Health & Nutrition for young children

Children's diet is the most important, So we may pay attention to healthy diet for children. We can understand heath nutrition through the food pyramid. The food pyramid, developed by US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an excellent tool to help us make healthy food choice. The food pyramid can help us choose from a variety of food that we can get nutrient we need, and the suggest serving sizes can help us to control the amount of sugar, calories, fat in our diet as well. Hence, proper nutrition for early childhood to eating habit that contribute to our child’s overall well and help them grow up in healthy life. For example, fruits, milks, vitamins, baby food and so on.

First, we should need to understand the basic of child nutrition. Toddlers and young children are going rapidly. Second, all people need a variety of food to maintain proper nutrition. Thus, making sure a meal contains a balance. Fruits, vegetables, protein and gains encouraging good nutrition. Eat fruit is very important as well. There are have excellent choice contains plenty of fiber as well as vitamin. For example, apples, oranges, and grapes. In hence, protein have high of energy especially fish, eggs, meat, butter. Vegetables, especially green vegetables are higher in fiber, vitamin c. then, children should eat a lot of vegetables.

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exercise

In addition, nutrition are important for children. Do exercise are also an important part of child's
health. Children do exercise is an important because it can help to maintain a healthy body weight. For example, children can jogging, warm up, jumping and so on. Children can take a walk with family after took a dinner or cycling bicycle with their neighbours. Then, children can regular exercising themselves. All of children need to be physical active.

Unfortunately, children must drink a lot of water as well. They need drink 7 or 8 glass of water every day. Thus, water have several important function in the body. It helps regulate child's body temperature. Water also equally good for skin and help child's process food more efficiently.

As a conclusion, good nutrition habits and balanced diet aren't developed in one day, nor they destroyed in one balanced meal. Heath eating means a lifestyle of making choice and decision.
Eating nutrition and healthy food while maintaining our children body weight.

Reference

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