Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk

• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Evidence suggests those that can tolerate lactose as adults are descended from farmers who drank milk to survive during seasons of bad yields.

  Milk is full of great vitamins and minerals. I haven’t verified this claim but I heard someone say recently a person can entirely meet their entire nutritional needs on purely milk and potatoes, which doesn’t sound super pleasant to have as a diet, it’s certainly an easy baseline to meet

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  • candybrie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sounds plausible. The main thing peds worry about for toddlers primarily subsisting off milk is iron deficiency. Potatoes have iron and vitamin c.

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