Originally Posted by Machka
The one nutrient you might be lacking by removing milk from your diet is calcium. But you can get calcium from other sources ... like Calcium pills, TUMS, etc.
Actually I think people don't get as much calcium out of milk as they think. Milk contains things that leach the calcium out of your system, so (from what I've read) you only "keep" about 20% of the calcium in the milk.
Vegetables don't have this effect so you "keep" more of it. So broccoli turns out to my a much better source of calcium than milk. Unfortunately, chocolate broccoli is not nearly as yummy as chocolate milk
Chocolate soy milk is pretty yummy though, but I think it's full of fat (hence the yummyness).