Do all kids drink milk?

[themarquis]

By the way, I don't believe that milk will make you fat unless you drink whole milk. Skim certainly won't.

I don't know that it would be an issue of whether it's skim or not, just that it could add a lot of calories to your diet that you wouldn't have in it if you just drank water. Fattier milk has more calories, but skim still has some!

I don't know if it's true or not, but it does seem completely plausible that some people end up with higher calorie diets because of the beverages they pick. And it seems plausible that switching to water and non-caloric beverages might be a good idea for people who want to lose weight (if they're not that in with milk, that is!). But who knows??

 

[redlight]

I don't know if it's true or not, but it does seem completely plausible that some people end up with higher calorie diets because of the beverages they pick. And it seems plausible that switching to water and non-caloric beverages might be a good idea for people who want to lose weight (if they're not that in with milk, that is!). But who knows??

It makes sense to me.

I don't really like drinking milk, but I especially don't like skim. I'll have yoghurt and cheese and ice cream, and try to find other sources of calcium.

 

[kristilew]

my DS has no milk, no coldcut type cheese, no yogurt, no ANYTHING (not really, just seems that way sometimes)
Anyhoo,
he eats ice cream!! (used to get awful reaction but outgrew it thankfully, huge welts if he was touched by any dairy as a child, very scary indeed! (we LIVED on Nutramagen, for like 3 years!!!)

a1tinkfans: you are the very first person I've come across whose child had the same thing as my DD did with milk! It was awful, wasn't it? One time she accidentally dipped her fingers in some ranch dressing and it looked like she'd been stung by hornets! We also had to avoid the processed coldcuts, whether cheese or even turkey, as they use casien as a preservative.


So glad she's outgrown it, though she still doesn't really "do" dairy.

 

[Imzadi]

I don't have kids, but YES! to almond milk. It has so much calcium.

 

[redlight]

I don't have kids, but YES! to almond milk. It has so much calcium.

Does it taste different than regular milk? Maybe I'll try it.

 

[Pikester]

No allergies here at my house. Both my DS11 and DS7 drink milk and have since the Pediatrition told me to switch them to milk. We did whole milk or 2% then as I was told that children need a certain amount of fat in their diet. As they got older I stopped buying the whole/2% and let them drink my 1% milk. We have milk with lunch and dinner. They can have water at other times and are only aloud to have diet soda on the weekends(two cans for the whole weekend at the most) or if we eat out at a restaurant. I use to add Ovaltine to the milk too but they grew out of that.

My DH does not drink milk. I do.

 

[Pixiedust34]

Our kids drink milk with lunch and dinner. They like it.

 

[HelenePA]

My 2 sons used to go through 6 gallons of milk a week! Thankfully, we are now down to 1 1/2 gallons a week!

So your telling me it gets better? We go thru at least a gallon of milk here a day and its gonna get worse when the baby starts on milk in the fall!

 

[Planogirl]

I don't know that it would be an issue of whether it's skim or not, just that it could add a lot of calories to your diet that you wouldn't have in it if you just drank water. Fattier milk has more calories, but skim still has some!

I don't know if it's true or not, but it does seem completely plausible that some people end up with higher calorie diets because of the beverages they pick. And it seems plausible that switching to water and non-caloric beverages might be a good idea for people who want to lose weight (if they're not that in with milk, that is!). But who knows??

Keep in mind though that milk is somewhat filling, at least it is for me. I can drink a ton of water and feel full but unsatisfied. Maybe it's all in the mind but milk fills me up and I feel at least fairly satisfied.

Also, I find a small amount of cheese a great substitute for meat. It only takes a little to fill me up. And I eat yogurt. Great stuff.

 

[MichelleVW]

I don't drink milk with cookies either. And I don't like Oreos. I know, I am a weirdo I really have more of a fat tooth as opposed to a sweet tooth.

My best friend is like that...she hates milk AND ICE CREAM , because she says, "ew, what do they make ice cream out of?? Milk Ew!" She's weird, but I still like her!!

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

now I LOVE ice cream! I can't eat it when it's hot outside though. I think I may have some sort of weird form of lactose intolerance. I eat lots of cheese and yogurt and that doesn't bother me.

 

[redlight]

I love ice cream. I really can't get enough of it.

