Quote Originally Posted by ACG View Post
Thanks for the replies. He is also into homeopathy. He is under the belief that we don't really need dairy, we get enough calcium thru other foods and that dairy/wheat make us get food allergies. I've had a nutritionist tell me this too. Actually a lot of people I know do this. I miss my yogurt and my tortillas and now my luna bars.
As a woman you need about 1200 mg of calcium a day.

A glass of milk is roughly 250-300 mg. A cup of broccoli is about 70 mg. There are better substitute sources, such as beans and soy products (which have their own problems that I worry about), but they are not so well integrated to the average North American diet. You can't just stop eating dairy and hope for the best.

I'm always wary of "experts" who have definite opinions on things and say stuff like "don't do this AT ALL", "don't eat ANY of this" or "eat ONLY that". A good diet is a balanced and varied one... and as the others mentioned it should also be one we enjoy enough to keep it going.