Teenagers and milk

[Anonymous]

my "work children" drink tons of milk. the teenaged boy can go through a gallon a day, which I'm not happy about (they rarely drink plain water, which isn't the healthiest habit), so I buy nonfat. otherwise, they'd be gaining weight rapidly.

[Anonymous]

Surprised at the number of milk drinkers. We have it in coffee and kids will very occasionally have it with Oreos. For drinking almond milk seems better to us if we simply must have a milk like product. I thought wholesale milk drinking was getting less popular - like a holdover from the mid twentieth century. But I suppose I am not aware of trends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Surprised at the number of milk drinkers. We have it in coffee and kids will very occasionally have it with Oreos. For drinking almond milk seems better to us if we simply must have a milk like product. I thought wholesale milk drinking was getting less popular - like a holdover from the mid twentieth century. But I suppose I am not aware of trends.

Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprised at the number of milk drinkers. We have it in coffee and kids will very occasionally have it with Oreos. For drinking almond milk seems better to us if we simply must have a milk like product. I thought wholesale milk drinking was getting less popular - like a holdover from the mid twentieth century. But I suppose I am not aware of trends.

Why?

It just seems to go down easier. Love the chocolate almond milk. Could drink a ton of that if I allowed myself to.

[Anonymous]

Cow's milk isn't even good for humans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Surprised at the number of milk drinkers. We have it in coffee and kids will very occasionally have it with Oreos. For drinking almond milk seems better to us if we simply must have a milk like product. I thought wholesale milk drinking was getting less popular - like a holdover from the mid twentieth century. But I suppose I am not aware of trends.

Why?

It just seems to go down easier. Love the chocolate almond milk. Could drink a ton of that if I allowed myself to.

Chocolate almond milk (Silk brand): Almondmilk (Filtered Water, Almonds), Cane Sugar, Cocoa (Dutch Process), Sea Salt, Natural Flavor, Locust Bean Gum, Sunflower Lecithin, Gellan Gum. 100 calories per cup, 1 g protein, 17 g sugar (sucrose).

2% milk: Milk. 122 calories per cup, 8 g protein, 12 g sugar (lactose).

But if you like chocolate almond milk, and you don't like milk, then that's a good reason to drink chocolate almond milk and not drink milk!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cow's milk isn't even good for humans.

Oh? Then why did the genes for lactase persistence (which allows non-babies to continue to be able to digest lactose from milk) evolve independently several times and spread so rapidly among populations that had access to domesticated dairy animals?

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/070401_lactose

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Surprised at the number of milk drinkers. We have it in coffee and kids will very occasionally have it with Oreos. For drinking almond milk seems better to us if we simply must have a milk like product. I thought wholesale milk drinking was getting less popular - like a holdover from the mid twentieth century. But I suppose I am not aware of trends.

Why?

It just seems to go down easier. Love the chocolate almond milk. Could drink a ton of that if I allowed myself to.

Chocolate almond milk (Silk brand): Almondmilk (Filtered Water, Almonds), Cane Sugar, Cocoa (Dutch Process), Sea Salt, Natural Flavor, Locust Bean Gum, Sunflower Lecithin, Gellan Gum. 100 calories per cup, 1 g protein, 17 g sugar (sucrose).

2% milk: Milk. 122 calories per cup, 8 g protein, 12 g sugar (lactose).

But if you like chocolate almond milk, and you don't like milk, then that's a good reason to drink chocolate almond milk and not drink milk!

You may want to compare chocolate milk to chocolate almond milk.in any case like almond milk better.

[Anonymous]

Isn't almond "milk" going to get prohibitively expensive when the almond trees in California die off because of the drought?

[Anonymous]

Mine drink whole milk bc it is what I like. If your kids are getting far then you need to tell them only one glass of milk a day. Also, look at food intake. I doubt a teen is packing on the pounds due to milk. I'm sure he's eating a lot.

[Anonymous]

Our ped told us to switch to skim or 1% at 2 year check up.

[Anonymous]

Mine don't drink milk. They drink the occasional mug of hot chocolate in cold weather, and have milk on cereal. That's it.

They do eat cheese and yogurt.

[Anonymous]

Whole milk for everyone in my family. Two fat adults and five perfectly healthy, thin kids. And, the adults aren't fat because of milk -- plenty of sugar and other junky things that we would need to eliminate before we worry about milk. Kids are fit because we have done an amazing job of hiding our awful junk food obsessions from them and helping them learn to love exceptionally healthy food. Phewwwww.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We drink 1% in our family and have for many years. I'm surprised your doctor didn't tell you to switch to 2% (and then to 1%) when the kids were much younger - mine did. They don't need the added fat.

I'm so used to 1% now that when I drink whole milk it tastes like cream - too rich. However, I can't do skim milk - too watery for me.

Whole milk is not ADDED FAT. It's the way milk should be. It's much, much better for your health than skimmed milk (all lower fat milk has been through skimming processes).

[Anonymous]

Whole milk is healthier:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/12/275376259/the-full-fat-paradox-whole-milk-may-keep-us-lean