Appropriate nutrition for children in hot
season is always problem that makes mothers have headache.
Hot weather will make babies tired and
crave for cold foods… Appropriate nutrition for babies in this period always
makes mothers have headache. So, how will mothers let children eat in hot
season?
Tasteless diet that is easy to digest
Some nutritious experts consider that in
hot season, mothers should let children eat foods that are tasteless. They can
help children digest easily and they have less oil. Hot season is the season
that has many kinds of fruit and vegetable such as cucumber, tomato, lettuce
and lentil… that are rich in vitamin C, carotene and mineral salt. These kinds
of vegetables can be used to process some dishes with garlic, so it can prevent
injection of bowel. You can add a little of vinegar to increase craving for
eating.
To provide enough water for babies’ body,
you should let children eat watermelon and fresh fruit juice. However, you shouldn’t
let children drink a lot of water and eat cold foods after eating.
To
provide enough water for babies’ body, you should let children eat watermelon
and fresh fruit juice.
Do not let children eat frozen foods
In hot days, may parents prepare lunch for
children in advance and after that they only need to put foods in microwave to
make them hot and let children eat. This thing is good for children, but frozen
foods aren’t encouraged. Therefore, parents need to pay attention to prepare
foods for children, lunch for children should be made in the morning and keep
it fresh in fridge. You shouldn’t prepare foods and keep them in a long time in
fridge.
In addition, parents should regularly
remind children to take cold water or foods out of fridge about 5-10 minutes
before eating. Especially, you shouldn’t let children eat foods that are too
hot or too cold.
Do not let children eat too many fast foods
Most children like to eat fast foods;
however, experts consider that you need to let children eat appropriately, and
shouldn’t prepare for children foods that they like. Fast foods don’t ensure to
provide enough nutrients for body. As a result, it will affect development and
growing of children.
According to experts, you need to make
children’s diet become diversified with enough kinds of fruit, vegetable, bean,
grain, egg, meat milk and other products in daily meals to maintain balance of
nutrients. Experts also advise parents not to use fast foods as reward for
children’s result.
Experts
also advise parents not to use fast foods as reward for children’s result.
Do not let children drink a lot of cold drinks or eat
ice-cream
In hot days, many children like to drink
cold water. Experts give advice that drinking a lot of cold drinks and eating
ice-cream will make concentration of glucose increase highly. As a result, it
can affect children’s normal diet.
Eating
a lot of ice-cream will affect children’s normal diet because concentration of
glucose increases highly.
According to experts, parents should only
let children eat snacks with a suitable amount and shouldn’t use them to
replaces main meals. Noshing of children before meal will reduce craving for
foods in main meals. Therefore, parents shouldn’t restore too many snacks in
house.
Note: When weather becomes hot, children
often have spot, heat rash and itch… So, parents should let children drink
kinds of cool and nutritious water more so that they can help children increase
resistance as well as deal with diseases that easily take place in hot season.
You shouldn’t let children eat a lot of ice-cream or hardening ice-cream
because it can make mucous membrane in mouth of children be harmed. For this
reason, children can easily catch diseases about respiratory system.
Moreover, you should also pay attention to
elements about weather because hot weather can affect children’s nutrition.
Children can easily catch diseases about diarrhea because of rancid foods. In
addition, it is caused when bacteria are born in hot and wet environment; it
can be caused by impure ice water.
