Experts say that it is unsuitable for children to eat the milk slice for calcium supplement

Experts say that it is unsuitable for children to eat the milk slice for calcium supplement

Abstract: Many parents like to use the milk slices and the calcium tablets as the snacks for their children. They often thought that, the calcium content in the milk slices and the calcium tablets is abundant which is better than let children eat sugar. However, the experts pointed out that letting children eat the milk slices is not recommended.

Not a few parents like to use the milk slices and the calcium tablets as the snacks for their children. They often thought that, the calcium content in the milk slices and the calcium tablets is abundant which is better than let children eat sugar. However, the experts from the BeijingUniversity of Chinese Medicine Affiliated Hospital of Combining Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine pointed out that letting children eat the milk slices is not recommended.

The experts showed that, the milk slice is made by dehydrating and squeezing the milk, in order to increase taste and in favor of save, not a few spices, preservatives and other additives are added into them, not only the nutritional value is not high, but also it would cause the osmotic pressure inside the human body rising after eating. These additives would be very easy to cause damages to the children’s bodies.

What is more, in addition the fresh milkcontains high quality calcium, which is still contain protein, iron, vitamin B, and other multiple nutrients, these cannot compare with the milk tablets. While from the view point of absorption, the calcium and other nutrition containing in the fresh milk are more easily absorbed by human body, and during the production process, the calcium and other nutrition contained in the milk have already solidified, in addition through multi-channel production working procedure, the fresh milk absorptivity of the human body is not high. In addition, the digestive system development of children is still not perfect, the setting calcium in the milk slice is very likely to gather, precipitate in the human body, such as liver and kidneys, and finally forming a stone. Therefore, the milk slice not only cannot be used as the substitution of milk, but also being harmful to the human body.