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America's Kids are Deficient in Key Nutrients

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 17th, 2008

A recent report from the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition cites an increasing number of children and adolescents suffer from an inadequate intake of calcium, a nutrient essential to bone growth and density(1). Other research found 42 percent of adolescents had insufficient vitamin D levels, another nutrient key to bone growth and density(2).

Helping prevent this growing concern actually begins in childhood with kid-friendly foods. While foods like salmon and cod liver oil undoubtedly provide nutrients crucial to building strong bones, a quick-to-fix cereal breakfast fortified with both calcium and vitamin D is an easy and tasty way to get kids on...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-07-17)

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