Child Nutrition
Importance of child growth
The infant growth is only the physical that occurs in children from the moment they are born. Every parent follows closely the progress of your child, changes in the size and weight, the skills you acquire, changes in your body. Humans need to go through different stages of maturity to face life in adulthood. It is therefore very important that the kids produce adequate growth.
Normal childhood growth
During the first year babies grow dramatically. Many changes occur in their bodies. Statistics show that average growth is 25 cm in length and triple the birth weight. After the year this rate slows. So much so that when they turn two the average of 6 cm per year until adolescence.
The process appears that is not stable for any child. Increases in periods and low in others. It is believed that during periods of spring the boys grow more than in other seasons.
Actually when a child is more grows during puberty, which lasts from 2 to 5 years. This is related to sexual development in adolescence, including hormonal changes expressed externally in hair growth in various parts of the body according to the sexes. Puberty in girls is 8 to 13 years and in men 10 to 15. Then and organizations reach their full maturity.
Parental Help in children’s growth
Parents can support normal growth of their children if brought up in the following healthy habits:
Sleep: Children need to sleep enough hours in the day (10-12 hours). Rest helps the growth of their bodies.
Nutrition: A balanced diet that contains the daily requirement of vitamins and minerals is essential to ensure normal childhood growth.
Exercises: Parents should make sure their children practice exercises regularly to promote their health, proper body weight and healthy growth.
The infant growth is critical to ensure the maturity of the human body in the future. As a parent, it is crucial that you keep the routines of sleep, nutrition and physical exercise in the home ensuring that your child grows according to normal standards and carry a healthy and happy life.
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Importance of breakfast for children
We all know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. However, it is sometimes hard to have a small sleepy every morning saying that they are not hungry. One then wonders why insist so much, when it would be much more comfortable and lightweight to avoid this time and go straight to school. For all parents who feel their tolerance to zero, here is the importance of breakfast for children .
Why is it important that children eat breakfast?
Undoubtedly, breakfast is the best way to put fuel in these little ones just before leaving for classes. In general, children who eat breakfast tend to eat better and be more physically active during the day, which are two health gains.
By contrast, children who skip breakfast may feel tired, restless or irritable. Remember that you may have slept 10-12 hours, but their stomachs have a bite. If they go without breakfast, do not have the necessary reinforcements for the day.
In another vein, breakfast helps children maintain a healthy weight because it stimulates the body’s metabolism, the process by which food is converted into energy. While this takes place, the body burns calories.
Instead of indicating the logic, people who skip breakfast are more likely to gain weight because when it’s snack time and lunch will need to eat a lot of calories that will not be burned. The same happens with children, making it a risk factor for obesity.
Quality breakfast foods
As we have seen, is very important that children eat breakfast, but not only with the morning meal schedule but also and above all, you have quality in breakfast foods . It is essential to choose products that contain fiber and protein meal, which will help maintain concentration and memory in order to learn efficiently.
Children who eat breakfast with fruits, vegetables, whole grains and dairy products get fiber, calcium and other important nutrients that strengthen your health. At the same time, it reduces cholesterol in their bodies and maintain a proper body weight.
It also prevents the occurrence of any mismatch stomach, you have to take him to the doctor and, therefore, is absent in their classes. A child properly breakfast not hungry until lunch time and your body is satisfied with the portion that mom has put in his bag.
So if you ever wondered why not please your son grumpy in the morning when he refuses to breakfast, the answer to that question is definitely, because as grandmothers say, the breakfast is the most important meal of the day also for children.
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Teaching table manners
It is very common for children to want to eat his way through the table, no matter how they look and without wondering if what they are doing is right. Education is a topic which parents are responsible. They have the task of teaching the best way to behave. But to give them help, advise them how to teach our son’s table manners.
Practice
The best way to learn is being able to practice enough to get used to. It is essential that we give a good example: sitting properly, without opening his mouth to chew or display the food, thank you, help with homework, do not complain about the food and give thanks. We must have patience because it is a gradual and incremental process in which the child is understanding how to behave. Although we do not have to leave the fun side.
