Abstract

Extensive research in recent years has shown that consumption of milk and dairy products, promotes cardiovascular health, reduces symptoms of the metabolic syndrome in obese individuals, promotes weight loss while maintaining body muscle mass and reduces incidence of some cancers. Detailed analysis of prospective studies in large Western populations over long periods of time demonstrates that higher consumption of dairy products provides an overall survival advantage.

Highlights

  • Milk has been known as “Mother Nature’s most perfect food” for decades, if not centuries

  • Research has shown that milk has many qualities that characterize it as a “functional food”; that is, its components have physiological effects on well-being of the body that go far beyond providing the basic nutrients and energy required for growth (Huth et al, 2006)

  • Probiotics alter the gut microflora and have characteristics that include being of human origin, have generally regarded as safe (GRAS) status, acid and bile stability, adherence to intestinal cells, persistence for some time in the gut, ability to produce antimicrobial substances, antagonism against pathogenic bacteria, and ability to modulate the immune response

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Summary

Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia

ABSTRACT - Extensive research in recent years has shown that consumption of milk and dairy products, promotes cardiovascular health, reduces symptoms of the metabolic syndrome in obese individuals, promotes weight loss while maintaining body muscle mass and reduces incidence of some cancers. Detailed analysis of prospective studies in large Western populations over long periods of time demonstrates that higher consumption of dairy products provides an overall survival advantage

Grandes descobertas do leite para uma dieta e vida saudáveis
Introduction
Fatty acid profile of bovine milk
Saturated fatty acids
Trans fatty acids
Conjugated linoleic acid
Unsaturated fatty acids
Other fatty acids of interest
Milk proteins
Findings
Conclusions

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