Any parent who has ever experience a heart when suffering anorexia and growth retardation. The more anxious, more parents force children to eat enough without knowing that children eat easily when pressed triggers some unexpected results.


Worldwide, about 50% of parents worry about nutrition for their children. But not to worry that parents have the right to force their children in their diets. In any case should not force children to eat as this is considered more dangerous than malnutrition.


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Many studies have shown that children are not required to be effective but also hurt her feelings and affect the intellectual development of children. Therefore, the dietitian never put figures on the food necessary for children because it often makes the assumption that mothers must eat enough to catch a number of them. It is important to encourage appetite and not force children to eat enough.


Method of feeding and nutrition care for children
In Vietnam, many children anorexia is due to undergo broth period is too long, from 1 year to 2-3 years. Parents should note that food must conform to the age of the child. Young children are not enough to choose foods that thin, large enough that the kids just love to chew hard foods as adults. If you regularly eat porridge, the child will easily extended anorexia, can even create a fear of diluted food. Children from 3 to 4 years and older must be used in many foods as diverse as adult to help children develop well.


Basic principles of feeding parents should note three issues: when to eat, eat, eat in where? Young will decide how much to eat. Advice for parents is to feed your baby on a specific time of day (3 meals + 1 snack-cake or snack may be).


Here are some guidelines that dietitians have made, parents can refer to and apply for your child to eat:


- First, avoid forcing children to eat, easy to cause a fear of eating in young-eating is considered torture.


- Second, focus on your diet, not for children to watch TV, read comics, play while eating.


- Third, avoid foods that do not fit the child's age, such as food in the child too hard or too weak and not enough teeth in young adults.


- Wednesday, Avoid baby snacks or juice before eating as these will cause his blood.


- Thursday, meals should not exceed 20 minutes, although not all children should stop eating, do not be afraid because young children lack food to eat make up after meals.


In addition, parents should also create a warm atmosphere in the family to eat, kids eat together with family, to feed themselves even if they are clumsy dropping food ...


Along with that, parents can use functional foods to stimulate the appetite of the child and add the necessary nutrients for the comprehensive development of children both in terms of height, weight and wisdom.
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