Immediately dot all the "i". What is the most important thing in child nutrition? Products must be of high quality. It doesn't mean expensive. This means - as natural as possible. Most of us live in cities, but even in the city you can try to bring your child's nutrition closer to nature. For example, look for natural milk, eggs, use vegetables and fruits from the dacha more often.

I won't eat your...!

Everything is clear what should happen with these quality products. They should be eaten by your child with pleasure and gratitude. And if he doesn’t want to eat, if you heard: “I don’t want to!”, what should I do? Yes, don't eat. Thank God, the war ended sixty years ago, and there is no need to eat at least something in reserve. Of course, there are families where there is so little money that even now the issue of physical survival is very acute. But if your family has the opportunity to eat not only tea with a bun and pasta, then everything is in order. A child will not die of hunger.

At the medal with the name "I do not want!" there is another side. The child's body, if its taste stereotypes are not yet completely distorted, intuitively knows what it needs now and what it doesn't. And then there is the question of family position. If you think: the child should eat what he is given, this is your choice. But still, without being led by his demands, take a closer look at what exactly he does not want. Adjust to the needs of his body. Maybe the son ate a kilogram of apples before dinner and was ready to continue, but the trouble is that the apples are over. And stewed zucchini is now "not in the subject" for his body. But Mom thinks, and with good reason, that he's not in the restaurant. A need is a need, and a family is a family. Then give him these unfortunate marrows, give him a little, just a drop. Out of principle. And by the afternoon, buy another kilogram of apples, let him eat.

Of course, this principle applies only to simple food. Common sense will tell you that the body cannot have a need for daily absorption of only sausages, muffins and cola. But vegetables, fruits, simple boiled meat or fish, cooked without any frills, simple unsweetened porridge eaten in large quantities - this is precisely the need of the body. When the child's need is satisfied, he may even forget that in the world there is buckwheat porridge or carrots that he so adores today. Until then, let him eat. Or let him not eat, or eat purely symbolically.

After all, has it ever occurred to you that any adult has an inalienable right never to eat, for example, fried onions or kiwi fruit? So why are we trying to deprive a child of the right not to like certain foods?

Compatible-Incompatible

There are many different schools of thought in modern dietetics. Let everyone adhere to the nutrition system that is closer and dearer to him or simply more convenient. But in addition to rights, parents have responsibilities, and their main responsibility is to raise their children healthy.

In the field of healthy nutrition, in our opinion, naturopaths hold the bar above all and for the longest time. Their system has been in use for over a hundred years. Without going into details that can be read in the books of Shelton, Bragg, Litvina, Shatalova and other famous authors (these books are now freely on the shelves), let's focus on the main thing. And the main thing in their system is the following: proteins and carbohydrates are digested in different parts of the gastrointestinal tract, and therefore they must enter the body separately, with an interval of several hours.

Carbohydrate food is digested in the intestine, in its alkaline environment. And protein is in the stomach, where it is broken down by acid, that is, gastric juice. If you give the baby potatoes with meat, then neither one nor the other will really assimilate. Result: we spent energy, time, money, love to feed the child better, and he has undigested food in his body. Instead of benefit, harm! But how easy it is to avoid! Give the baby this very potato with vegetables for lunch, and cook a piece of meat for dinner, and also with vegetables, and now everything is learned, the product went for the future. The same applies to bread and sausage, pasta with meat sauce, duck with porridge, chicken and potatoes, fish and mashed potatoes... The list goes on. Naturopaths have proven that just eating proteins and carbohydrates separately, with an interval of several hours, can even cure diseases.

Proteins are any meat, fish, poultry. Carbohydrates are cereals, potatoes, pasta, bread. They are incompatible with each other. But both are perfectly compatible with raw vegetables, which should begin and accompany every meal, making up at least 60% of the daily diet. Remember, this is what classical dietology says. Simple, tasty, healthy and not burdensome for a delicate children's body!

broth for the sick

Typical situation: the child is ill. He lies, unhappy, and looks plaintively. I so want to console him, please him, give him something delicious! And then the grandmother arrived in time: “How, still not fed?! He doesn’t have the strength to fight the disease! The body needs strength! More broth!”

So: everything should actually be exactly the opposite. Let's make a reservation: we are not talking about protracted, complex diseases. Discussed something like a standard acute respiratory disease, influenza, tonsillitis. Remember: in the acute phase of the disease, the child does not need to be fed! If he lies with a temperature, or without a temperature, but is very unwell, simply do not offer him food. That's when he asks for food, then another matter. Then go ahead, mom!

