Milk is one of the most common nutritional foods in our daily lives. Moreover, milk is very nutritious and has high health benefits. But did you know? There are some ways of drinking milk that are seriously wrong. Drinking milk this way is equivalent to drinking arsenic poison.
1. Milk + Chocolate
Some people think that since milk is a high-protein food and chocolate is an energy food, eating them together must be very beneficial. This is not the case. Liquid milk plus chocolate causes a chemical reaction between the calcium in the milk and the oxalic acid in the chocolate, forming "calcium oxalate". As a result, the originally nutritious calcium becomes a harmful substance to the human body, leading to calcium deficiency, diarrhea, dry hair, easy fractures, and an increased incidence of urinary tract stones.
2. Milk + Eggs
Experts point out that a breakfast of milk and eggs is not scientific, as protein is difficult to provide energy. Currently, more than 9% of people only have milk and eggs for breakfast, with grains long absent from their morning meal. Most people think this kind of breakfast is aligning with international standards, but they don't realize this is a very wrong concept. Milk and eggs are good things, but they are used in the wrong place. After more than ten hours of energy consumption overnight, the human body urgently needs to replenish energy with a breakfast rich in carbohydrates in the morning, but milk and eggs cannot provide enough energy.
3. Milk + Rice Soup, Congee
Some people believe that doing this can provide complementary nutrition. In fact, this practice is very unscientific. Milk contains vitamin A, while rice soup and congee are mainly starch-based and contain lipoxidase, which will destroy vitamin A. Children, especially infants, if they have an insufficient intake of vitamin A, can cause eye diseases, as well as rough skin, dry and brittle hair that is prone to falling out, and streaky nails. Therefore, even for the purpose of supplementing nutrition, the two should be eaten separately.
4. The thicker the milk, the better
Some people believe that the thicker the milk, the more nutrition the body gets, which is unscientific. So-called overly thick milk refers to adding more milk powder and less water to milk, making its concentration exceed the normal proportion. Some people are afraid that fresh milk is too thin and add milk powder to it. If people with poor stomach function drink too much thick milk, it can cause diarrhea, constipation, loss of appetite, or even refusal to eat, and can also lead to acute hemorrhagic enteritis. This is because the stomach cannot bear the excessive burden and pressure.
5. Bottled milk left in the sun can increase vitamin D
Some people learned from advertisements: to supplement calcium, you also need to supplement vitamin D, and getting more sun is a good way to get it. So they follow the advice and put bottled milk out in the sun. In fact, doing so is not worth the loss. The milk may get some vitamin D, but it loses vitamin B1, vitamin B2, and vitamin C. This is because these three nutrients will decompose in the sun, leading to partial or complete loss; moreover, lactose will ferment in the sun, causing the milk to spoil.