Oh boy, here we go again with the milk thing.  I had written a short 3 weeks ago about my previous experience with doubt about our choice to refrain from cow’s milk, but that initial doubt has not gone away the way I had hoped it would’ve.  I had hoped by now I would be over my doubts, but it keeps nagging me in the back of my mind.

You can probably tell by my title, I still have some concerns.  It’s probably my only concern as milk isn’t really that fantastic for you, unless you are one of the lucky ones that gets to drink it straight up, unpasteurized.  I have 2 dds, 2 beautiful dds, ages 7 & 9.  As we all know, osteoporosis is directly linked to a lack of calcium in the diet (or just all around poor diet), but there is also the link to it going all the way back to our teenage years when the majority of our growth occurs over a short period of time.

Girls tend to have osteoporosis at an alarmingly higher rate than boys, most likely due to the fluctuation of estrogen in our later years, which leads to bone loss.  But does a good diet in our early years and good weight bearing exercise help ward off that pending doom?

So my concern is for my dds and if they will get sufficient amounts of calcium in the next few years with us not drinking cow’s milk.  In the North American diet, it is often the only source of people’s calcium as they skip out on those dark, leafy greens that are full of it.  But what else has high sources of calcium besides those things that are fortified?  Our rice milk is, but is it in a form that our body can easily ingest or does most of it wash out in our pee?  These are questions I have no answer for, and I’m not sure how to find out the truth with the internet’s information as it is so often wrong or misleading.

More and more ponderings.

My sweet little boy is becoming more and more dog like everyday.  He has now stooped to a new low by drinking from the toilet.  I kid you not.  Thankfully I just cleaned the thing yesterday, but still, that is a whole day of poo water in there (yes we flush our toilets but if every scrap of what we put in gets flushed down the toilet, why do we have to clean it constantly?  Get my drift?).  Ewww.

My boy, the dog.  We’re going to have to start calling him Rover soon.