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Obesity has become one of the great problems of today
Obesity has become one of the great problems of today. And children do not escape this reality. Quite the contrary, childhood obesity is a huge wake up call for parents to attend special care to feed their children.
They always say that the infant is essential. However, in practice many do not take the proper habits to feed the children.
It is still very latent idea that fat children are healthy and the weak are malnourished. And this makes even the kids eat more food induced greater than advise them to eat more to avoid getting sick.
We should know that nourishment is not synonymous with a diet of bakery products and fast food. The permanent ads are a real temptation for children, but they do not want anything other than burgers, pizzas, chips, ice cream and candy.
However, everything can change through proper nutrition education in the home. It’s good that children will have a balanced breakfast before leaving home. In addition, it is much better to bring a snack to school to buy what they can sell there. Replace sweets and soft drinks or yogurt and fruit juice is a very healthy option.
Of course, you should not go so far as to ban all food to a child. It’s good that it can taste sweet or share a pizza with friends. But these preferences should be occasional and not a daily event.
Finally, it is good to promote children’s physical activity. An active child will be much healthier and more easily able to maintain a healthy weight for a young sedentary.
How To Preventing Malnutrition
Malnutrition is a preventable condition that is by providing nutritious foods to baby consisting of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals in the amount of balance, health can be monitored diligently bring health care center to be weighed weight.
Malnutrition prevention efforts can be made
a. Directly
Direct prevention efforts may be improving the nutrition and immunization services, especially for the vulnerable poor nutrition
b. Indirectly.
Indirect handling guarantee food security include the household level, expand employment opportunities. Build and develop small businesses for a small population to increase people’s income.
c. By way of weaning
Weaning is the habit gradually so that the baby can eat adult food. Not a few families who do not understand nutrition baby and not able to prepare food that good nutritional value. The first age of weaning is 4 – 6 months, babies are ready to accept the food is not liquid because the teeth are growing and the stomach can digest starch. We have a baby needs is not enough just through breast milk alone.
d. Handling of cases of malnutrition followed by providing additional nutritious food free of charge to toddler-toddler poor families.