Can giving whole milk to kids give them cholesterol?

Question

My doctor tells me I have to quit feeding my 12 year old daughter whole milk because it will give her cholesterol.

Answer 1

lets face it, you can get cholesterol from lots of things. i would put her on 2% simply b/c the fat content is less. i stopped whole milk when my boys were about 2 yrs.

Answer 2

yes--if you actually research the subject, you will find that milk is actually lousy food.

Human milk is great food for human babies, but cow's milk, homogenize and pasteurized is next to useless from a nutritional standpoint. It's even a lousy net-source of calcium due to a protein that blocks absorption.