Full fat or semi skimmed for a 2 year old

[madame]

I read last night that now my daughter is 2 she should be switched to semiskimmed milk and low fat yougurts as from now on her fat intake should be watched slightly. I was quite suprised I must be honest. Anyone have any pealrs of wisdom for me please.

Advice from dieticians is to have semi-skimmed at 2 yrs and skimmed at 5 yrs as well as healthy balanced diet. The reason is to avoid unnecessary fat intake and to encourage good eating habits into adulthood.

Very difficult to get older children to take reduced fat milk when they have been used to full fat.

This was reiterated by my son's dietician when we were discussing his diet since being diagnosed with diabetes.

She has 2 children of her own and they have been on skimmed milk since they were 5. The calciium and vitamin content is actually a bit more with skimmed milk. The fat is not necessary.

She told me this because I was saying how I kept my children on full fat milk because I just felt it was better for them. Not so evidently.

skimmed?
im v surprised

Interesting mears. My children are 6 and 3 and I was aware of the full fat until 2 guidelines and because they are both cheese monsters and eat yoghurts etc but don't actually have that much milk (mainly on cereal) I decided we could go semi-skimmed for all of us. I would say that they both have a good balanced diet as well.

I'd heard that calcium is higher in skimmed milk. For me a big issue is that both dds are very slender and dd2 has to be on a high fat diet by orders of her paedetrician, so slightly different for us I guess. Dh and I both need low-fat diets so it can make cooking a pain - I do use skimmed milk in cooking if we are eating too. I changed to skimmed in my teens with no problems over taste.

I changed to skimmed the first time I went to weightwatchers with a bit of difficulty. Got used to it though. I prefer the UHT milk because it appears thicker.

My DS2 does not like semi-skimmed at all so I get him full fat milk.

None of my 4 children will drink skimmed at all.

DS3 (with diabetes) will now take semi-skimmed milk. He needs to pay attention to his diet as will be predisposed to becoming overweight because of the insulin.

Dietician made a good point that younger children adapt to diet change better. If he had always had skimmed milk from age 5 it would not have become an issue.

Why should children or adults for that matter have skimmed milk at all. For the average person eating a balanced diet even full fat milk is still a healthy food.

Well if you drink skimmed milk on weightwatchers programme you have more points for soemthing else like wine

Right!!! I don't do diets I'm afraid. I enjoy food, I eat fairly healthily. I couldn't be bothered with all this points/calorie colour counting.