Contents:
- Medical Video: Ensure powder milk benefits in Urdu and Hindi
- Do children need to drink milk?
- What is the dosage of milk for children who are active and who are not?
- Milk is an additional nutrient intake for children, not the main one
Medical Video: Ensure powder milk benefits in Urdu and Hindi
Almost all children like to drink milk. Usually parents provide milk for children at breakfast and before bed. Milk is a mainstay drink to strengthen bones and teeth. Especially for children who are active, milk is often relied on to increase its energy. However, is there a difference in the dose of drinking milk for active and non-active children? See the explanation here.
Do children need to drink milk?
In addition to the need to have a healthy and balanced diet, all children need milk to support their nutritional intake. However, are there differences in the milk needs of children who are active and not?
The nutritional needs of children who are active in their daily activities such as school, taking extracurricular activities, tutoring, sports, or other activities, need to be considered and adjusted. This is to support a higher level of child activity.
Based on the recommendation of Nutritional Adequacy Rates from the Indonesian Ministry of Health, school children (ages 6 to 18 years) generally need around 1,600 to 2,800 calories per day. The more activity, children may need more calories than this.
Calories can be obtained from food and beverages, including milk. So, even though children are not obliged to drink milk, it seems rather difficult to fulfill a child's daily calorie needs if only from food. Especially if your little one has trouble eating or a picky hobby of food.
However, actually children who do not exercise or are inactive also need an additional 10 percent of protein, said the chairman of the Indonesian Sports and Fitness Nutrionist Association (ANOKI), Mury Kuswari, S.Pd, M.Sc who was met at the Fairmont Senayan Hotel on Wednesday ( 3/10). "Because the child is growing, so the more active the child, he needs the appropriate energy source so as not to disturb his activities," continued Mr. Mury.
What is the dosage of milk for children who are active and who are not?
Energy, protein, carbohydrate and children's fluid needs will change with increasing daily activities of children. Higher demands for busy life make the body of an active child burn more calories than other children his age.
So if your child is busy with sports everyday, such as participating in soccer extracurricular activities, the milk dosage is certainly different from children who are less active in moving, for example taking math lessons. Active children may need two glasses of milk a day, while children who rarely move only need a glass or even do not need to drink milk.
The dosage returns to the different conditions and nutritional needs of each child. Please consult your doctor or child nutritionist to determine the exact dose.
However, meeting the nutritional needs of an active child is not just adding calories. Adjust the child's diet that is balanced and fulfill the nutrients needed. Reduce consumption junk food and high-sugar drinks.
Add some types of food such as fresh fruit and vegetables, cereals and whole wheat bread, milk and milk products, or skinless meat and fat to the family food menu.
Milk is an additional nutrient intake for children, not the main one
All children may drink milk, both active and non-children. However, milk cannot be used as the main nutrient for children. Milk is just an additional nutritional intake for children or a complement to children's daily food, not staple food.
Children who often exercise or actively move need additional energy sources. "Milk can be an additional source of energy because milk contains carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals," said Mr. Mury Kuswari.
However, because its function is only as a supplement, when drinking milk it is also necessary to supplement it with other nutrients from food. For example, children having breakfast with an omelet menu filled with vegetables, you may add cow's milk.
Yes, milk can be an additional lack of energy sources, because it can be at breakfast, lack of intake of vitamins or minerals. Especially if your little one doesn't like breakfast. Well, milk can fulfill that shortcoming. So, you should add milk in the children's breakfast menu, because breakfast is the first meal time before the child starts the activity.
