Many children tend to be reluctant to eat fruit, so many parents turn to fruit juices (natural or industrial) as a healthy alternative to a piece of fruit. Although they may have some benefits (they provide vitamin C and phytochemicals), they also have their negative side: they do not contain fiber and they do contain a lot of sugar, which poses a danger to dental health and weight gain.
Category Infant nutrition
Food is essential to help the body grow and develop. The height that the child will have is determined to a large extent by genetics, however, bad habits or an eating deficit can affect the child not reaching the appropriate height. If we want the child to grow correctly we must carefully select the foods what it takes.
As soon as summer arrives, children go crazy thinking about ice creams, since the heat seems the ideal season to eat them; in fact, if we offer ice cream in winter we will be judged as parents and we will be faced with strange faces and threatening looks indicating that it is an inappropriate decision.
There are no miracle foods, but it is true that there are some foods that, due to their properties, can enhance children's intelligence and are essential for the proper development of our children's brain. Let's review all of them and ... don't forget to include them in your weekly diets so that they have a good academic performance!
Sugar is directly and indirectly part of our idea. Directly because we add sugar to the yogurt (when it would not be necessary because it already has it) and, indirectly, because many more foods than we think have sugar in their original composition. For this reason, we should carefully review our diet and that of our children, because there are many irreparable effects of sugar on the health of children.
Water is one of the most necessary chemical compounds for the body. It is vital that the body is hydrated, especially in children, whose strategies to maintain the correct body temperature are not as efficient as those of adults. What symptoms alert us to dehydration in children?
Childhood obesity has become the pandemic of the 21st century. As parents we have the responsibility to offer our children a good diet that prevents this plague from spreading. One of the things we can do is start switching to the foods that we offer on children's birthdays, promoters of obesity and poor diet.
Not all children eat at the same speed, and while eating slowly does not necessarily cause problems - it only exhausts parents' patience - when a child eats quickly, this may negatively affect their health. What are the problems that children who eat quickly have? As we have repeated on numerous occasions, it is vital to respect the appetite of our children and not force them to eat more than their body considers necessary, since in this way they will learn from a young age to detect the feeling of satiety, something transcendental if we want to avoid overweight and obesity and educate them on healthy eating and living habits.
Forget about spoons, forks and knives and sign up for Finger food or food that can be picked up and eaten with your fingers! It is a way of ingesting small and varied portions of food using your fingers. Without a doubt, a fun method for children to eat everything. Do you want to know everything you can prepare with finger food?
As parents, we are always immersed in a search for the best to offer our children, whether it be choosing nurseries and / or schools and extracurricular activities, or in terms of health. That is why, from birth, we have already asked ourselves questions about the best diet for our little ones.
Children, like adults, not only eat when they are hungry, but there are situations in which they can eat more than necessary without their body needing it. Although this is completely normal, and should not be a cause for immediate alarm, it is convenient for the child, from the beginning, to learn to detect these moments to control them, since, uncontrolled, they can be the first step on the road to obesity .
Stress is one of the most widespread disorders in today's society. We may think that stress is out of our children's lives, but no matter how small, stress and anxiety can be a reality for them, and food may be making them worse. Do you want to know what are the foods that cause the most stress in children?
Additives are substances that are added to food with the aim of keeping it in good condition or improving its smell, taste or color. The big question parents ask ourselves is: are they toxic? Should they be avoided? Be careful because some of them, in high doses, can be related to the appearance of cancer or cases of hyperactivity in children.
There are very few things in child rearing that can be established as fixed, and the time each child needs to eat is one of them. What we can do is give you certain recommendations about what the estimated time would be for, for example, children in school, but as long as we have factors on the table that we will detail below.
In addition to the nutritional properties of the food we eat and offer to our children and the healthiest cooking method, another of the questions that parents ask ourselves regarding the feeding of our little ones is the one related to cooking and storing food.
Many children tend to be reluctant to eat fruit, so many parents turn to fruit juices (natural or industrial) as a healthy alternative to a piece of fruit. Although they may have some benefits (they provide vitamin C and phytochemicals), they also have their negative side: they do not contain fiber and they do contain a lot of sugar, which poses a danger to dental health and weight gain.
Stains on clothes, hair full of food, dirty face, food on the floor and Mom almost on the verge of collapse thinking that her son does not eat and that he is only playing with food ... Does this picture sound familiar to you? If your child gets dirty while eating, don't worry! All are benefits! And is that this behavior is closely related to the character and personality of the child and its autonomy.