Too much baby milk... One problem they don't have in Iraq!
Posted on 07/14/2008 12:44:42 PM PDT by Oyarsa
Baby Milk Recommendations Changed 2% Milk OK for Weaned Babies at Risk of Becoming Overweight By Daniel J. DeNoon WebMD Health NewsReviewed by Brunilda Nazario, MDJuly 11, 2008 -- There's been a major change in baby nutrition advice, but it's gone nearly unnoticed.
This week, the American Academy of Pediatrics changed its recommendation that weaned babies be fed whole milk until they're 2 years old.
(Excerpt) Read more at children.webmd.com ...
This is a change? How? I always heard it was whole milk at least until 2 years, they need the milk fat to aid in brain development.
Ahh.. they want them on 1-2% because they fear obesity?
Sorry, but if your kid is obese at 1-2 years old, its not the fat in the milk doing it.
They’ll get my whole milk when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
(Can’t see how anybody drinks that skim stuff...almost as bad as broccoli — ALMOST.)
You have to read the link.
1% is nasty, why bother?
How can a mother trust this when greedy emotional liberals have conquered science and begun issuing advice?
My daughter's pediatrician recently told her to put the baby on whole milk after she weaned him and for his cereal, etc.
Years ago, my kids' pediatrician told me to put them on 2%. I did, and have been drinking it myself ever since, don't drink much milk but use it for cereal and cooking. Some put their kids on skim milk, hate the stuff.
There is really only one brand of 2% I really like the taste. The rest of it I don't like but buy it when I can't find my regular brand.
A shame. Babies and children need WHOLE milk so their brains can grow.
I feed all my 4 children whole milk only—they range in age from 2 to 12 years old. They are all as skinny as rails.
If the U.S. doesn’t want fat kids, parents should pry them away from the screens, send them outside to play, and quit giving them packaged unhealthy snacks and chips all day long.
Whole milk is a wholesome food.
A link on the same page as the above article:
Kids’ Bones at Risk From Low Vitamin D
http://children.webmd.com/news/20070709/kids-bones-at-risk-from-low-vitamin-d
The article states that it is the result of kids not drinking enough milk, drinking soda pop instead. Everyone I knew as a kid drank whole milk and no one was fat. Soda pop and ding dongs will make you fat, not 3 glasses of whole milk a day.
Firearm Safety for Families
In light of the recent decision by the United States Supreme Court, the American Academy of Pediatrics would like to remind families of steps they can take to keep children safe from firearm-related injury or death:
Its not the milk, its the lifestyle. Give your kids whole milk and send them outside to play.
Sheesh, how hard can that be?
It won't matter. Peter Arnett will report the US military has bombed these milk producing facilities to deny babies nutrition.
Eating fat does not make one fat. And a little brain will not develop properly without lots of cholesterol.
I only drink whole milk too.
The Vitamin D deficiencies are more of a result of those screaming that we must stay out of the sun. People have become so afraid of sun exposure that they’ve forgotten the sun can be good for you. Safe exposure to it gives you all the Vitamin D you need.
As for us, we’ll always drink Whole Milk. I’m trying to go more natural and cut processed foods out of our life. With the exception of getting raw milk from a farmer, organic whole milk is the most natural, least processed you can get in the stores.
My head nearly exploded when the ped told us to switch our son to 2% at age 2. I feed him whole foods and lots of good fats, including whole milk, walnuts, cheese, butter, eggs with yolks, etc. And my kid’s weight is great. It’s excessive processed carbs and high fructose corn syrup, along with inactivity that makes kids (and adults) obese. NOT whole milk. Do these guys know anything about nutrition? Low fat/high carb is a lousy way to feed your body.
Too much baby milk... One problem they don't have in Iraq!
And not enough playing outside.
That's exactly what I always heard and advised parents. There has to be some ulterior motive for the Commies at the AAP to change their recommendations....
Sun exposure is a more efficient way to get Vitamin D than milk, but with all of the sunscreen use, that is leading to Vitamin D deficiency. I predict that there will eventually be a “policy” warning against too much sunscreen (in a couple of years).
Guess what? This is a change because those bastards at DHS (Human Services in several states) give moms “free milk’ though WIC - and FORCE them ONLY to get 2% milk.
I drink skim and I also use cream and butter. I am from a family of dairy farmers. That is the way farm families drank milk before homogenization. They took the cream off to make butter or use as cream and then drank the “skimmed” milk.
