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The Truth About Why American Kids Drink So Much Milk

The Truth About Why American Kids Drink So Much Milk

FromPressure Cooker


The Truth About Why American Kids Drink So Much Milk

FromPressure Cooker

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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
Jun 5, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

If you’ve had a child in America anytime in the past, oh, 80 years, there’s one message about what to feed them that has been impossible to ignore: MILK! Kids need lots of milk to grow big and strong. 
Or do they? 
On this week’s episode of Pressure Cooker, Jane and Liz journey back through history to uncover when and why milk came to be seen as an essential part of a healthy child’s diet. Then, our hosts interview Sophie Egan, the Director of the Stanford Food Institute and the author of the 2020 book How to Be a Conscious Eater, to answer the question: how much milk, if any, do kids actually need?
Further Resources:

How To Be A Conscious Eater by Sophie Egan
Spoiled: The Myth of Milk As Superfood by Anne Mendelson
How Much Dairy Do Children and Adults Actually Need? (The Washington Post)

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Released:
Jun 5, 2024
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Feeding children is among the most basic of human responsibilities. So why do we so often feel like we’re failing at it? Pressure Cooker examines the history--and contradictions--of America’s Advice Industrial Complex, and brings intimate, funny and emotionally resonant stories from parents locked in the daily struggle to navigate manipulative marketing messages, impossible cultural expectations, and little people with big personalities as they try to set their kids on a healthy path for life.