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The feeding of the child
Food is one of the basic foundations of health and feeding children can sometimes represent a real challenge for parents: what is really good for my child's health? How to make her eat fruit and vegetables? many questions arise in terms of feeding the child.
A natural diet
- there is no single and universal form of food. It is important to keep in mind that each individual has different needs depending on his or her age, temperament, constitution, tolerances, physical and mental activity, background, hereditary etc.
- A good diet could be defined by a varied and well balanced diet, composed of foods served in a state as close as possible to their natural state.
- it is important to offer natural and vital food to children to meet their needs:
of the Fresh fruit: in whole croque, in pieces, in fruit salad, in fruit purée / smoothie: banana, apple, pear, kaki, pomegranate, kiwi, strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, currant, blackcurrant, peach, apricot, cherry, melon, watermelon, mango, papaya, passion fruit, coconut, lemon, orange,
of the dried fruit: to snack such as which or soaked one night to rehydrate them, or to integrate into the recipes: datte, apricot, grape, apple, pear, banana, mango, pineapple, peach, strawberry, kiwi, papaya, coconut.
of the seeds and OilRaw, whole, soaked, or in the form of purée: almond, hazelnut, walnut, sunflower, cashew, pistachio, sesame, walnut, pecan, macadamia.
of the Fresh vegetables: in the form of juice, in sticks, in salad or slightly steamed, still crunchy (concombre, courgette, fennel, radish, carrot, beet, pepper, tomato, celery, blette, spinach, tétragon, cabbage, kale, broccoli, flower cabbage, panais, pear, onion, young shoots
of the seeds germinated, algae, pollen
Live foods will bring vitality to the body. They are rich in nutrients and cover the important needs of our children in vitamins, minerals, trace elements.
These nutrients are important for the growth, development of the child's body and will give it the energy to run, learn from its experiences and discover the world.
Food diversification
The discovery of flavors does not start during the child's food diversification, but it begins well before.
Indeed, taste buds in charge of taste, develop during pregnancy, which means that the baby develops his palate during intrauterine life, through the diet of his mother!
Then, it is known that breast milk changes taste according to the diet of the mother.
The child will therefore be in contact with many flavors before his first "hidden".
Dogmas, beliefs and advice on the first foods to give our children are extremely numerous. Depending on culture, religion, the region of the world where you are located, eating habits vary and the food diversification of the child as well.
Official advice and recommendations are changing and changing very often. so for your first child, you will be recommended to start with such food, then for your second or third, the advice will have changed!
Trust yourself, show good sense and observe your child!
The feeding of the child, considered in a natural and healthy manner as nature has provided, will allow the child to preserve his or her health capital for the present and for the future.
There are two distinct aspects to be mentioned: which foods offer and in what forms?
Carlos gonzales, Spanish paediatrician has written several books about diversification and he emphasizes the importance of parental stress that manifests itself around food diversification especially related to the fear of lack.
It also addresses the choices of foods: you choose locally and seasonally available foods! so a baby living under the tropics will not consume the same food as a baby in temperate climate!
Let’s leave the stressful lists on the side and focus on healthy, natural and fresh foods, simplicity and spontaneity, while paying attention to, of course, integrating small to small foods and avoiding major allergens000.
Let's focus on seasonal fruit and vegetables, if possible raw or slightly steamed.
And emotions.
It is essential to think about the emotional aspect of the diet.
What is the experience of parents, the compensations, the use of sweets. ?
How, new parents we want to accompany our children today?
A reflection on these aspects will help to accompany the new generation at best.
Zoom on child-led diversification
The Child diversification "DME", allows the child to discover healthy foods by himself by observing his requests, curiosity, reactions.
It is a matter of offering foods, closest to their natural state, and allowing the child to taste and choose by himself the foods he will carry himself to his mouth.
He is offered the choice of several types of food and is allowed to select, taste and eat according to his needs.
Finishes the purées and compotes all smooth, given to the spoon in,-fants, they are replaced by the discovery of foods, textures and of course flavors!