I’ve wondered how much the low fat diet recommendations have contributed to obesity. I’ve read that in the past, long before we were hit with an obesity epidemic, about 50% of calories came from fat. Now the recommendation is for 30% of calories to come from fat.
For me, eating a high fat meal suppresses my appetite, so I won’t feel like eating again for hours. I have a hypothesis that people eating low fat have increased appetites, because they’re trying to keep their lipid intake up but the lipids aren’t being provided at sufficient quantity in the low fat diet. There are certain essential lipids the body just can’t make.
Motor vehicle accidents, drowning and bicycle accidents each account for more childhood fatalities than firearms, yet nowhere does the AAP state: “Do not allow your child to ride in a motor vehicle, approach a body of water, or ride a bicycle.”
91% of all childhood firearms deaths are due to homicide (61%) or suicide. (30%) Only about 400 childhood deaths per year are due to accidental firearms discharge.
In the District of Columbia, which until recently almost completely banned firearms ownership, firearms are the #1 cause of childhood deaths.
(All statistics from the AAP’s own website.)
Too much Fat does not cause fat.Too many carbohydrates cause the body to store fat !
A Low Fat diet causes people to consume too many carbohydrates.
A Low Fat diet causes Americans to become obese.
Good grief! How on earth did we ever manage to bring up healthy children without such wisdom? I actually relied on common sense and fed my children whole milk from the time they were weaned until they married and left home. Both were very healthy, quite slim, and had gorgeous teeth.
My boys’ pediatrician is a nice man. Really. He obviously cares for the kids and he has always given good advice as to their REAL medical issues (which have been few and far between).
However, he does occasionally slip into LiberalLand and make remarks about things like whole milk and guns and such. He once asked if there were any guns in the house and when I reminded him that my husband is a policeman, he frowned and said, “Well, I hope he doesn’t bring his gun home.” I laughed right in his face and told him to stick to medicine and I’d worry about the firearms, thanks. He never mentioned it again.
Now that my oldest is approaching puberty (impossible, as he was only born just yesterday), I have had to make adjustments. From now on, my husband will take him for his checkup and he will NEVER leave the exam room. I know that many pediatricians practically demand that the parents leave the room so they can give them condoms and sexual advice. That will not happen with my kids, and it will be safer for the doc if hubby is there and not me. Hubby is a MUCH nicer person than I am.
Bottom line: Docs should stop making sweeping statements like these and treat each kid INDIVIDUALLY as the need arises.
Regards,
Your ped sounds like ours...slipping into Lib mode every once and a while. I’ve waited for the gun question, but it hasn’t come up yet. You guys handled it well. And really, your husband is a police officer! What the heck does the dr expect?
I guess he expects hubby to actually leave his gun at work.
*** A pause now for hysterical laughter ***
Well, what should I expect? I’m still stuck here on Long Island.
Regards from a fellow redhead,
Human breast milk is higher in fat than the these lamebrain nutritionists recommend. I used to breed various animals. They all needed a higher fat diet until mature. For some a low fat diet could produce epilepsy.
For decades children drank whole milk, and there was no obesity. For decades everyone was in the sun, and did not use sunscreens. Why is it now everyone is drinking 1 percent milk, and everyone is wearing sunscreen?
Why are we obese now, and there is a very high rate of skin cancer? Have there ever been any studies about sunscreen?
And if you do ever happen to spend some time in the sun, always wear SPF 80 full-spectrum UVA-and-B blocking sunscreen...
My kids pedi had given me advice such as yours, but did not preach about it. He also asked that our hot water tank was not set over 120 degrees, but also about car seats and sizes of food that they were chewing. I have no problem with them giving me advice about things that never occured to me, like the hot water heater. If they say it once, I have no problem, but no preaching thank you.
To make things worse, it's much more time consuming and more expensive to get proper foods that aren't full of processed white flour and HFCS. A bag of almonds costs over 3 times the amount of a bag of potato chips. A basket of berries costs more than twice the amount of a box of fruit snacks--and you better eat or freeze the berries fast or they go bad. Expect to spend 50% more for bread that they haven't stripped the nutrients from. And to be on topic, whole milk costs 10% more than low-fat. If you're willing to spend more time in the kitchen, you can make healthy foods inexpensively (which isn't fair because the cost of your time is not factored in), or you can buy much more pricey prepared "health" foods which have also been manipulated to increase shelf-life.
