A while ago I did a literature search into "do people really need dairy"? A paper says yes, fat-removed milk products add nutrients to the otherwise complete catastrophe that is the average american diet.
so we gotta keep sticking the band-aid on instead of maybe subsidizing some vegetables among all that corn and meat?
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@coldwave That seems like a weak counterargument "dairy is nutritious therefore we should have it in your diet" isnt a band aid for a bad diet, so much as a good argument for it to be a part of any diet.
The thing is, dairy provides several nutrients that would be hard (though not impossible) from even a diet with veggies in it, unless you are mindful enough to pick veggies that specifically carry the wanted vitamins and minerals. Regardless if you eat your veggies or not having nutritiously rich variety in any diet is obviously the ideal.
@freemo I can't agree that it's hard or inconvenient to get nutrients not from milk, especially in a world where every bread, cereal, or plant drink on the shelves is fortified. and frankly eating the recommended 2-3 cups of yoghurt or (low fat) milk a day would seem like a bizarre and inconvenient thing to do if we weren't used to being told that, and most people "succeeding".
@coldwave Well hard is a relative term. for example mushrooms are one of the highest sources of vitamin D we have from plant sources. You would need to eat 36 medium white cap mushrooms to equal the vitamin D in one cup of milk.
So yea, milk certainly fills a nutritional role that is not easily replicated from other vegetable sources. vitamin D is the most striking but even just the potassium in milk is something that isnt terribly common in vegetables in high dose.
