Judging from the meals you posted in your journal for your kids, they should be getting all the calcium they need from the meat and veggies you are feeding them. Biologically available calcium should be the real concern, not how much gross calcium a food contains. The calcium in (cow's) milk is less biologically available than that in meat, fish, and most vegetables, from what I have read, at least. Goat milk is apparently much more digestible, but is too expensive, and has a wierd flavor. Nothing wrong with Bacon and Eggs, either! You might try making some moderate carb bread with a bread machine (!$35-40 at Wal-Mart), and using it in tuna fish, sweet relish, and Miracle Whip sandwiches (yeh I know, there is SOME sugar involved, but the amount per sandwich is relatively low (7g total, assuming a tablespoon of each--5g for the relish, 2g for the Miracle Whip), especially considering the benefit gained. And in case anyone wants to know, having tried several brands, including store brands, IMHO, the best-tasting tuna-in-soybean-oil, ~$0.50/can cheap stuff, is Bumble Bee, by far.
For every fat kid that loses it as they grow taller, there is at least 1 that doesn't, like me, and presumably like you, judging from your first posts on the forum. If that is the case, then there is a 50% chance that the same genetics are involved with your kids as were involved with you. If I had known the hell I would go through all my life for being fat, and had my parents known of the Atkins solution when I was a teenager, I would have hated and reviled them for NOT doing something about it when they could have. Actually they DID try, but in my case, exercise alone was insufficient--unlike my 3 brothers, I LOVED Pasta to the exclusion of all else, when possible. In those days, this was considered healthy and normal. I don't believe being put on diets, per se, while growing up would cause an eating disorder (the justification used by liz175 for her tirade against trying Atkins on your kids)--the attitudes of the parents, and other unmentioned factors have much greater impact. When kids are surrounded by healthy food (the only food in the house!) and allowed to choose what they want, they will eat healthy. They are perhaps more in tune with their bodies' needs than adults.
Last edited by Azraelle : Sun, Sep-07-03 at 03:07.
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