Showing posts with label Feeding Children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Feeding Children. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The home-made dishes are the best for the kids

The home-made dishes are the best, we know this, but maybe not what you do not know is that this is also true for children, to start weaning with home made food is best. It 'has been estimated that children get used to the natural flavors makes them more likely to eat fruits and vegetables even when they are 6 to 7 years.

So when you begin to give children fruit, vegetables, squash, etc. Do it at home, are more genuine and they get used to eating well. Research De Montfort University in Leicester and the University of Bristol and Birmingham and published in the journal Public Health Nutrition has highlighted the fact that children get used to natural foods and home made them grow less capricious.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

The importance of fruit in the children diet

From weaning, 4-6 months from then on, children need to eat fruit every day, and especially during the summer. Due to the heat and copious sweating, in fact, all of us, but especially small children, they lose a lot of body fluids, which are replenished. The fruit is formed, on average, for 80-90% water, enriched with valuable vitamins and minerals, and therefore constitutes a primary source of nutrients essential for the welfare and growth of the baby, not to mention that with its sweet taste, is also a reward for the palate! What are the fruits to be introduced immediately in the diet of small, without risk of triggering allergies? Certainly not as juicy as the fruit soft and pulpy, like apples, pears, bananas.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

When you introduce the fish in the feeding of children

Ready to wean your children? It 'a very important moment for mother and baby, why you should start to gradually introduce all the different foods in the diet of smaller, softer as possible, carefully avoiding the possible emergence of allergies. To this end, pediatricians advise not to start to wean the baby before 4-6 months of life, to give his body time to mature the immune system.

Today we talk about the fish, food for the precious little ones. This is a food rich in proteins and substances needed for its development, including brain, such as omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, but also lots of great vitamins and minerals. As a new mom needs to adjust the broad proposal about the inclusion of fish in the diet of her child? The best thing is to start right around the sixth month with the baby fish, to be added to the first meals.