about milk...thanks everyone

I want to thank everyone for posting a lot of interesting and valuable info about the many dangers of milk drinking.

But, my problem is still there, and all these info actually make me feel worse somehow, because it can be really difficult when you have to deal with the rest of yr family, and dietary choices cannot be mandatory.

For this reason I wanted to send my special thanks to SqueakyClean and the few others who who actually understood that I need a huge compromise at the moment!

Please realize that when I fist met my hsb a few yrs ago, he had survived for 20 years on 1 cup of milk and coffee a day, white seasoned breads, and heroine shots. ( I must say that in spite of such a life, for some reason he was amazingly healthy at that time - I think it's up to his good genes, and years of undereating, too ). I was not a SAD eater, very little meat and protein, but I ate lots of breads, cakes and sugar.

During these years we went together through many different changes, and all of these changes were promoted by me, with all the effort that this could mean. He went 100% off drugs and we started a diet cleanup. I found the cureZone and started researching. Diet cleanup was slow and difficult and when I gave birth I was still half of the way to a healthy diet.

I am almost vegan since a few months, and he has dropped a lot of protein foods, but still has meat or fish to say once a week, and he has 2 cups of milk a day. Since I am living on fruits and raw vegetables now, I buy and offer a lot of raw food and juices and he is about 30% raw now, which is a great goal to him.

Baby started weaning when I was still on cooked foods and she mainly eats cooked whole cereal, (including pasta and homemade breads), kefir and fruit, she is very picky and it is not easy to find foods that she likes, my hsb offers some meat to her at times, she seems to crave it, that makes me feel discouraged!

I believe that everyone should take responsibility for his/her own health and so my hsb, I can help him, but not force him. He is not as much interested in the food/health thing as I am, and he also needs his time to concentrate and work and not only think about food 24/7 . When he gets home tired and looks for some milk I don't want to tell him that I did not buy it bc it's not healthy, period.

I am still breastfeeding my baby and honestly doing the best that I can for her and my hsb, but I must also respect them, and every change takes its time. All the stress of these choices is on my shoulders bc my relatives are totally unsupportive, I believe that there are less than 1000 raw families in my whole country, and maybe less,so all raw organic products are very difficult to obtain, and extremely expensive.

I am trying to find compromises and I am not ashamed of that, I do believe this is part of being a mom and wife, I am not deciding for myself alone.

Thanks for reading, know this is a bit long, but I just wanted to tell it to remind everyone that things are not always more easily done than said, This is my case, and I believe there are many other people like me that can easily become upset when being given answers that sound rather extreme to them . Society is unsupportive, so we all need to be supportive instead, be aware of all the steps and show the ways, not only the goals which seem to be so hard and far off us.

no_biz