Aspectos históricos, fisiológicos e antroposóficos do leite na alimentação humana: uma introdução ao tema / Historic, physiologic and anthroposophic aspects of milk in human nutrition: an introduction to the issue
Cow's milk is widely consumed by humanpopulations around the world for thousands of years and human milk is considered essential food for healthy child development. The scientific literature has given great emphasis to their study and pointed out many contradictions in the results related to cow's milk favorable or unfavorable role to the development of chronic diseases. The topic was addressed by Rudolf Steiner in some medical conferences that established correlations from the point of view of anthroposophic science. This paper describes the initial results of a research about milk in three sources general, academic and anthroposophic literature with the objective of achieving a broader understanding about the issue considering all sources.(AU)