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Giving babies healthy foods early may shape childhood tastes

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Right from an early age, parents should shape the way young children learn to enjoy healthy eating when older by feeding them vegetables every day to form a good habit, brings many benefits good for your health. Because the 14-month-old babies easy to eat fruits and vegetables regularly and become more picky when they are nearly four years old.

Food preferences are developed early as the first two years after birth. But estimated that up to one-third of children do not eat fruits and vegetables in their first three years and instead is most snack foods are not healthy, easy to cause the stock overweight or fat obesity.

When children refuse food, but just because they do not like it, do not get used to it, because they have been fed too many snacks throughout the day, and simply too full to be interested in the foods more nutritious? For example, when exposed to the vegetables in the beginning, they can reject it. But if they are hungry because their parents do not provide snacks, perhaps they would have been willing to eat it.

Parents also need to adopt healthy eating with their children and find ways to make meals interesting, colorful likely to stimulate the senses of the younger. In particular, children tend to imitate what they see at home. If you want your kids regularly eat more vegetables, kite first and most important is that you also need to let children imitate and learn.

One of the main reasons we want our children to eat everything is a varied diet provides a variety of healthy nutrients. Here are three nutritious foods your child should eat-but may be able to withstand attempts:

Fish is a source of protein and omega-3 fatty acids, which are good for the developing brain of the infant.

Lentils provide fiber, protein and iron, an important nutrient for infants and toddlers.
Green vegetables provide a variety of nutrients, including beta carotene (important for a healthy immune system) and folate (a B vitamin supports healthy growth of new cells).

You can use the vegetables with vivid to attract and stimulate your baby's senses as: white (immune enhancing antioxidants) present in onions, leeks and garlic; Red (immune enhancing antioxidant, vitamin C) in guava, tomatoes, pink grapefruit, watermelon; Gold (vision helps antioxidant)in corn, yellow squash; Green (vitamin A, folate)in broccoli, spinach, asparagus, kale; Purple (brain boosting antioxidants) in blueberries Vietnamese fruit, plum, eggplant, black currant; Orange (vitamin A) in sweet potatoes, winter squash, carrots, mangoes…

For parents struggling to get children to eat their green vegetables, it seems like good news - our vegetables are getting sweeter. But the change comes at a cost to our health, the scientists assert - as the bitter compounds found in fruits and vegetables have many benefits, including protecting us from disease cancer and cardiovascular disease. Many fruits and vegetables have become sweeter in recent years because the manufacturers are producing 'friendly little seed - compounds bitter. These include brussels sprouts, broccoli, tomatoes and grapefruit. Thanks sweeter taste, the kids will enjoy easy access to and forming eating habits more vegetables.




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