Squeeze the juice, the way he likes. Cut a peeled apple into slices, cut a sweet orange into slices. If summer, offer any fruits and berries. Make cranberry or currant juice with honey. But - in moderation! Yes, he himself does not eat much, does not drink. He doesn't want more - he doesn't need to. Ask for more - give more. Usually, the first day or two during illness, children are limited to fruits. It happens even longer.

The basic principle: while sick, do not, if possible, give food that is difficult and long to digest, best of all vegetables, lactic acid products, later - porridge. On such a diet, the child will recover much faster.

By the way, notorious broths, of course, belong to hard-to-digest food. Some nutritionists believe that broths are very unhealthy even for healthy people, because they are an extract of all the most harmful that is in meat. It is much better to give a child, when he is seriously hungry, a piece of well-cooked meat, moreover, boiled in several successively drained waters. The meat can be ground to make it easier to chew if the baby is still weak.

Of course, let's be reasonable. When a sick baby, sobbing, asks for a chocolate bar or cutlet, only an evil stepmother will refuse. But keep a sober look at things, such food is only a concession to his grief, and not at all something useful that promotes recovery.

Well, we understand the general principles, now let's get down to practice and consistently and methodically - and this is the only way to discuss issues related to the baby's health - let's talk about what he eats and drinks.

What is your child drinking?

Children are different. There are water drinkers, there are those who from birth can easily do without water, tea and other liquids - they have enough fruit, soup, milk. But still, most children like to drink. And not anything at all, but something tasty.

The human body mainly consists of water, everyone knows this. We have over 90% water. So the main food is water. It is especially important for children. However, mothers, concerned about how it would be tastier and healthier to feed their baby, rarely pay attention to the quality of the liquids they consume. Hence the terrible pictures that are often found on our streets: a baby in a stroller with a bottle of Pepsi in her hand, or a caring mother buying some "juice" or "nectar" of obviously dubious quality for an impatient child in a stall.

Let's think about what water should be in order to benefit our children? First of all, the main and immutable - the water must be clean. This is an axiom.

Of course, the quality of tap water varies from city to city. But there is no doubt that everywhere it goes from the water intake to your house through rusty pipes that have not been changed for decades. There is no doubt that bleach, which is generously poured into the water, destroys not only microbes, but us and our children. The quality of water is also affected by its hardness. Sometimes water is so hard that it leaves impressive deposits on the walls of the kettle and pots. Do you know that exactly the same deposits form on the walls of your blood vessels? And all sorts of ciliate bacteria and blue-green algae? They, of course, are killed by boiling - the only question is how long boiling.

So let's first of all purify the water on which we will cook food for our child (and ourselves). Clean up - how?

Method one: filter

Buy a household filter. A filter should be in every house, unless, of course, you live all year round in a village where you drink water from the purest source (and even in this case, periodically checking it in the SES does not hurt at all!). Many use sources in the city or its immediate surroundings. They bring water from it in cans, bring it in canisters by car. Be careful! The city soil is saturated with the most unimaginable mud - can you be sure that this mud has not seeped through it into the water of your favorite source? If the key doesn't strike in a clear forest, don't risk it.

There are different types of filters. Convenient for the home and inexpensive filter jugs, water is poured into them quickly, it is convenient to use them. Even cheaper filter nozzle. Expensive, but reliable - embed a large filter. In general, there is a choice. Just do not forget to monitor the expiration date of the cartridge in the filter, each of them has a certain resource, after which the filter will turn into just a props. Be sure to calculate how much water you use on average per day, and based on the life of the cartridge, determine when it will need to be replaced.

Method two: purchased water

Let's buy for the baby, while he is very small and we prepare him separately, clean water in a canister. It is not difficult to bring a five-liter canister in his own stroller. But! We do not buy the first available water, first we study the market. Because publications about unscrupulous water suppliers have already flashed, pouring not quite what is or not quite what is on the labels. So before buying water, take an interest in its quality, maybe in the city SES, maybe somewhere else. Think. And having settled on any brand, feel free to buy it for your baby. Or maybe your family's budget allows everyone to drink this water? A healthy baby needs healthy parents. Now most suppliers of bottled water deliver it to apartments in large containers for free.

Method three: melt water

There is another way to purify water. It is more complicated, more cumbersome, but its efficiency is unrivaled (by the way, this method will not require additional material costs from you). This is the preparation of melt water.

