Why Is Milk Good for You
Topic: Milk: It REALLY does do a body good
Proposition: Everyone should drink 3 glasses of milk everyday in order to live and long and healthy life.
Specific Purposes:
a. To inform classmates the health benefits to drinking 3 glasses of milk per day
b. To inform classmates of the problems associated with not drinking milk
c. To persuade students to actually drink 3 glasses of milk per day
d. To inform classmates of ways to fulfill the 3 glasses of milk if drinking milk is a problem for them.
Attention Step:
Run through a list of common things mom tells you to do everyday to stay healthy. Ex: drinking 8 glasses of water, all your fruits and vegetables, brushing your teeth after every meal, drinking 3 glasses of milk per day.
Ask how many follow each of these everyday.
Need Step:
A. Milk contains many of the essential vitamins and minerals that your body needs to function daily
Calcium: most important, helps build and maintain strong bones. Also vital for nerve function, muscle contraction, and blood clotting.
Protein: Important for a number of bodily functions.
Vitamin A: Maintains normal vision and skin.
Vitamin B-12: Essential for the growth and health of the nervous system and is involved in blood formation.
Vitamin D: Promotes the absorption of calcium and phosphorus, and influences bone mineralization, the strengthening of bones.
Potassium: Regulates the body 's fluid balance and blood pressure, muscle activity and contractions.
Phosphorus: Helps generate energy in the body 's cells and influences bone mineralization, the strengthening of bones. Niacin: Keeps enzymes functioning normally and helps the body process sugars and fatty acids.
Riboflavin: Helps produce energy in the body 's cells and plays a vital role in the development of the nervous system. 1. These vitamins and minerals are found in many of the other foods we eat however not all in one quantity like it is with milk
2. Drinking milk is the most natural way to fulfill
Proposition: Everyone should drink 3 glasses of milk everyday in order to live and long and healthy life.
Specific Purposes:
a. To inform classmates the health benefits to drinking 3 glasses of milk per day
b. To inform classmates of the problems associated with not drinking milk
c. To persuade students to actually drink 3 glasses of milk per day
d. To inform classmates of ways to fulfill the 3 glasses of milk if drinking milk is a problem for them.
Attention Step:
Run through a list of common things mom tells you to do everyday to stay healthy. Ex: drinking 8 glasses of water, all your fruits and vegetables, brushing your teeth after every meal, drinking 3 glasses of milk per day.
Ask how many follow each of these everyday.
Need Step:
A. Milk contains many of the essential vitamins and minerals that your body needs to function daily
Calcium: most important, helps build and maintain strong bones. Also vital for nerve function, muscle contraction, and blood clotting.
Protein: Important for a number of bodily functions.
Vitamin A: Maintains normal vision and skin.
Vitamin B-12: Essential for the growth and health of the nervous system and is involved in blood formation.
Vitamin D: Promotes the absorption of calcium and phosphorus, and influences bone mineralization, the strengthening of bones.
Potassium: Regulates the body 's fluid balance and blood pressure, muscle activity and contractions.
Phosphorus: Helps generate energy in the body 's cells and influences bone mineralization, the strengthening of bones. Niacin: Keeps enzymes functioning normally and helps the body process sugars and fatty acids.
Riboflavin: Helps produce energy in the body 's cells and plays a vital role in the development of the nervous system. 1. These vitamins and minerals are found in many of the other foods we eat however not all in one quantity like it is with milk
2. Drinking milk is the most natural way to fulfill
References: www.calciuminfo.com/calciumquestions/default/aspx www.topmilk.co.nz/whymilk.html www.whymilk.com www.mercola.com/1998/archive/soda_drinking.htm