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Toddlers: Milk Matters

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Why Milk?




Milk has many important vitamins for healthy children. Milk helps children's bones grow strong and avoid breaking.

Calcium

 

Calcium is a mineral in your body that makes up your bones and keeps them strong. 99% of the calcium in your body is stored in your bones and teeth.
1% of Calcium is in your blood and muscles. Without this tiny 1% of calcium, your muscles wouldn't work and your blood wouldn't clot.
Vitamin D

Vitamin D helps the body get calcium. Without vitamin D, bones can become thin, weak, soft, or deformed.

Vitamin D prevents skeletal diseases in adults and children that result in defects that weaken bones.

Vitamin A Vitamin A is important for vision, bone growth, and reproduction. It helps our eyes, lungs, digestive track work.

Vitamin A also helps the skin and body parts which act as a barrier to bacteria and viruses.

Vitamin A helps regulate the immune system, which keeps us from getting sick.

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