Milk Digestion Conditions
Understanding Milk Digestion
God gave milk to each mammal to feed its young for a certain period of time. Thus cow's milk is the natural food intended for the calf, whose stomach or abomasum is equipped to curdle the milk, the most important phase in the digestion of this food. Initially cow's milk is not intended for human infants, who digest more easily the woman's milk intended for them. However, the human infant accepts cow's milk after a period of adaptation and certain precautions. The milk then curdles under the action of the gastric juice but the coagulum of cow's milk is thicker than that, thinner, of human milk. And very often the baby has a few seizures before his body adapts to cow's milk.
On the other hand, pointed out, when the calf takes its mother's milk, this milk corresponds to the age of the calf. Cow's milk does not correspond to the age of the child, nor to the deep needs of its development, which is slower in children than in calves. Be that as it may, milk is essential to the small child provided that it is well digested and assimilated.
Milk sugar, lactose, is digested in the intestine, under the action of a specific enzyme secreted by this organ. The infant's intestine is naturally provided with this enzyme, lactase, the secretion of which will decrease as the child's diet diversifies. Thus, at present, very young babies no longer tolerate milk, according to the usual expression, as soon as they are a few months old, when their diet includes vegetables, meats, cereals, etc., given too early.
The child, who has always continued to drink a little milk each day, in good conditions, will generally continue to digest well this whole milk, raw, unpasteurized or sterilized, which he desires. This is undoubtedly the explanation for the digestibility of milk by entire peoples, particularly in Scandinavia, Africa and the countryside. Those who have not broken with milk will continue to digest milk well until a very advanced age.
Milk, food for growth, is therefore generally suitable for children. This milk must come from healthy cows; it must have been milked and stored in excellent conditions of cleanliness and hygiene because the milk becomes infected very quickly. There are a few germs in raw milk, but when the body is healthy, the intestinal microflora usually takes care of it. What is more to be feared is our way of life.
NB: It should be remembered that cow's milk is not breast milk and no abuse. Do not insist when your body does not tolerate milk because no mammal takes milk after weaning and it is enough that your diet is balanced in fruits and vegetables to compensate for the insufficiency in vitamins and mineral salts.
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