Although they are very fashionable, in children their consumption is not very convenient.
Vegetable milks like soy milk help keep cholesterol levels within acceptable limits, but for children they don’t seem to be as positive. A new study by researchers at St. Michael? S Hospital in Toronto, Canada, revealed that their regular consumption can affect the growth of young children.
According to this research, children who drink soy milk are between 0.30 and 14 centimeters shorter than those who consume cow’s milk. Another study from 2016 carried out by the Clinical Nutrition Unit of the Hospital 12 de Octubre in Madrid, and by the Nutrition and Metabolopathies Unit of the Hospital Universitari i Politècnic «La Fe» in Valencia, where they analyzed the nutritional components of various types of vegetable milk, including soy, and concluded that its nutritional value was quite low, and that using it regularly in infant feeding could cause anemia, malnutrition and even rickets. Therefore, they recommended not to give it to children under two years of age, and that they should never totally replace cow’s milk.
And this has been studied for a long time, since in 1930, a report from the Department of Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine of Beijing commented that soy milk was a very common food in the Chinese diet, but that its consumption only It was common among older people, and was rarely given to children.