If dairy products are strictly forbidden in vegan philosophy / way of life ?

This is another very common question

Ever ask yourself how other animals get enough calcium to grow and maintain healthy skeletons and teeth, when they never seem to need milk from other animal species after they are weaned? Ever wonder why humans and animals held captive by humans commonly suffer from bone loss and osteoporosus, when in wild animals it is almost unknown?

When you think of calcium you probably think about dairy products right? ever wonder how the calcium got in the dairy products?…… Although many factory farmed cows suffer from calcium loss and btittle bones, because of the unatural amount of milk they are made to produce. A wild or more natural raised cow will get enough nutrients (minerals (calcium), vitamins, amino acids/protien, carbohydrates etc) from a grass and mixed plant diet to support themselves, a nursing calf, and growing fetus all in one! Minerals come from the ground, are then taken up by the plants, and the products of plants (seeds, grain, fruit, nuts, legumes).

Over in Asian countries dairy products are almost never consumed and yet in Korea, China, Japan, Thailand osteoporosis is much less of a problem than in the US, Canada, the UK, for one example. Did you also know that the countries that consume the most animal products (meat, milk, eggs) have a higher calcium intake (800mg to 1500mg) of calcium per day but still have the most trouble with calcium loss and osteoporosus even with all those calcium supliments? The USA should be osteoporosus free right?. In some African counties women who have had up to 9 children consume an average of 200mg to 300mg of calcium per day from a diet of mostly grains, seeds, legumes, greens, meat, fruit and at far less risk of getting osteoporosis than milk consuming cultures.

Read this http://www.drmcdougall.com/med_hot_calcium.html Mcdougal has exelent information on the vegan diet and the myths of cows milk.

But I still have not fully answered your question yet…. By eating plenty of plant foods, vegetables, fruits, seeds, grains, nuts, legumes you will get all the nutriants required to stay healthy (greens, seeds, and nuts usuals have the most calcium)

I have been a vegan for nearly a year now and I am I have felt the healthiest on this diet and I have been a omnivore, vegetarian and vegan. And have never used supliments.