subject: How to make sure that your child eating a balanced and healthy diet [print this page] How to make sure that your child eating a balanced and healthy diet
Most children have become a part of their parent's dull lifestyle, which could take its toll on both the parent and the child. At movies and in front of the T.V at home, there is popcorn topped with butter, when guests come it's the fizz drinks that children to get to have, with junk food like pizzas, burgers and oily chips. Children are often fussy eaters but that's just the age when good eating habits must be instilled. The change from impulsive eating to balanced and healthy eating must begin with the parents. Children crave for junk food because these foods are rich in carbohydrates and tend to increase the serotonin levels in the blood making them feel happy and calm. The moment the levels of serotonin are exhausted and they fall within the normal range; the craving for junk food begins again. New born infants must begin with breast milk followed by a semi-liquid diet made with husk-free and well washed sali or sasti rice (especially old rice) when they become a little older. Wheat and barley flour mixed with milk serves as ideal diet to start children on. It is important for a parent to focus on meeting the nutritional requirement of the child in terms of balancing it with the weight and age and level of physical activity in the process of drawing up a child's diet plan. It is best to get children accustomed to vegetables and keep non-vegetarian food to a minimum though both styles of diet have their own plus points. Vegetables can be included in a child's diet as salads or in the form of rich iron packed Vegetable juice which you can serve as a refreshing drink when your child comes home after playing. Substitution comes in handy when children have already picked up unhealthy eating habits and a switchover to healthy eating habits is required. You could substitute those chocolates and ice cream bars with flavored yogurt and turn baby corn, baby carrots, and baby potatoes into chips with minimal oil. Children get used a diet when its followed by all in the family provided they are taken out or given that chocolate once in a while.
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