What’s so great about milk anyway?!

Milk is a super drink! It’s great for our bodies and minds. Most of us know that milk is an excellent source of calcium, which is important for strong healthy bones, but there’s so much more to milk!

Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating  recommends that students consume 2 to 4  servings of milk products daily. Milk and milk products provide students with 15 essential nutrients, including bone-building calcium and the energy needed to perform their best. Yet recent studies show that:

• Half of children (age 6–12 years) did not consume any milk products in their lunch and 46% consumed various “sugared water” beverages that have little or no nutritional value.
• Drinking less milk can have both long and short-term effects on children’s health. In one study, girls with forearm fractures were more likely to have low mineral density throughout their bones, suggesting that they were not getting enough calcium.
• Early adolescence is a crucial time for bone development. Up to 45% of our lifetime bone mass is built and consolidated during the teen years. This is a crucial period for calcium and other bone building nutrients found in milk.

With faster-paced lifestyles, today more than ever, students need the nutritional benefits of milk at lunch to help them achieve optimum growth and learning. The School Milk Program can make a difference in students’ mental and physical developments. The Program also helps schools fulfill their mandate to teach and support healthy lifestyles!

Milk has 15 essential nutrients that we need every day. Check out the bookmark below to see the nutrients in delicious nutritious milk and what they do for us!


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