Megan Lott, deputy director at the national Healthy Eating Research program that identifies strategies to improve children’s nutrition and prevent childhood obesity, said the reduction for kids between 2 and 4 is probably OK since at that age, most of their nutrition comes from other foods.
HER submitted a letter during the USDA's comment period about the revisions suggesting a reduction for kids under 2 to 14 quarts, instead of 12, per month. That "would equate to approximately 1.8 cups of milk per day. This would provide approximately 60- 90% of the HER Beverage Consensus recommendation," it said.Low-income children who need essential nutrients that can be efficiently and economically delivered by milk, and pregnant and breastfeeding moms, Ayoob said.
Negative health effects would be even worse for non-white Hispanic and Black women and children because they already lag their white counterparts in milk and dairy consumption. Among those ages 2 and older, African Americans had the lowest average daily intake at about 1.2 servings while white Americans consumed the most at nearly 1.7 servings, according to aAcross all ethnic groups, plain milk was consumed in greater quantities than any other dairy food, it noted.
Dr. Laura Plencner, pediatrician affiliated with Children's Mercy Kansas City Hospital, said "the tradeoff for decreasing the amount of milk, which most families are not utilizing to the full benefit anyway, comes at the great benefit of increasing the fruits and vegetables, which are drastically too low in the current WIC package."
'many say' means 'the dairy industry paid us to say.'
Critics = the dairy industry
How do dairy farmers like this?
Cow milk is really bad for humans. I love it, and I don't have it much... I'm not a cow.
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