Healthy Lifestyle : Kids Health
You want your child to eat healthy foods, but do you know which nutrients are necessary and in what amounts? Most of the same strategies for healthy eating that work for adults also work for children. Children need the same nutrients as adults, but in different amounts. Here's a quick overview.
Fruits and vegetables
A variety of fresh, canned, frozen, or dried fruits and vegetables that cover the color spectrum: red tomatoes and strawberries; oranges and carrots; yellow squashes and bananas; leafy greens, avocados, and limes; blueberries; and purple grapes and eggplant.
Carbohydrates
While the latest diet trend is to "cut the carbs," carbohydrates are actually the body's most important source of energy.
Protein
Protein helps a child's body build cells, break down food into energy, fight infection, and carry oxygen.
Dairy foods
Low-fat milk, cheese, yogurt, and other dairy foods.
Fats
Fats are a great source of energy for kids and are easily stored in a child's body.
Calcium
Calcium is essential in helping to build a child's healthy bones and teeth.
Iron
Iron is necessary for a child to build healthy blood that carries oxygen to cells all over the body.
Folate
Folate is necessary for healthy growth and development of a child's cells.
Fiber
Fiber helps produce bowel regularity in a child.
Vitamin C
Vitamin C does more than just fighting off the common cold.
Water
Water makes up more than half of kids' body weight and is needed to keep all parts of the body functioning properly. Fruits and veggies are also good sources of water. Kids should drink more water when ill, when it's hot out, or when engaged in physical activity.
Healthful eating has many benefits for children. It can:
Stabilize their energy.
Improve their minds.
Help them maintain a healthy weight.
Help prevent mental health conditions.
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