Learning about milk

Purpose:  To explain

Audience: The Principal My Teachers

Plan: In your book

Wednesday, 22 May 2019

Why do kiwi kids drink milk?

Milk is bursting with dairy goodness. Containing nine essential nutrients including calcium to help keep bones

strong, vitamin B2 (riboflavin) to support energy levels, and protein to assist kids' growth* – it's just what they need!

Why is milk important?

Milk is good for the bones because it offers a rich source of calcium, a mineral essential for healthy bones and teeth.  Calcium and vitamin D help prevent osteoporosis.

Where do milk comes from?

When oxytocin reaches your breast, it causes the tiny muscles around the milk-filled alveoli to contract and squeeze, and release milk. Your milk moves along to the ducts just below the areola. When your baby feeds, she presses the milk from the ducts into her mouth.

Is it good to drink milk everyday?

Drinking lots of milk could be bad for your health, a new study reports. Previous research has shown that the calcium in milk can help strengthen bones and prevent osteoporosis. These benefits to bone health have led U.S. health officials to recommend milk as part of a healthy diet.

Indoduction: Milk is the cornerstone of cheese. Humans have been preserving milk for centuries. Cows, sheep,

goats, and occasionally buffalo are used around the world to create a plethora of cheeses. At the heart of it, milk is made of four components other than water: fat, protein, lactose, and minerals. Aside from cattle, many

kinds of livestock provide milk used by humans for dairy products. These animals include water buffalo, goat, sheep, camel, donkey,horse, reindeer and yak. The first four respectively produced about 11%, 2%, 1.4% and 0.2% of all milk worldwide in 2011.

Milk is good for the bones because it offers a rich source of calcium, a mineral essential for healthy bones and

teeth. Cow's milk is fortified with vitamin D, which also benefits bone health.  Most of the body's vitamin D is synthesized by the body on exposure to sunlight, so spending time outdoors is also important.