Dr Benjamin Spock, perhaps most influential pediatrician of all time, says children should stick to vegetarian diet devoid of all dairy products after age of 2; that advice is contained in seventh edition of his world-famous book, Baby and Child Care, issued last month just weeks after Spock’s death at age 94; many experts, including Spock’s co-author, Dr Steven J Parker, consider that approach to childhood nutrition as too extreme and likely to result in nutritional deficiencies unless it is very carefully planned and executed; experts express concern about ability of small children to consume enough calories to sustain normal growth on all-plant diet (M)
— Read on mobile.nytimes.com/1998/06/20/us/final-advice-from-dr-spock-eat-only-all-your-vegetables.
After decades of recommending dairy for kids, at the end of his life he came to the realization that he was wrong. Kids do not need Terry to be healthy. Kids who don’t consume dairy have the same bone strength as kids would do.