can you tell me what a healthy balanced diet for a 9 mths old & a 5 yr old should be?
hello everyone!
this is for my college course work, i got 2 hand it in 2 weeks after xmas holidays but i dont want 2 leave it 2 last minute so i got my holidays 2day..& i want 2 start on this 2day!
so could u plz help me because i dont have experience with babies & toddlers.
so who evers got children between that age could u tell me.
thanks everyone!
A lot of parents, more so nowadays, seem to be over consciouss of this whole healthy balanced diet thing. Because of the age of the children, I wouldn’t be over anxious of the food they eat. However, it is important to eats plenty of greens (broccoli, cabbage, etc.) which contain plenty of vitamins and to have some red meat to build up their iron levels. For the 9 month old, "healthy balanced Diet" should not even figure in your vocabulary where a 9 month old baby is. As a 9 month old is not on solid foods as yet, the only thing is breast milk or substitute milk which will be vortified with plenty of vitamins.
December 20th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
A lot of parents, more so nowadays, seem to be over consciouss of this whole healthy balanced diet thing. Because of the age of the children, I wouldn’t be over anxious of the food they eat. However, it is important to eats plenty of greens (broccoli, cabbage, etc.) which contain plenty of vitamins and to have some red meat to build up their iron levels. For the 9 month old, "healthy balanced diet" should not even figure in your vocabulary where a 9 month old baby is. As a 9 month old is not on solid foods as yet, the only thing is breast milk or substitute milk which will be vortified with plenty of vitamins.
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December 20th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
my daughter is 1 and my son is 5. a usual day consists of
breakfast- ceral, yogurt, muffin, milk-
snack-cheese and crackers
lunch-chicken nuggets, fries, apple sauce, juice
snack- bagel and creame cheese
dinner- beef and bean enchiladas, spanish rice, milk
dessert- 1 cookie (they also as of right now get on small chocolate a night because of their christmas calenders.
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December 20th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
In all honesty with a few exceptions (nuts for example) older babies and young children should have a healthy diet that doesn’t differ too much from ours. Lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, low salt and sugar etc. Babies still need full fat versions of foods such as yogurt, and shouldn’t be drinking cows milk yet (breast milk or formula only for first 12 months). They also don’t need as much fibre as adults. But other than that they can eat the family diet. 5 year olds can have cows milk as their drink and eat pretty much what everyone else in the family eats.
A 9 month old baby is on a solid diet- solid foods are introduced from 4-6 months, although the advice is to wait until 6 months before introducing food other than milk to a baby.
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