Dairy products intake and their effect on heart health
Posted on: 29/Jan/2019 10:02:54 AM
In our childhood majority of us would have been forced by our mothers and grandmothers to drink milk. It is believed that intake of milk is superb for a child’s mental and physical growth. By drinking milk a child could get better immunity, strength, growth of body etc as milk contains calcium, potassium and vitamin D. Milk is a dairy product is well known. Not many know that intake of dairy could be superb for the health of the heart.
It has been revealed that adults who consumed atleast 2 servings of dairy everyday had less chances of heart attacks, strokes etc. A report that included as many as 136,000 people from around 21 nations has been published in the ‘The Lancet’.
Vitamin D prevents high BP:
It has been shown by study that lack of vitamin D is one of the reasons for hypertension, diabetes, other causes for heart attacks and strokes etc. The dairy products have high amounts of vitamin D in them and it could keep the deficiency away and further prevent health conditions that could result in cardiovascular issues in us.
Vitamin K prevents arterial calcification:
The important piece of information is people who consumed vitamin K in their diet had 50 percent less chance for arterial calcification. It is brought out that vitamin K2 helps to keep calcium in bones and out of arteries.
Good fats avoid heart diseases in us:
Dairy products like cheese etc have mono saturated and unsaturated fats in them and they could prevent us from getting heart attacks and strokes. Take care that excess amounts of cheese are not consumed as they could sometimes lead to issues.
Probiotics in fermented dairy products good for heart:
Yoghurt, cheese etc are fermented dairy products and they have probiotics or god bacteria. These probiotics are good for the health of the heart. The issues of heart attacks, strokes are reduced by consumption of fermented dairy products.
Heart attacks get reduced by intake of dairies:
The amazing piece of news is intake of dairy products of both low as well as full fat dairy could reduce the heart attacks by 9%.
