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the refusal to try certain dishes, with the excuse of “I do not like,” recurs in the smaller ones around a table. Parents worry that feeding children is not in accordance with the recommendations of a balanced diet for their age. Especially in groups of foods such as fish, fruits and vegetables. A recent paper by the European Food Information Council (EUFIC) states that when children have a year and a half or two, “coinciding with greater autonomy drive,” neophobia testing deters them food, “so atavistic, I would think they can be poisonous. ” Therefore, it is an innate response, which should not be categorized by system of children as “bad eaters”.
Propose repeatedly refused food, naturally and without reproach, the likelihood that the child try it.
The same document also provides reassuring messages to parents and caregivers. He claims that the refusal to test and refusal to accept the new food that was previously good are transient circumstances, subject to address rationally. Collected as a positive repeated exposure of the food, so as to increase the likelihood that the child will now agree to willingly. This advice coincides Dr. Marta Garaulet in his book “Children, eat. Avoid the child and adolescent obesity,” explaining that it can take up to ten attempts for the palate to accept a new flavor or a new texture.

But patience with the children’s food has to be a constant. It is important that each new offering takes place naturally (without pressure, without forcing and without stress), alternating different recipes and presentations of the dishes, and leave adequate time between the ingestion of a new food to another.

ONLY THREE MORE SCOOPS
Pressure from parents and / or educators with various strategies, such as encouraging children to eat “only three tablespoons plus” can be very useful. The study, “Just three more bites” (Only three more bites), published in 2007 showed that, with this message, 85% of caregivers participants got the kids to eat more than the amount they wanted in the beginning and 38% got to eat “markedly.”

However, the effect of encouraging eating can have counterproductive consequences if the child has a good appetite. Excessive energy intake may translate into more weight for her age, a problem according to the high rates of childhood obesity.

On the website feed Eroski I found a story of John Revenga that I found very interesting. Surely this has happened to many with your children. Suddenly they stop eating and there is no way to make them try anything new or to eat a dish best eaten within a few days before without problems. I hope you help. Let the first part.

It is essential that children have at their disposal a variety of foods appropriate and rational, not always satisfy your appetite with the products that they like.
Parents worry about feeding their children. The apparent lack of appetite or insatiable craving for some, refusal to eat anything, eat certain foods and slow the rate of intake are the most common difficulties. Each situation reflects some circumstances of the young age of the children and has a simple approach in most cases, although it is essential to remain calm and not exaggerate the problem.
Unpredictable appetite
Instability in the child’s appetite, one day not eat and the next left clean your plate, is a headache for parents and school lunch monitors. Often, even the desire to eat is related to mood. However, changes in appetite in children for short periods of time are common and, therefore, expected sometime in childhood. To understand, just learn the variations recorded the caloric needs of small depending on their age and growth rate.
In the first months of life, 35% of the calories you eat a baby is destined for growth, creation or expansion of new body structures, etc. With a year, although the weight and size increase, the growth rate is much lower and therefore devotes himself body requires fewer calories to function. In 2009, “Pediatric Nutrition Handbook” (Handbook of Nutrition in Pediatrics), published by the American Academy of Pediatrics stated that “a child’s appetite can be used as an indicator on your calorie needs.” Except for rare exceptions, and dismissed disorders or childhood diseases, if a child does not eat more is because you do not. Now it is indispensable to have at hand a suitable food supply and rational, by any means to eat only foods that you like. Falling into this position and keep in time may influence the child’s behavior and that is picky eating.

From birth and up to two years, the caloric needs of two children the same age can be very different to the point double in relation to each other, as revealed in a study by the Center Children’s Nutrition Research of the Ministry of Agriculture of the United States in 2002. This evidence calls to avoid the practice of “unfairness,” so common among parents with children of similar ages or between own brothers.

The Inter-Territorial Council of the National Health System (CISNS) has agreed on Wednesday a plan with recommendations on food sold in schools and combine criteria to develop school menus.

The products sold (both in vending machines and in the bars) can not have more than 200 kilocalories, of which a maximum of 35% should be fat and 10% saturated fat. Also set limits for salt and sugar.

Under these criteria, we will have to withdraw from the sale of bakery products, soft drinks, candy and much of the fruit juices. Or drinks with caffeine or other stimulants (except those that are naturally present in cocoa, for example), or those with artificial sweeteners (known as light).

There can be no more than 200 calories, 0.5 grams of salt, and, of course, take some trans fatty acid (except for those naturally dairy or meat products). Thus, almost no bun, bag of chips, cookies (for sound that are sold) or salty snack, make the cut.

Health Minister insisted that there is a ban on any food. “It only sets limits on the sale of certain products based on the recommendations of the experts for children, which have no nutritional criteria to determine what foods to eat and what not, do not have access to them.” Read the rest of this entry »