I understand that you are to wait until after one year to introduce cow's milk to your baby. But I keep seeing recommendations to feed babies yogurt, cottage cheese, cheese etc. Aren't these all milk products? It would seem to me you are supposed to wait until after a year for all milk products. What am I not getting? My dd is almost 9 months and just eating fruits and veggies and we are getting bored!
Harper
I always wondered that myself.
Further... moms who feed their babies cow's milk formula... well aren't they feeding their kids cow's milk (in formula form)?
What appalls me nowadays is seeing that the first ingredient in many cow's milk formulas is WHEY! Or Whey Powder. Oh my god, that stuff is so toxic. It's illegal to dump whey in the sewer system but it's okay to feed it to babies... Yeah, right!
It kills me to know that moms are feeding their babies a toxic waste product. Ugh!
Further... moms who feed their babies cow's milk formula... well aren't they feeding their kids cow's milk (in formula form)?
What appalls me nowadays is seeing that the first ingredient in many cow's milk formulas is WHEY! Or Whey Powder. Oh my god, that stuff is so toxic. It's illegal to dump whey in the sewer system but it's okay to feed it to babies... Yeah, right!
It kills me to know that moms are feeding their babies a toxic waste product. Ugh!
I was at a Tony Robbins seminar once and he spent a portion of time talking about the dangers of Whey. Here is an excerpt from an article written in the L.A. Times about it: (forgive the typos, I'm in a rush)
Whey is the stinking yellow green by-product of cheese production. It is vile looking and the taste is atrocious. Because of the increase of cheese consumption in this country, there is an enormous amount of surplus whey to deal with. Since only about 10% of the milk to make cheese actually ends up as a cheese, the rest separating out as whey, the unlovely liquid is gushing as never before. The surplus of the putrid stuff is causing a huge problem and there is a frantic search for new ways to dispose of it. In the past it was simply trucked to hog farms and fed to the pigs, but this has become too expensive. Not only is there more whey, but it is harder to dispose of. Stricter federal and state regulations prohibit dumping raw whey down sewers. Whey is 100 to 200 times stronger a pollutant than residential sewage, and most municipal sewerage plants cannot treat it adequately. Disposal in streams is out because whey depletes waterways of oxygen, rending them incapable of supporting marine life. Even disposal on unused land or gravel pits is often unsuitable because of seepage into water supplies. The solution hit upon by both industry and government is to apply high technology and sophisiticated marketing technieques and feed the stuff to humans.
There may be strict regulations prohibiting it from being dumped into the sewers, but there is nothing prohibiting them from dumping it into your food. The federal government has encouraged whey utilization by relaxing restrictions on whey's use in many foods. The government also has spent millions of dollars in recent years to imporve whey technology and develop new products. Whey is increasly showing up as a cheap substitute in a wide range of procesed foods, such as ice cream, bakery goods, soup mixes, beverages, cocoa mixes, Hostess products, Gerber Teething Biscuits, luncheon meats, chocolate, pancake batter, salad dressing, and more.
Whey is the stinking yellow green by-product of cheese production. It is vile looking and the taste is atrocious. Because of the increase of cheese consumption in this country, there is an enormous amount of surplus whey to deal with. Since only about 10% of the milk to make cheese actually ends up as a cheese, the rest separating out as whey, the unlovely liquid is gushing as never before. The surplus of the putrid stuff is causing a huge problem and there is a frantic search for new ways to dispose of it. In the past it was simply trucked to hog farms and fed to the pigs, but this has become too expensive. Not only is there more whey, but it is harder to dispose of. Stricter federal and state regulations prohibit dumping raw whey down sewers. Whey is 100 to 200 times stronger a pollutant than residential sewage, and most municipal sewerage plants cannot treat it adequately. Disposal in streams is out because whey depletes waterways of oxygen, rending them incapable of supporting marine life. Even disposal on unused land or gravel pits is often unsuitable because of seepage into water supplies. The solution hit upon by both industry and government is to apply high technology and sophisiticated marketing technieques and feed the stuff to humans.
There may be strict regulations prohibiting it from being dumped into the sewers, but there is nothing prohibiting them from dumping it into your food. The federal government has encouraged whey utilization by relaxing restrictions on whey's use in many foods. The government also has spent millions of dollars in recent years to imporve whey technology and develop new products. Whey is increasly showing up as a cheap substitute in a wide range of procesed foods, such as ice cream, bakery goods, soup mixes, beverages, cocoa mixes, Hostess products, Gerber Teething Biscuits, luncheon meats, chocolate, pancake batter, salad dressing, and more.
What about little miss muffet eating her curds and whey? I had thought whey was a traditional food.
(Not that I'm supporting eating whey or anything, just curious about it)
(Not that I'm supporting eating whey or anything, just curious about it)
I think it has to do with the pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, etc that are found in the cow's milk. the whey is so concentrated. I'll bet most of the toxins end up in the whey. I'm not a whey expert, mind you, but that's what I think the deal is.
It's like when you peel a cucumber, the peel contains like 90% of the pesticides.
It's like when you peel a cucumber, the peel contains like 90% of the pesticides.
Infants can start yogurt and cottage cheese at 9 months because they contain enzymes which help baby to digest them. Milk on the other hand is hard to digest so 1 year is the recommendation.
About whey - whey is also the liquid that separates from the yogurt or cottage cheese. It contains the enzyemes and stuff. In Nourishing Traditions, they recommend to use it to ferment grains, beans, etc. to help make them more digestible.
I don't know about the whey from hard cheese making and why it would be toxic - maybe there are other things added or maybe just because there's so much of it.
Harper - you said you are just feeding fruits and veggies - are you waiting to start grains??? If not, millet, quinoa, brown rice, etc. would be good choices. After nine months, you can also start with some easily digested legumes like lentils or adzuki beans, and tofu. Egg yolks can also be started after 9 months.
About whey - whey is also the liquid that separates from the yogurt or cottage cheese. It contains the enzyemes and stuff. In Nourishing Traditions, they recommend to use it to ferment grains, beans, etc. to help make them more digestible.
I don't know about the whey from hard cheese making and why it would be toxic - maybe there are other things added or maybe just because there's so much of it.
Harper - you said you are just feeding fruits and veggies - are you waiting to start grains??? If not, millet, quinoa, brown rice, etc. would be good choices. After nine months, you can also start with some easily digested legumes like lentils or adzuki beans, and tofu. Egg yolks can also be started after 9 months.
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