Help
Another way that the child is mixed in the task is to help us, for example, to clear the dishes and the tablecloth, which can serve water, etc.. Anything that cooperation is good because it shows the child how good it is to be friendly and make you feel better the other.
Like any learning stage is somewhat complicated, but we enjoy it and make the best of it. It is essential to live with love for our little one.
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Balanced diet for children
Childhood is a crucial period in which the child should eat well and live a healthy life. As for nutrition, is good to create a balanced diet for children that allows them to get all the nutrients needed for optimal development.
Calories
Children will move a lot, spend a lot of calories and energy. Good to know that all grains and cereals replenish the calories expended. Instead, it is best to avoid fried foods that are high in saturated fats. The ideal is to prepare baked, boiled or grilled. The meal must also be present in the child’s diet because they provide much useful energy.
Protein
Red and white meats are a must in the diet, but recommended only a couple of times a week. Milk and eggs are another source of proteins that help the child develop muscle mass properly.
Vitamins and minerals
Fruits and vegetables, sources of these nutrients, add greatly to the child’s diet. Also milk and its derivatives provide large amounts of calcium to help build your skeletal system. We can make fruit smoothies or salads combined with ice cream. The vegetables can be grilled or roasted with some spice and olive oil to give it more flavor.
Ideally, the child eats a little of everything. Try to mix ingredients to form new flavors that appeal to you.
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Babies need omega-3 fatty acids
A professor at the University of Illinois in food science are two important reasons to include fish in your toddler’s diet, the reasons for their work were to help develop a nutritious tasty food to children.
First, babies need a lot of omega-3 fatty acids found in fish, which bring benefits to the brain, nerves, and eye development when they.
change the formula or breast milk with solid foods, do not get enough of this healthy fatty acid, researchers said.
Second, children’s preferences for food produced in large part to five years, is reason enough to encourage parents to help their children develop a taste for fish before.
One of the fish richest in omega-3 fatty acids is salmon, which have huge health benefits and helps prevent heart disease, but most adults do not eat fish twice a week like the experts recommend.
Predispose children to the taste of fish is something parents can do to promote the health of their children.
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Child Nutrition – Fruits and Vegetables for Children II
Following these recommendations, however, is not always easy: in addition to time and work necessary to clean and prepare the vegetables, the vegetables may not like the baby.
The first few times (around the sixth month), should propose the pureed vegetables and give preference to those with a sweet flavor, like carrots or zucchini. Here’s what else is there to know:
1. Alternate vegetables of different colors. Vegetables are divided into two categories: those that are rich in vitamin A (those yellow and orange, such as cabbage, carrots, spinach, lettuce …) and those containing vitamin C (such as cabbage, broccoli, cabbage, etc., and some red vegetables such as tomatoes and peppers).
2. Take and make your child eat well, especially “antitumor vegetables.” Recent studies have shown that regular consumption of cabbage, cabbage, broccoli, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, etc.. increases protection against tumors of the colon, rectum, stomach, lung and breast.
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Child Nutrition – Fruits and Vegetables for Children I
Fruits and vegetables are highly beneficial foods for children’s health because they provide many nutrients that help prevent and cure many diseases.
As regards fruits and vegetables, experts advise:
• Give priority to season varieties, which have better quality characteristics and the price is always more convenient.
• Give preference to local varieties, not being subject to long transport times, may be more fresh.
• Opt for small purchases and recurring to always ensure a high degree of freshness.
• Buy frozen vegetables: the price has not changed much, as well as its nutritional properties.
Vegetables: How much and what vegetables to children?
According to the World Health Organization, it would be necessary to eat at least three servings of vegetables each day, alternating four or five different kinds of vegetables throughout the week. But, what exactly is for a serving? If we talk about the raw vegetables to be peeled and cooked, a serving is 250 grams. On the contrary, if you opt for a plate of salad, 70 grams are sufficient.