Drinking milk fights depression, improves mental health — nutrition expert

Aside from offering the physique with calcium and different important vitamins, a human diet skilled on Thursday stated that consuming milk day by day may additionally cut back the chance of melancholy and enhance one’s psychological well-being.

Ahead of the celebration of World Milk Day on June 1, Prof. Liezel Atienza, director of the Institute of Human Nutrition and Food on the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), stated that Vitamin B-12 in milk helps promote wholesome nervous perform, in addition to important amino acids which will regulate moods.

“Kung gusto nating maging mas lively as a person, mas hindi depressed and tired, so milk will help. A glass of milk everyday will help us have this good stamina,” she stated.

(If we wish to turn out to be extra vigorous and never depressed and drained, milk will assist. A glass of milk on a regular basis will assist us have this good stamina.)

Typically, a glass of milk supplies calcium, protein, potassium, and lots of different nutritional vitamins which can be important for the physique. Atienza stated that consuming milk day by day may additionally even cut back individuals’s danger of getting colon most cancers and cardiovascular illnesses.

Calcium deficiency in Pinoys

Citing information from the Department of Science and Technology-Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI), Atienza stated that there was nonetheless a excessive price of calcium deficiency amongst Filipinos—a scenario which can be addressed by greater milk consumption.

“In the Philippines, sadly the prevalence of calcium deficiency is around 92-94% among children, and for adults it’s like 97%, and among elderly or older adults it’s 95%. It’s like nine out of 10 Filipinos are calcium-deficient,” she stated.

“The thing is hindi natin siya nakikita (we can’t see it) using our naked eye. So one can check if we are calcium-deficient by checking our intake, our diet. If milk, as one of the richest sources of calcium, is lacking in our diet, then we can say in a way that we are calcium-deficient,” she added.

DOST-NRFI’s 2021 Expanded National Nutrition Survey earlier revealed that about 97.2% of Filipinos aged 19 to 59 years previous, and 95.5% of these aged 60 and above are calcium poor.

Milk in class canteens

Magdalene Cariaga, a registered nutritionist from the Department of Education’s (DepEd) Bureau of Learners Supports and Services, affirmed that not only a well-nourished physique, but additionally a wholesome thoughts, may help in efficient studying.

DepEd has been implementing a School-Based Milk Feeding Program, encouraging college students to eat milk to additionally assist tackle undernutrition. For subsequent faculty 12 months, Cariaga stated that the DepEd will likely be launching a marketing campaign to make milk out there in public faculty canteens.

“That’s one way to advocate and to ensure that there is a milk drinking habit because the habit will create the demand and we would like that to be instilled until they grow old. This will result in lesser health problems and maybe the calcium deficiency will also go lower,” she stated.

Cariaga additionally stated that the DepEd is encouraging milk donations, particularly in rural and far-flung areas the place delivering milk to colleges is sort of troublesome. — VDV, GMA Integrated News