School Principals Meet NDC at IPPN Conference [ndc.ie]
- Published: 09 February 2011
The National Dairy Council exhibited at this year's event with School Programme Manager Tara Regan available to help with questions on how schools can sign up and get involved in the school milk programme. The NDC is encouraging more parents and teachers to engage with the school milk and dairy programme as a way of helping children to achieve their recommended dietary guideline consumption of dairy.
Nutritional Inadequacies in Irish Children
Dairy products provide an essential part of a healthy, balanced diet – and are particularly important for growing children and teenagers. Yet a considerable proportion of Irish children aged 5-12 years and Irish teenagers are known to have inadequate intake of certain nutrients including calcium, vitamins A & D. (Refs 1, 2, 3 & 4). 42% of teenage girls and nearly one fifth (23%) of teenage boys have inadequate calcium intakes. (Ref 3)
Participating in the EU-subsidised School Milk Programme is a cost effective and easy way for parents to help children to combat this nutritional gap, as milk is a natural source of calcium and other essential nutrients, namely vitamins B12 and B2 and iodine and protein.
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