Milk - The Most Remarkable Foods
Bill Ronin
When milk is largely used as a nutrient, the balance of the
diet should consist chiefly of fruits and vegetables for the
reason that milk contains an excess of lime and is deficient in
potash and soda which are necessary for perfect human nutrition.
The last named elements are abundant in fruits and vegetables,
particularly in the potato, which is also very rich in salts of
potash. A diet consisting exclusively of milk and cereals is
less satisfactory. Such a diet often gives rise to scurvy in
infants. Cereals are deficient in the alkaline elements which
are needed to neutralize the acid products developed in the
body.
In the use of milk, it is well to remember, also, especially
when it is freely taken, that one may easily by this means
ingest an excess of fats. The milk of certain breeds of dairy
cattle is exceedingly rich in fat. The use of such milk in some
persons, and especially in infants and young children, gives
rise to symptoms which are sometimes denominated as
biliousness, but which are not directly connected with the
liver, being due to putrefactive changes set up in the
intestine by the presence of an excess of fat. Breeders of
dairy cattle have labored to produce strains of milk cows which
produce milk containing a large amount of fat because they are
more profitable, but for table use, milk containing a smaller
proportion of fat is much to be preferred. It may be on this
account, which the milk produced by the Holstein cow is much
better adapted to the human stomach than is that of breeds
which produce milk containing a much larger proportion of
butterfat.
Best Formula for Modified Milk
Various formulas have been devised and recommended for the
modification of cow's milk in artificial feeding. The most of
these are more or less complicated. Recent experience has shown
that a very simple method is much superior to the complicated
measures which have been developed. It is only necessary to add
two things, water and milk sugar or malt sugar, to render cow's
milk suitable for the use of very young infants. A good formula
is equal parts of full milk and boiled water with an ounce of
malt sugar for each pint of water added to the milk.
A Person May Be Sensitized to Milk
Another point to which attention should be called in the
interest of both infants and invalids is the fact that certain
persons become sensitized to milk as well as to other forms of
protein, and to a person who is sensitized, even the smallest
amount of milk gives rise to highly poisonous and even fatal
symptoms. Many infants die annually from this cause. This fact
should be borne in mind in changing the infant from the breast
to bottle feeding. The milk should first be given in very small
quantities, a teaspoonful in a half glass of water, the
proportion being gradually increased until the proper dilution
is reached. The same method should be pursued with individuals
who have learned by experience that unpleasant symptoms are
noted after the use of milk. The adult or infant who is
sensitized to milk may be cured by the administration of milk
in graduated proportions, beginning with extremely small doses.
Such a case requires the personal care of a physician.
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