Effects of Pasteurized Milk on Human Body

January 13, 2007 by  
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Throughout the world, people have different opinions regarding milk consumption. Africans and Orientals have traditionally avoided milk, while Europeans and Americans encourage milk consumption. Besides proteins, milk also contains fats, meaning that it does not combine well with other foods except itself. Still, nowadays cold milk is often consumed with other products, affecting negatively the digestion process. Milk curds immediately upon entering the stomach, so if other foods are present, the curds coagulate around food particles, insulating them from gastric juices and delaying the digestion process (sometimes long enough to permit the onset of putrefaction). The pasteurisation process destroys milk’s…Read the Rest