Healthy people do not need to drink functional milk?

With the intensification of market competition, some manufacturers began to make a fuss about the function of milk. What high-calcium milk, low-fat milk, skim milk, school milk and so on. , dazzle consumers. There are more and more functional milk. Experts believe that functional milk can play a certain health care role, but healthy people do not need to drink functional milk.

Is functional milk designed for different groups of people really more beneficial to health than ordinary milk as advertised? The reporter interviewed Nan Qingxian, a professor at the Food College of China Agricultural University and the executive director of China Dairy Association. Professor Nan believes that functional milk may play a certain health care role if some substances are added, as the packaging and advertisements say. He said, for example, functional milk that claims to contain CLA(*** conjugated linoleic acid), because * * * conjugated linoleic acid contains a pair of unsaturated * * conjugated double bond fatty acids, which has certain effects on regulating human immune function, preventing atherosclerosis and diabetes, and preventing cancer and cancer, so adding this substance to milk will really be beneficial to human body. However, it is uncertain how big this benefit is and whether it can be as prominent as advertised by the manufacturers.

All kinds of functional milk make it difficult for consumers to distinguish between true and false. When many people buy milk, they think that the more functions, the better for their health. Is that really the case? Professor Nan stressed that there is a standard to judge whether functional milk can play a role: generally speaking, it is more credible to emphasize only one symptom or one aspect; However, if the hype has any effect, it is not credible.

Li Xingmin, an associate professor in Food College of China Agricultural University, told everyone that healthy people don't need to drink functional milk, but the nutrition of ordinary milk is enough.

Associate Professor Li pointed out that people with lactose intolerance, diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia can usually choose functional milk, but they can't think that drinking it will definitely control diseases such as blood pressure and blood lipids. Although functional milk contains certain health-care ingredients, the content is very small, which generally does not affect the overall nutritional proportion of milk, so it can only play a certain health-care role and can be eaten as health food, but compared with the effect of drugs, the gap will be great. In addition, because functional milk does not work directly like medicine, there is no taboo when taking medicine. Usually just drink a normal amount like milk.

Many studies have found that men who drink milk regularly are prone to prostate cancer. Researchers in Philadelphia, USA, also confirmed through the epidemiological survey in recent years 10 that eating more dairy products will increase the risk of prostate cancer in men. Domestic studies have also found that milk intake is significantly related to the incidence of prostate cancer. Men who often drink milk will be healthy if they eat more fruits containing lycopene, including tomatoes, apricots, watermelons and red grapes.