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at 18 months she should be ready to switch over entirely. Soy would not be appropriate for a child unless she has milk allergies. Feed her whole milk, it's incr
by bitJericho 9y ago
at 18 months she should be ready to switch over entirely. Soy would not be appropriate for a child unless she has milk allergies. Feed her whole milk, it's incredibly important for her brain development.
- throwaway413 9y ago> Feed her whole milk, it's incredibly important for her brain development. No, no it's not.
- undersuit 9y agoThe fats in whole milk are, but you can get the appropriate fats from other sources.
- throwaway413 9y agoDefinitely, as you said - it's the fats, not the milk.
- bitJericho 9y agoIt absolutely is. We have evolved to eat cooked food and drink milk. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_evolution/2012/10/evolution_of_lactose_tolerance_why_do_humans_keep_drinking_milk.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_evolu... https://www.choosemyplate.gov/dairy-nutrients-health https://www.choosemyplate.gov/dairy-nutrients-health http://www.idfa.org/news-views/media-kits/milk/importance-of-milk-in-diet http://www.idfa.org/news-views/media-kits/milk/importance-of... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2039733/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2039733/
- mustacheemperor 9y agoThat NIH publication is interesting. Other than that these sources seem sketchy. Not to put a horse in the race, but if you're trying to argue that the milk lobby isn't responsible for the idea that milk is necessary for development, the people behind the food pyramid and the literal milk lobby are not the best sources to cite.
- bitJericho 9y agoI don't know anything about the "milk lobby". What I do know is that Milk consumption started 5000 years ago, at the dawn of civilization. That is no coincidence.
- logfromblammo 9y agoGoat milk plus folic acid would be better for an infant 12 months or older than bovine milk. Bovine and goat milks are unsuitable for infants under 12 months, because they contain too much protein in undiluted form, and not enough nutrition content when diluted to safe protein levels. The dawn of civilization up until the industrial age fed human babies exclusively on their mothers' milk, or upon the milk of a human wet nurse. Those that could not feed in this manner died. It was very tragic, and it made a lot of people very sad. Consuming bovine milk is not a critical step in human evolution. It's just a culinary choice. People also ate locusts back then. It didn't catch on as well, because cheese tastes better, and doesn't have raspy, sticklike hindlegs that get stuck in your teeth if you don't snip them off with kitchen scissors. You can certainly feed your baby pureed grasshoppers, but most people don't, because they are squeamish about insectophagy themselves.
- bitJericho 9y agoWoah I never said anything about feeding a baby cow milk! We're talking about an 18 month old here.
- logfromblammo 9y agoIt's obligatory to mention it whenever talking about giving milk to infants. Besides that, if veteran parents don't make green parents neurotic about screwing their kids up for the rest of their lives, the industry that sells them books and useless crap might collapse.
- bitJericho 9y agoIt was not a dietary choice. We were lactose intolerant up until 5000 years ago. It was so useful to human survival that we quickly became capable of consuming dairy. Look up some life expectancy research https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090722083720.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090722083720.h...
- kevin_thibedeau 9y agoYou do realize that the push to condition consumers to a heavily dairy based diet is a result of industry lobbying, right?
- bitJericho 9y agoNo I don't. Source plz?
- PerfectElement 9y agoSince when humans need cows milk to develop their brain? Did you know that a significant part of the human population is lactose intolerant?
- bitJericho 9y agoSince 5000 years ago.