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Does your child complain of fatigue and is less energetic? This could be due to nutritional loss in your child. Know foods that helps to cope up with the nutritional loss in children.
CHAT with our award winning nutritionist Puja Vasisht, and know how to cope up with nutritional loss in toddlers?
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Puja Sharma Vasisht
Hi Rojalin, you have not giving details regarding your child's age and which eating habits you would want to change! However, you can always encourage your child to sit with family at meal times to encourage your family eating habits in him.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Give him healthy options, which should be what the family is eating.
Try including his favourite healthy options for the meals.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
You can make snacks healthier by using whole grain flour, vegetables & fruits.
Try & make regular food interesting like chapatti veggies as Kathi roll or vegetables, cheese/shredded chicken spread over roti with ketchup.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
You should include whole grains like dalia, bajra, whole wheat, rice, ragi, different pulses, vegetables fruits, egg/fish/poultry, nuts and dried fruits, milk products etc. in his daily diet to make it healthier.
my daughter of 8years old complains that shs get tired in few minutes when she runs .what is the rea....
my daughter of 8years old complains that shs get tired in few minutes when she runs .what is the reason please advise me
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Hi Gayatri, you can focus on proteins, iron and calcium in her diet more.
For good quality proteins include eggs, fish, poultry, cheese, paneer, soybean (nuggets, soymilk, tofu) whole dals, beans & legumes.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
For Iron include dark green leafy vegetables, legumes, beans, mutton especially liver part,bajra, dalia, citrus fruits, dates and jaggery in her diet.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
You can give milk, milk products like cheese/paneer, curd; ragi, sesame seeds etc for her calcium. You may also consult your doctor for vitamin D supplements to help in calcium absorption.
hello dr ny dauggter is 2.10 year old..her weight is 11kg..she is preterm baby..birth weight was 2.3....
hello dr ny dauggter is 2.10 year old..her weight is 11kg..she is preterm baby..birth weight was 2.3 kg..she is preschooler ...she is a staburn child..she does not share her stuffs..tell me about nutritional diet for preschooler..
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Hi Shilpi, the weight gain according to her birth weight is fine, though little low for her age.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Increase intake of dals/legumes, eggs (hard boiled cut into small bite sized pieces or omlette etc.) poultry/fish (curry, snacks, cutlets, tikka, in rice or in soup).
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Use whole milk and its products like curd, paneer, cheese, buttermilk etc. You may give these as fruit shakes/ fruit lassi. Cheese or paneer can be cut into small bite sized cubes, so that they can use their fingers to eat these. Alternatively paneer/cheese can be added to their roti/sandwich/dosa/uttapam etc.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Give more of fruits like mango, banana, cheeku,litchi, grapes, dates. These may be added to their milkshakes as well.
Give more of potato, sweet potato, colocassia, yam besides other vegetables. You may add these to their roti/sandwich.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Include nuts like walnut, almonds, peanuts, dried fruits(dates, raisins, currants apricots)and seed (flaxseed, sesame, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds) in daily diet.
hello mam, my daughter is 1 n half year now a days she is not taking interest in any food not even m....
hello mam, my daughter is 1 n half year now a days she is not taking interest in any food not even milk. I try my best to give her food in different flavors bt she is not taking interst what should I do??
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Hi Nitu, children in this age tend to get assertive about their food like and dislikes.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
You can try these tips to help in her food intake
Be creative and serve a variety of brightly colored foods and cut foods into various shapes.You can make some star/crescent shaped chapatti, sandwich or even cheela
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Add colour to food by using spinach, cucumber, carrots, beetroot, pumpkin, strawberries or any bright coloured fruit or vegetable
Puja Sharma Vasisht
You can give finger foods like cutlets, hard boiled eggs, small sandwiches, rolls, whole fruits as children in this age like to eat with their hands.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Allowing your child to fill up on juice or milk for most part of the day might decrease her appetite for meals.So restrict her milk, juice intake.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Make positive comments about the food you are eating, such as "this is yummy!", your toddler may be more willing to try them.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
You may weave a story around food item, like a round tomato as a ball or a make a stool of 2-3 biscuits and something is sitting and falling from it.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Make eating joyful and pleasant experience for her. Make her sit with family to have meals.
Keep appropriate gap, to ensure hunger of least 2-3 hours between her meals
hi...my baby is 2 years old but she is not eating any food or vegetival
hi...my baby is 2 years old but she is not eating any food or vegetival
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Hi Vandana, children in this age group get fussy about their food habits.
Keep a gap of atleast 2-3 hours between each meal, so that your child is hungry enough to eat.
Fix the meal times and serve food at those times only and not in between.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Be creative and serve a variety of brightly colored foods and cut foods into various shapes.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
You can boil different vegetables daliy like spinach, beets, carrot etc and knead the dough in their puree to give different colured roti/poori/parantha everday.
This would also ensure vegetables in your child's diet.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
These puree can be added to curd, to pasta, rice, upma, idlis also
Puja Sharma Vasisht
You also need to restrict the milk, juice intake, as the child might be filling her stomach with these liquid foods only.
Both my sons and wife is thalsemic minor. Both the kids complaint of tiredness. I don't think I had....
Both my sons and wife is thalsemic minor. Both the kids complaint of tiredness. I don't think I had ever done these kinds of complaints during my childhood days. Please let me know what should we include in the diet so that they don't get tired so fast.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Hi Sudhanshu, the diet of your children should be balanced in all aspects of nutrients. For that you should include dalia, bajra, whole wheat, rice, ragi, different pulses, vegetables fruits, egg/fish/poultry, nuts and dried fruits, milk products etc. in the diet.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Give good quality proteins from eggs, fish, poultry, cheese, paneer, soybean (nuggets, soymilk, tofu) whole dals, beans & legumes.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Include nuts like walnut, almonds, peanuts, dried fruits(dates, raisins, currants apricots)and seed (flaxseed, sesame, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds) in daily diet.
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Try and give sprouted beans and fermented foods like idli, dosa, dhokla etc
Puja Sharma Vasisht
Do take advice of your paediatrician also on this.
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