This is a change? How? I always heard it was whole milk at least until 2 years, they need the milk fat to aid in brain development.
They’ll get my whole milk when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
(Can’t see how anybody drinks that skim stuff...almost as bad as broccoli — ALMOST.)
1% is nasty, why bother?
How can a mother trust this when greedy emotional liberals have conquered science and begun issuing advice?
My daughter's pediatrician recently told her to put the baby on whole milk after she weaned him and for his cereal, etc.
Years ago, my kids' pediatrician told me to put them on 2%. I did, and have been drinking it myself ever since, don't drink much milk but use it for cereal and cooking. Some put their kids on skim milk, hate the stuff.
There is really only one brand of 2% I really like the taste. The rest of it I don't like but buy it when I can't find my regular brand.
A shame. Babies and children need WHOLE milk so their brains can grow.
I feed all my 4 children whole milk only—they range in age from 2 to 12 years old. They are all as skinny as rails.
If the U.S. doesn’t want fat kids, parents should pry them away from the screens, send them outside to play, and quit giving them packaged unhealthy snacks and chips all day long.
Whole milk is a wholesome food.
A link on the same page as the above article:
Kids’ Bones at Risk From Low Vitamin D
http://children.webmd.com/news/20070709/kids-bones-at-risk-from-low-vitamin-d
The article states that it is the result of kids not drinking enough milk, drinking soda pop instead. Everyone I knew as a kid drank whole milk and no one was fat. Soda pop and ding dongs will make you fat, not 3 glasses of whole milk a day.
Firearm Safety for Families
In light of the recent decision by the United States Supreme Court, the American Academy of Pediatrics would like to remind families of steps they can take to keep children safe from firearm-related injury or death:
Its not the milk, its the lifestyle. Give your kids whole milk and send them outside to play.
Sheesh, how hard can that be?
It won't matter. Peter Arnett will report the US military has bombed these milk producing facilities to deny babies nutrition.
Eating fat does not make one fat. And a little brain will not develop properly without lots of cholesterol.
My head nearly exploded when the ped told us to switch our son to 2% at age 2. I feed him whole foods and lots of good fats, including whole milk, walnuts, cheese, butter, eggs with yolks, etc. And my kid’s weight is great. It’s excessive processed carbs and high fructose corn syrup, along with inactivity that makes kids (and adults) obese. NOT whole milk. Do these guys know anything about nutrition? Low fat/high carb is a lousy way to feed your body.
I drink skim and I also use cream and butter. I am from a family of dairy farmers. That is the way farm families drank milk before homogenization. They took the cream off to make butter or use as cream and then drank the “skimmed” milk.
I’ve wondered how much the low fat diet recommendations have contributed to obesity. I’ve read that in the past, long before we were hit with an obesity epidemic, about 50% of calories came from fat. Now the recommendation is for 30% of calories to come from fat.
For me, eating a high fat meal suppresses my appetite, so I won’t feel like eating again for hours. I have a hypothesis that people eating low fat have increased appetites, because they’re trying to keep their lipid intake up but the lipids aren’t being provided at sufficient quantity in the low fat diet. There are certain essential lipids the body just can’t make.
Too much Fat does not cause fat.Too many carbohydrates cause the body to store fat !
A Low Fat diet causes people to consume too many carbohydrates.
A Low Fat diet causes Americans to become obese.
Good grief! How on earth did we ever manage to bring up healthy children without such wisdom? I actually relied on common sense and fed my children whole milk from the time they were weaned until they married and left home. Both were very healthy, quite slim, and had gorgeous teeth.