This Family Will Not Drink Cow's Milk

http://www.babyreference.com/MilkingYourBones.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/foodbytes/2008/09/chinas_milk_consumption.html

Mama has decided not to drink cow's milk (or any milk lah...) intentionally, unless it's used as an ingredient in other food. It's just another one of US marketing ploys, as with many of their other industries. Those corporations with lots of money spend lots of money to convince the world to buy their products which are not good for our health.

Cows eat grass to make milk for their young. So Mama will try to eat green vege to make milk for me :). Do you know only humans are the only animals who drink other animals' milk? And our adults drink milk beyond infancy stage?

For your info, cats do not drink cow's milk. Aunty Erny enlightened Mama yesterday. Like us, cats are also lactose intolerant. No wonder Mama tends to go to the toilet after drinking milk. Mama doesn't like to drink milk. But for a while, especially when she was pregnant with me, she forced herself to drink milk thinking it's good for me. How glad she is now to be freed from drinking milk! Now the challenge is to eat greens. :)

She can't really understand everything in the article above but the summary:

• By adolescence, neither calcium intake nor physical activity had any more influence on bone mineral improvement.
• Americans have among the highest osteoporosis rates in the world, while their dairy intake is also among the highest.
• A Harvard researcher produced a graph that demonstrated a nearly direct relationship between calcium intake and hip fractures - the more calcium, the more fractures.
• Boron, copper, magnesium, manganese, zinc, vitamin C, and proper fluoride levels are just as important as calcium for optimal bone growth. None of these are high in cow's milk, so none of these are advertised as important for bones.
• Clearly, high calcium intake, and certainly high dairy intake, are not the prevention for osteoporosis.
• Dairy's high calcium content causes relative deficiencies in magnesium and other bone-building minerals, and its high phosphorus and animal protein reduces calcium availability.
• Physical activity (exercise) has the greatest benefit - the body efficiently uses what is available to build strong bones when it senses the need. Human milk and vegetable sources are superior to dairy for calcium and other nutrients in many ways.