Healthy Eating

Use the meal-time tips to incorporate dairy foods into your family’s diet and use the Meal Planner to chart your dairy servings each day.

Dairy Council Digest focused on a variety of health benefits of dairy foods including bone health. Read the beneficial effects of dairy foods on bone metabolism and osteoporosis prevention.

It’s a painful, crippling, bone-thinning disease which occurs slowly making bones weak, fragile and more likely to break. It can contribute to a stooped posture and shortened height. It is preventable and can be treated.

We know eating breakfast helps you and your school win!

Daniel and his little sis rap about the most important meal of the day – breakfast.

Use the daily questions and Success Tips in this brochure to promote and develop a DASH eating plan.

Use the Daily DASH chart to check “what I did today” within the DASH Eating Plan. The four week chart helps to change old habits to new healthy eating habits.

Research shows that a diet rich in lowfat milk, cheese and yogurt, fruits and vegetables, and low in fat and sodium substantially lowers blood pressure in people with or without high blood pressure as effectively as some medications.

You are the most important influence on your child. You can do many things to help your children develop healthy eating habits for life. Offering a variety of foods helps children get the nutrients they need from every food group.

Making food choices for a healthy lifestyle can be as simple as using these 10 Tips. Use the ideas in this list to balance your calories, to choose foods to eat more often, and to cut back on foods to eat less often.

The 2010 Dietary Guidelines Recommends that Americans 9 and older include 3 servings of low-fat or fat-free dairy foods in their diet each day. On average, Americans ages 2 and older consume only 2 servings of dairy a day. By adding 1 more serving of milk, cheese or yogurt, Americans can help close the calcium gap and meet their needs for this and other key nutrients.

Cheese can fit into almost any eating plan. This brochure provides statistics, facts and nutrition information on cheese and how it can help meet health and wellness needs.

Cheese can fit into almost any eating plan. This brochure provides statistics, facts, nutrition information and public health considerations related to cheese and how it can help meet health and wellness needs.

Research indicates that children as young as four and five years old are beginning to develop food habits that will last into their adult years. Willingness to taste new foods at these early ages is key to building a healthy diet.

Here are some quick and tasty snacks that will score points with your sports star!

Here are some quick and tasty snacks that will score points with your sports star!

Each day make sure you eat the recommended number of servings from every food group for the best chance of getting all the nutrients you and your baby need.

A helpful tool for determining whether you are getting enough of this important nutrient.

All proteins are not created equal. Find out how whey protein measures up against other protein sources.

Learn how whey protein, as part of a higher protein diet, may help increase satiety, or the feeling of fullness, which can help curb snacking or over-eating.