Thank you.  It does, indeed, help.


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Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:05 PM
Subject: milk and soy


> Cow's milk, a staple of the Western diet, contains (for our nutritional
> purposes) water, fat, protein and calcium.  So if you're not drinking
milk,
> then drink water or juice (for fluids) get your fat anywhere you like it,
> get your protein from meat or nuts, and that leaves calcium as the only
> thing that requires serious thought.  (In our house we get calcium from
> enriched juices, chewable calcium supplements from the health food store,
> tinned fish, fresh fish and broccolli.)  We don't push the soy at our
house
> because while milk allergy runs on my husband's side, soy allergy runs in
> my side!
>
> Hope this helps,
> --Beth Kevles