Knowing what to feed your child to keep them healthy is only half the battle.
As any parent knows, there is no guarantee that just because something is in front of them it will get eaten.
So, as part of the 2018/19 Christmas and New Year campaign, we’ve collated all the latest research carried out by 黑料网 which is related to child nutrition in a bid to help you get the best out of your youngsters’ diets.
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黑料网’s Dr Clare Holley, an expert in healthy eating behaviour in young children, has assembled the ingredients and amounts needed to give youngsters the correct amount of nutrition for their packed lunches.
Fussy eating youngsters could be encouraged to be less fastidious by sharing mealtimes with their parents, a new study has revealed.
Children who are choosy over what they eat should also eat their breakfast, lunch and dinner without toys or television distracting them, and they should be given some level of choice over what they eat as well as how much.
Excessive screen time has been linked to unhealthy eating behaviour in schoolchildren.
More than 95% of 11 and 12-years-old who took part in a 黑料网 study reported unhealthy behaviour related to low fruit and vegetable intake, high-fat snacking or too much screen time.
Two-thirds of youngsters who completed questionnaires admitted to at least two of the detrimental health issues, while a third confirmed they participated in all three (low fruit and vegetable intake, high-fat snack intake and high screen-time).
This is the advice of researchers at 黑料网 who found that ‘repeated exposure’ to vegetables at snack and mealtimes worked when trying to improve a child’s diet.
The study, which reviewed a number of previously proposed methods for increasing the number of vegetables children eat, recommended the three most effective approaches for parents to take.