Mums know how rapidly toddlers change from the age of 12 months as they learn to walk and talk, and master many other skills needed for life. Growingupmilkinfo.com is a website that helps parents find out more about toddler nutrition, giving mums and dads the information they need to support their growing toddler through this stage of development. To acknowledge this important period, Growing Up Milk Info has even re-named toddlers as ‘Little One-ders’.
With all the playing, discovering and growing those Little One-ders do every day, they need all the right nutrition to keep them going. By drinking two 150ml beakers of Growing Up Milk, a fortified milk drink for toddlers, you can provide them with the extra nutrients they need, as part of a healthy balanced diet. However, Growing Up Milk Info research has found that 78% of parents think their toddler’s dietary needs are being met if they eat the same meals as the rest of the family.
Here are the real statistics. ‘Pound for pound’ (per kg of body weight, per day) parents might be shocked to learn that their toddlers require:
- Nearly three times as much energy from food compared to an adult
- More than four times the amount of iron and vitamin C
- Around three times the amount of calcium, zinc and vitamin A
- More fat than adults, particularly ‘good’ unsaturated fats
- Less salt in their food than adults
To put this into perspective, from 12 months to three years, if our little toddlers were as big as an adult, they would need a huge amount of extra nutrition each day – around 7,000 calories every day!
This would mean in one day an ‘adults toddler’ would need
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Four bowls of cereal
- Four bananas
- Three apples
- Two cheese sandwiches
- Eight cereal bars
- Four slices of bread and butter
- Three portions of fish
- Three portions of rice
- Five full-fat yogurts
- Nearly two pints of Growing Up Milk
So you now see how difficult it can be to ensure our little ones get a healthy balanced diet, especially if they are fussy eaters. Growing Up Milk is made from cows’ milk enriched with key nutrients that toddlers need, like vitamins A, C and D, iron and calcium and omega 3. It will reassure parents to know that two 150ml beakers of Growing Up Milk daily will go a long way towards providing these important nutrients for toddlers.
To find out more about the amazing growth and development your Little One-der goes through, visit www.growingupmilkinfo.com, where you will find advice, opinions from experts and mums on toddler nutrition and the role Growing Up Milk can play to helps support your toddler.
