I could probably write pages on each of these ingredients, but to be brief, water and sea salt are the only beneficial ingredients I see. I saw a few of my friends buying it for their children, so I looked up the ingredients: Peas, Organic Sunflower Oil, Organic Cane Sugar, Algal Oil, Water, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin D2, Calcium Phosphate, Potassium Phosphate, Sunflower Lecithin, Natural Flavors, Sea Salt, Organic Guar Gum, Gellan Gum. It has a pretty label with impressive-sounding, better-than-dairy claims on the front. Recently, I came across a new plant-based, vegan “milk” that is supposed to be amazingly healthful.
For those with nut allergies, there is one for coconut milk (and yogurt). The website Tasty Yummies has a super helpful tutorial for a variety of flavors and nuts.
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Processed nut milks at the store are full of additives and very little nuts. Nuts are meant to be a small part of our overall diet. And these two in moderation! Nuts are rich in Omega-6 fatty acids, which while beneficial needs to be in balance with Omega-3 fatty acids. For other options homemade almond or coconut milk are the only others I recommend. Stock can be used in soup, to cook vegetables and rice instead of water. In those cases I recommend meat stock (basically a short cook bone broth), children will typically drink warm chicken stock with no complaints. If you are a reader or into scientific experiments Francis Pottenger’s Cat Studies are fascinating and you can read about them in his book.įor those who are lactose-intolerant or have allergies dairy is a no-go. A Campaign for Real Milk has great information if you want to learn more about the benefits of live milk. For my own family, we have raw dairy in our fridge. In some cases, I think full-fat yogurt and cheese from grass-fed cows is acceptable since it is cultured and fermented the enzymes that are killed during the pasteurization are put back in. This would include any pasteurized or homogenized milk. In my practice, I never recommend processed dairy, and never low, non or skim products only full-fat dairy. These plant-based milks are being touted for higher nutritional values and “safer” for our hearts and arteries. We are also seeing a huge push to plant-based milks like nut milks, coconut milk and vegetable milks. But we still list as a necessary food group for children. Here in the US, we see milk vilified as inhumane and unhealthful. Given all of these co-factors for calcium absorption guess which food has all of them included? Milk. Finally, other trace minerals like potassium, manganese, boron, copper and zinc are needed. Vitamin D helps absorption through the gastrointestinal tract. Once absorbed, essential fatty acids are needed to carry calcium across the cell membranes and tissues. We also need to have the proper amount of hydrochloric acid in the stomach to absorb calcium. All three are minerals, and minerals cannot be manufactured in the body we have to ingest them. For healthy bones we need the proper balance of calcium, phosphorus and magnesium. We have all heard how important calcium is for the bones and preventing osteoporosis. Even today, milk therapy is provided in many German hospitals. Crewe of the Mayo Foundation used a diet of milk to cure tuberculosis (TB), edema, heart failure, high blood pressure, prostate disease, urinary tract infections, diabetes, kidney disease, chronic fatigue and obesity. Hippocrates and other early physicians used milk for the treatment of illnesses. So what’s the deal with milk? Why do we consume it? For centuries milk has been a part of some cultures diets. The logic from that sentence could reduce all of our meals to raw food though since I don’t see a lot of other species cooking their food… or shopping for food for that matter. The most common argument I hear against consuming milk is, “Humans are the only species that drinks the milk of another mammal.” This is supposed to mean that it is somehow unnatural to drink milk at all.
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