I want to give up dairy?!

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The answer is obvious. If you really want to give up dairy, then you'll have to stop eating dairy products. There's really no other way around it, is there?

Maybe you dont want to give up dairy at all why torture yourself eat what you prefer and what falls within your morality - theres no brownie points for giving up please just eat what you like and leave alone what you dont - thats the healthy way. I am allergic to wheat and dairy so it gave me up but just go at your own pace - you could have a dairy free fast for a week and see how you feel but dont pressure yourself - food is to be enjoyed not to give you fearfulness.

you said milk is gross? just turn yourself off of eggwhites and yogurt...consider the fact that an egg is an unfertilized chicken. I have cracked open an egg that was mistakenly fertilized and found a baby chick embryo..now that is gross!! yogurt is a dairy product produced by
bacterial fermentation of milk so if you don't like milk, fermented milk is even worse.....Ready to give them up yet???

You can substitute flax seed for egg whites. I don't personally think it is very good, and still love my eggs. But this is what a lot of vegans use as a substitute. Not sure what to tell you about the yogurt. There is soy greek style yogurt, but the brands will be dependent on your stores.

Egg white are protien Not dairy.

If you really want o be a vagitarian you willjust have ot give up greek yogurt. You could try straining plain unflavored soy yogurt.

Eggs are not dairy.
To avoid eating Greek yogurt, don't buy it.

Why?

Dairy. Vegetarian. Vegan. No Carbs. No complex sugars. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. I'm not going to get all scientific here and what you put into your body is your choice. However let me at least get this out of my system. The food pyramid is not faulty it is not wrong. Now maybe I'm wrong here but I'm no fan of an improperly balanced diet. It is all about balance concerning health. Not too much of this, not too much of that. Proper amounts to thus ensure harmonious overall health. You have different kinds of teeth that perform different functions. This means we're omnivores. This isn't just me talking this is millions of years of evolution here. If we were to be vegetarians all of our teeth would look like our molars. I digress. Your diet is your choice however your dependence on dairy from a nutritional aspect is rather minor if you're over the age of 20. The older you become the harder it is for your body to break down simple milk sugars. That's why when old people drink milk they get gassy. That's why infants drink milk and the whole "milk" craze of the early 2000's was absolutely insane as your body matures you require different things for proper health. Remember your don't eat like you did when you were an infant. Sorry about the tangents I just really don't agree with removing essential elements of a properly balanced diet.

People that drink milk don't realize how unnatural it is. Milk was only meant for babies. Cow's milk was designed by NATURE to raise a cow calf into a 1000 lb adult. So why would humans drink it when a healthy human weight is 100-200 lbs? Not only is it unnatural it is very unhealthy. I cannot stress that enough. Modern milk contains the milk of unhealthy diseased cows. (diseased mothers means diseased milk too). They pump the mothers full of hormones which further upsets the design of nature. Then milk is a breeding ground for the very vicious kind of bacteria (before and after pasteurization). Bacteria thrive in the mucous, pus, blood and hormone liquid. Then diary corporations backed by government brainwashed the world into thinking that is healthy!

Well it's unfortunate that you are giving up milk (I would be a dairy farmer) but there are a couple options. First if you are just planning on giving up dairy and not becoming a full out vegetarian right now, you don't need to give up egg whites (eggs are from chickens, not from milk production therefore not dairy product), and as for greek yogurt it can also be made with sheep milk if you have a problem with cow milk or vice versa. If you don't want dairy from any animal this is a good vegan greek yogurt (http://www.choosingraw.com/greek-yogurt-raw-vegan-style/). It's good but def not as good as greek yogurt made with dairy. If you want to give up egg whites then you can use flax seeds (http://www.ochef.com/687.htm). If you really like the animal products and aren't willing to give them up then you don't have to become a full vegetarian. There's a lot of people who give up meat but still eat some. If you really want to become full vegetarian you need to give up everything but remember that there is usually a sub par substitute.


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Fruitydreams- Obviously you've been brainwashed by god knows who. Everything you answered there makes no sense. First about the weight differences between humans and cows? That's definitely the first time I've heard anyone try to argue that. You do realize that milk isn't the only contributor to weight and it also depends on how much you intake. Calves intake a lot of food (including a lot more milk than any human intakes). You can also argue that Vegetables were designed by NATURE. Better stop eating those too eh? And very unhealthy? Now you're just trying to brainwash people. There are strict regulations about letting "diseased" milk into the tank. If a farmer is caught, which they will be because milk is tested every pick up, then that milk that went into the truck that picks up the milk is dumped and the farmer is given a huge fine and pays for that milk that is dumped. Usually "diseased" cows are milked separately so the milk doesn't enter the system. I'm not sure where you live but in Canada it is illegal to pump a cow full of hormones. In the states they are still allowed hormones which is completely retarded but they will hopefully be outlawing that soon.
I laughed when I saw that milk is a breeding ground for the very vicious kind of bacteria. First you seem to think that all vicious bacteria is in milk? Go take a nutrition course. Second EVERYTHING is able to be the breeding ground for bacteria. That's why processing plants for anything have to have high cleanliness standards. Milk goes through a pasteurization process to completely ensure that it is safe. I drink milk raw right from the tank and have never been sick from it so usually nothing is even bad with it. How about E coli that has made many people sick (and even killed people) from getting into water sources? Let's stop drinking that too.
Yes there is blood and pus in the milk, in very very low amounts. There are also a certain percentage of bug parts and other stuff you don't even know in every product. Obviously you won't die from eating any of it. Milk is mostly water. And besides you said that it was meant for babies but now you're willing to feed blood and pus to babies? Sounds like child cruelty in your case.
Well now that we got through all of that I tallied up what YOU can eat from YOUR standards of what's right and wrong and it seems that you are left to eat nothing (including not drinking water). Get your facts straight before you start trying to tell people how to think.

Don't worry about it. Here in the US most vegetarians eat dairy products. They're called ovo-lacto vegetarians and they eat eggs (ovo) and milk (lacto) items.

I would question why you gave up beef for chicken? You know the death of one cow produces about 400 lbs of boneless beef? At the recommended 1/4 lb per day, that one death feeds a lot of people. One chicken, on the other hand, produces about 2-3 lbs of boneless meat. At 1/4 lb per day, a lot more chickens have to die to feed the people the one beef animal did. So by eating those smaller animals, you're actually causing more deaths.