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?

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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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