With children it is not just what they eat, but when they, how and how much they eat makes a difference too. And what we may consider a healthy balanced diet for a child will of course vary by age too.
So you want to ensure that your family follows the right diet. But you don’t know how to begin and with what types of foods. How about following the Food Pyramid guidelines? The Food Pyramid is an outline of what to eat each day based on some dietary guidelines. Far from being a rigid prescription… [ Continue Reading ]
A child on the verge of adolescense needs a carefully designed diet plan. He requires plenty of calcium, protein, carbohydrates, iron, vitamin C and zinc, among other vitamins and nutrients. He needs calcium for his bones and iron to support the increasing muscle mass and for greater blood supply. Proteins are for general muscle growth… [ Continue Reading ]
For about a million moms ‘out there’, the most dreaded time of the day is mealtime. Breakfast, lunch or dinner, the litany starts: Mom: Come and eat. Kid: What’s made? Mom: Rice, dal, beans, salad, curd. Kid: Yuck. I’m not hungry. Mom: What? You just said you were starving. Kid: If it’s dal and beans,… [ Continue Reading ]
Come mealtime and a picture of an ensuing battle – getting your child to eat – invariably flashes past your eyes. All your efforts to make healthy food choices for your child meet with resistance, as there is no help from their end. This is a familiar story I am sure. Food negativism is a… [ Continue Reading ]
While some amount of persuasion regarding food is alright, and the child likes a bit of fussing now and again, you should avoid overindulgence and bribing. I have known a family who, as a routine, took the child out for a drive while she ate her evening meal and another who kept collecting coins as… [ Continue Reading ]
When it comes to food Shefali just can’t seem to be able to convince her seven year old daughter to eat regular meals. It seems to Shefali that she’d been trying literally to force-feed Tanya, from the day the child was born. But to no avail. Tanya eats only what she absolutely feels like eating…. [ Continue Reading ]
A glassful of warm milk every morning, believe many people, is the perfect health food that keeps a person going for a long time. The three elements of nutrition, fat, protein and sugar (milk sugar or lactose), are all there in equal measures in milk. It also contains the important minerals, calcium and phosphorus. Milk,… [ Continue Reading ]
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