With milk, nutrients that children would otherwise need to get from different food sources are already packed into one healthy drink. So what happens when children do not drink milk?
The following are some of the possible health problems they could be facing.
Bone problems
As a major dietary source of easily absorbed calcium, milk is essential to [...]
by Tyrone M. Reyes, M.D.
Everyone has germs. Our bodies are covered with germs that help us to stay healthy. In addition to the germs that are usually present on our skin (resident germs), we also pick up germs from contact with other persons or objects in the environment. These types of germs, called transient germs, [...]
Breast cancer is the leading killer of women ages 35 to 54 worldwide. More than a million developed the disease without knowing it, and almost 500,000 women die from it every year. In Asia, the Philippines has the highest incidence rate of breast cancer and is considered to have the ninth highest incidence rate in [...]
by Ching M. Alano
Only recently, a vegan couple in the US was convicted of starving to death their six-week-old baby, who only weighed three-and-a-half pounds. There were a couple of other cases of vegan parents in New York and Florida causing the death of their infants by feeding them only soy milk in keeping with [...]
LONDON — Women on low-calorie diets or who skip breakfast at the time of conception are more likely to give birth to girls than boys, British scientists said on Wednesday.
New research by the universities of Exeter and Oxford provides the first evidence that a child’s sex is associated with the mother’s diet, and higher energy [...]
by Maan d’asis pamaran
Keep your kids safe from public enemy number 1 If germs had their own “Wanted” roster, this particular bug strain would top the list as public enemy number 1. According to Dr. Lulu Bravo, head of the Asian Strategic Alliance for Pneumoccocal disease prevention (ASAP), invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) is the leading [...]