General feeding suggestions to increase your child’s intelligence
Increase the consumption of carbohydrates of slow assimilation: Bread, Pasta, Rice, Beans, and Potatoes.
- Increase the consumption of fruits and rich vegetables in vitamins, minerals and fiber.
- Go slow with the consumption of foods of animal origin.
- Decrease the amount of sugar given.
- Some children don’t like certain foods due to their color. For example, children aren’t too fond of lightly fried fish with a lot of stock, whereas they tend to like fried fish, and it is important to keep in mind what they like to eat.
- Foods such as whole wheat pasta and rice are a little hard for small children to digest, as well as beans due to the amount of fiber they contain, and it can cause abdominal pain and swelling of the intestines.
- The portions of foods that should be given to a child need to be alternated during the week so that the child gets a balanced and varied diet.
- The amounts of food given to a child should be increased little by little and previously discussed with the pediatrician.
- It is convenient to children to eat: fresh foods, food with a small amount of animal fat, a very small amount of sugar, and food without salt until the child is one year of age.
It is important that a child receive an education concerning eating habits so that when he or she starts eating as an adult, he or she will be able to eat well and in a balanced way. This means that if an adult’s eating habits are varied and balanced, most likely their children will follow the same path. However if to the contrary each person ate on his own or bought precooked food habitually, it would be difficult for a child to have a balanced diet. It has been proven that when kids eat home cooked meals they prefer eating an ample amount of different foods. It is very important to remember that a balanced diet is necessary for a child’s growth and a balanced diet is the first medicinal preventative. Just like with everything, eating right is one way of forming a good habit in a child and will also help a child to study more efficiently if he is fed the right kind of foods.
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