Theoretically, the method is justified by the fact that the water in a living organism has the structure of an ice crystal. We will get water of the same structure by freezing the water, and then thawing it. Such water easily penetrates through tissues and cell membranes, giving strength. It can generally be used as healing, living water!

The disadvantage of this method is its relative bulkiness. But when you adapt, get used to it, it will become quite easy for you.

It's easiest to start in winter. If you have not sealed the balcony for the winter, it will be very convenient for you to freeze water on it. Or look for another place convenient for you, where the temperature is the same as outside - negative. You can use a freezer, but, you know, the scale will not be the same. This is a minus. But we will not depend on the weather outside. This is a plus.

So, we take a container that we will put out in the cold. Polyethylene is best (of course, with the inscription "for water" or "for food" at the bottom!), Pour water from the tap into it. Aerobatics - from the filter. We close the lid - plastic or wooden, so as not to freeze, and put it in the cold. Depending on the outside temperature and the volume of our water freezer, it may take a different time, which - you will understand in two or three times. The most convenient thing is to bring the water to such a state when it is not completely frozen, but in the middle there is a kind of glass with the remnants of unfrozen water. But keep in mind - there will be a crust of ice on top, so you may not see this unfrozen water right away.

We take out our bucket from the balcony (or a bowl - from the freezer), we carry it into the bath under hot water. First, we pour over the walls and bottom from the outside, then we overturn the bucket, and a piece of ice slips into the bath. Now we gently and quickly direct hot water to the upper surface, wash off this ice - we don’t need it, it’s dirty. We turn the ice bucket upside down, knock out the cloudy part of the ice from the middle with a hot stream, and the water that remains unfrozen pours out by itself.

If you slightly overfrost your ice and it froze entirely - it's not scary. You send a hot stream to the center of the ice block and knock out all the ice in the center with it. Don't be afraid, you can't go wrong - it even has a different color. Closer to the walls, the ice is transparent, but here, in the center, it is cloudy - all the impurities that were in the water have frozen.

And in the end, you are left with a nice transparent glass of ice, hollow in the center. We put it back in a bucket or bowl and let it stand, defrost (in a natural way!). This is the water we will give the child - bringing to a boil, but not boiling for a long time. On it you can cook compote, jelly, rosehip tincture, herbal tea, mashed and water-filled berries with honey, just diluted honey with lemon or apple cider vinegar. Let him drink to his health!

Note 1: the beneficial properties of melt water are partially destroyed by boiling, so it is most useful to drink it without heating, at room temperature.

Note 2: when boiling water for making tea or compote, it is useful to bring it not to 100 degrees, when it starts to gurgle, but to 90 degrees. This is the so-called. the "white key" stage, when the water becomes cloudy and small bubbles form in it. By brewing tea or herbs with such water, you thereby retain all their beneficial properties.

Note 3: when heated, honey loses its healing properties, so it is recommended to use it with tea or water at room temperature.

This water retains its properties for about a day after thawing. Just don't forget, when you've finished fiddling with ice in the bathroom, pour a second bucket and pull it out onto the balcony. This will be your water for the day after tomorrow.

The process is easy, believe me. You will quickly adapt. And your child will drink the best water in the world - living water.

Method four: silicon water

Getting the most useful silicon water is extremely simple. Pour water into a jar (again, who prevents you from pouring filtered water? Boiled? Or even melted water?), Throw pebbles into it, and let it lie. The longer they lie, the better. The top two-thirds is the healthiest water for drinking and cooking. You merge the lower third - by the way, you can use indoor flowers, they love it.

There are other ways to improve water - to make it distilled, silver, magnetized, "alive" and "dead" using electrodes, etc. But, firstly, this is already exotic. And secondly - and most importantly - such water is not neutral, its prolonged and uncontrolled use can be harmful. Yes, and violating the cooking process, you can get something completely different instead of healthy water. So don't risk it!

The best, healthiest, tastiest - juice! A glass of juice in the morning, on an empty stomach - and the child is healthy and cheerful, his body is saturated with useful substances in the most digestible form. Only juice - not purchased and not even canned at home. These products are mostly useless. Do not buy cardboard boxes and glass bottles of "juices" and "nectars" for your child. Believe me, their contents will not benefit him. Buy a juicer. They are very different, there are very cheap. Choose one that is easy to wash - ask the seller to disassemble it in front of you and check the ease of assembly and disassembly, reliability, the absence of indelible corners and corners. Ceteris paribus, the best juicer is one in which there is little that can break and where there are fewer parts to wash.

