Sat, Feb-07-09, 19:15
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Senior Member
Posts: 185
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Plan: Paleo Diet (Cordain)
Stats: 260/244/150
BF:
Progress: 15%
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Quote:
Originally Posted by almondy
As babies we eat nothing but milk for the first months , so is milk from other mammals really so different and somehow hazardous?
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No mammal, including humans, need milk or milk products after weaning. Ideally children should not be weaned until they are at least 2 years old. It was that way in the past and even today a lot of breast feeding mothers do not wean their children until at least 1 if not 2 years of age. In fact some women in the past didn't wean their children until about 4 yrs. of age. It benefited both the child who got certain immunities from the mother's antibodies in her breast milk and the mother who continued breastfeeding as a type of birth control (not perfect but better than nothing). But humans don't get immunity from disease from cow's milk and there are other ways to get calcium.
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