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Educate your patients on the importance of 3-A-Day of Dairy: Here's
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Developed in conjunction with The American Academy of Family
Physicians, The American Academy of Pediatrics, The American Dietetic
Association, and The National Medical Association.
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Dairy Council Digest Archives
DAIRY’S ROLE IN CHILDREN’S HEALTH & WELLNESS
Volume 76, Number 5 Sep/Oct 2005
Conclusion
Considering the nutritional and health benefits of milk and other dairy foods such as cheese and yogurt, efforts are being made to increase children’s and adolescents’ dairy product consumption (5). These include increasing children’s participation in school meals, creating healthy school nutrition environments supportive of healthy food consumption, including dairy food intake, and improving the look, temperature, and taste of school milk (5). A School Milk Pilot Test sponsored by National Dairy Council and the American School Food Service Association found that children drink more milk when schools offer it in plastic, re-sealable containers in different sizes, various flavors, merchandising locations (vending or a la carte) and ice-cold refrigeration (72). Steps are being taken to implement these changes in schools nationwide, a measure that could greatly improve children’s health and wellness (73).
The family and social environment strongly influence a child’s food intake, nutrition, and attitudes about food and eating (74). Parents, by making dairy foods available and consuming these foods themselves, can play a positive role in shaping their children’s dietary habits, including their intake of dairy products (75).
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