Milk, also known as cow's milk, is believed in traditional Chinese medicine to have a sweet and smooth taste, and to have the effects of "nourishing the blood vessels, nourishing the five organs", "strengthening yang, nourishing yin, and promoting eugenics".
Modern medicine has confirmed that milk contains various functional factors that are beneficial for eugenics. Among them, L-carnitine in milk is an energy substance for sperm maturation, which has the function of increasing sperm count and vitality, and is beneficial for maintaining male reproductive health.
The vitamin K and vitamin A contained in milk are not only conducive to the synthesis and secretion of sex hormones, ensuring the normal concentration and vitality of sperm, but also vitamin A is one of the elements of fetal development and child growth, contributing to good pregnancy, placental protection and normal early development. The vitamin B2 contained in milk can help pregnant women effectively supplement vitamin B2 and avoid fetal bone abnormalities.
The vitamin E contained in milk can enhance ovarian function and prevent habitual miscarriage. The folic acid contained in milk can prevent fetal neural tube development abnormalities and spina bifida, and prevent the birth of neural tube malformations, anencephaly malformations, and spina bifida malformations.
The trace elements such as zinc and selenium contained in milk are beneficial for maintaining the health of the gonads, promoting the development of the sexual organs and secondary sexual characteristics, ensuring normal sperm count in males and normal menstruation in females. This is beneficial for the healthy development of the fetus, without causing malformations, and for normal growth.
Moreover, milk is rich in protein, fat, lactose, vitamins, and minerals such as calcium, iron, and sodium, and is considered an ideal nutrient balanced food discovered so far. Persisting in drinking milk is one of the important ways to comprehensively supplement women's nutrition. More and more young couples are paying attention to how to scientifically give birth to a healthy baby, and they are well aware that during pregnancy and lactation, mothers are the only source of nutrition for the baby. Reasonable nutrition supplementation is a very important aspect of optimal pregnancy and childbirth.
The nutritional status of a mother directly affects the health of the fetus. Malnutrition or deficiency not only affects the safety of the pregnant woman's own body, but also has a close relationship with the differentiation and growth of fetal organs. In severe cases, it can even affect the development of fetal brain cells, which is detrimental to the intellectual development of the fetus. This requires mothers to increase their own nutritional reserves before pregnancy, strengthen nutritional intake during pregnancy and lactation, and supplement various nutrients reasonably. Currently, the most ideal and economical way is to drink milk.
Of course, the emergence of milk and dairy products that add related substances to the special needs of pregnant women in the market is undoubtedly a sign of the importance society attaches to eugenics and the improvement of women's quality of life. In addition, milk also has the function of preventing hypertension. Although hypertension is a common disease among middle-aged and elderly people. But research has shown that this disease can be prevented from the moment the fetus is in the mother's womb. If the mother of a baby insists on drinking a certain amount of milk every day during the last three months of pregnancy, it can lower the child's blood pressure. If the blood pressure in childhood exceeds normal standards, it often develops into high blood pressure in adulthood, and having them drink a glass of milk every day can reduce systolic blood pressure. Therefore, people refer to milk as the natural enemy of hypertension.
Some developed countries attach great importance to and ensure the intake of milk by women and children. In Japan, since women become pregnant, local government departments have provided free milk, which is distributed by dedicated personnel. Two bottles are delivered to the home every day until the child is 2 years old. The regulations of various local government departments vary slightly, and in some places, the distribution period may be longer.
In Canada, people even use the tax exempt benefits paid by the government to eligible applicants on a monthly basis to help support the growth of children under the age of 18, commonly known as the "Canada Child Tax Benefit". These countries generally value and strive to ensure children's milk needs, and have developed good milk consumption habits. Milk has a significant impact and contribution on human health, women and children.