Milk - what are the choices?

With your breakfast on the cereals, in the first cup of tea and lots more, milk is part of our daily diet and there are now a huge increase in the amount of varieties not only cow’s milk that is on offer.

All claim to have different health benefits – what is true and what is just marketing to get you to buy them.

Should we be swapping the cow’s milk for a plant based type?

I acknowledge there are medical reasons for removing milk from your diet but this is not the case for most of us,

People can suffer with a “milk Allergy” which is a reaction to the protein in milk – and is not to be confused with lactose intolerance- where the person has an inability to break down the milk sugars.

Milk Allergies tend to be relatively common in children, most youngsters do grow out of it – however Lactose intolerance is rare, however some people may develop lactose intolerance as a result of an illness – particularly if that person suffered diarrhoea

These are the most common medical reasons for cutting milk from your diet and in these cases you may have had alternatives suggested to try.

However medical advice to one side, the next most common reason after veganism, people cut out milk is ethics –and it is becoming more and more common as the dairy industry is put under scrutiny, for conditions of both the animals and the farmers themselves. – Anyone who is excluding milk products from their diet, alternatives that are calcium enriched are really important to make sure that not only are their calcium levels kept to a good level but proteins are as well.