Children’s Nutrition and Children’s Health
Posted on November 27, 2010 by DFHS Article Team
Looking for some help with Children’s nutrition? If you are reading this, you are probably having some issues with your child’s eating habits and are concerned about you children’s health.
What are your kids eating? According to a recent study, most kids consume 25% of their calories from junk food. French fries were found to be the number one vegetable source, soft drink consumption has doubled (as most 8 year olds consume soft drinks every single day with the phosphorous in these beverages leaching calcium out of bones), hot dogs, cookies, and sweetened beverages are among the Top 10 foods consumed by infants and toddlers ages four through twenty four months. We need to take a look into the childhood obesity problem and help our children’s nutrition.
Most kids don’t eat the way we would like them to eat. If you have a picky eater, it is especially hard to get all of the vitamins, minerals and other important nutrients they need to help their bodies flourish in this world of not so good food. Processed foods or junk foods are mostly artificial ingredients, unhealthy fats, and refined sugars that have empty calories, are stripped of their nutrients, and provide no nutritional value to your children’s health.
Children’s Nutrition is the foundation of your Children’s health to help their growing bodies get what they need. If possible, choosing organic, fresh, and whole food ingredients provides children of all ages with the nutrients they need for proper development, growth, and optimal health.
Starting with breastfeeding through solid food consumption and into adulthood, we have a lifetime of eating choices ahead of us we need to start early with the best children’s nutrition. The list below shows the stages of brain development and the importance of an early, healthy, nutritional diet for your child:
- From birth through age 3, children will develop 75% of their brain during this very crucial time and it depends heavily on the baby’s nutritional intake.
- After the age of 2, your child’s diet should be moderately low in fat to avoid the development of childhood obesity, heart disease, and other health problems down the road.
- By age 5, kids will have completed 90% of their brain development
- Between the ages of 11 and 16, a major growth spurt occurs with significant weight gain and muscle growth.
The easiest way to guarantee that your children get the nutrition their growing body needs is to start them early on a high quality dietary supplement. Taking a nutritional supplement is not a freebie to eating an unhealthy diet, so continue to offer healthy food choices to your kids.
There are several things to look for in a children’s dietary supplement. They need to be 100% natural, effective, and safe. Some criteria to consider when choosing a safe supplement is as follows:
- No artificial preservatives, colors, or sweeteners
- Gluten free
- Ultra-pure DHA
- Certified Organic by Quality Assurance International
- Lactoferrin, to help support digestive health and strong immunity
- Formulated with 23 essential nutrients to support proper growth and development
- 400 IU of vitamin D meeting the American Academy of Pediatrics RDA
- 100% of the Daily Value of vitamin C, all eight B vitamins, vitamin K and calcium
- 100mg of DHA per serving to help support memory, vision, and concentration
- Green packaging that is free of toxic ink, chemicals, phthalates, and bisphenol-A (BPA)
Children’s nutrition dietary supplements are a unique combination of clinically tested products that meet the criteria for safe, effective and green supplementation for the specific nutritional needs of children at every stage of growth, whether they’re infants, toddlers, and on up to teenagers.
By: T. Rewerts
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