And every morning, and if there is little time in the morning, then in the middle of the day, on an empty stomach, drink, drink, give the baby freshly squeezed juice! Carrot, apple, any fruit, any vegetable, in any combination! Experiment with it - which is tastier? One condition - never sweeten or add salt to the juice, this will negate all the benefits.

To make vegetable juice tastier, you can cut dill, parsley into it, throw crushed garlic, a drop of grated horseradish, add a little lemon or cranberry juice. Fruit juices are so tasty that it would not come to mind to improve them. Just carefully monitor the quality of the raw materials. Let the carrots be tasty, juicy, let the apples be sweet and fragrant - then the juice will be tasty. Keep in mind that carrot juice combines in taste with all others: both vegetable and fruit.

Note: in order for the carotene contained in carrots to be well absorbed, carrot juice must be consumed with fat, for example, with sour cream or vegetable oil (one tablespoon of one or the other is enough).

Freshly squeezed juices cure many diseases, they carry such a powerful charge of health. Do not be lazy to peel a carrot, cut an apple - the health benefits of the child will be huge. Prerequisite: the squeezed juice must be drunk within 10 minutes. You cannot store it. The child has not finished drinking - finish drinking yourself.

Do you give your child tea? What for? The benefits of black tea for a child are very doubtful, although there may not be any harm (unless, of course, the tea is freshly brewed). Sachets - any, as already known, are also not useful. And to buy bags containing flavors and dyes is just strange. If you want to give your child tea with health benefits, then it is better to let it be green tea. Or herbal tea. With honey, not sugar.

Why do you think sugar is so bad? Not because it corrodes tooth enamel. If this were the case, then brushing your teeth would completely remove the negative consequences of its use. Sugar is much more insidious. It replaces calcium in the body, and calcium is displaced from bones, teeth, and nails. Hence the caries, from the inside, and not at all from the outside.

Our grandmothers, who survived the war, exclaim with one voice that sugar is needed for the brain. "What are you doing? Why don't you give the child sugar? The brain demands it!" Yes, his brain does not require sugar! His brain needs glucose, which is found in digestible form in fruits, dried fruits, and honey. And from sugar - one harm.

Let's remember this and if our child is still small, just do not give him anything that contains sugar. And if he has already grown up and knows the taste of sweets, we will limit him to them. Let there be no cookies, cakes, waffles, rolls, sweets in our house for tea. Let's put jam in a vase (sugar digested with fruits is no longer harmful, unless it's "five minutes", if the fruits are really boiled in syrup), put dried apricots, raisins, prunes, figs, put good honey. And pour ourselves and the child green tea, brew herbs.

Unlike sugar, honey is extremely useful. It contains an abyss of useful substances - trace elements, enzymes and so on. A couple of teaspoons of honey a day - and your child (and you) is provided with the best nutrition. Buy the best honey available for your money. Don't skimp on it.

How not to run into a fake? The most reliable thing is to find sellers of good honey through acquaintances. If this is not possible, try the honey you buy. From real honey for a moment the spirit is taken, breath is interrupted. If it’s just sweet and fragrant, then the bees are fed with sugar syrup; do not take such honey, look further.

Please note that tea is not the end of a meal, but a separate meal. If you pour a sweetened liquid on top of a dinner eaten by a child, then even if this liquid is sweetened with even the best honey, there will be one harm from it. The food will begin to rot in the stomach instead of being digested. But if you give your child instead of an afternoon snack or before bedtime a warm herbal tea with honey, jam, dried fruits, it will be both pleasant and useful. And here dad and mom are discussing the events of the day side by side, and grandmother puts jam - what comfort, what a memory of the family for life!

A simple recipe

Dried fruits can be ground - in any combination, with lemon, with cranberries, with lingonberries, with apples, with honey, with nuts - create, invent, try! Ground dried fruits can be rolled into sweets of any shape, rolled in oatmeal, ground nuts, or frozen. A wonderful sweet snack for tea is obtained from finely grated raw beets with mashed cranberries. Only beets must be of good quality, with a thin tail, dark-colored, without white circles on the cut.

mineral water

Child - only table water! Therapeutic mineral water - only on prescription. And trust your baby's body. If he refuses mineral water, if he doesn't like it, don't insist. This means that he does not need it and will not benefit, but harm.

