Milk is a very important food in our life. The sixteen elements necessary to life are all found in milk. Milk contains sufficient carbohydrates, protein, fat, mineral and water. So, milk is also called “whole food”

Any other food requires a certain amount of energy to digest. Milk requires no effort of digestion. Almost immediately it enters your blood as blood being a blood maker.

To the growing child milk is the greatest food in the world. Right into his blood go the food materials that make blood for milk has in itself every constituent for blood making, except, perhaps, a sufficient amount of iron.

There are different sources of milk and each milk type differs in terms of nutrition. Here is presented a chart depicting milk nutritional value. Nutrition in milk is calculated per 100 grams of milk

Cow: Water (gm) 88, energy (Kcal) 61, protein (gm) 3.29, fat (gm) 3.34, carbohydrates (gm) 4.66;

Goat: Water (gm) 87.03, energy (Kcal) 69, protein (gm) 3.56, fat (gm) 4.14, carbohydrates (gm) 4.45;

Buffalo: Water (gm) 83.39, energy (Kcal) 97, protein (gm) 3.75, fat (gm) 6.89, carbohydrates (gm) 5.18;

Sheep: Water (gm) 80, energy (Kcal) 108, protein (gm) 5.98, fat (gm) 7.01, carbohydrates (gm) 5.36;

Human: Water (gm) 87.50, energy (Kcal) 70, protein (gm) 1.03, fat (gm) 4.38, carbohydrates (gm) 6.89;

I enjoy milk, Its a very good healthy type of drink but its price has gone up so much here even though we produce a lot of milk locally the demand around the world for milk and other products made out of it is the cause. They say we have to pay for what everyone else is paying for it even overseas. So the cost gets passed on to us here in New Zealand even though its produced here if we don't pay the asking price then it gets sold overseas because the demand is there. I think the change in culture where more Asian countries are consuming more has something to do with it.

Just last year butter in New Zealand cost only 2 dollars average for a block now its 5 dollars roughly. A lot of complaints are being made but the answer we get is they are just trying to get more money for the farmers for their milk and there fore we pay the standard market price or it get sold overseas.

lol I'm milk intolerant so... I cant eat cheese, yougurt. I can eat ice cream and margerine but cant eat most over diary products

I agree milk is a wonderful food...so full of nutrients. I've always had trouble falling asleep at night, and the one thing I can always count on to put me asleep is a mug of warm milk. Plus it just makes me feel good. I hate it when people try to pass milk off as some kind of poison...perhaps the hormones we pump into the animals are bad for us, but not the milk itself. By choosing organic milk, you can reduce the amount of the harmful stuff anyway. I say keep drinking milk!

As you say milk is easily digested. But i found that there are certain people who can not digest milk or milk made items.
My son is one of them. He vomits most of the times he takes milk. What could be the reason for that.

Could be lactose-intolerance. It's quite a common problem and I believe it's inborn. i don't know much about the condition except that people who have it can't vomit when they take milk or feel queasy. You could do a web search on it.

I agree that milk is wonderful food. Furthermore, it makes you full too, so I believe it's good for people who are on a diet or have gastric problems but can't find time to eat properly.

Thanks for the quick reply. I do agree with you that milk is a complete food initself. I will search the web about the lactose-
intolernce.

Milk is awesome It goes well with just about any food, too.

Some people say it puts them to sleep, but for some reason it wakes me up. I think it might be a chemical thing somewhat specific to me, but I'm not sure why it works like that.

Some other really healthy foods I know of: Tomatoes (beta-carotene), Blueberries (anti-oxidants), Spinach (tons of vitamins)

The only thing with Spinach though is you've got to eat it fresh. Then it tastes like lettuce, only better. But after a week or so it starts tasting like the stuff in the can. I tried eating that before with salt, seasonings, all sorts of stuff. Nothing can make the canned stuff taste good. I can't imagine how people can eat it like that. I think Popeye was insane If it was fresh Spinach I could understand