About Nutrition
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Children today are more likely to consume foods that are delicious rather than nutritious, and most foods that come under the delicious category are usually either highly sweetened or salted, either way the delicious choice is not good for the child at all.
It is up to the adult to ensure the meals a child consumes us as balanced as possible. With balanced meals, the child will be able to have all the necessary nutrition needed for optimum and normal growth patterns both mentally and physically. Besides the various food groups and nutrition supplements that should be part of the daily diet plan of a child, the preparation style of the food should also be taken into consideration to ensure its nutritional integrity.
From infancy to the toddler age group, there is usually quite a limited amount of foods that can be consumed. Ensuring that these foods are highly nutritious can be quite a challenge for the adult in charge of ensuring a complete and healthy diet plan.
There are a lot of reasons why a child should be taught to eat healthily from a very young age. With good eating habits inculcated into a child daily dietary regiment the assurance of getting all the nutritional needs for the body will be well under control. It would also ensure the child’s weight and health conditions are kept to its optimum.
Most families today have a rather high ratio of obesity within the family unit. This is due to a variety of reasons of which the popular ones are lack of exercise and the intake of very unhealthy foods.
Having healthy children is the desire of any parent as healthy children are happy children and the visits to the doctor which can be rather costly and stressful in certainly limited if not eliminated altogether.