When did you switch toddler off of whole milk?

[~inbalance~]

We do full fat everything here (milk for the kids, dh and I don't drink it, and all other dairy full fat for all of us). We are all wonderfully healthy and not overweight by an ounce (my kids are tiny and need ALL the fat they can get!). I've heard that low fat and no fat stuff often contains other garbage to make up for the lack of fat, and I'd rather have the fat!

[deb]

Exactly - if it were unhealthy fat that would be a different story, and because so many of us have been conditioned to be afraid of dietary fats with no regard to the quality of them, it would be very easy to have a knee-jerk reaction to fats in general or sat fats in particular, when the bad stuff isn't exactly what we've been led to believe over the past 50 years or so.

Reminds me, I need to pick up some bacon for the kids' supper: bacon and eggs! And I'll be saving the fat in the can next to the stove.

[TB9]

The UK recommendations are full fat up to 5yo but at least to 2yo. they can have 2% fat from 2yo but the 1% isnt recommended as a drink before 5yo due to a lack of fat soluable vitamins.

Thanks for the info KM!  I don't think there are any recommendations in Canada regarding the switch, or if there is the recommendation is to switch to whatever the parents drink (whether it's part skim or skim) because of the fear of childhood obesity.  We are definitely going to switch her to 2% instead of 1%

[Mama2boys]

never my boys and i we all like our milk full fat

[Me.and.my.two.boys]

I've heard that low fat and no fat stuff often contains other garbage to make up for the lack of fat, and I'd rather have the fat!

me too

[We Three]

We drink organic, so that isn't true in our case. 

[deb]

True, but not-whole milk also doesnt have the fat, which is part of the good stuff. *misses whole full-fat raw milk* which is a whole other thread.

But in any case, to answer the OP, there is no need to cut out full milk unless one is cutting milk period, which is another other thread. LOL

[We Three]

We get lots of healthy fats....we're good.   

[deb]

We get lots of healthy fats....we're good.   

Ooookay. Definitely good to make sure plenty of the good stuff: sat fats (excluding trans fats), coconut oil (very stable for high heat cookinf ans frying), butter, oily fish and dark meat chicken, olive oil (for room temp or lower heat cooking, never for frying), fish oil and flaxseed oil (never heat those), avocadoes. Lard, tallow (beef fat) and chicken and duck fat are great if you can get them from grassfed or pasteured sources, much less so from CAFOs. Sesame oil isn't bad; I do a blend of equal parts olive,nsesame, and coconut oil for most basic stuff i need to have a pourable oil for (coconut solidifies at 76F).

The less-good and even bad (inflammatory) stuff is the processed veg and seed oils, like corn, canola, and soybean. Way high in omega-6s and often oxidized by the time they're purchased.

So related to the OP, if there are dairy issues or if you just don't like the taste of full fat dairy like some people (my mom is one), those are other options for good sources of healthy fats. Otheriwse, no need to switch to lowfat.