Children and fats: find the midpoint

It is proven: to children they love the "greasy" meals. Nuggets, hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, etc. The grease, just like proteins, the hydrates waves vitamins, it is necessary for its development, but an excess of fatty foods can be harmful in the long run. What can we do to find the midpoint in the intake of fats in children's diet?

Tips to avoid excess fats in infant feeding

To avoid getting to the excess and find that midpoint, we offer you some tips that we must take into account for proper nutrition in our children:


1. The first step is to avoid the frequent consumption of fats.That your intake becomes occasional. Fats of poor quality not only pose a problem in the face of childhood obesity, but also they put cardiovascular health at risk both children (in the long run) and adults.

2. Physical exercise.Children should move and play: it is not advisable that they spend the day watching television and that they are barely entertained with games that involve activity. The exercise Y the games not only are they important in the face of physical development, but also for your psychological development.


3. Avoid foods that unleash the child's anxiety.For example, if our son loves chocolate buns, it is better that we avoid giving one to the first and that let's try to eat something before, and if possible, low in fat (a sandwich or sandwich cheese spread and ham cooked with a glass juice, for example) and then we offer the bun. So, instead of fancying two or three buns, you'll only want one. It's about that do not satisfy hunger based on bakery products or excessively fatty.

4. Minimizing the amount of daily fats in infant feeding is dangerous since children spend more energy than adults. Therefore, they are necessary to be able to develop correctly. Therefore, it is recommended that parents worry about their children eat more healthy fats in the form of fish and nuts and seasoning the food with vegetable oils, such as olive oil. What is due reduce is the consumption of saturated fats, especially in the form of buns, cookies, fried snacks and fatty meats.


5. Plan the menus. If we start cooking immediately, it is likely that we opt for fried foods, as they are easy to prepare and quick. Therefore, it is advisable spend a moment every so often to think what meals are we going to make in the next days? So we can prioritize healthy food and put distance between the days we cook fried.

Marina Berrio

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