Herbs, compotes, jelly

Brew children herbs. Neutral, little by little. There will be no harm from the leaves of raspberries, strawberries, currants. Mint, thyme, oregano will not hurt. It will be great if in winter you brew spruce or pine needles, after scalding it with boiling water. This is a storehouse of vitamin C. But all this is in moderation! Herbs have many properties known only to specialist herbalists. So the principle is the same: do no harm.

Safe infusions of dried and frozen berries and fruits. Perfectly brew rose hips, hawthorn, mountain ash, viburnum. True, you must be sure that the berries are collected in an environmentally friendly place. Do not buy beautiful scarlet rose hips from grandmothers in the market, do not be flattered by the magnificent clusters of viburnum. How can you be sure that all this is not collected along a polluted highway? It is better to collect rose hips for your child in the country, ask grandmothers to grow a viburnum tree, go to the forest, where hawthorn grows on the edge. These berries will be useful.

A simple recipe

Great to whip up a vitamin compote. To do this, take some lingonberries or cranberries and crush them. Then add honey, stir the resulting mixture, and then pour it with melted water. How much to take? So much to be delicious. For a standard glass - about a handful of berries and two teaspoons of honey. Try it. And correct.

And the accumulations of mucus inhabited by them are all that the body begins to get rid of, removing them through the nose (and then the baby's nose flows, and we sigh: "Rhinitis!") or, for example, through the respiratory system (this is the same sputum which causes so much trouble for the baby).

So why waste precious time and no less precious fruits and berries in order to end up with a product that is harmful to the baby? Feed him these berries raw, on an empty stomach - or make a compote in a hurry, as described above.

Dried fruits can also be used as the basis for a tasty and healthy drink.

Note: Stevia extract (another name for stevia is honey grass) can be used as a sugar substitute. Stevia is a natural low-calorie sugar substitute with a wide range of therapeutic and prophylactic properties.

A simple recipe

Soak dried fruits, pour over with boiling water, wash thoroughly and put in a thermos, and then fill with water - let stand overnight. If there is no thermos, you can use an ordinary pan, which must be wrapped in a blanket. Get a delicious compote. Well, if you really want to get everything possible out of dried fruits, boil them a little, just don't add sugar! Put sweet raisins, figs - it will become sweeter.

Pepsi Cola, Sprite and more...

Definitely and forever - no sprites. Do you know the best way to make washed jeans? Boil them in Sprite. And the best way to dissolve the scale on the spiral of an electric kettle is to boil Pepsi in it. And are you ready to pour these chemical reagents into your child? As well as "juice", "mors" and other solutions, accidentally spilling which you will provide yourself with indelible stains on linoleum? To poison or not to poison your child - the choice is yours.

Purchased juices are a less obvious thing. Let's figure it out. If the package says: "Without added sugar and preservatives" - this is a clear plus. Let's look further. The best option: "made from freshly squeezed juice." But this is rare. More often we will see "made from concentrated juice". If nothing is added besides the concentrate, we must be aware that this product is quite safe, but also useless. So let's be realistic. If at the zoo or on the way from the theater the child wants to drink, we can buy either bottled water or this kind of juice. Moreover, the younger the child, the stricter the ban on any supplements. It is best for children under five years of age not to give purchased juices at all. Take a drink with you when leaving the house with your baby, and no problem!

Healthy food for children plays significant. role in their development. It differs in many ways from adult nutrition, as a child has a much higher need for natural foods and nutrients, especially those involved in his growth and development. In addition, a child's metabolism is 1.5-2 times higher than that of adults, so the energy value of his daily diet should be 10 percent higher than his energy costs - so that he continues to grow, develop, build muscle, etc. .

A healthy diet for children should be balanced so that it includes foods containing the following substances:

• Protein: is a building material for tissues and cells of the body. Protein in sufficient quantities is found in meat, dairy products, legumes, whole grains, nuts, seeds, etc.


• Carbohydrates: Provide energy to the body. The choice should be stopped on slow carbohydrates contained in raw vegetables and fruits, whole grains. Oversaturation with fast carbohydrates (confectionery, sweets, boiled potatoes and corn, white bread) leads to obesity, decreased immunity, increased fatigue.


• Fats: supply the child's body with essential fatty acids, are a source of fat-soluble vitamins A, E and D, are responsible for the immunity and growth of the child. Contained in cream, butter, vegetable oil, fish.


• Fiber: not digested by the body, but actively involved in the process of digestion. Contained in raw vegetables and fruits, bran, barley and oatmeal.


