Health food is food regarded beneficial to wellness in ways that go beyond a normal healthy and balanced diet required for human nutrition. Because there is no precise, reliable meaning from regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Management, different dietary methods can be regarded healthy depending on context.
2. How Do You Eat?
Lack of ability to handle our own eating
habits makes us over handle our children’s
consuming habits
3. 3 Types of Nutrition Attitudes
• Couldn't care less about nutrition
• Intense, careful, and committed
• Failing, and feeling bad about it
4. Dietary Guidelines
o Variety- Eat a lot of various types of foods
o Even the food items you do not like
o Moderation- try not to eat as much as you
are hungry for
o Balance-put together meals you would
rather not eat
5. Balance
Meals are chores for adults
Young children only eat what tastes great
for them
Your child’s eating attitudes and behaviors
are more important than what she actually
eats on any given day. If her attitudes and
behaviors are healthy, she will eat well and
get the nutrition he needs.
6. What is Normal Eating?
• Going to the table starving and eating until
fulfilled.
• Choose foods you like and know when to stop
eating it.
• Give believed to your food choice for health.
• Permission to eat regardless of your mood.
• Consists of meals and snacks.
• Consumes one significant area of your life.
• Flexible
• Positive
7. What is a Healthy Eater?
Likes to eat and feels good about eating
Interested in food and takes charge of eating
Relaxed
Variety
Experiment with new foods
Knows how much to eat
Good table manners
8. Children Habits
Children progressively master foods that
their parents eat by the age of 6
Age 12 they will have your eating habits
Young children need structure, limits, and
room to discover
9. At The Table
Meals should consist of both
Protein, starch, vegetable, bread, and calcium
Well known meals with complicated foods
preferences before a child will like it
10. Nutrition
1500 –2500 calories
20% protein
50% carbohydrate
30% fat
1500 milligrams of sodium
25 grams of fiber
1300 milligrams of calcium
600 international units of Vitamin D
Sugar in moderation
11. One Meal
• Preparation should contain the kids
• Same food and meals for all at the table
• More than one meal creates a picky eater
12. Conclusion
• Children are born with the will to survive
and the drive to eat.
• Designs for height and weight
• Our kids learn from us, but we should learn
more from our kids
• No good and bad, right or wrongs…only
what is best for you and your family.