Everything You Want to Know about Eating, Food
Parents have many concerns with regards to their children’s dietary habits. They constantly worry whether their children are getting enough nutrition.
At the ParenThots forum titled Getting Children to Eat Healthy, parents had a lot of questions for our panel of experts. Many of these questions were not discussed at the forum as there were just too many issues to cover.
Here is the full list of questions with answers provided by several experts:
Answered by paediatrician Dr Hon Mun Cheng:
Is my anxiousness in getting my child to eat making her avoid food?
Yes, I’m afraid anxiousness on the parent’s part can contribute to irregular feeding patterns in a child. A child’s development includes learning how to eat and regulating the amounts of each meal by themselves. Therefore, when the parent introduces this new “activity”, they must be calm and composed. If the child detects stress in the parent, it will result in increased stressful feelings in the child which will lead to the child associating food with stress.
The child can develop infantile anorexia which is defined as a feeding disorder of separation and is characterised by food refusal by the infant with intense conflict in the mother-infant relationship over issues of autonomy, dependency and control. It occurs after the infant has learned to regulate himself and has established an attachment to the primary caregiver.
The characteristics of the parent include having the perception of a child with poor appetite, being demanding of attention, being stubborn and difficult during feedings. The parental anxiety is expressed as coaxing the child to eat more, distracting the child with toys to induce the child to eat more, feeding around the clock, feeding different types of food or force-feeding the infant.
How will we know if our children are absorbing all the nutrition that we are providing them?
Usually if the child has no signs of malnutrition, does not suffer from diarrhoea or vomiting, he would have absorbed all the nutritional requirements that he needs.
How can we boost the children’s immune system through their daily nutritional intake? What sorts of food should we give them?
Please follow the food pyramid.
As a rule, eat everything in moderation and eat all the different coloured vegetables. Include probiotics which are found in yoghurt in your daily intake. Omega-3 which is found in fish oil and flaxseed oil is also good for eczema and asthma.
Source : http://parenthots.com/
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