With so much pre-processed and junk-food all around us, eating healthy can seem like a challenge, both for our children, and for ourselves too. But it does not need to be an ongoing battle, there are smarter ways to making healthy food choices.
Are you an overwrought mother, forever worrying about the eating habits of your children? You care about your child’s nutrition and know that it is related to growth and development but do not know how to make healthy food choices. Children grow and change rapidly in their early years. Being prepared will make life easier… [ Continue Reading ]
You often hear the phrase ‘balanced diet’ and its advantages, particularly for pregnant mothers and growing children. What does this mean? It only means that you should have a good balance of body-building proteins, energy-giving carbohydrates and fats, enough of minerals like iron and calcium, and all the vitamins. You do not have to be… [ Continue Reading ]
Every mother should have some basic knowledge of the right way of cooking food so that the food value is preserved. Cooking involves many processes like boiling, steaming, frying, roasting, or baking. Boiling and steaming result in comparatively greater loss of nutrients, particularly when the water is thrown away as in the case of rice… [ Continue Reading ]
What are the foods we eat made of? It is useful to know about the chemical composition of foodstuffs as it helps us in determining the type of food we ought to consume. In the case of children, this knowledge is vital as it allows us to choose the right foods for their growing bodies…. [ Continue Reading ]
Aditi is barely eight years old. But lately she’s put on more weight than many children her age. It’s a cause of worry to her parents, both of whom were overweight as children. They have cut down on her food intake though it’s rather difficult to get her to follow her new diet. For years… [ Continue Reading ]
The home of spices! Not for nothing is India known by this epithet as over 50 of the widely-known spices and other countless ones are grown here. From ancient times onwards, sailing ships carried Indian spices to the Middle East and Europe. It was the lure of spices that brought western explorers like Vasco da… [ Continue Reading ]
Lolita’s son is three years old. He is very fussy about his food and spits it out if he is forced to eat. Lolita introduced her son to chewy food only when he was 15 months old, much after he cut his first teeth. She often wonders if there is a connection between delayed weaning… [ Continue Reading ]
Between two and five years, many children develop all kinds of food fads for many of which the parents themselves may be responsible. Very often the mother thinks that a particular food is good for the child and she insists on the child having it. The child becomes equally adamant and refuses to eat whenever… [ Continue Reading ]
The feeding problems of infancy or early childhood include: Anorexia Regurgitation Pica Anorexia Of all behaviour problems anorexia is most common in children. But it can be easily prevented and cured. A mother’s most common complaint is that the child does not eat anything. The mother says she has tried everything to make him eat…. [ Continue Reading ]
Food, wonderful food, yes food may be the fuel that keeps the body’s engine going. But people don’t have it only in order to live. The smell, taste, texture and look of food all appeal to the senses first. Think about a visit to the movies without some munchies to serve as the perfect accompaniment…. [ Continue Reading ]
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