Make sure all family, ranging from infants to grandparents adequate nutritional needs. Guide the following age-appropriate healthy foods may help you.
Each family member has different needs according to age, gender, activity level and medical condition. All must be taken into account when planning the food for the entire family.
For Mom and Dad
Generally, adults are advised to follow the following recommendations:
1. Control your fat intake. Saturated fats in animal products can raise cholesterol levels and easily stored in the body as fat tissue. Try to get a fat intake of unsaturated fat sources, particularly polyunsaturated fatty acids omega 3 contained in fish.
2. Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day.
3. Use iodized salt, but still limit the consumption of salty foods. Exercise regularly to support your healthy diet. Exercise speeds up the metabolism and provide additional manfat because your weight is more controlled.
For Babies and Children
Introduce and embed the correct diet in children is very important as a basis for forming their attitudes toward food. If they regularly eat healthy foods from an early age, these habits will carry over into adulthood.
Make sure the family mealtime into a fun time, so they enjoy being scooped up a healthy diet. Do not force children to eat what they do not like. This sort of thing will only make the child reluctant to eat. Frequently asked them to try a new food. If you do not succeed for the first time, try again.
No need to prepare special meals, except if your child was a baby or toddler. Older children can eat the food their parents, but in smaller portions. This way will be easier for them to spend what is on the plate. If they are still hungry, they could have added.
Eating Tips For Baby
Here are some eating tips for children:
1. Susilah infants exclusively from birth to age 6 months, then begin to introduce additional foods while continuing breastfeeding.
2. Monitor growth of children on a regular basis and encourage them to be physically active.
3. Do not let children do not breakfast. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day the child, as well as your day. Food consumed at breakfast gives the body the energy needed for the move, without breakfast, children's ability to move will be reduced, so is their learning capability.
4. Do not forget the milk. This type of low fat can be given to older children and adolescents, especially if your child is overweight. But remember, do not give low-fat milk in children under 2 years old. Because of their high energy needs, children under 2 years old need all the fat contained in milk.
For Grandpa & Grandma
Parents are more likely to more quickly exhausted. However this age group need to maintain their energy level by continuing to exercise regularly (a lightweight such as walking). Supported by the heart-friendly diet undoubtedly various kinds of diseases can be prevented, the capacity of the elderly to eat may be reduced, but still important to eat a varied menu (which is low in fat and sugar).