Facing the epidemic: it is necessary to establish a new understanding that milk has dual nutritional functions

The new crown pneumonia epidemic in 2020 is more stubborn than we thought, which reminds us to re-examine the importance of food to human nutrition and health in addition to vaccine research and development

In February 2020, the National Health Commission clearly stated in the "Nutritional Dietary Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Pneumonia Infected by Novel Coronavirus" that try to ensure that at least 300 grams of milk and dairy products per person per day are beneficial to improve the body's resistance

In 2020, Chinese researchers took the lead in analyzing the homeostasis of milk on human nutrition, immunity and gut microbes in the context of the global COVID-19 epidemic (Ren Guangxu et al.

Figure 1: The effect of lactoferrin dietary supplementation on recovery time in COVID-19 patients

In the past 10 years, systematic research on the nutritional function of milk has been carried out internationally, and important progress has been made

Therefore, in the process of human beings fighting against epidemic diseases, it is necessary to not only exert the basic nutritional function of milk, but also give full play to the active nutritional function of milk.