Weight
Expert advice to help you maintain a healthy weight
Not satisfied with your weight?
We are bombarded with horror stories about weight, the size of zero to obesity
'B'. But a healthy weight determined by factors different for each one of us.
Our expert advice is designed to help you achieve and maintain a healthy life
and enhanced weight.
Overweight or underweight?
Being the right weight has a positive impact on the well-being but also on our
health, as being in the wrong weight can cause a range of medical problems.
Nutrition for children
Food and nutrients to help form strong teeth and bones and muscles and a healthy
body. And follow a good diet can also help to protect your child against the
disease in the present and future.
This is a critical time to complete the process of weaning, and reduce the
amount of milk, and lay the foundations of your childâ € ™ s diet. A small child
in the diet needs special attention and planning - the need for energy and food
prices high, but a small appetite and eating habits can be on the details. You
must be the diet be composed of small, regular meals, nutrient dense.
Key nutrients and food sources
Appropriate foods
A child to eat food from the following groups to help ensure that theyâ ™ €
re-get all the important nutrients. Remember the pre-school children should be
allowed to eat according to appetite, as there are no final recommendations on
the portion size for this age group. At this age, children are often good in the
organization of their appetites.
There is no need to rely on food prepared by the children. If your family is to
follow a healthy diet, children can only food for the family.
1. At least one type of starchy carbohydrates such as bread, rice, pasta, pasta,
cereals or potatoes, should be working with all meals.
Young children and small appetites, and fiber-rich carbs can be a huge and
prevent the absorption of some minerals. Higher than the gradual introduction of
fiber carbohydrate foods such as pasta and brown rice, wholewheat, so that by
the time they are five children, and they eat the same fiber-rich foods like the
rest of the family.
2. Fruits and vegetables should be eaten often. Target of at least five servings
a day, serving about a handful of volume.
Used in sweets, fruits and snacks
Frozen and canned fruits and vegetables can be just as nutritious and new
varieties
Vegetables can be eaten raw or cooked (crunchy service rather than a very soft
to keep the vitamins and minerals)
If vegetables are not favorites, and try to hide by pureeing soups and in sauces
and casseroles and class pizza
3. Milk and dairy products are an important source of calcium. Your child should
be about half a liter (500 to 600ml) of milk per day.
May use items - full fat; semi-skimmed be given the age of two years if the
overall diet contains enough energy and nutrients
And can be used in milk or in whole grains, beverages, desserts and sauces
Can cheese and yogurt or frais fromage, rather than be given some milk
Can be grated cheese, and the spread of cheese or cheese parts can be used in
sandwiches or toast
Try yogurt as a dessert or snacks between meals, and served alone or with fruit
4. It should be meat, fish and alternatives can be eaten once or twice a day.
It should be chopped beef, and turkey, chicken and pork to be cooked slowly to
ensure they are soft and tender
It recommends that the Food Standards Agency at least two servings of fish per
week, one of which should be oily. But do not give your child more than four
servings of oily fish a week for boys and two meals a week for girls. It should
be shark, swordfish or marlin can also be avoided, because they contain high
levels of mercury, which may affect the child in the development of the nervous
system
The use of eggs, either boiled, and sandwiches, as an omelette or scrambled
Try the various beans and pulses, such as lentils, baked beans, peas, chickpeas |
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