Children's Diets

Children's Diets should always be planned after an extensive research and study. You should include all types of foods in it. This is the growing period and at this they time they need a nutritious food. A healthy diet prevents many health problems. It helps maintaining weight and strengthens bones and tissues. It prevents overweight and helps build a healthy body. Thus your child must have a balanced diet which includes sufficient amount of carbohydrate, protein and fat. Let’s see what a healthy diet for children includes.

Some essential nutritional factors of children’s diet

Carbohydrate – It plays a very important role in a child’s growth. A child of a normal health should take a lot of carbohydrate enriched foods including breads, cereals, and juicy fruits. In a breakfast you can give him slices of butter toasted bread. Children also love to eat cereals in various flavors. You can have a number of health food at your local departmental stores which are enriched with cereals. These can be given with milk or yogurt. Various sweet fruit juices can also be given.

Protein- Children should also get sufficient amount protein. Thus a growing child should eat one egg, one or two pieces of chicken or fish and some dairy products including cheese and panner.

Fat – Its presence is very important in a child’s diet. Children should also have fat in sufficient amount. Thus give your child butter toasted breads, eggs, cow milk and sometimes a delicious ice cream.

A healthy breakfast for children

An ideal diet chart for children’s breakfast must contain the following items.

• Two slices toasted brown bread or a small bowl of cornflower with fruit juice or milk.
• One half-boiled egg
• A fruit salad which includes chopped banana, apple, guava and mango.

A healthy lunch for children

A perfect diet chart for children’s lunch must include the following items.

• One full bowl of pasta with chicken and vegetables or some rice with vegetables and chicken.
• One chicken or vegetable soup.
• A salad containing lots of fresh green vegetables.
• A cup of yogurt.

A healthy dinner for children

An ideal diet chart for children’s dinner must include the following items.

• A full bowl of chicken soup and two slices of bread.
• One fried piece of fish.
• A glass of hot milk.

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