Hormones: What’s in your milk?
Published: March 6, 2014
Summary
Hormones are normal constituents of milk that are a continuous topic of debate. Hormones are usually peptides or steroids produced in one tissue, transported by blood, to cause another target tissue or organ to modify growth, metabolism, or reproduction. Hormones are essential for growth in humans and animals and can be transferred in small amounts from the blood into milk. Table 1 below defines ...
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10 de marzo de 2014
worth reading article however all these important nutritive materials mentioned here never reache the final consumers especially in third world as
1.the price available to the farmer is not worth to sustain his business which intends him to adopt unethical and unprofessional practices
2. processors want to maximize their profits by providing alternates similar to milk and ultimately the consumers never find such things in the milk available to them which are mentioned here.
The author deserves appreciations for his honest research
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10 de marzo de 2014
Very concise information. I think there is a lack of information with regards to the origin of dairy products. I have also seen some products labeled as Organic, only because they don´t apply the GH to their cows.
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