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StarCat said:
At what age did you switch from vitamin D, 2% or 1% milk, to skim milk, for your kids? I thought we could switch my son over when he turned 2, but the doctor said to give him at least 1% because he still needed fat. He's 3 now, and I would like to give him skim milk, because he loves milk, but I think hes getting too much fat from it. I would call and ask the doctor, but unless I actually have an appointment, its a PITA and the secretaries never give you a straight answer.
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We buy Vitamin D whole milk for my 2 boys, and for the 2 girls we buy Organic whole milk.
 
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StarCat said:
At what age did you switch from vitamin D, 2% or 1% milk, to skim milk, for your kids? I thought we could switch my son over when he turned 2, but the doctor said to give him at least 1% because he still needed fat. He's 3 now, and I would like to give him skim milk, because he loves milk, but I think hes getting too much fat from it. I would call and ask the doctor, but unless I actually have an appointment, its a PITA and the secretaries never give you a straight answer.
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StarCat,

Please don't take this as a personal attack, because I don't know you. Do you have a weight issue, and/or are overly health-conscious? Don't take it out on your kid.

An active child with a balanced metabolism can drink whole milk and be perfectly healthy. Better to drink tasty whole milk than the nasty 'juices' with only 10% fruit juice content.

(Not that I am a cow's milk advocate... The human digestive system doesn't have the fourth stomach to generate rennin to process cow's milk like a calf does. And the calcium in cow's milk isn't very bioavailable to humans, whereas calcium from green leafys is most bioavailable.)

From five years of age until I left home at 17, I consumed a gallon of whole milk, a jar of Ovaltine, and a 14 ounce can of sockeye salmon every single day. I was an overweight kid, not because of my diet, but due to lack of exercise. Once I discovered cycling in high school, I lost the baby fat. After I began weightlifting in college, I trimmed down to a svelt 6'8" 270 lbs.

I guess my message is to never limit natural foods to a growing child. (Milk, meat, fruits, vegetables.) Encourage activity. Somewhere down the line everything will come together.

The biggest dietary hurdle for a child these days is now presented to them in high school. Coke machines, snack food machines, even McDonald's at the lunch counter. By teaching your kid right, emphasizing great food, and not withholding, they will laugh at the idiots buying a Super-Sized #2 at the high school cafeteria.
 
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My kid drinks whatever kid of milk there is. Well she dosn't like soy milk. You should be OK if you give him skim milk. Sounds like you should get a new docter though.
 
camily

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Mine still drink whole milk but thats because my mom lives with us and she had breast cancer so I buy vitamin D for her bones. I used to do 2%. I wouldn't go any less than that.
 
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I would be careful with the soy milk, especially with a boy.

Soy products, heavily marketed for health benefits, contain compounds which mimic the structure and function of estrogen. A Swiss study determined that 100g of soy protein provides the estrogenic equivalent of a birth control pill.

A glass of soy milk or some tofu in your stir-fry isn't going to be harmful, but I wouldn't want to make soy a staple in a child's diet, due to the possibility of feminizing characteristics in boys or precocious puberty in girls.
 
camily

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tikipirate said:
I would be careful with the soy milk, especially with a boy.

Soy products, heavily marketed for health benefits, contain compounds which mimic the structure and function of estrogen. A Swiss study determined that 100g of soy protein provides the estrogenic equivalent of a birth control pill.

A glass of soy milk or some tofu in your stir-fry isn't going to be harmful, but I wouldn't want to make soy a staple in a child's diet, due to the possibility of feminizing characteristics in boys or precocious puberty in girls.
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WTF? I have never heard that soy can "feminize" your son or make "precocious puberty" in girls. I think that is a bunch of :bs: That is crazy.
 
StarCat

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tikipirate said:
StarCat,

Please don't take this as a personal attack, because I don't know you. Do you have a weight issue, and/or are overly health-conscious? Don't take it out on your kid.
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You came to that conclusion over milk?

I didnt want to seem shallow and materialistic but really, the main reason I want to know is because I dont want to keep buying 2 kinds of milk.
 
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:killingme Nah, we never over-react around here, do we? Sorry for the screed!
 
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...And about the soy milk info I posted...

I went on the web and did some investimigatin' about soy. Like everything else, the debate is polarized, some folks saying it is a health panacea, and others treating it like cyanide. The best link I found on the anti-soy side was this:

http://www.mercola.com/article/soy/avoid_soy.htm

The best diet is a diverse one. Toss up some tofu. Taste some tempeh. Masticate some miso. Swill some soy milk. Just do it, like everything else, in moderation, with a jaundiced eye towards the amount of soy a pre-adolescent ingests.
 
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