Within reason, getting fewer calories is better for health in general.  Far
better.

In my experience (25 years, lots of children) I have seen very few babies,
toddlers and children who get inadequate nutrition as a result of being
dairy-free.  I have seen countless hundreds of children overweight in large
part because they drink milk and eat cheese.

We are the only mammals who wean from breastmilk to anything other than good
old H2O.  (I did recently see a platypus in the soy milk aisle at Whole Oats
or Wild Food or someplace like that, but I think she was lost and looking
for the healthy potato chip aisle.)

I do not agree with those who demand tremendous vigilance about calcium,
zinc, protein and calories in these children.  I ask the parents to take a
common sense approach to diet.

And, yes, a high salty, high protein diet causes osteoporosis more surely
than a low calcium diet does.

Jay Gordon, MD, FAAP, IBCLC

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