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A MEMORANDUM on the nutritive value of milk has been prepared by the Advisory Committee on Nutrition which was appointed last year by the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland. It points out that milk is the only food which contains nearly all the materials essential for growth and maintenance of life, in a form ready for utilisation by the body. Mothers' milk is the ideal food for the young of the same species, and milk of another species is the next best food for the nutrition of young mammals. The milk of any species of animal, provided it is palatable, is also an eminently suitable food for human beings, especially during growth, pregnancy and lactation.
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The Nutritive Value of Milk. Nature 137, 836 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137836b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137836b0