It also contains proteins to strengthen our muscles and carbohydrates to give energy. Drinking milk also helps gain weight effectively.

If you want to lose weight and still you want to drink milk, buy those low or non-fat milk. It will still give you protein, calcium and vitamin D but less fat.

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That’s just pure advertisement and it doesn’t really work. All you need to do is have a low fat and sodium diet and lots of exercise.

If you want to drink milk and avoid the fat, try the low or non-fat milk. It will still give you calcium and vitamin D and less the fat.

Low and non fat milk are good for people who want to lose weight and loves milk. You can also mix it with coffee and on your cereals.

Milk has high amount of calcium and vitamin which is good for the bones. Also milk gives potassium and protein for healthy muscles and prevents blood clotting.

Potassium? I don’t think that milk gives potassium.

corinne_a - 08 July 2008 10:01 PM

Sure you should drink milk. As we get older, we need the calcium in our bones so we don't become weak and brittle. Choose milk that is non-fat, though. If your tummy can take it and you don't have gastro issues with milk, then you should definitely drink up.

Note: Calcium itself is weak and brittle. Those are its properties. Truthfully, we need to have bones that are strong. Calcium is just one part of that. They bring the thickness, but you need magnesium, boron, D and C in there too to balance it out. You want health bones, not thick and brittle bones. Think of school board chalk...that literally IS calcium gluconate. It's super easy to break, you drop it on the tile floors (or asbestos tile floors, depending on when you went to school. ) and it shatters. Google Dr. Nan Fuschs, I read some really good stuff by her. Dr. Dean too.

I got into this stuff from racing horses...keeping an athlete in tune...that weighs 1,400 lbs on tiny hooves and splintery legs...you gotta wonder why the staffs of some barns don't look into health. Tragedies like Barbaro (this decade) or Ruffian (past decades) are one and the same...not so much genetic as feeding a calcium rich diet and creating brittle bones. Balance it out and you have some TOUGH legs that can withstand. It's amazing how this has been an ignored factor in humans as well.

I know that Vitamin C and D are beneficial for the bones but boron and magnesium this is a new for me.
Is boron bad for the body?

joe_888 - 23 June 2009 11:05 PM

I know that Vitamin C and D are beneficial for the bones but boron and magnesium this is a new for me.
Is boron bad for the body?

From what I have studied up on, boron is another element that helps in calcium utilization. You will see it commonly added to high-end calcium products. On the magnesium, I know, it's not a wide-spread idea, but it seems to do the trick. I posted elsewhere, maybe not on this thread, that my dad had bone spurs and calcium deposits in his neck after having 5 surgeries. He was literally out sailing in the SF Bay, looked up to check his sail and blacked out. After a whole lot of x-rays, they told him the amount of calcification in his neck was cutting off the bloodflow to-from his brain and he must have pinched it when he rotated his neck. Needless to say, he went on some powdered mag supplement and literally has these old deposits "reallocating" their calcium elsewhere. To me, it appears they are dissolving. Doc says the calcium is just being utilized elsewhere. The book I got this concept from was The Magnesium Miracle. After reading it, you will believe that Mag cures all! Ha ha ha. It's a vital element...I feel like I need it as much as water and air at this point...and I can't complain...doing great physically and mentally.

So, boron is added on high end calcium-based product. Is this use as an extender of the product for commercialization?

Milk is a very healthy dripk for everyone.its a complete food.It is necessary for all type of aged people.So every day at least we should all have a glass full of milk.

No matter how old are you..milk is very essential thing and you should take it daily in the morning and night