5 cooking principles to help children overcome malnutrition
Malnutrition is the main cause of increased mortality in children under 5 years old. The disease also causes children to have diarrhea and prolonged respiratory diseases, leading to poor eating and mental and physical decline.
Therefore, mothers need to supplement valuable nutrients in each meal of their children. Below are 5 cooking principles to help malnourished children gain weight quickly, mothers should pay attention.
1. Increase nutrition
Increasing nutrients is the advice of nutrition experts for mothers when their children are malnourished. Food for children needs to be diverse and rich, the more nutrients the better. Depending on the age of the child, mothers should choose appropriate foods so that the children can absorb them most easily.
It is best to chop, mash, cook until soft and season to suit your baby's taste. Malnourished children should especially increase their intake of eggs, minced meat, minced fish and chopped vegetables.
2. Add fat to your baby's food
Each bowl of baby food should have 1 to 2 tablespoons of oil or fat. Oil or fat provides twice the energy of starch and protein, helping baby easily absorb vitamins such as vitamin E and vitamin D.
3. Cook thick porridge for baby
Cook thick porridge for your baby to eat, because if you cook it thin, you may see that your baby eats more but in fact it is a lot of water, the baby does not absorb much energy. You need to cook it thick enough for your baby to eat, and change the flavors to make your baby interested when eating.
4. Eat extra meals
In addition to the main meal, mothers need to supplement their children with snacks, about 2 hours apart from the main meal. Snacks will help children make up for the small main meal they ate before, giving them enough energy to be active all day. Milk, yogurt, and fruit are good foods for children's snacks, helping them sleep better. Each day, mothers can feed their children 5-6 meals instead of just 3 main meals, so that children will eat more and have more energy, and they will not feel bored.
5. Do not force children to eat
Vietnamese mothers often have the habit of forcing their children to eat, fearing that they will be hungry if they do not eat enough. However, let children eat within their capacity, do not force them to eat when they are full. Forcing them to eat will only make them more afraid to eat, lose their appetite, vomit, and may cause them to lose their appetite.
Above are 5 cooking principles to help malnourished children gain weight quickly that mothers should refer to and learn. When applying these 5 principles correctly and sufficiently every day, your child's malnutrition and rickets will definitely improve a lot.