Milk Could be Fortified to Prevent Diabetes

Tue, 11 Oct 2011
The National Institute of Nutrition is developing a new way in which people can be helped to delay or prevent diabetes and hypertension by simply adding milk into your daily diet routine.

The Indian based institute has fortified salt and wheat flour with key essential nutrients to help people combat goitre and anaemia.

The focus is now on milk, fortified with Vitamin D which can help prevent all lifestyle disorders, so researchers at the institute say.

Researchers clarified that with the help of the scientific process of fortification, a sound amount of micronutrients is added to staple food to render it extra nutritional.

The Institute is considering low fat milk to fortify Vitamin D, an essential nutrient which Indians are alarming becoming deficient in.

Vitamin D is a great for helping the body fight many illnesses. Hence, it is planned to fortify milk with vitamin D to enable people fight various illnesses including diabetes .

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