DS has just turned two. During a boring bit of Charlie and Lola this morning I started reading my 'What To Expect: The Toddler Years' by Arlene Eisenberg et al. The first thing I read said that now my baby is two, full-fat milk, cheese and full-fat yogurt are "sadly to be a thing of the past".
When I was eleven, my home economics teacher was obsessed about milk. She called it the 'perfect food' as it was so full of vitamins and general goodness. But, she insisted it must be full fat, as skimming removes much of the goodness. She made such a point of this, its stuck in my mind ever since.
Also, my best friend at Uni came from a family of dairy farmers and they grew up drinking unpasterised milk straight from the udder (and still warm). His entire family were built like oxen and never ill and certainly not overweight. He also warned me against skimming. This also made an impression on me.
But my book insists that full fat milk is bad, and not good (as I'd grown up believing).
The second thing the book said was that I need to start giving him vitamin pills (it suggested chewable ones). I'm not sure what vitamins DS is missing, giving he'll eat a pretty wide variety of fruit and veg.
So what's best, full fat or semi-skimmed? I'd always assumed that toddlers grow so much, and run around so much, that fat is good, or at least not bad. But I don't want DS to have a heart attack at the age of 50 and it all be because I didn't listen to the advice in my book this morning. What do you do? I guess I'm hoping for reassurance that our high-fat diet isn't going to kill him.