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A glass of cow milk Cows in a rotary milking parlor. Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals (including breastfed human infants) before they are able to digest solid food. [1] Milk contains many nutrients, including calcium and protein, as well as lactose and ...
Lactose intolerance is caused by a lessened ability or a complete inability to digest lactose, a sugar found in dairy products. [ 1 ] Humans vary in the amount of lactose they can tolerate before symptoms develop. [ 1 ] Symptoms may include abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, flatulence, and nausea. [ 1 ]
Lactase persistence or lactose tolerance is the continued activity of the lactase enzyme in adulthood, allowing the digestion of lactose in milk. In most mammals, the activity of the enzyme is dramatically reduced after weaning. [1] In some human populations though, lactase persistence has recently evolved [2] as an adaptation to the ...
Betel nut chewing causes oral cancer. [9] Stomach cancer is more common in Japan due to its high-salt diet. [9][11] Dietary recommendations for cancer prevention typically include weight management and eating a healthy diet, consisting mainly of "vegetables, fruit, whole grains and fish, and a reduced intake of red meat, animal fat, and refined ...
Medical toxicology. Milk sickness, also known as tremetol vomiting or, in animals, as trembles, is a kind of poisoning, characterized by trembling, vomiting, and severe intestinal pain, that affects individuals who ingest milk, other dairy products, or meat from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot plant, which contains the poison tremetol.
A dairy is a place where milk is stored and where butter, cheese and other dairy products are made, or a place where those products are sold. [ 1 ]: 325[ 2 ]: 284 It may be a room, a building or a larger establishment. [ 2 ]: 284 In the United States, the word may also describe a dairy farm or the part of a mixed farm dedicated to milk for ...
Milk allergy is an adverse immune reaction to one or more proteins in cow's milk. Symptoms may take hours to days to manifest, with symptoms including atopic dermatitis, inflammation of the esophagus, enteropathy involving the small intestine and proctocolitis involving the rectum and colon. [ 2 ] However, rapid anaphylaxis is possible, a ...
Despite the low risk of milk and meat contamination, the protocol for fatal bovine botulism cases appears to be incineration of carcasses and withholding any potentially contaminated milk from human consumption. It is also advised that raw milk from affected cows should not be consumed by humans or fed to calves. [18]