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Liquid Refreshment

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Jul

Get My Goat

Jacob Gaffney  in Health, Food ,

Research carried out at the Department of Physiology of the University of Granada, Spain, shows that goats’ milk has more beneficial properties to health than cows’ milk.

Among these properties it helps to prevent ferropenic anaemia (iron deficiency) and bone demineralisation (softening of the bones).

The scientist induced iron deficient rats to goats’ milk and cows’ milk in order to reach this conclusion. According to one of the researchers on the project, Javier Díaz Castro, the regular consumption of goats’ milk, “has positive effects on mineral metabolism, recovery from [iron deficiency] and bone mineralisation in rats.”

“In addition, and unlike observations in cows’ milk, its calcium enrichment does not interfere in the bioavailability (the ability to properly metabolize a substance) of the minerals studied,” he added.

InterWined.com notes that previous studies have found that cows’ milk is typically digested later in the body, in the small intestine, therefore the minerals and vitamins listed on the label aren’t necessary reflective of what is absorbed by the body. For instance, 1000 mg of Vitamin C, taken in pill form, is more likely to ‘wash through’ the body, when compared to actually eating an orange. Pulpy and cloudy forms of juices are also healthier than the ‘clear’ counterparts. This is why the ‘bioavailability’ of a substance’s nutrients are key.

While shifting to goats milk is a good suggestion, (it does chemically resemble human milk more closely) it must be noted that cows milk simply tastes better straight up. In cheese form, or when cooking, where the different chemical composition of goats milk proves to be more flavourful and versatile, respectively — cows’ milk simply doesn’t stack up.

There is simply no sense to drink a form of milk that doesn’t taste as good. Happiness is an essential part of a good diet, for well-being doesn’t exist without it. Read the research this way: one glass of cows’ milk means no Cheddar on the sandwich at lunch. Instead, add cubes of feta to that salad at dinner and switch to goats butter straight away.

Nonetheless, will we one day have to also switch to drinking goats’ milk, or, worse, low fat cows’ milk?

InterWined would rather die.

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