Female Speaker: Terri and Mark Carson like to take an evening stroll with their two children. Five year old Kalin and two and half year-old Kinsey, it's a time for the family to exercise and talk about what happened at pre school and at work. Once they arrive back home its time for a healthy snack. Terri understands that exercise and three a day are calcium rich milk, low fat cheese, and yogurt are the easiest and most wholesome ways for her family to meet their calcium needs and builds strong bones.
Terri Carson: My husband and I really reinforce the importance of milk all the time they see us drink it and so we give it to them to drink, we let them know it's going to make them big and strong.
Female Speaker: Terri serves the kids milk and their favorite colorful plastic cups not only are their shatter resistance, but they make great toys, so snack times not only healthy but fun. Well, the Carson family enjoys eating low fat dairy foods some families especially African-American, Hispanic, and Asian families may avoid them for fear of lactose intolerance. Lactose is the name for the natural sugar in milk. Some people do not producing up of the enzyme lactase needed to breakdown and digest this sugar. In some cases these individuals may experience the symptoms of lactose intolerance including abdominal cramps, bloating, gas and diarrhea after eating or drinking foods that contain lactose.
Dr. Jeanette Newton_Keith: For those people they have symptoms, its important to know that symptoms occur depending on how milky drink any given time.
Female Speaker: By following a few tips for tolerance most people can still enjoy low fat milk cheese and yogurt. These tips include start with small portions and gradually work up. Drink milk with meals or a snack instead of an empty stomach. Try aged cheeses like cheddar and Swiss they are naturally low in lactose. Enjoy yogurt cultured dairy foods like yogurt contain friendly bacteria that help digest lactose. Try lactose reduced or lactose free milk. During recent decades children's intake of soft drinks has risen dramatically whereas their intake of milk has declined.
Dr. Jeanette Newton_Keith: Most kids have replaced milk with sugared beverages. that is an alarming trend.
Female Speaker: Unfortunately soft drinks not only contribute to obesity but studies have shown that intake of soft drinks at the expense of low fat milk may compromise children's calcium intake and increase their risk of bone fractures during youth. Studies show that eating more and more fat dairy foods may actually help reduce the risk of some chronic diseases, disproportionally affecting minority groups.
Dr. Wilma Wooten: It's important to help reduce hypertension and it's also has been shown to obviously help reduce the risk of developing osteoporosis later on in life and also help to reduce the risk of certain cancers such as colon cancer.
Female Speaker: Karen Kim stopped drinking milk voluntarily when she is started college.
Karen Kim: I thought I might be lactose intolerant given the fat that many Asians are.
Female Speaker: But when she and her husband wanted to start a family she was concerned that she needed a healthy or diet.
Dr. Jeanette Newton_Keith: Small quantities, with the meal, you should be able to drink milk and enjoy health benefits of drinking dairy products.
Karen Kim: My concern was that if I didn't drink milk that I wouldn't have enough calcium supplements for I guess my own bones and for my children.
Female Speaker: Karen now has low fat milk and other low fat dairy products in small portions. This way she hasn't put herself at risk of an upset stomach and she is teaching eleven year-old Kaitlyn that three servings of low fat milk, cheese or yogurt should always be part of her daily diet.
Karen Kim: Up until now she has been fine drinking milk she drinks milk at least once if not twice a day.
Female Speaker: Kaitlyn's most of her classmates don't bother with the soda of machine, lunch time this is welcome news to her mom and a sign that the healthy nutrition choices at home are not forgotten at school.
Kaitlyn: I think they just know that parents probably tell them that milk is good for you and you should be drinking a lot of milk.
Female Speaker: Good advice here is a more, avoid self diagnosis, talk to your pediatrician and get tested to be certain then follow the tips for tolerance to enjoy low fat dairy foods and reap the health benefits.
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