Milk - Health Benefits
                                                     

Nutrition Facts:
Milk has no rival. Milk provides:
-Calcium to build strong bones and teeth
-Protein to build and repair muscle tissue
-Vitamin B₁₂ to build red blood cells and carries oxygen from the lungs to working muscles
-Vitamin B₂ (riboflavin) for converting food into energy
As well as�
-Niacin to enable certain enzymes to function normally
-Vitamin A to help maintain normal vision and skin
-Phosphorus for our bones and to generate energy in the body�s cells
-Potassium to help regulate our body�s fluid balance and help to maintain normal blood pressure
Not to mention�
-Vitamin B₁ (thiamin)
-Vitamin B₆
-Folate
-Iodine
-Magnesium &
-Zinc 

The three main types of milk vary according to their fat content. Whole milk contains 3.9g fat per 100mls, semi-skimmed milk contains 1.6g fat per 100mls and skimmed milk contains 0.1g fat per 100mls of milk. 
The reduced fat milks are also lower in calories, compared to whole milk, which contains 66 calories per 100mls of milk. Semi-skimmed milk, however, has 47 calories and skimmed milk has 33 calories per 100mls of milk.
Removing some of the fat in the milk to make semi-skimmed and skimmed milk also makes a difference to the amount of vitamins A, D and E, which are lower in the lower-fat milks.
The amount of B vitamins, in each of the three types of milk, is the same. These include thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, B6, folic acid, pantothenic acid and B12. They are water- soluble and so are not removed with the fat. Vitamin C is also the same in all three types of milk as it too is a water-soluble vitamin.
The levels of the minerals iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, selenium and zinc are about the same for all three types of milk.
Interestingly the mineral calcium, of which milk and dairy products are the richest source, is actually slightly higher in the lower-fat milks. Whole milk contains 115mg of calcium per 100mls of milk compared with 118mg in semi-skimmed milk and 120mg in skimmed milk.
So overall, lower-fat milks are lower in calories, and the vitamins A, D and E compared to whole milk. They contain the same amount of the B vitamins and vitamin C, as well as the same amount of minerals but are slightly higher in calcium than whole milk.

Teeth and milk:
Sugary and acidic drinks such as fizzy drinks, squashes, fruit drinks and fruit juices cause teeth to erode and decay if they are consumed too often.
Dentists recommend that water and milk are the only safe drinks for teeth between meals. The National Health Service spends around �60 million a year on filling and extracting children's teeth. Tooth decay causes pain and anxiety. 43 per cent of children have signs of tooth decay by the time they are five years old.