VALUE OF MILK.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 39, 25 November 1937, Page 8

VALUE OF MILK.

MOST IMPORTANT FOOD. RICH IN VITAMINS. , “Milk is our most important food,” says M. Rosenau, a world-recognised authority on preventive medicine and hygiene." “It is the best single food. The exceptional value of milk is due to the fact that it contains all the essentials of a balanced diet; it is rich in vitamins, the fat favours growth and it has a high calcium content in readily usable form. “Milk, furthermore, is palatable readily digestible, and is subject to a great variety of modifications. It is one of the cheapest standard articles of diet and the most economical source of protein. Milk is a protective food in that it guards against deficiency diseases when used in combination with other foodstuffs of either animal or vegetable origin. “Those peoples who have employed the leaf of the plant as their sole protective food are characterised by small stature, relatively short span of life,

high infant mortality, and by contented adherence to tho employment of the simple mechanical inventions of their forefathers. A Contrast. “The peoples who have made liberal use of milk as a- food have in contrast, attained greater size, greater longevity and have been much more successful in tho rearing of their young. They have been more aggressive than the nonmilk using people, and have achieved much greater advancement in literature, science and art. They have developed in a higher degree of educational and political systems which offer the greatest opportunity for the individual to develop his powers.” Further evidence in support of milk as a food is furnished by the researches of Dr. Cory Mann in England. In a boarding school G 1 hoys were fed on a satisfactory general diet; at the same t!mo another group of 41 hoys was given the same diet but with the addition to it of one pint of milk daily. Tho experiment was maintained for over a year. The results obtained showed that those who received the additional milk showed an average increase in. weight of 6.981bs as against an average increase in height of 1.84 inches and in weight of 3.851bs on those who did not receive the additional pint of milk. Good milk has done more than any other single food toward health.