
07:41

2011

Judy He

Judy He

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As we all know, milk is the most ancient but natural beverage. It is beneficial but inexpensive. It is available in all supermarkets. We are able to get it at any time we want. As its name suggests, it comes from female milch cow. In the milk we drink everyday, there are plenty of minerals.

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As we all know,The Danger of Drinking Milk Articles milk is the most ancient but natural beverage. It is beneficial but inexpensive. It is available in all supermarkets. We are able to get it at any time we want. As its name suggests, it comes from female milch cow. In the milk we drink everyday, there are plenty of minerals. Beside calcium which is familiar to us, phosphorus, iron, zinc, copper, manganese and molybdenum are not rare. It is the best source of calcium for the human body. And the ratio of calcium and phosphorus is so balanced that the ingestion of calcium is very easy.

Milk is so nutritious that more and more people choose to drink it every day. However, we should have the awareness that milk is not always good. It is especially true for the male consumers. Many scientific studies tell us that men who drink milk often are rather easy to suffer from prostate cancer. After an 11-year-long investigation made in Boston, American doctors have found that 1,012 people in 20,885 subjects had this disease. These patients had more dairy food than the rest. The dairy foods they ate included degreased milk, greased milk and cheese. Statistics showed that compared with ordinary healthy people who ingest 150 gammas of calcium from dairy food every day, these male patients ingest 600 gammas and their vitamin D is lower than the average. This situation heightens the risk of prostate cancer by 32%. Eliminating the influence of factors like age, weight, smoking and exercises, scientists tell us the risk of prostate cancer for those who drink more than 800 milliliters of milk everyday is 34% higher than those who drink less than 120 milliliters. A similar studies in Philadelphia, America also has indicated that excessive dairy food leads to a high risk of prostate cancer.

Fortunately, some fruit resists cancer. More specifically, there are some kinds of compounds in vegetables and fruit that can prevent cancer.Lycopene is one of such substances that widely exist in fruit and vegetables. There is a large amount of this pigment in red fruit such as grapes, tomatoes, watermelons, guavas, and apricots. The tomatoes contain the most. An American experiment investigated 46,000 male patients for six years. It showed that 773 had the cancer. Then the risk for those who ate tomatoes twice or four times a week was 26% lower. And tomato pizzas and ketchup had the same function. The antioxidation of lycopene is the most powerful in carotenoids. It can protect the DNA, restrain the proliferation of cancer cells and adjust the balance of hormones. Some men have to be aware that milk should not be treated as beverage. Moreover, the diet must be balanced.