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Show AGUICULTrKF. By Mary Lois Reichert Home Demonstration Aoent YOU ARE NEVER TOO OLD -FOR MILK You never outgrow your need for milk! Milk is a necessary food for all ages. Regardless of the price you pay for milk, you will always get your money's worth in good nutrition. Milk at our present level of consumption con-sumption supplies more than three-fourths three-fourths of the calcium in our national na-tional diets. It 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 supply about one-fourth of our total protein needs. The proteins in milk are complete proteins. That means they are the highest quality. qual-ity. When you take milk at the same meal with cereals and other vegetable proteins the milk proteins pro-teins help your body to make more efficient use of these less complete com-plete plant proteins. Milk also is an important source of thiamine (another B vitamin) and also of vitamin A as well as other essential food nutrients. We take pride in being the' best fed nation in the world and yet the United States' per capita consumption con-sumption of milk is lower than is that in several other countries. Women are our lowest milk consumers. Older women use less than do the younger women, although al-though their need for milk -is just as great. Teen-agers generally are not taking tak-ing enough milk to meet their nutrition nu-trition 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 a quart every day. You can drink it or use it in soups or desserts or in combination com-bination with other foods. Fresh fluid milk is the most expensive ex-pensive form. Dried milk solids give you the least expensive' milk supply. Evaporated milk is in be-1 tween the two from a cost standpoint. stand-point. 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 pound's, remember that a safe re-ducing re-ducing diet always contains milk. Milk is not a "fattening" 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 sub-stitute for milk. |