House Call: Vary Your Dairy Routine

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) – Welcome again to UHC’s Home Name on WDTV. In Half V of our Vitamin Month sequence, Olivia Kinkade, a member of the scientific diet division at UHC, joins us to speak about specializing in various your dairy routine.

1. How a lot meals from the Dairy Group is required every day?

The quantity of dairy you want is determined by your age, intercourse, peak, weight, and degree of bodily exercise. For ladies, the quantity may also rely on whether or not you might be pregnant or breastfeeding. About 90% of People don’t get sufficient dairy, due to this fact most people would profit by rising consumption of fat-free or low-fat dairy, whether or not from milk (together with lactose-free milk), yogurt, and cheese, or from fortified soy milk or yogurt.

2. Why is it essential to eat/drink dairy?

Consuming dairy merchandise offers well being advantages — particularly constructing and sustaining robust bones. Meals within the Dairy Group present vitamins which are important for well being and upkeep of your physique. These vitamins embrace calcium, potassium, vitamin D, and protein.

Dairy Vitamins:

The Dairy Group offers many vitamins together with calcium, phosphorus, vitamin A, vitamin D (in merchandise fortified with vitamin D), riboflavin, vitamin B12, protein, potassium, zin, choline, magnesium, and selenium.
Calcium is used for constructing bones and tooth and in sustaining bone power as you get older. Dairy merchandise are the principle supply of calcium in American diets.
Many individuals don’t get sufficient potassium. Diets wealthy in potassium could assist to keep up wholesome blood stress. Dairy merchandise, particularly dairy milk and yougurt, and fortified soy milk, present potassium.
Vitamin D capabilities within the physique to keep up correct ranges of calcium and phsphorous, thereby serving to to construct and preserve bones. Milk and soy milk which are fortified with vitamin D are good sources of this nutrient. Different sources embrace some fish akin to salmon, and different meals fortified with vitamin D.
Milk merchandise which are consumed of their low-fat or fat-free kinds present little or no saturated fats.

3. What counts as a cup within the Dairy Group?

Basically, 1 cup of milk, yogurt, or soy milk, or 1 ½ ounces of pure cheese could be thought of as 1 cup from the Dairy Group. The desk on this video offers particular quantities that rely as 1 cup within the Dairy Group towards your every day beneficial consumption.