Drawing up a diet for children demands special approach. It is necessary to consider age of the child, his employment, features of development and the state of health. There are also general rules of food contributing to the normal development of a young organism.
Instruction
1. Appetite of the healthy child, as a rule, steady. Since birth, the kid needs to impart the correct relation to a diet. Its exact observance always promoted normal formation of appetite.
2. The number of meals has to be certain in the afternoon, at night the child has to have a rest. This rule does not concern babies. It is better to feed the child in certain hours, without doing process of food too long or fast. There is enough 30 minutes that the kid has normally dinner or has breakfast.
3. Food has to be enough that the child gorged on. As the kid grows, it is desirable to enrich his diet with new products, doing the menu to more various.
4. That the appetite of the child was not broken, try to avoid negative emotions during feeding, the situation has to be quiet. If the son or the daughter refuses food, do not force him or her to eat violently. Sometimes one missed meal leads to strengthening of appetite. If it is not restored, do not try to feed the child at all, under the influence of power methods at it permanent violation of appetite can be developed. It is better to find out a reason for refusal of food or to see a family doctor for the help.
5. Making a diet, it is recommended to distribute a daily diet so that food, protein-rich, got into the child's stomach in the first half of day. Better for dinner to prepare something from vegetables, cottage cheese, potatoes or eggs. The most physiologic for school students the diet when the breakfast is served about 8 o'clock in the morning, a lunch - approximately at 12 o'clock in the afternoon, an afternoon snack – by 16:00, and a dinner from 19 to 19.30 is considered. Small deviations from this time of meals are possible. In intervals it is better to do without having a snack.
6. As pupils go to school in two changes, it is necessary to make the mode of their food taking into account time of classes. It is necessary to watch that children did not buy harmful products, for example, chips, Coca-Cola or hamburgers, and replaced with them normal food. Healthy food in combination with the correct mode of meal – a basis of normal development of the child.