Help your baby eat vegetables and fruits & unexpected benefits

The role of vegetables and fruits in the development of children has been clearly confirmed by nutrition experts, but mothers are even more impatient. Because "feeding children green vegetables and fruits" is always a difficult problem for mothers, especially mothers living in urban areas...

Mom @ learns “Helping children eat vegetables and fruits”

With just a few searches, the answers to all the questions of modern mothers about raising and caring for children have been shared and "pre-arranged" on social networks and forums. However, most mothers are still confused about how to feed their children vegetables and fruits...

Right from the time of weaning, most babies start to show disinterest, even hatred and constantly refuse vegetables and fruits. The baby stubbornly shakes his head and the mother is always busy so he cannot spend much time convincing the baby at each meal. Therefore, adding vegetables and fruits to the baby's diet is always a "hot topic" in any forum for mothers, and has become even "hotter" recently. In particular, this topic not only attracts mothers to participate in the discussion, but also nutrition experts at home and abroad have quickly joined in.

At www.giupbeanrauqua.com - an educational program developed by the National Institute of Nutrition and Dumex Vietnam to help mothers improve the proportion of vegetables and fruits in their children's meals, the discussion atmosphere at the forum is always lively. Mothers not only exchange tips such as "Australian camouflage" for vegetables and fruits, award medals to children who eat vegetables and fruits well... but also discuss with many leading experts to get advice and update useful information. Thanks to that, mothers' fight against their children's habit of not eating vegetables promises to have many new steps forward.

Help your baby eat enough vegetables so they don't miss out on important benefits.

Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Thi Lam - Deputy Director of the National Institute of Nutrition said: "Mothers are increasingly paying more attention to feeding their children fruits and vegetables. For us, this is a good sign, because a diet lacking enough fruits and vegetables is causing 50% of Vietnamese children to lack essential nutrients, missing out on the important benefits of this food group!".

According to nutritionists, colorful vegetables and fruits help provide children with abundant fiber and prebiotics for a healthy gut, increased nutrient absorption and detoxification. Children will also have a better immune system to fight disease, strong bones and maximize their height potential. At the same time, vegetables and fruits help the brain develop healthily, increase learning ability and have a high IQ. Children's health will also be protected in the long term against cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, obesity, etc.

My Plate applies to children over 2 years old.

“However, for your baby to fully receive these benefits, you need to feed him/her enough vegetables and fruits,” Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Lam affirmed. According to the My Plate model recommended by the United States Department of Agriculture, your baby's daily meals need to include all four food groups: vegetables and fruits, protein, grains and milk. Of which, vegetables and fruits account for 50% of the total portion. That is, if the meal is placed entirely on a plate, and a glass of milk is next to it, then half of the plate must be vegetables and fruits.

With this guide, mothers will have a better idea of ​​the amount of vegetables and fruits they need to eat each day and can build their baby's meals in the most reasonable way. However, the first thing mothers need to do is always strengthen their determination, so that from there, they can persistently persuade and gradually help their baby learn to eat and love vegetables.

According to dantri.com