Feeding Children Which Milk for Growing Bones

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Feeding ChildrenWhich Milk for Growing Bones?
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Why Milk?

• Calcium and Vitamin D for building strong bones
  and teeth
• Protein for building a growing body
• Vitamin A for healthy eyes and skin

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Milk in the Younger Years

• Experts agree that breast milk is the best choice
  for newborns, up to age one
• If breast milk is not an option, iron fortified
  infant formula is a good choice
• Whole milk is recommended for children 12 to 24
  months As a concentrated source of energy, fat
  helps to fuel this period of fairly rapid growth.
  The extra cholesterol in whole milk helps a
  childs brain to develop properly.
• (Dyuff, The American Dietetic
  Associations Complete Food and Nutrition Guide)

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Which milk is best for your child?

• Starting at age two, children can drink low-fat
  milk
• Low-fat milk contains less saturated fat than
  whole milk
• Skim milk (fat free),1 milk (low-fat) and 2
  milk (reduced-fat) are all considered low-fat
  products
• All milk contains the same amount of calcium per
  serving.

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Nutritional Comparison of Milks
Whole
2
Skim
1
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Calcium Needs by Age

• 1 cup 300 mg
• Birth - 6 Months 210 mg/day
• 6 to 12 Months 270 mg/day
• 1 to 3 Years 500 mg/day
• 4 to 8 Years 800 mg/day
• 9 to 18 Years 1,300 mg/day

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How much calcium do kids need?

• Children ages nine to eighteen can get most of
  their daily calcium from

• 3 cups of low-fat or fat-free milk (900 mg of
  calcium), AND
• Additional servings of calcium-rich foods to get
  the 1,300 mg of calcium necessary to build strong
  bones and teeth for life

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Other Calcium-Rich Foods
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• REFERENCES
• Roberta Larson Dyuff, MS,RD,CFCS, The American
  Dietetic Associations Complete Food and
  Nutrition Guide, p. 390, Chronimed Publishing,
  1996.
• American Dietetic Association position paper,
  Dietary Guidance for Healthy Children Aged 2 to
  11 Years, Journal of the American Dietetic
  Association, 2004 104-660-677.
• USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2005.
• USDA Nibbles for Health, Nutrition Newsletter
  for Young Children, Number 7, December 2002.
• Prepared by Louise Moore, MS
• University of Kentucky
• Extension Associate for Nutrition Education
  Programs
• June 2006