Dairy-Free Pizza
Believe it or not this pizza is made without cheese, so it’s dairy-free! The sauce and toppings add so much color and flavor that you may not even notice the cheese is missing. Experiment with your favorite [more…]
Creamy Dairy-Free Chocolate Pudding
Enjoy this classic comfort food — dairy-free! This recipe uses unsweetened cocoa powder to give this chocolate pudding a mild chocolate flavor and smooth finish, so you may want to double the recipe. [more…]
Creamy Nondairy Rice Pudding with Cardamom and Raisins
This dairy-free pudding recipe is simple to prepare and doesn’t require much time at the stove. The pudding thickens in the pan as the rice absorbs the liquid. The result is a rich, creamy pudding with [more…]
Velvety Dairy-Free Chocolate Tofu Ice Cream
This recipe for chocolate tofu ice cream is simple and delicious. The texture of this nondairy ice cream is soft and creamy, somewhere between chocolate mousse and smooth gelato, and the flavor is all [more…]
Dairy-Free Poppy Seed Cake
In this recipe for poppy seed cake, cow’s milk is replaced with nondairy soymilk. A simple dusting of confectioner’s sugar adds a touch of sweetness to this delicate dairy-free cake that’s light in texture [more…]
Dairy-Free and Breastfeeding: How to Meet Your Nutritional Needs
Pregnancy and breastfeeding change your dietary needs, and when you’re dairy-free, you need to be aware of the changes and how best to meet them. From the start, all that babies can tolerate is an easy-to-digest [more…]
How Dairy-Free Mothers Can Meet the Nutritional Needs of Newborns
Newborn babies have vital and specific nutritional needs when in a stage of such rapid development, so dairy-free moms should do their research before breast or bottle-feeding their little ones. The most [more…]
Environmental Reasons to Be Dairy-Free
Just as aesthetics may motivate some people to avoid dairy, the thought of how the dairy industry affects the environment compels others to act. They avoid dairy products as a way of making an individual [more…]
Ethical Reasons to Give Up Dairy Products
Some people avoid dairy out of a strong sense of ethics and compassion for animals. If you’ve ever shared your life with a dog or cat — or even a rat — you know that animals have feelings. They express [more…]
How to Relate Dairy-Free Life to Vegetarianism
The ethical, environmental, and health reasons that some people go dairy-free apply just as well to the practice of eating meat. In fact, most people who go dairy-free for these reasons are already living [more…]
How Politics Can Affect Dairy Products
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is charged with protecting and promoting American agriculture, which includes the meat and dairy industries. At the same time, the USDA also has the primary responsibility [more…]
Why You Don’t Need Milk
After infancy, you don’t need milk. It’s a simple fact. Milk is a substance produced by mammals to nourish their newborn babies. Baby mammals — including humans — depend on milk until their digestive systems [more…]
What It Means to Be Dairy-Free
People go dairy-free for a number of reasons. Some are lactose intolerant and can’t digest milk products. Others do it for ecological or health reasons. Some have beliefs and views that lead them to be [more…]
Dairy-Free Living: Moving Away from Milk
People give up dairy products in their diets for different reasons, including personal health and environmental concerns. Deciding to go dairy-free may be the result of one or more of these considerations [more…]
How Dairy Products May Hurt Your Health
The most common reason people consider going dairy-free is for their health. Eating or drinking dairy products has been linked to physical discomfort in some of the population and increased risk of certain [more…]
Managing Milk Allergies by Knowing What's in Dairy Products
A milk allergy — an extreme response by the body’s immune system to proteins in milk — can be tricky to manage. Avoiding allergic reaction to dairy products starts with knowing what's in your food and [more…]
How Dairy Products Affect Your Heart
A dairy-free diet can help prevent heart disease, as about two-thirds of the fat in dairy products is artery-clogging saturated fat. In particular, hard cheeses [more…]
How Milk May Affect Cancers
It isn’t proven that eliminating milk products from your diet will prevent cancer, but some people choose to avoid dairy products to improve their health even though a proven cause-and-effect relationship [more…]
How Dairy Products May Affect Weight
In recent years, the dairy industry has promoted a marketing campaign touting the weight-loss benefits of drinking cow’s milk. Claims that suggest drinking milk controls weight are misleading. Long-term [more…]
Pregnant and Dairy-Free: How to Meet Your Nutritional Needs
When you’re pregnant and dairy-free, ensuring that you meet your nutrient needs is extra important because what you eat feeds the baby growing in your womb. If you don’t consume good, nutritious foods, [more…]
Soymilk or Almond Milk: Not for Everybody's Dairy-Free Diets
For some people, going dairy-free isn’t as easy as it is for others because of health restrictions. They may have allergies or other intolerances to foods commonly used to replace dairy products, such [more…]
Why Lactose Intolerance Occurs
You may be surprised to discover that lactose intolerance is natural. In fact, most adult humans around the world are lactose intolerant to some extent. Lactose intolerance basically is an inability to [more…]
What "Lactose Intolerant" Means
Most adult humans around the world are lactose intolerant to some extent, and they experience cramps, bloating, diarrhea, gas and nausea after consuming a big does of dairy. The condition is caused when [more…]
How to Determine the Severity of Your Lactose Intolerance
Figuring out the extent to which you lactose intolerant, or physiologically intolerant of dairy products, isn’t clear cut and easy. Some people may be more or less able to tolerate dairy in their diets [more…]
How Lactose Intolerance is Diagnosed
The elimination diet is easy to try. To see whether you’re lactose intolerant, just cut out all milk and dairy products, including foods made with milk or other dairy products, for a short period of time [more…]
