What is the optimal intake of whole milk per day to maintain bone health without negative side effects (such as weight gain due to excess fat intake)?

Answer 1

Actually, there is no perfect answer to this question. It is highly personalized.

American Dietary Guidelines recommend 2-3 servings of dairy per day for most adults. However, some countries such as Canada have gone away with having dairy as part of the recommended diet.

One serving could be:

1) 8 fluid ounces of milk (could be low-fat milk)

2) 1 ounce of cheese

3) 1 fluids ounce of half and half

4) 8 ounces of yogurt

If a person chooses to pursue a dairy-free/vegetarian diet, one can meet daily calcium needs by choosing other high calcium foods such as soybeans, legumes, and sesame seeds.

Answer 2

This would depend on someone's basal metabolic rate,. Lifestyle activity (depending on whether they are sendentary or very active) and it would also take into consideration any other macronutrients they consume throughout the day. So do you want to give specifics?

For example, for a person weighing 150 lbs and assuming they consumed all their calories from whole milk, meaning they did not get their calories from any where else, and say that they are sendentary they would need to consume just about or above their BMR or basal metabolic rate to Maintain their weight, meaning not going under or over. Many times that multiplying factor number is 1.1 or 1.2 for sendentary lifestyles so you would take 150 and multiply by say 1.1. = 165 then multiply by 10 to turn it into Kcalories. So we are talking 1650 calories all coming from the whole milk (again also assuming that they did not get their calorie sources from any thing else). How many cups would this be? Whole milk is usually 150 calories for one 8 ounce cup so if you take. 1650/150. = 11 cups, or around 11 cups of whole milk