What nutrients does milk provide?
Calcium helps to keep your bones and teeth strong and hard and prevents bone disease (Osteoporosis). Calcium also helps your heart and muscles to work well and may help to prevent high blood pressure. Vitamin A helps keep your eyes and skin healthy, and your bones to grow. Vitamin D is added to milk. Vitamin D helps your body use the calcium it needs to build strong bones and keep them hard. NOTE: Our bodies can make vitamin D when exposed to sunlight. Minnesota is so far north of the equator that it does not get direct sunlight year round. So we need to get our vitamins from food (or supplements). Milk is one of the easiest ways to do so. Protein is needed for growth, development and repair of your muscles and other body tissues. It also helps fight infection and disease.
