Milk is healthy and nutritious - it would seem that this is an axiom. However, as the "MedVesti" writes, recent studies of physicians have established that this axiom is not so unshakable. Two years ago, milk was excluded from the list of health products according to the decision of the Alliance of Doctors of the World, which operates under the auspices of the Harvard School. Scientists do not deny: indeed, in some cases dairy products have useful properties, but their consumption in excess can lead to quite serious diseases.

So, cows in large farms give milk almost daily, while in ordinary households the cow is milked only 180 days per year. This means that to increase the amount of milk, cows are given a special food that contains hormonal substances. Getting into the human body together with milk, they can provoke the appearance of tumors on the prostate and testicles.

In addition, the milk contains beef fat, which is the heaviest of animal fats. Scientists have calculated: in one cup of milk contains 10% of the daily cholesterol, that is, in this case, excessive milk consumption provokes atherosclerosis and its consequences: stroke and heart attack.

Debunk some of the myths about milk, we asked our expert Olga Sokolova, m. Central Laboratory of Microbiology of the GNU VNIIM Rosselkhozakademii.

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