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Speaker 1: Turns out we're not drinking milk the way we used to.

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Speaker 1: We had one point two million fewer glasses last year.

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Speaker 1: That's five point six million liters less over the last

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Speaker 1: couple of decades. Obviously there's some nutritional fallout from that.

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Speaker 1: I guess ABC Nutritions. Angela beryls with us Angela.

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Speaker 2: Morning, good morning, Mike, tell you I'm.

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Speaker 1: Very well, indeed, thank you. So we've got fewer people

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Speaker 1: drinking less milk, but that doesn't tell us why do

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Speaker 1: we know why?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, Fonterra Brand's actually conducted some research earlier this

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Speaker 2: year and it's down to a few different reasons. There's

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Speaker 2: a changing demographic makeup of New Zealand which isn't favoring

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Speaker 2: milk consumption. There's a dominance in processed foods, including the

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Speaker 2: likes of fizzy drinks which are now dominating our supermarket shelves.

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Speaker 2: Is the trend in plant based milk alternatives. Also, these

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Speaker 2: awareness issues and consumers are not necessarily understanding the benefits

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Speaker 2: of milk, but also they might not be aware of

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Speaker 2: the very broad range of milk products available. So for example,

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Speaker 2: Anchor has a zero Alecto products that's for those that

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Speaker 2: are lactose intolerant, so there's quite a broad range of

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Speaker 2: products available there as well.

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Speaker 1: So what is this about. Is it about people drinking

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Speaker 1: less milk and who cares? It's just a bottom line

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Speaker 1: business thing. Or is it if we drink less milk

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Speaker 1: there are consequences health wise down the track and we

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Speaker 1: don't quite know what they are.

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Speaker 2: And I think this is exactly it's, Mike. We know that,

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Speaker 2: you know, drinking milk, it provides us with a fast

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Speaker 2: array of nutrients. So it's a really nutrient packed whole food.

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Speaker 2: It contains you know, protein, you calcium, but also the

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Speaker 2: likes of vitamin's aa B two B to our phosphorus

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Speaker 2: TESM and zinc as well. So what we know is

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Speaker 2: that we need calcium, especially during those early years up

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Speaker 2: until about the mid twenties, to help build our peak

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Speaker 2: bone mass or peak bone density. So what we estimate

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Speaker 2: is that if people are actually reducing their say dairy

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Speaker 2: or milk intake, and they're not getting that calcium from

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Speaker 2: other sources, then we may be looking at an increased

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Speaker 2: risk of say, osteoporosis and bone fracture down in those

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Speaker 2: later year is when these young children or younger adults

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Speaker 2: are becoming older adults, so it might not be for

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Speaker 2: another fifty or so years before we actually start to

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Speaker 2: see the impact of this decline and milk consumption.

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Speaker 1: Is the intolerance. So you see in my lifetime, everything's changed.

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Speaker 1: Chocolate's now good for you, or dark chocolate is coffees

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Speaker 1: apparently now good for you. What was bad is now good,

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Speaker 1: what was good is now bad. Is milk suffering some

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Speaker 1: of that as well or not?

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Speaker 2: Look, I think there's been a lot of misinformation around.

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Speaker 2: I mean you only have to look on you know,

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Speaker 2: some of your streaming TV documentaries that can be incredibly

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Speaker 2: biased and don't necessarily provide you with accurate nutrition information.

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Speaker 2: And I think also everyone seems to be an expert

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Speaker 2: in nutrition these days that people really need to turn

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Speaker 2: to registered dietitians for nutrition advice and we can help

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Speaker 2: you and ife both pinpoint what's going to be correct

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Speaker 2: for someone to health and bust a lot of those

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Speaker 2: musters as well.

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Speaker 1: Again to appreciate Angela Burrell Well Beryl Nutritionists.

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