Also, time demands and highly structured schedules for today's kids are insane now. You would think that cell-phones that let parents track a child's location on the internet would let children be more free. Instead, dual-income homes force kids into structured activities for a full 50-60 hour work week. If you go against the grain and have a single income household, don't expect to buy a house--ever. It's really tough to have a small child run freely in a large apartment complex surrounded by a parking lot and a heavily used 4-lane road.
Amen.
It took me almost 30 years to realize it was the worthless carbohydrates I was consuming me that made me feel so terrible (and gain weight!) Once I moved to a more “traditional” diet of veggies, protein, and plenty of fats, did I feel great and lose the weight.
Personally, I don’t think they’re related. I think we’re way more aware of skin cancer and therefore, people go to the dermatologist for screenings—and therefore, more people are diagnosed with cancers. Who went to the dermatologist 40 years ago for a routine skin cancer screening? Not many. And my mom let me sit out at the pool and blister when I was a kid. Sunburns were just a part of summer.
As for the lowfat milk/lowfat foods...there are tons of studies that show that lowfat diets are actually helping increase obesity. Read “In Defense of Food” by Michael Pollan or “Good Calories, Bad Calories” by Gary Taubes. Both lay out the claim quite well with pretty good sources that high fructose corn syrup, refined carbs, and low-fat diets are doing more harm than good.
So again, I don’t think sunscreen and obesity are linked, but it’s an interesting idea and I’m not certain any studies have been done on the link between the two.
You’re absolutely right. It’s hard and expensive feeding your family whole foods. Easy to say, “Oh, but it’s worth it” but when money is tight, it’s not always possible. It takes work. (But it really is worth it!)
Oh no! I was not suggesting that milk and skin cancer were related somehow. I just meant that people drank milk for a hundred years and were not getting obese. AND, people have lived under the sun for over a hundred years and did not get skin cancer. Although, they were not getting checked as they do now. Which is a good point. I doubt there were dermatologist years ago.
I seem to go on about such things, which annoys some people, I know. If you or anyone else knows about a study of tonsils and causes of death, please let me know. I am a big advocate of keeping “body parts” even though most people don’t seem to care about taking tonsils out.
I believe that everything in the body is there for a reason, and apparently we have not found out what tonsils are for. If autopsies mentioned if patients had them or not, we could see some kind of pattern of causes of death.
Just something that has bugged me for years. Sorry to go on and on.
LOL. Sorry! I misread your post. You have great points about both. And I can check with my husband on the tonsil thing. He has a group at the health care company he works for that does nothing but statistical research on diseases. I’ll ask about the tonsils and see what he knows. (no promises that he’ll know of anything, though.)
You are wonderful! You are the first person that did not scoff at me! I would love any info you or your husband can shed light on. I would love finding out any kind of statistics on such a thing. Thanks for any info you find out!
Awww, thanks. I think your tonsil theory is interesting.
The dr patiently took the time to go over her diet and located the problem. After she gave me some direction, my kid did just fine. She didn't loose weight, she just stopped gaining weight and grew into what she had.
She's now 16 years old and a smokin' hot, muscular size two. She doesn't have much of an appetite for breakfast, but she found that she feels the best when she has 8 oz of whole milk with 1/4 - 1/3 cup of whipping cream mixed in first thing in the morning.
She eats when she's hungry, stops when she's full and walks or runs two miles 5 days a week.
It's amazing how she *lost* weight when she started the fat-laden breakfast. She was never "fat", but she did drop from a size 10 to a 2 just from that one change over the last 7 months. (Dad does NOT like her bikini! lol!)
My son is a type one diabetic and there's not much anyone can do about that. I've fed him a natural, healthy, fatty diet and he's 14 and FINE. The school tested him and said he was overweight, then measured his body fat and found he was at 7%. They *then* were confused at how he could be so heavy with such a low BF. (muscle, duh.)
He's athletic, energetic and ripped, even with this terrible disease. I feed the kid red meat, whole milk, eggs, fresh fruit and plenty of veggies. One thing I *do* watch is the carbs. To me, 75g a day is excessive. He gets treats, but it's not the norm.
We have 8.66 acres in Central Texas for the kids to run on. I wouldn't have it any other way.
A mom after my own heart! Nice to hear. It sounds like you’re doing a great job with your son - he’s a lucky kid. Type 1 is a tough disease. Best of luck and health to you and your son.
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