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Show FARMmaHOMEto UTAH STATS EXTENSION SERVICB ACRICULTl'RB HOME ECONOMIC By Mary Lois Reicheri Home Demonstration Agent YOU ARE NEVER TOO OLD FOR MILK You never outgroow your need for milk. Regardless of the price you pay for milk, you will get your money's worth in good nutrition. Milk at our present level of consumption supplies more than three-fourths of the calcium in our national diets. Milk is by far our best source of calcium which we need especially for good bone and tooth building and care. Nearly half of our riboflavin (one of the B vitamins) comes from milk. Milk and milk products pro-ducts supply about -one-fourth if our total protein needs. The proteins in milk are complete proteins. That means they are the highest quality. When you take milk at the same meal -ith cereals and other vegetable proteins pro-teins the milk proteins help your body to make more efficient effi-cient use of these less complete proteins. Milk also is an important im-portant source of thiamine (another (an-other B vitamin) and also cf Vitamin A as well as other essential es-sential food nutrients. We take pride in being the best fed nation na-tion in the world and yet the United States per capita consumption con-sumption of milk is lower than is that in several other countries. coun-tries. Women are our lowest milk consumers. Older women use less than do the younger women, although their need for milk is just as great. Teen-agers generally are not taking enough milk to meet their nutrition needs. Low income families use too little milk. So do farm families who do not produce their own milk supply. Many families in the higher income group use too little milk. It makes no difference in what form you take your milk so long as you take approximately one quart every day. You can drink it or use it in soups or desserts, or in combination with other foods. Fresh fluid milk is the most expensive form. Dried milk solids sol-ids give you the least expensive expen-sive milk supply. Evaporated milk is in between ' the two from a cost standpoint. Dried milk can be used any place where you would use fresh milk. It gives you a good low-cost, low-calorie food. It is whole milk from which the fat and water have been removed. In case you are one of those persons who needs to lose a few pounds, remember that a safe reducing ' diet always contains con-tains milk. Milk is not a "fattening" "fat-tening" food. One serving of apple pie will give you as many calories as one pint of whole milk or nearly one quart of skim milk. Whatever your age or weight, remember you still need milk for good nutrition. There is no substitute for milk. |