Give
your child plain milk (low - fat or fat - free) and nondairy sources of calcium to help him develop strong bones and healthy lifelong eating habits that don't depend on sugar to deliver nutrition.
Not exact matches
If
children will not drink
plain milk, try offering chocolate
milk; it has added sugar, but it is still nutritious.
... HISD indicated that — almost one year after the breakfast program was fully rolled out — kids still don't want the white
milk, disproving the notion that
children inured to flavored
milk will eventually drink
plain if they have no choice.
You wrote: «-- almost one year after the breakfast program was fully rolled out — kids still don't want the white
milk, disproving the notion that
children inured to flavored
milk will eventually drink
plain if they have no choice.»
One easy, although not necessarily inexpensive, alternative to vitamins for picky eaters might be that instead of
plain milk, you give your
child a nutrition drink, such as:
Although
milk is an important drink and an easy way for your
child to get calcium and vitamin D into his diet, it is usually best to encourage your kids to drink
plain white
milk.
You can get even more vitamins and minerals with a simple daily multivitamin that your
child takes with her glass of
plain white
milk.
«What I don't understand is, when a
child turns 5 and enters kindergarten, all of a sudden people think they will stop drinking
plain milk,» she said.
Give your
child water and
plain milk instead of sugary drinks.
And then there are parents who believe that neither flavored
milk nor
plain milk is a necessary part of a
child's diet and that we've all been sold a bill of goods by the dairy industry.
Juice and
plain milk are apparently passé, so we're left with mothers who brag, «My
child has been going to cafés since he was a newborn.
And in a meeting yesterday, HISD indicated that — almost one year after the breakfast program was fully rolled out — kids still don't want the white
milk, disproving the notion that
children inured to flavored
milk will eventually drink
plain if they have no choice.
«If your
child, age 2 and above, won't drink
plain milk, or eat dairy products, then offer a calcium and vitamin D supplement and water as a beverage.»
Readers may be surprised to learn, as I was, that the AAP really has no formal policy focused on the feeding of flavored
milk to
children, other than brief mentions in its policy addressing sugar - sweetened beverages in schools, where flavored
milk — along with
plain milk, fruit and vegetable juices and water — is cited as a «healthful alternative» to sodas, and in the academy's statement on increasing
children's bone density and calcium intake.
The only failure of the experiment occurred when the researchers pushed
plain milk by making it more obviously available, in an attempt to persuade
children to choose it over chocolate
milk.