In this article, we will discuss the most important tips and advice you need and help you regarding the food of a child between 2 and 5 years old.
The most important tips that you should be attention to:
Eating one egg per day protects the child from short stature:
Recent studies conducted in Ecuador showed that children who ate one egg every day for six months increased their height compared to children who did not eat eggs every day. It was also found that eggs help in the prevention of dwarfism and short stature, and there is a defect in growth that leads to short stature where the age of the child cannot be expected from his height. This affects mental and physical development due to poor nutrition and frequent infections.
The researchers pointed out that eggs are a rich source of protein of high nutritional value, which helps in improving the growth of the child. The researchers placed children who eat eggs regularly with low amounts of sweets in one group, and in another group children who do not eat eggs regularly and eat a lot of sweets, and a huge difference in growth and height was noted.
Babies can eat mashed eggs from the age of 9 months.
Many parents complain that their children love to eat: potatoes and pasta
Age from 2 to 5 years:
What's the solution??
Your child's body needs carbohydrates more than the age of 2-5 years. This is a natural, natural thing, because the growth of the human body has rates, and this gets spurts in years, then calms down and then returns to growth again. I mean, if your son stayed for some time, for example, a day in which he did not eat much, this does not mean that he will not grow or will not grow old. We do not measure health by eating, because it is possible for him to eat and become obese, but it does not mean that he is old at all.
Well why does a child at this age need carbohydrates?
This is because when carbohydrates are burned in the human body, they give us “glucose” and the latter, which supplies the child’s brain with the food he needs to help him develop skills, focus, and educational or practical achievement, the brain grows.
From the age of two years, the child's brain is growing, not his body, and therefore he needs to eat 5 times a day carbohydrates daily in the form of rice, pasta, pizza, bread, wheat, oats, potatoes and others. This does not mean that he needs sugars such as chocolate, sweets and others, this is not the final type of sugar required, but rather what is required 5 times in the form of vegetables and fruits he loves such as bananas, apples, watermelons, grapes, cucumbers, tomatoes, kiwis, all of this benefits him and gradually what he does not like. Just don't force him, don't scream, and don't hit him until he eats.
As for yogurt, milk, milk and cheese, it is preferable to reduce cheeses that contain preservatives and buy healthy types.
If your child does not eat meat and chicken:
You should know that the reason is the way you serve him, how you serve him meat and chicken.
Because the child does not like:
You serve him meat in very large pieces, and he needs to be patient and chew for a very long time.
He doesn't like pieces of meat. They may be rough or large and he can't swallow them.
He doesn't like it to be greasy and he doesn't like it. The same thing applies to chicken.
so, what's the solution ?
When you prepare meat and chicken for it, cut it into soft, easy-to-swallow pieces. You can start, for example, with minced meat.
Grilled chicken breasts are usually good if prepared at home.
Homemade burgers are useful and tasty.
And advice: Do not forget that motherhood requires patience.