Pre-School Information for Parents

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…)

In breast milk are nearly all the nutrients your baby needs to grow. Only vitamin K and D are not sufficient. Your child has needed for blood clotting vitamin K and vitamin D for proper bone development.

Vitamin K

If your baby is breastfeeding, you need him the first thirteen weeks of extra vitamin K issue. Vitamin K is important for blood clotting. If your baby has too little of this, hemorrhages can occur. Vitamin K is not naturally present in breast milk. A supplement is necessary. It is recommended that your baby additional 25 micrograms of Vitamin K per day to give. After three months your baby is enough vitamin K to itself. (more…)

Between 0 and 3 years, baby is growing dramatically. To accompany, minerals are essential. Calcium, iron, zinc, magnesium and fluoride: learn the top 5 of the minerals essential to the development of small.

A balanced and varied diet allows the baby to benefit from essential minerals.

Calcium for the skeleton

Lene Minerals Calcium participates in the mineralization of bone. During the first three years, the size of children doubled. Calcium intake is very important for skeletal development. As long as baby is fed only milk (breast or industrial), there is no problem. After 500 ml of milk per day are needed to cover its needs.

If the child is sulking milk must compensate with cheese – hard cheese ones are richer in calcium – yogurt or small-Swiss. In all cases, not skip dairy products for calcium deficiency leads to stunting. (more…)