Actually, the nutritional value of milk has come into question in recent years - I'm surprised no one mentioned this yet so I had to pop in. Osteoporosis is more common in countries where dairy products are consumed.
I don't have enough posts to provide links yet, but if you google "dairy osteoporosis", or "acid alkaline osteoporosis dairy," you can start to read about it.
The amount of calcium in your body involves more than just what you eat - it also includes the calcium that is lost from your bones when necessary to maintain a safe pH.
Some foods leave an acidic residue in the body after they are digested and the body has to leach alkaline minerals (like calcium) out of the bones in order to bring the pH back up to normal. Dairy products are among the foods that leave an acidic residue in the body.
I used to be a daily milk drinker and decided to cut back to a few times per month after I read more about it. As far as I can tell milk is not nutritionally necessary. There's nothing in milk that you can't get a better source of from vegetables, nuts, eggs, grass-fed meat, or wild-caught fish. I replaced almost all of the dairy in my diet with more nutritious foods from that list. I still have dairy a few times a month as a treat because I like the taste of it but I treat it as "candy."
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