Milk the Most Perfect Food

Contents Foreword/Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya. Introduction. 1. Weights and measures. 2. Vedic and Ayurvedic references milk and its uses. 3. Imports of milk products butter ghee etc. 4. Total production of milk per year in India and the statistics of milch cattle in different provinces in India provincial distribution of the milch cattle and milk. 5. Comparative use and comdumption of milk and butter per head in the different countries of the world and in India a contrast. 6. Average daily work the supply and nature of food needed per head expressed in calories. 7. Composition of different types of milk and their nutritive values. 8. Vitamin contents of milk. 9. Food values of eggs meat soyabeans etc. compared with milk. 10. Influence of milk on the general health and development of the body and longevity. 11. Curds buttermilk joghurt kumys and kefir. 12. Butter its composition and food value. Man does not live for bread alone. As a representative of the highest evolution of rational beings he has to live for some ideals. The humanitarian in India looks upon the life of a cow that has yielded milk all her life time with the same feeling with which he looks at the life of one of his own relatives and rightly too. Both for the young and the adult cow's milk is most valuable the most perfect of all human foods. The illustrations given in the book are happily designed and show originality in the manner of their execution. They are meant to be at once educative explanatory and convincing. 140 pp.…