• Calcium: affects bone growth, forms tooth enamel, normalizes heart rate, ensures blood clotting, etc. Found in dairy products, meat, fish, eggs, legumes, fortified foods such as breakfast cereals, soy products, broccoli, sunflower seeds, almonds, etc.


• Iron: plays an important role in mental development and blood formation. Found in meat and seafood. Sources of iron are also spinach, legumes, dried fruits, green leafy vegetables, beets, walnuts and hazelnuts, seeds, etc.

It is not necessary to calculate the amount of nutrients in grams. It is enough to adhere to the ratio of proteins to carbohydrates and fats in a ratio of 1:1:4 and make sure that meat, dairy products, eggs, whole grains, vegetables, fruits and fats are always present in the child's diet.

Healthy eating for children - habits laid down from childhood

Healthy nutrition for children is not only balance, but also certain habits instilled from childhood:

• Enter a fractional diet. Recommended 4-5 meals a day in small portions - 3 main and 2 additional. A child, however, like an adult, is harmful high-calorie and plentiful meals, consisting of several full meals.


• Food should look attractive. Experiment with the design and solution of dishes, use bright and healthy ingredients, involve children in the cooking process.


• Eat with your children. The best example is your own. Often we are similar to our parents in physique, not because we have “such a constitution”, but because certain eating habits are instilled in us from childhood in the family. If you eat the right and healthy food, then most likely your children will "follow in your footsteps."


• Avoid fast food. No matter how much you want to eat hamburgers or french fries sometimes on weekends or on vacation, try not to tempt yourself or your children. In any home-cooked restaurant, food will taste better, and children's menus are present in most establishments today.


• Do not force children to eat what they do not like. By forcefully forcing a son or daughter to eat healthy foods that seem tasteless to them, you involuntarily create an association in their minds - everything that is healthy is tasteless. The value of one product can in most cases be replaced by another.


• Prepare food for school. School meals are rarely healthy and varied - numerous bakery products, sweet juices and confectionery are especially harmful to the child. They can always be replaced with homemade sandwiches with chicken and vegetables, nuts, dried fruits, fresh vegetables and fruits.

Remember that by providing healthy nutrition for children, you ensure their full all-round development, strengthen immunity, protect against diseases and, in general, improve their quality of life.

Features of baby food

The importance of micronutrients and vitamins

Proper nutrition for children is the key to good health and well-being. It allows you to provide a growing body with everything you need. If there are certain failures in this system, then this leads to lags in weight and height, as well as physiological and mental development. Experts say that after 13 years, the consequences of irrational and malnutrition can no longer be corrected only thanks to the diet.

Features of baby food

Now we will try to figure out a little bit what basic trace elements should be included in baby food, and also list the real problems that may arise due to their lack. And so, it is worth starting with calcium. This element is involved in the formation of bones, and also affects anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic processes. A sufficient amount of calcium is found in fermented milk products, milk, beans, fish, broccoli, spinach, parsley, almonds.

Of course, some of the foods that will be listed should not be consumed by children until they are 3 years old. This includes all types of nuts, seafood, some types of cheese, tea, chocolate (and all cocoa-containing products). It should also be borne in mind that in early childhood there is a fairly high probability of allergic reactions, so you should be especially careful with fish, poultry, eggs, red and yellow vegetables, citrus fruits, dried fruits, etc.

The list of potentially dangerous foods is indeed extensive, which does not mean that any child will definitely have an allergic reaction, but do not neglect the rules for introducing complementary foods, which can also be used for older children trying a certain product for the first time. Such a simple approach can get rid of a number of problems, both small and quite significant.

Parents who have allergies in their family should be especially careful. Proper nutrition of a one-year-old child, of course, will not be as varied as that of a preschooler or schoolchild, however, it should include vegetables, fruits, dairy products, cereals, and a small amount of fat.

The importance of micronutrients and vitamins

Continuing to study healthy nutrition for children, we note that a growing body needs potassium, which is found in peas, beans, seaweed, prunes, raisins, potatoes, beef, pork, hake, cod, mackerel, oatmeal, tomatoes, beets, radishes . Without this trace element, the normal functioning of the kidneys and muscles is not possible. For the formation and normal functioning of nerve cells, cells of the gastrointestinal tract, cobalt is needed, which is contained in shellfish, meat, fish, and milk.