 

[dizzy203]

My son loves milk. In RI we have coffee flavored milk and it's the best!

 

[phragmipedium]

I have never liked it - I can't even force myself to drink it. Neither of my parents drink it either, except maybe with cookies. When I was younger my parents had me drink calcium-fortified oj instead. I still cook with it, and I like cheese, sour cream, etc - but not milk or yogurt. I actually do think I'm a little bit lactose intolerant too, so it's definitely not a big deal to me - I get a bit of an upset tummy when I have too much of something with a lot of milk in it, like potato soup or something with a lot of cheese. DH drinks it like it's going out of style though - at least two gallons a week almost entirely by himself.

 

[tiggerlover]

My son (and husband) drink so much milk that I tease we should buy our own cow! I buy 3 gallons of 2% milk and a 1/2 gallon of skim milk each week. The skim is for me, the 2% is for DS and DH.

 

[scrapquitler]

My kids (and DH) are HUGE milk drinkers. Between the three of them they drink almost a gallon a day. I NEVER drink milk. I'll use it in cooking, in coffee and once in a while I'll have it with cereal, but that's it: I just hate the taste.

That said, drinking milk is really an "American" thing, I think. When I lived in South America, almost no one there drinks much milk. I've read/heard that most non-Western European descent people don't tolerate lactose very well (or at least that lactose intolerance is much more common among them), so maybe that has something to do with it. Also in a lot of parts of the world, there just aren't as many cows as here.

And of course, there are a lot of people of the mindset "Cows milk is for cows, human milk is for humans"

 

[Robinrs]

I never drank it, HIGHLY lactose intolerant and so is my son. But he does drink Lactaid.

 

[mumto3girls]

My youngest DD will drink milk occasionally. The older two will only drink chocolate milk. They are allowed to have that when we go out to dinner--a few times a month. Otherwise they drink water--I don't buy juice. DH and I rarely drink it. We all eat it in cereal and I cook with it. I buy organic milk--usually skim for me and the girls, 2% for DH. Since I joined Costco I have been buying the 1% for all of us--they haven't had skim in the organic and DH hasn't complained yet.

I am of the opinion that milk is unnecessary except for infants, but the kids dentist, who I otherwise really like, is always fussing at them about drinking milk and telling me that I should serve it with meals and insist that they drink a little at each meal. I just smile and nod. I have concerns about the hormones in milk and not just the ones that can be avoided by drinking organic. There are naturally hormones in ANY animal milk because it is hormones that cause that being (cow, human, whatever) to produce the milk. I personally find that if I avoid dairy--particulary milk and ice cream--my skin is super clear. I don't think that this is true of everyone though but I wonder what other effects dairy may have for me and possibly for my children. Just seems better not to force it on them.

 

[C.Ann]

Even if that wasn't true, look at the calories in a glass of milk! Even if someone wants to dispute the hormones in milk, you can't dispute it DOES lead to obesity..

Well if you drink a ton of whole milk then yeah you will gain weight, that's pretty much a no brainer. The calories are listed right on the side of the milk carton, it's hard to miss.

By the way, I don't believe that milk will make you fat unless you drink whole milk. Skim certainly won't.

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Ummm..yes - I can certainly dispute that milk leads to obesity.. All of my children were very heavy milk drinkers and never even come "close" to being overweight (other than some weight my youngest DD gained from a medication she was taking within the past few years) - let alone "obese".. She now drinks Lactaid milk though as she became lactose intolerant almost immediately after giving birth to her DD..

My siblings grew up drinking large amounts of milk on a daily basis and never had weight issues either..

I too have always drank gallons and gallons of milk - whole milk - and I wouldn't consider weighing under 100 lbs. "obese".. I still drink whole milk - every single day (along with at least 6 bottles of Boost) - and per doctors orders, I am to drink as much whole milk as possible - several glasses a day, in addition a full glass of whole milk with all meals and snacks..

Actually, I can't think of anyone I know that drinks large amounts of milk (whole or otherwise) and suffers from obesity.. The people I know who are obese consume large amounts of soda - either regular or strictly "diet" soda..

 

[hercamore]

I live in SE MN, which is full of dairy farms.

I don't know anyone that doesn't drink milk and related dairy products.

We go thru a couple gallons a week. Milk with every meal when we're home.



herc.