What makes PROGRESS GOLD a nutritious supplement?
Just 3 servings per day of PROGRESS GOLD provide a large percentage of the key nutrients for toddlers. (See The ABCs of Nutrients for details about how PROGRESS GOLD helps meet your child's nutrient needs.) Importantly, PROGRESS GOLD is fortified with an appropriate level of iron to reduce the risk of anemia.

PROGRESS GOLD is also enriched with preformed arachidonic acid (AA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which are important for proper brain and vision development. PROGRESS GOLD can complement the variable diet of young children and help ensure adequate intake of at-risk nutrients including iron, vitamin D, and zinc. 

To fully appreciate the benefits of PROGRESS GOLD, please explore how it can help support growth, motor skill development, visual development and eye health, language development, and overall health.

How does PROGRESS GOLD help my toddler grow?

Although your toddler is not growing as quickly as during the first year of life, he or she will not have a growth spurt this big again until he or she is a teenager. 

Calcium and vitamin D are essential for your child’s growing bones. However, the diets of many toddlers fall short of the requirements for these nutrients. In fact, the incidence of rickets—a disease that can cause children’s bones to become soft—peaks in the 1- to 3-year-old age group.

PROGRESS GOLD helps your toddler build strong bones. PROGRESS GOLD is formulated to help make sure that your toddler absorbs calcium—it has the right amounts of vitamin D and the mineral phosphorus. PROGRESS GOLD is also low in saturated fat that can hurt calcium absorption.

How does PROGRESS GOLD help my toddler's motor skill development?

Toddlers spend a lot of their time learning how to move their bodies in new ways—everything from running to jumping to climbing to drawing. To advance his or her motor skills, your toddler is counting on his or her rapidly developing brain and muscles—and lots of practice.

Feeding a diet with sufficient protein has been shown to help toddlers reach motor milestones. Iron is also essential to ensuring your toddler’s proper motor function.

PROGRESS GOLD can help your toddler as he or she works to master motor skills. Each serving of PROGRESS GOLD provides 40% of the recommended daily intake of protein and 36% of the recommended daily intake of iron for toddlers. PROGRESS GOLD is also fortified with vitamin C to help enhance iron absorption.

How does PROGRESS GOLD support my toddler's vision development and eye health?

Although you may not realize it, your toddler’s visual capabilities are still developing. During the second year of life, toddlers develop the ability to see objects at a distance. 

Recent research suggests that intake of the nutrient docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which is a major component of the lipids—or fats—found in the retina of the eye, may positively affect visual development. PROGRESS GOLD is fortified with DHA to help support enhanced visual development, as well as vitamin A, which is important for proper retinal functioning.

Protecting the health of your child’s eye is also important. Scientists are learning that young children’s eyes can be particularly sensitive to “blue” light rays, which can be strong. Unlike certain other types of light rays, blue light is not filtered by the cornea and lens before it reaches the retina at the back of the eye.
 
Fortunately, the biofactor lutein can act as “Mother Nature’s sunglasses” to shield young eyes by filtering the high-energy blue light. In addition, lutein can provide toddlers with antioxidant protection for the eyes. PROGRESS GOLD is fortified with lutein for your toddler’s healthy eye development.

How does PROGRESS GOLD help my toddler's language development?

You’ve no doubt noticed that your toddler is working hard on his or her language skills. By the third birthday, your toddler will probably have a 900-word vocabulary. Indeed, toddlers have a special ability for acquiring language that begins during the second year of life because of changes going on in the brain.   

During this time, your child requires iron to fuel brain growth. He or she also needs zinc, a nutrient that is important because the brain’s axons—the long “wires” that connect brain cells—are coated with myelin, a substance that will allow the axons to send messages more quickly. Studies suggest that the nutrient DHA may also enhance brain development. 

How does PROGRESS GOLD help my toddler's overall health?

While your toddler is making the transition to a family diet, he or she must manage to obtain a full complement of nutrients that are crucial to his or her development. Toddlers require 13 vitamins and at least 16 minerals to keep their bodies working properly.

Three servings of PROGRESS GOLD, along with a balanced diet, provide at least 100% of the US Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) for protein, vitamins, and minerals. In addition, PROGRESS GOLD is fortified with 5 nucleotides. Nucleotides have been found to play a role in the growth and proper functioning of the intestines, the body organ that absorbs nutrients.

As your toddler explores the world, he or she is also likely encountering more challenges to the immune system. Research has shown that certain nutrients, such as nucleotides and zinc, may help to promote a healthy immune system. 

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