Copper is needed for the process of hematopoiesis. Its source is liver, beef, beans, cocoa, prunes, fish, mushrooms, apricots, whole grain flour, sunflower seeds, bananas, almonds, peas. Lack of iodine negatively affects mental abilities, immunity, and thyroid activity. This trace element is obtained from seafood, fish, algae. In addition, children, like adults, need to eat iodized salt.

Also, healthy baby food includes iron, zinc, selenium, plus a complex of various vitamins (A, E, C, group B, niacin, pantothenic acid, D, biotin and others). As you can see, there are a lot of necessary components in food so that the child receives energy from it, develops healthy, strong and smart. A lack of even one element can lead to adverse consequences. Timely diagnosis, the use of special vitamin and mineral complex preparations can solve this problem. The most important thing is to pay attention to it in time.

Proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle for preschoolers

Healthy nutrition in kindergarten is compiled in accordance with the norms and rules adopted in the state. Children get a certain amount of calories from food, according to their age. The daily menu is compiled in such a way that the products are combined with each other and bring maximum benefit. Of course, such food can be very different from homemade food and at first the child will not like it. However, often then children eat with pleasure in kindergarten.

The healthy nutrition of preschool children depends very much on the people with whom he lives. It is important for parents or people replacing them to ensure that the child’s diet contains daily: meat, cereals, milk, fresh fruits, vegetables, butter. Several times a week, fish, dairy products, and eggs should be introduced into the diet.

A healthy lifestyle of a preschooler, in addition to rational nutrition, includes physical education, daily walks in the fresh air, maintaining personal hygiene, and good sleep. Each of these elements is a real foundation for the formation of the right attitude to a healthy lifestyle. Therefore, the child must have certain knowledge and his own ideas, which will be reduced to the observance of the regime, physical activity, hygiene. In addition, you should help him master the implementation of all this through the available methods: brushing his teeth, exercising, washing his hands, and so on.

Rational approaches to baby food

The norms of healthy eating for children imply that the child should eat in a calm environment. Watching cartoons and a fascinating conversation should be postponed for another time. In addition, a variety of tricks in order to feed the child are an erroneous approach. Do not assume that the child's body is stupid, he knows exactly how much he needs.

There is another point of view that the child should eat at will. The only drawback of this particular approach is that the further educational, and then the working life of a person is subject to a strict schedule. If you skip a meal, then there will be a feeling of hunger and fatigue, and there may no longer be an opportunity to eat.

Supporters of eating on a schedule consider this system to be excellent based on the experiments of Pavlov, who showed that it is possible to adjust the work of the gastrointestinal tract so that at a certain moment the secretion of gastric juice begins, so, for example, by the time of dinner, the child will get hungry.

However, the most rational approach would be to listen to the little person, give him food when he asks and not force him if he does not want to eat. While supporting a healthy lifestyle for children, it is worth remembering that in any place and business a measure is good. Therefore, you should not overfeed, as this is a sure way to health problems.

The other extreme is jamming problems. It is worth trying very hard so that the baby does not get used to this addiction. Refuse forever offers of cookies or sweets for the purpose of consolation. This will save the child from the psychological problems associated with food.

The rules of healthy eating for children are quite diverse, but they should be known and applied, since eating is one of the most important elements for forming an adequate lifestyle, as well as maintaining health.

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At present, the need for a rational, balanced diet is universally recognized. At the same time, a balanced diet provides for the best quantitative and qualitative relationships of the main nutrients: proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals.

Nutrition is a vital human need. Food gives energy, strength, development, and with proper use - and health. It has been proven that human health is 70% dependent on nutrition. Food is also the cause of most chronic non-communicable diseases, so it can be used to prevent and cure them.

High blood cholesterol, obesity, tooth decay, type 2 diabetes, fat metabolism disorders, hypertension, constipation, high blood uric acid or gout - this is an incomplete list of the so-called "diseases of civilization" caused by malnutrition.

With the help of a healthy diet and a healthy lifestyle, which includes sufficient physical activity, exercise, the ability to avoid and cope with stress, quitting smoking and alcohol abuse, you can prevent all kinds of diseases, maintain health and attractive appearance, stay beautiful, slim and youthful. to be physically and spiritually active.

Rational nutrition is the basis for normal growth and development, maintaining and strengthening health, ensuring high performance, and increasing average life expectancy.

Improper, unhealthy nutrition leads to metabolic disorders in the body, disruption of the functional state of various body systems, especially adversely affects the health and development of children, which leads to gastrointestinal diseases, growth retardation in children, hypovitaminosis and beriberi.

