Too much chemicals in our milk powder and child development

[minnie2004]

We usually buy the Meiji low fat. Switched from full cream when my kids were around 3-4. Used to drink the Horizon organic milk but they’re very expensive. We also buy UHT organic milk (the ones available in NTUC) as back-up milk as they don’t need to be put in the fridge.


Don’t think fresh milk contains additives as long as you don’t buy those with flavours. We warm up the milk before giving them as cold drinks are not good to the body, according to TCM.

[jce]

Additives is one thing (these will definitely be added in order for fresh milk to be stored and kept "fresh" for such a long period), but hormone is another thing to be weary of. For me, it’s organic milk, preferably fresh as UHT milk is heated to a high temp to be shelved long life.

[phankao]

Donkey Kong:

Thanks for your comments.


My kid who likes western food, particularly beef, has grown very tall for his age. He is 1.4m at Pri 4. Both my wife and I are not so tall.

Is there any growth hormone in these beef? Beef burgers I mean.

must b your child. beef burgers or beef in any other form, our ds1 loves n eats, but altho he's not short, he's less than 1.5m n in sec 1. So it's just your son lah!

[Blobbi]

minnie2004:

Used to drink the Horizon organic milk but they're very expensive.

Yah. One year, the price just kept shooting up. Was around $9 per carton when we started. Then it became $16 in a yr! Anyway, I stopped the milk cos DS developed allergies.

[Blobbi]

I had a lactation specialist when I popped DS years ago. She warned me not to give powdered milk formula unless it was absolutely necessary. Reason being, apparently the milk formulae in each country is "customised" to the local taste. So the Singapore formula for, say, Nestle, has a different recipe than the Australian one. Unfortunately, the Singapore formula has among the highest % of added sugar in the world. Why this is the case, I don’t know.


I’m not sure how accurate she is, except that she was a lactation specialist from Scotland with over 20 yrs experince, and she has friends in the powdered milk trade. I just stuck to her words, just in case, bcos it has implications for the teeth (I supplemented from 18mths). Like what Smurf and Minnie 2004 have said, a lot of these additives are artificial and can be found in fresh food anyway. We do have to search harder though.

[qms]

Donkey Kong:

My kid who likes western food, particularly beef, has grown very tall for his age. He is 1.4m at Pri 4. Both my wife and I are not so tall.

You mean your son is considered tall at 1.4m for P4? :!:

My son is 1.4m and he is in P1. :shock:

[tree nymph]

qms:

Donkey Kong:

My kid who likes western food, particularly beef, has grown very tall for his age. He is 1.4m at Pri 4. Both my wife and I are not so tall.

You mean your son is considered tall at 1.4m for P4? :!:

My son is 1.4m and he is in P1. :shock:

wah, your son is really tall! mine only 1.27m, P1 too.

[adhdadhd]

wow, the topic seems to be drifted from milk, to soya ... to meat.


Since I had high blood pressure in 2003, I read a lot about processed food.
I gathered that (of course unable to prove) commercially grown animals were fed/ or injected with growth hormones and steroids (for more lint muscles), so to speed up the profit realization cycles as these animal will be more muscular faster, these growth enhancing drugs, may or may not be 100% disintegrated in their digestive systems, so the residues reside in muscle tissues, organs, blood, MILK and etc. so what happened if human eat these animals?

You will be digesting the residues of these growth hormones & steroids... these are probably why kids nowadays grow faster, adult age faster (perhaps cancer cells growth were enhanced too!)! :stupid:

And funny part is, those growth hormones for chicken are very similar to female hormone in human, and may be responsible for less manliness in male human spicy... it seems more and more young men getting extra-ordinary gentle, in movements and speech... more so than women, you see it on TV, bus and MRT, and you hear in radio stations :?:

We are living in the era of contaminated food chain ... :x :x :x

[Busymom]

When is a good age to wean off milk for children, whether it's formula milk or fresh milk? My 6yo DD still has to drink her bottle of milk before she sleeps at night or before afternoon nap. Without it, I don't think she could sleep.


I would prefer not to give her fresh milk, pretty much for the same reason as mentioned by adhdadhd. Also heard from some people that cow's milk is meant for cow, not humans. Plus, allergies run in our family, it seems that she could not consume too much dairy products (we had some bad experience with Yakult).

:?:

[adhdadhd]

Busymom:

When is a good age to wean off milk for children, whether it's formula milk or fresh milk? My 6yo DD still has to drink her bottle of milk before she sleeps at night or before afternoon nap. Without it, I don't think she could sleep.


I would prefer not to give her fresh milk, pretty much for the same reason as mentioned by adhdadhd. Also heard from some people that cow's milk is meant for cow, not humans. Plus, allergies run in our family, it seems that she could not consume too much dairy products (we had some bad experience with Yakult).

:?:

Not sure what is good age. May be you can try making the milk less tasty by diluting with more water, if she find the taste boring, she might give up altogether.

I have a friend whose kids were into organic since infancy, fed zero milk, his kids were fed organic soy milk instead, but mind you, they are costly.