Ensuring milk’s place in children’s diets and promoting children’s dairy consumption

The healthy growth of children requires the support of high-nutrient-dense foods

Children with special physical and nutritional needs

Zeng Guo, deputy director of the Maternal and Child Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society and professor of nutrition at the West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, said that the physiological and nutritional needs of preschool children have the following characteristics: 1.

"A very important characteristic of children is growth and development, and special nutrition needs to be provided to meet the needs of growth and development

According to Zhu Wenli, a professor at the Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Peking University, Chinese school-aged children and adolescents are currently facing multiple burdens of malnutrition, leading to anemia, vitamin deficiency, and hypertension

Dairy has obvious advantages in children's dietary nutrition

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"Milk is a nutrient-rich food, and its most prominent features are high-quality protein and rich calcium

In addition, "dairy is also an excellent carrier for food fortification

China's children's dairy consumption is constrained by multiple reasons

According to the dietary recommendations for preschool children in the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents, dairy is an important part of children's diet: 3-6 years old, 350-500 grams of milk is recommended in the daily diet; children over 6 years old, recommended 300 grams of milk intake per day

"Multiple reasons restrict the consumption of children's milk

In order to ensure the status of dairy in children's diet and promote children's dairy consumption, Wang Zhixu put forward suggestions: 1.

(Liu Yanfang and Gao Jiaodi)

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