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i was reading this thread just out of curiousity, and here s my question:
to those above that mentioned coconut milk, which milk did you mean?
is it
a) the coconut milk you'd buy in cartons in store (white in color)
b) actual coconut milk that's really coconut juice that you get directly out of cocnuts or buy in little cans (and its transparent).
we love option B, especially from young coconuts, its wonderful for all sorts of things from soups to icecreams, its "natures gatorade", and actually helped me a lot to increase my milk supply
but option A, i personally think, is junk, just mashed up coconut meat and sugar. am i wrong? and which one are you guys talking about |
I do mean coconut milk like purple sage said, without any added sugars. It does have a lot of natural sugars (but so does cow or breast milk). One of the reasons I would do coconut milk despite being quite sweet is that it has a good amount of healthy fats, in particular lauric acid, which is not in other alternative non-animal milks. coconut juice is a great food, but it doesn't have the fat it in, which to me, healthy fat is a very huge part of why you are drinking milk, of any kind. It's a liquid packed full of calories, healthy fats, and other vital nutrients. Coconut juice is healthy, and packed with electrolytes, but not healthy fats.
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Originally Posted by livinlovinlaughin  I am just curious why? I feed non-gmo edamame to my DS alot and wonder if this is bad?
If you don't mind, while I am here: (if this is too intrusive on this thread please ignore)
I am trying to cut down on our dairy. We eat a lot of cheese (I would love to buy organic but it is so expensive so I at least get the kind without growth hormone when I can). Any better ideas? I eat cereal with milk (not treated with growth hormone) would love to switch to Almond milk or Organic and will if DS ever has it. I am curious what you all think about Almond milk? And lastly, a question...what is non-dairy icecream? (sherbet or something?)
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Non dairy ice cream could be sorbet, or sherbet, or made from coconut milk or soy milk.
As for the soy, a lot of reasons. Unfermented soy (which is most soy products other than miso, tamari (but not regular soy sauce), tempeh, fermented soy bean paste, natto, and several other traditional fermented soy products that aren't really commonly eaten) is not really at all digestable by humans. In fact, until the chinese started to ferment soy, soy was used as a non-edible cover crop. Only after they started fermenting it, did it become a food product, and primarily only as a condiment or in small amounts (not as a staple food.)
Modern processing does not render the soybean edible in the same way as fermenting.
Soy is VERY high in phytates, which depleate your body of minerals (particularly iron and zinc). Unlike some other grains and legumes soy's phytates cannot be reduced by merely soaking or sprouting, but only by a very long ferment period (most traditional soy ferments are months and months).
Soy is also a goitrogen, which means it disrupts iodine uptake, and can cause thyroid problems. If this were the only issue, I'd still eat it in moderate quantities unless I had thyroid issues (like many other goitrogens that I do eat, like cruicifers. I just try not to eat too much raw/unfermented).
One of the biggest problems is that soy contains phyto-estrogens, which act pretty much like estrogen in the body, which is particularly bad for both young boys and young girls. Having fake hormones in the developing body can mess with the child's hormonal development.
There are scores of other issues with soy, but those are some of the biggest issues, and the ones I know most about. A lot of mama's have talked about the dangers of soy previously (I think in both nutrition and TF), so you can probably search more.
I do personally eat edamame sometimes (a small amount, very occasionally), I do cook with soy sauce, and eat miso. However for my children, I wouldn't feed them edamame (at least not more than a few) really ever, while they are young (pre-pubescent), and only small amounts of soy sauce and miso and other fermented soy in my cooking. I wouldn't say I'd never feed them soy, but it should be really quite rare.
There is no sugar in it, and it is high in fat which is very good for babies'/children's growing brains. 
