Nutrition

Along with lunch and dinner, tea is a daily need that we can not skip or ignore. When your child leaves the school after a long day of school, the first thing to do is snack. By having a snack, your child will feel more relaxed and well fed and will recover the energy they need to continue jumping around. There are healthy snacks for children so maybe you can find some ideas from this article.

According to most nutritionists, snack must meet roughly 15% of daily nutrition, while the breakfast, 20%, food 40%, and dinner, the remaining 25%.

Healthy Snacks for Children

Basically, a good healthy snack should include:

- Cereals, i.e. bread, cookies, etc which give the child the energy needed for the proper functioning of muscles and brain;

- Dairy products, such as a glass of milk (with or without chocolate powder), a natural or fruit yogurt, a piece of cheese, etc which are rich in calcium and protein pro-growth;

- A piece of fruit or a natural fruit juice, the high fiber content and vitamin C;

- Water, to allay thirst.

It is important to keep your child interested in the snack food by having some variations as well as renovations. You can create different sandwich fillings, introduce some nuts, and even allow your child to eat, on occasion, a capriccio fresh from the bakery such that it does not become a habit.

A Bad Snack

In a hurry or for any other reason, many parents do not care about the quality of food they offer to their children at lunch. Snack, if well balanced, does not have to cause obesity in children. We can alter the health status of children by correcting what the child will eat.

Tea should be prepared with the same care as other meals. What should not be done is:

- Offering the child a little package of cookies.

- Allowing the child to fill their chips, peanuts, candy, etc.

- To think that with just a bun (soba, donuts, etc.) the child will be fed.

- Replace the fruit juice (because the child does not like) with carbonated beverages.

- Allow the child to watch television or snack at the computer. Such practices will distract the child and creates a bad habit.

Jonathan Pitts

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