Milk and Calcium.

Milk is good for most children. A few children cannot digest milk or are allergic to it and shouldn't drink it. Most children, though, can drink milk.

Milk provides important amounts of protein and it is many people's main source of calcium and vitamin D. Sometimes you may hear that milk is bad for people. These rumors are simply wrong. Until they get to adolescence, children need between 2 and 3 cups of milk every day.

If your child is drinking much more than 3 cups of milk a day, she may be filling up on milk and not leaving enough room for the other foods she needs. Then you might consider limiting the amount of milk she drinks and ...

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