'Nestlé for Healthier Kids' aims to help 50 million children lead healthier lives by 2030.

The organization is helping communities with summer meal activities and promotional resources.

Highlights from the Dairy Council of California’s Top 10 Nutrition Trends for 2014 report include: dairy fat may no longer be a villain in heart disease risk; milk and dairy foods are promising in prevention of metabolic syndrome and diabetes; and consumers’ interest grows in natural, functional, fresh foods.

"Three servings of milk and milk products a day provide a package of nine essential nutrients not contained in any other single food or beverage," says a registered dietitian nutritionist with Dairy Council of California.
 

Research presented last week at the American Society for Nutrition's annual Experimental Biology conference shows how a cereal with milk breakfast is one of the best ways to start the day.

The Dairy Research Institute is providing $1 million of support over five years to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to study how children acquire healthy eating habits.

Milk is the only beverage that we consider a food, and is so nutritionally important and multi-purpose that it has its own classification on the USDA’S food pyramid. It also represents powerful yet contradictory views, for we perceive it to be old fashioned and modern, local and global, a treat and a necessity and natural and innovative.