Showing posts with label Child Appetite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Child Appetite. Show all posts

Oct 12, 2011

Forcing children to eat vegetables will make them hate vegetables

GladChild: Parents sometimes impose on their children eat vegetables. But children continue to resist if forced to eat food that is not preferred. The more children are forced to eat vegetables, and then the child will be more powerful imagery to hate vegetables.

Psychologist from Pennsylvania State University and Appalachian State University in the journal Appetite said the use of pressure or coercion on children to eat green vegetables worsened the intake and foster children's negative response to food.

As reported by MailOnline on Thursday October 13, 2011, children tend not interested in eating nutritious food, if not forced. In studies conducted in children aged 4 years, children continue to whine for not spending nutritious foods they dislike.

So that researchers suggested that since the beginning of the children are introduced to vegetables it is more likely to increase the intake of these foods. Not through coercion but the introduction of which is an invitation.

Previous studies have shown that restricting access to fast food by children is very interesting like chips and burgers can increase a child's desire to eat those foods.

Though fast food can cause a child to eat these foods in excess. While green vegetables may reduce the risk of heart disease in children, even if there is a history of heart disease in families.

Scientists have found that diets rich in vegetables and raw fruits may reduce the risk of heart disease even if it has a history of heart disease in families.

It is not only a type of diet tends to make the body slim and healthy but also can actually alter genes strongly associated with heart disease.

Studies in recent years have shown that heart disease is strongly associated with the 9p21 gene. These genes can increase the risk of heart disease by 30 percent.

Scientists say a diet rich in vegetables and raw fruit may alter the gene 9p21. Researcher Sonia Anand of McMaster University in Canada told the journal PLoS Medicine that it is a way to find a diet that can change what is considered as an irreversible risk of heart disease.

Number has heart disease accounted for one third of deaths in the UK. Vegetables and fruits may be most effective to reduce the risk of heart disease if the daily diet changed to a diet high in vegetables and fruits.

Prof. Anand said the findings reinforced the importance of 5-day high on a diet of vegetables and fruits. Obviously it is important for people with a history of heart disease and high risk of heart disease.

Canadian researchers have examined the genetic than 27,000 patients. Researchers found that those who eat several servings of fruits and vegetables a day can lower the risk of heart disease than patients with a history of heart in the family.

Beneficial effects do not seem related to whether a person is also eating other unhealthy foods, the level of physical exercise, and smoking status. Despite all lifestyle factors did not increase the risk of heart disease.


Sep 16, 2011

10 tips on how to make children like to eat vegetables and fruits

GladChild: The right diet for your child is vegetables and fruits. But what if they do not like your cooking menu is made from vegetables and fruits? If you have difficulty in feeding your child when it comes to seducing them to eat vegetables and fruit, you need not worry because this article will discuss how to make children like to eat vegetables and fruits.

Do you know what reasons that make your child does not like vegetables and fruit? This is because taste of vegetables and fruits that they know has a bland flavor and not as sweet as they drank milk formula. And of course you also want to always make the child nutritious diet and that includes vegetables and fruits that they like both kinds of food.

Here are some tips that you can do in the face of the child who does not like vegetables and fruits:
  1. Try not always force a child to eat vegetables and fruit.
  2. For the initial stage, introduce children to the taste of vegetables and then gradually with fruit at the time of Complementary feeding.
  3. At the introduction stage, choose vegetables and fruits with a good taste, sweet taste like the taste of milk formula.
  4. Phase solids serve food in the form of puree, blend in a way that is then filtered, and the juice is taken alone. With a soft texture and slightly dilute making babies was not surprised when eating it.
  5. Choose high-fiber vegetables and fruits to be easy to chew, better to be eaten immediately or cooked for a while so that the enzymes and vitamins that contained no less.
  6. Do not forget to always present a menu of vegetables and fruits.
  7. As a parent, give an example to the children that you love vegetables and fruits.
  8. When you present the food menu, always include vegetables and fruits as side dishes in addition to the options menu.
  9. Put small pieces of vegetables and fruit and allow the child to feed themselves.
  10. When children want to try vegetable or fruit that you serve, praise him.
Therefore, do not ever upset and give up when making the diet for children, especially vegetables and fruits, for the sake of the love child of vegetables and fruits. It required patience, patience, and your creativity in making children's food.


Jul 31, 2011

Reasons that make your child does not like vegetables



















GladChild: The baby is accustomed to eating homemade porridge will be children who tend to prefer fruits and vegetables at a later date. This compared with children who get processed baby foods. Researchers from De Montfort University in Leicester and a number of universities in Bristol and Birmingham, analyzed data from 7866 mothers of children born in 1991 and 1992.

The results show, they are often given food home from fruit and vegetables since the age of six months tend to eat more vegetables and fruits when it was seven years old than those who were more often given food packaging. The reason is the baby food in containers tends to have a texture and taste almost identical. The results are published in the journal Public Health Nutrition.


Mar 23, 2011

Improve your Child Appetite with his Favorite Superhero


Providing food products pictorial superhero figures may be a solution to help kids fussy eaters. How to increase a child appetite, as a good mother you must still choose the product with adequate nutrition.

Giving food to children is not easy. Many examples of behavior that looks like a child refusing to eat. For example do not want to eat, vomit the food back, difficulty in sucking, swallowing, chewing food, or only like one or several types of foods only. The situation can not be ignored and must be addressed by looking for the cause of feeding problems of children, in addition to providing energy dense nutrient.

However, a solution may help mothers to make children like to eat. A recent study by the American Dietetic Association shows that children prefer foods with packaging featuring the superhero figures that he likes regardless of the flavor and nutrient content in food.

This proves what we thought all this time that the children will be enjoying a dish of food with a picture of a cartoon character or their favorite superhero in the boxes, said Keri Gans spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association and author of the forthcoming book The Small Change Diet as quoted page healthday.com.

Gans himself was not involved in the study, whose results will be published in the March issue of the journal main issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. But the good news, when there is not a superhero figures on the box of a food product, they will further consider healthy foods that contain sugar instead of high.