Pre-School Information for Parents

1. Enjoy your food

Try to eat different foods each day to enjoy a varied diet and enjoy it. Come with your family and friends.

2. Breakfast is a very important meal

Your body needs energy after sleeping, so breakfast is essential. Choose foods for breakfast rich in carbohydrates such as bread, cereals and fruit. Skipping meals, especially breakfast, can lead to control hunger, often leads to overeating. If you do not eat anything for breakfast, you will be less focused on school.

3. Eat many different foods

Eat different foods every day is the best prescription for good health. You need 40 different vitamins and minerals to stay healthy, and there is no food which alone can supply all of them. No food is “good” or “bad”, so why do not you stop eating the things you like. Just make sure you get the right balance by eating a wide variety of foods. Making balanced decisions at all times! (more…)

5.3. Food habits

Why is it so important regularity in eating habits and take snacks between meals?

Eating habits that influence food preferences, consumption of energy and nutrient intakes, develop normally during childhood, and particularly during adolescence. The family and school environment is very important when determining the child’s attitude towards certain foods and their consumption.

Adolescents also be exposed to temporary food fads and trends to lose weight, often skipping meals and develop irregular eating habits. One meal that is most often skipped breakfast. Studies show that breakfast is vital to provide energy and nutrients after an overnight fast, and contributes to greater concentration and performance in school. (more…)

5. What are the most important aspects in nutrition for teens?

The nutritional needs of young people are influenced by the acceleration of growth that occurs at puberty. The peak of growth is usually between 11 and 15 years for girls and between 13 and 16 for boys.

The nutrients that teenagers need depends largely on each person and food intake can vary greatly from day to day, so they can under-or over-eating one day and make up the next day. In this time of life, there is a risk of suffering deficiencies of some nutrients such as iron and calcium.

5.1. Iron

One of the diseases related to diet deficiency is more common among adolescents is iron deficiency anemia. (more…)

3. What are the most important aspects in nutrition for children 1 to 3 years?

During these years, the child begins to have its own personality and demonstrate their independence by moving around freely and choosing foods to eat. Although the child is still growing, the rate of growth is lower than in the first 12 months of life. At the end of the third year of age, both girls and boys reach 50 percent of their adult height.

During this time, children are able to drink through a straw and eat with a spoon, and often they become “fussy” eaters. The consumption of different foods allows the child to choose between different flavors, textures and colors to help satisfy your appetite. The most important factor is that different foods to meet their energy needs.

Food intake will be increasingly influenced by the eating habits of your family and people around him. Early food experiences may have important effects on food likes and dislikes and eating habits in later life. You should not to rush in meal times, but you have to feed them relax and prepare the ground for their attitudes toward food are healthy.

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1. Introduction

It is vital that children have adequate nutrition and a healthy diet for your optimal development potential. During childhood and adolescence, dietary habits and exercise can make the difference between a healthy lifestyle and disease risk in later years. At different stages of life, different nutrients are needed. (more…)

Our responsibility as parents is to give our babies all the nutrients they need to grow healthy and strong. So we give you these tips:

* The consistency of baby’s first foods should be soft, due to lack of teeth and an immature gut agrees not highly processed.

* The more simple the food and have fewer colors, the baby will accept it better. Studies show that too many colors and consistencies prevent it wants to babies.

* Avoid adding salt, sugar or spices, as the babies are in the formative stage of taste.

* When is the first time you give your child a food, try giving it all day on small proven and see how it behaves, what color were his stool, if it is not irritable, and that these signs can lead us to a correct tolerance to certain foods.

* When you start weaning, you should switch foods with milk, that is, if requested early in breast milk or formula, 2-hour begins with a single vegetable gruel, and every 2 hours alternating with milk and porridge.

* Avoid repeated many times a day the same food, unless it is the first time you give it. Do not repeat allows you get to know more flavors and is nurtured, and that giving different foods, you are ensuring good nutrition.

* Try new food range that you give your son, your tolerance increases, because each contains different nutrients.

Getting a solid education is important today. There are many different ways besides conventional schooling in which it is possible to get a good idea of how people live in different countries of the world. Of course it is always nice to travel and see everything for yourself. But it is also a good idea to find time and invite an au pair in to the house to teach kids everything they need to learn about a different culture.

It is essential to do that in order to remain educated and tolerant towards other countries and traditions. Just as Daniela M from Euraupair has rightly noted it is essential to communicate with people from different cultural backgrounds and see everything through their eyes.

It is very important to see that and understand what is going on in terms of people getting knowledge about the world. It is fun too.

To promote that newborns are entitled to be exclusively breastfed, that is, their only food is breast milk during the first six months of life, from 1 to 7 August is World Week of Breastfeeding, established by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Breast milk provides children with all the elements to defend, adapt, nourishment and prevent disease and behavioral problems in the future. Data from the National Nutrition Survey 1999 show that 13.8% of children under four months old never received breast milk, 24% received less than four months and only 11.5% of children were exclusively breast fed mother during the first six months of life, as recommended by WHO.

Special care for women who breastfeed

When you’re feeding your baby breast milk require increased water consumption. For this reason the pediatric nurse Jovita Maria Plascencia, president and founder of the National Association of Neonatal Nursing, suggests adding 750 ml. to one liter daily fluid intake, resulting in a total of 3.8 liters, including water contained in food, drinks.

During the infancy period, you should pay attention on different aspects have the best conditions that allow you to breastfeed. Jovita Plascencia, suggests taking adequate hydration to the needs of the mother so that it can have a better chance of lactation.

Breast milk contains approximately 85-90% water, so the expert recommends that during this stage is to increase water consumption to maintain adequate hydration and to ensure the daily milk production that will transport nutrients to the newborn. The best way to meet the needs of hydration is to drink fluids throughout the day.

Enjoy this beautiful stage and take good care of you and your baby.

What are the nutrients for baby in his first year?

Iron and vitamin C:
The spinach and liver are rich in iron. When combined with the broth of tomato, are adding vitamin C to the diet. Remember to always combine iron with vitamin C, because in this way to better absorb iron in the small of your baby.

Avoid giving citrus such as lemon, orange or grapefruit in the first year of life, as they are the only citrus acidity can cause allergies or your baby’s intestine.

Vitamin A:
Carrots and beets are useful because they often contain vitamin A (carotenes), and antioxidants that help cell regeneration.

Taurine:
Protein foods like chicken and meat contain taurine which is important in the development of the retina of your baby.

Lutein:
To find a few foods, such as some vegetables (onion, zucchini, spinach, mushrooms), and is important because it helps protect your eyes from damage caused by blue light.

Zinc:
Zinc modulates the immune system involved in the metabolism of some nutrients and promotes cell reproduction and tissue repair. Some foods that contain wheat are cereals and corn, plus chicken and beef.

Today children can find a lot of activities that can make them develop quickly while keeping them happy at the same time. It is essential for children to find great entertainment ideas and they can do that with toys and movies, kid dvds and educational books that keep them learning while keeping them entertained.

This is very important for the future of children who always want to be healthy and happy and stay in touch with the informational world outside. It is very important to pay attention to things like that and make sure people get enough time to read nursery rhymes with their children, sing them and learn them by heart.

This will give kids a wonderful opportunity to be with friends and get the best ideas about the world around them in the friendliest manner possible. It is very important to keep things going and make sure that parents spend enough time educating their children and helping them learn new things about all that. Making sure things work out is the best way to go. It is essential to pay attention to this. It is fun and it is good for everyone too.