Over 200 known diseases are transmitted through food.

According to the World Health Organization, 1.8 million people die each year as a result of diarrheal diseases, most of them attributed to contaminated food or water.

Five essential principles of safe food:

1. Keep clean.
2. Separate raw from cooked
3. Conduct a thorough heat treatment.
4. Store food at a safe temperature.
5. Use clean water and safe raw foods.

What is a proper, rational, healthy diet?

Many people still do not know what they need to eat and think that proper, healthy nutrition is very difficult.

Proper nutrition is the basis of human health, it increases the body's resistance to the effects of various adverse environmental influences. The food we eat is a source of energy that the body uses not only during physical exertion, but also at rest. It is she who allows our cells and tissues to be updated. And the more healthy food you provide yourself with, the faster your body is updated, the younger it is.

Why eat right?

to prevent diseases of the cardiovascular system and gastrointestinal tract, diabetes, osteoporosis and cancer. For better resistance to harmful environmental factors. For high physical performance of the body. For active longevity.

4 rules of the traditional, classic view of proper nutrition:

• Compliance with the diet. Dietitians recognized the most correct diet 4 meals a day. The interval between breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner should be 4-5 hours. Moreover, a diet based on proper nutrition implies eating at the same time. The principle of healthy eating is simple: tomorrow is about a quarter of the daily allowance - 25%, lunch - 50%, afternoon tea - 10%, dinner - 15%. Proper nutrition implies that dinner will be no more than 2 hours before bedtime.
• Sufficient calorie intake. Even if you use proper nutrition for weight loss, the amount of calories consumed should cover energy costs. They depend on gender, age, individual physiological characteristics, lifestyle, the nature of the work of a particular person.
• The correct ratio of food components (proteins, fats, carbohydrates). On average, this ratio is determined by the formula 1:1:4. If you go in for sports, then this is 1: 1: 8, for knowledge workers 1: 0.8: 3.
• Food should fill the body's need for amino acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, vitamins, trace elements, minerals, water.

The basic nutrition rules listed below can be used in any food system: vegetarian, mixed, separate.

Basic rules of healthy eating.

The basic rules of a healthy diet are:

• cooking method
• consumption structure
• properties, composition and taste of food
• ways and conditions of eating
• environment
• internal state of the body.

How to eat right?

• Eat only when you are hungry.
• Eat only while sitting.
• Eat slowly and chew your food thoroughly.
• Put food in your mouth in small portions.
• Eat only when you are calm and relaxed.
• While eating, focus your mind only on the process of eating. Concentration of this kind gives the maximum assimilation of food. Do not read or watch TV while eating.
• Don't eat frequently. It takes time for the previously eaten food to be digested. The interval between doses should be at least 4 hours. That is how much time is needed for the complete digestion of plant foods in the stomach.
• Take no more than 4 meals per meal. A more varied diet confuses the body. Each separately prepared dish: rice, bread, vegetables and fruits, dessert and salad, pickles and marinade, make up one dish. Two types of separately cooked vegetables make up two dishes, milk, rukta or fruit juice each makes one dish.
• Do not drink water and drinks immediately after meals. This leads to a dilution of gastric juice and a deterioration in the absorption of food. It is better to drink a glass of water an hour before meals and not drink it until one hour after eating.
• The largest meal in terms of volume should be at lunchtime, at about 2 pm. Compliance with this rule is a warning of diseases of the digestive system and metabolic disorders.

What can be eaten?

• If you are healthy, eat 50% alkaline and 50% acidic foods if you are sick - alkaline food should prevail. The division of food into alkaline and acidic is due to its final effect on the reaction (pH) of the blood. A shift in blood pH to the acidic side contributes to the development and maintenance of inflammatory processes in the body, and vice versa, a shift to the alkaline side contributes to a faster recovery.

• Eat more food containing vital energy.

• Eat live food containing chlorophyll. The chlorophyll found in fresh green foods is essential for lymph production. one of the main components of the immune system.

• Cut down on high protein foods, since the daily amount of protein needed for an adult over 20 years old is only 1 gram per kilogram of body weight. What exceeds the daily amount of protein is not digested and rots. Toxic decay products are partially absorbed in the intestines, enter the bloodstream and are carried throughout the body.

• Choose food according to the individual's ability to digest.
• Drink enough water: at least 1.5 liters per day in cold weather and 2.5 liters in hot weather.

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