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[quote=Anonymous]I think it depends on your diet as a whole. Dairy milk and almond milk (even if you make your own to reduce processed-ness and carbon footprint) just have different nutrients in them. If your diet is otherwise high in the things offered by dairy milk, the vegan alternative might be better. If you aren't getting those nutrients (like vitamin D) from other sources, the milk would be healthier. Similarly, eating non-vegan food to get iron and vitamin B12 might be better absorbed than vegan alternatives, though most people would be fine either way as long as they made an effort to get those nutrients into their diets.

It also depends on any medicine you're taking and health conditions. For example, leafy green vegetables are extremely healthy...except that for people on certain blood thinners or with AFib, eating a big helping might make their vitamin K levels spike so they have to moderate their intake and have similar amounts each day.

If the desire to go vegan (or get closer to vegan) is instead animal welfare or carbon footprint, there are other factors that have to be weighed. [/quote]

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