We do not feed the child to the spoon but gradually we accompany him to autonomy. he learns from his experiences and discovers food through his senses.
It is incredible to observe the choices of our children, so young, who are still connected to their instincts provided that they do not offer processed food, because they then come to disrupt this natural instinct of the child to choose their foods to meet their physiological needs.
No dogma, the dme can be practiced in a partial manner depending on the availability of the parents and the companions.
More purée to prepare especially for the baby who will quickly boil them prefer the contents of the plates of the big ones!
The dme allows the child to feel listened and respected in the advancement of his autonomy.
The idea being to eat healthyly to leave the body of this child closest to its nature, keep a good vital strength while taking pleasure in tasting and discovering foods, textures, flavors, smells.
Food diversification is the time or baby that grows integrates family meals.
It is often the opportunity for many families to ask questions about the feeding of the whole family and it is the opportunity to make some changes and adjustments, often for the good of all family members!
Indeed, we want to offer the best foods to your baby, so that he discovers the natural flavors of food, so that he enjoys a healthy diet and takes "good eating habits".
Short, health, sense pleasure and sharing should ideally be the basis for child food diversification.
Propose legumes juices
Do not hesitate to discover the vegetable juices to the little ones! they are curious and they love to taste these colorful juices, full of vitality.
Start with sweet juice: carrot, apple, celery for example.
If your juice is a little concentrated, add some water.
Zoom on the diet of teenagers
The period of puberty is a very important pivotal period.
Adolescence represents the transition period between child life, where dad and mom are responsible for providing me with a secure environment and adult life, where I am responsible for myself.
At the food level, as in other plans, teenagers will therefore want independence and autonomy. they want to choose what they eat, when they eat and with whom they eat!
Which is quite normal because they want to free themselves from parental organization to experience their own way of doing.
This period is often the door open to processed foods: fast-food, sodas, candy, pastries and other industrial foods that saturate taste buds.
It is important to provide information to teenagers so that they understand by themselves the importance of their diet.
Attempt not to be moralizing and not to impose your own choices at the risk of seeing the inverse effect, but to provide access to useful information that will allow them to make their own experiences and give the example. If you have fresh fruit and vegetables at the table at each meal and consume it, they will have more to facilitate their integration into their plates! And of course, the sooner we started, the more its habits will anchor.
I often get teenagers in consultations to accompany skin, weight, image, fatigue, hormone regulation.
And they are often more receptive than we imagine to the food councils, from the moment when they take the decision and the approach for and by themselves.
In general, it will be useful for this period:
Reduce, decrease, avoid all foods rich in saturated, industrial and refined fats: chips, sodas, sugar and additive cereals, fast-food, prepared dishes, canned boxes, candy, cakes, pastries
Add vitality to the plate: fruits and vegetables in abundance (fresh, dried, crunch, fruit/smoothie purée).
Think about vegetable juices and seeds that are real energy concentrates to meet the needs of your teens.
Provide access to kitchen utensils so that teenagers prepare their meals and snacks; Make them participate in the kitchen: you can start with the realization of the seeds or smoothies!
Give them books and courses so that they take new healthy and gourmet recipes.
But also...
Limit electromagnetic waves of mobile phones, computers, wifi. they can disrupt sleep, the nervous system of the body.
Develop the well being, the connection to its body, self-confidence, acceptance of its body into transformation. understanding and information are useful and can really help teenagers better live this transformation period.
In summary, start integrating a healthy diet full of vitality as soon as possible in order to develop the palace of our gastronomes in short panties and prepare the ground of tomorrow by giving our children, teenagers and young adults the keys to a healthy diet.
Have fun, be creative and take part in them from the earliest age.
Find playful utensils, original recipes, nice presentations to make them want to participate in the preparation of meals and want to eat foods full of vitality.
I accompany you and your children through individual consultations and internships.
Fanny russaouen martins
Naturopath, hygienist, specializing in the health of women and children
Pre-conception, pregnancy, breastfeeding, children, teen, puberty, female cycles, menopause
Fasting courses at the portugal
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Contact: fannynaturo@mailo.com 06.64.23.11.38
