Diet Advice

Diet Advice for Child

Eat fresh! Buy most of your food from the store periphery. Most processed foods are in the middle of the store and they contain large amounts of salt, sugar, harmful fats, artificial products and preservatives.Offer your children water or milk. Juices, soda and sports drinks have lots of sugar and can make your child become overweight. If you don’t buy them, no one will drink them. Also, eat your calories. Do not drink them.

Vegetables and fruits contain fiber, vitamins and antioxidants. Choose different colors of produce as they contain different vitamins. Frozen vegetables and fruits are good for a quick and healthy meal or snack. Remember that delicious can also be nutritious.The specific nutritional choices you and your children make are crucial. Good nutrition is essential to good health and the American Academy of Pediatrics encourages parents to think of their nutritional decisions as health decisions.

Tricks for Healthy Eating in Children

  • Make water the drink of choice at meal times, and keep juice and sweet drinks as occasional treats.While juice has valuable nutrients and gives a concentrated energy boost for active, growing bodies, kids should go for water first when they are thirsty, not sugar-sweetened drinks.
  • Curd, milk, soymilk, yogurt and cheese are good sources of protein and calcium. Yogurts marketed for children contain lots of added sugar. Get plain yogurt and mix a small amount of fruit yogurt or add fresh fruit.
  • Organic is not necessarily better! While “organic” products are free of pesticides, antibiotics and are not genetically modified, they mostly have the same nutrients that non-organic products have. Stick to what is in your budget, as organic can sometimes mean expensive. Spend wisely and buy healthy.
  • Eat real food.
  • Try to avoid cereals with coloring, or labeled frosted, honey, puffed. They have lots of sugar. Treat them as dessert and consume at a minimum.

 

Above is the Diet advice of the topmost child specialist in Kharardi Pune Dr. Shruti Jadhav. Follow the diet chart and keep you child healthy and happy. Her vast experience of more than 10 years ranges from newborn kids to the adolescent age group.