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Dh wants to have our kids drink milk because of Nick's broken knee. We don't drink milk regularly but we eat cheese and yogurt and a lot of leafy greens.
It has become a bit of a debate this morning with me saying that we can get calcium in other and maybe even more beneficial ways than milk. I wanted to ask if anyone knows some specifics about milk (or dairy in general) and broken bones. Links to articles would be great.
He says that because he drank so much milk as a kid that he never had broken bones. I say that we also drank milk and my siblings had broken bones.
I fall in the milk is not the best or only way to get calcium camp but I am ready to be proven wrong.
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Most people get plenty of calcium in their diet, and if you are eating leafy greens (and other dairy) as you say, I doubt that your lack of milk is a problem. There are plenty of vitamins that they are finding most people deficient, but calcium isn't one of them.
If you really are deficient in Calcium (which, I don't think a broken bone is necessarily evidence of that), it is more likely that you are deficient in something else that is necessary for the absorption of the Calcium, like Vit A or D. Magnesium is also important for bone health, and like D, helps regulate Calcium. If you are normal, lol, you are much more likely to be deficient in D and/or magnesium.
We do drink raw milk, but my boys usually only have a small cup of it with one meal a day plus yogurt or cheese daily. I personally believe that raw milk is a healthy and nourishing food, but I don't think it is necessary if you are getting your vitamins from other sources. If we didn't have access to a good farm source for it, I would likely not bother replacing it with conventional or even homogenized milk from the store. I don't say that to try and convince you to switch to raw milk at all! It is a highly personal choice. I am simply trying to communicate that, though we drink it and think it is good, I would have little worry about not drinking it if I were able to provide other nutritious foods to replace it.
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I'm really an anti-milk person. Except for ice cream as I will completely support that.  I completely back you up 100%! I don't drink milk and didn't as a kid and I have never had a broken bone. I feed my kids a wide variety to get calcium. I do give them supplements. Tell your dh to spend thirty minutes on the internet searching milk and I'm sure he will be rethinking it too.
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I printed several articles for him to read. I know that we don't need to drink milk for healthy, strong bones but dh is stubborn.
Thank you for this back up. I'll print your responses, too. :)
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Not milk drinkers here and we've certainly had plenty of opportunity for broken bones.
I do know that when older people have problems with bone density.. it's not milk or even calcium they target.. but vitamin D and weight bearing exercise.
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