Attention all parents of young children and teens!
What are you serving your children to meet their calcium needs? Just about everyone knows that milk and equivalent milk products are an important source of calcium. You know how important calcium is for building strong bones and teeth.
Are you helping your children build strong bones and teeth? Children from 2 to 8 years old should have two cups of milk every day. Older children and teens should have three cups of milk every day for the calcium that milk provides. Milk is also an important source of vitamin A, vitamin D, potassium, and magnesium.
Milk products are an important part of a healthful diet. Put some in your grocery cart today.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans urge us to meet our nutrient needs primarily through the foods that we eat. Choose fat-free or lowfat milk or milk products. Examples of these are fat-free yogurt and lowfat cheeses.
You will never get enough milk in the meals and snacks for your children if you don't put it in your grocery cart. This is a change you may need to do gradually. By the way, don't forget to buy enough for the adults! Everyone needs the important cacium and other nutrients provided by foods in the milk group.
Go for it!
Buy milk! Take it home and refrigerate it. Serve it at meals. Serve it as snacks. Encourage your family to drink milk by drinking milk yourself. You need it too. Cut down on the sweetened beverages in your grocery cart and add more milk. You can do it. Please remember: don't just choose any milk product. Put lowfat or fat-free products in your shopping cart.
What are you serving your children to meet their calcium needs? Just about everyone knows that milk and equivalent milk products are an important source of calcium. You know how important calcium is for building strong bones and teeth.
Are you helping your children build strong bones and teeth? Children from 2 to 8 years old should have two cups of milk every day. Older children and teens should have three cups of milk every day for the calcium that milk provides. Milk is also an important source of vitamin A, vitamin D, potassium, and magnesium.
Milk products are an important part of a healthful diet. Put some in your grocery cart today.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans urge us to meet our nutrient needs primarily through the foods that we eat. Choose fat-free or lowfat milk or milk products. Examples of these are fat-free yogurt and lowfat cheeses.
You will never get enough milk in the meals and snacks for your children if you don't put it in your grocery cart. This is a change you may need to do gradually. By the way, don't forget to buy enough for the adults! Everyone needs the important cacium and other nutrients provided by foods in the milk group.
Go for it!
Buy milk! Take it home and refrigerate it. Serve it at meals. Serve it as snacks. Encourage your family to drink milk by drinking milk yourself. You need it too. Cut down on the sweetened beverages in your grocery cart and add more milk. You can do it. Please remember: don't just choose any milk product. Put lowfat or fat-free products in your shopping cart.
Contributed by: Glenda L. Warren, MS, RD, CFCS, Associate Professor, Extension Nutritionist-Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)
