The Need For Good Child Diet

The need for good child diet

Food influences in a decisive way the process of developing children. The importance of healthy and balanced eating is justified both from the point of view of health and from disease prevention.

Therefore, we must raise awareness of the students of the need to feed correctly so that this development and growth process occurs satisfactorily.

Today, food is an issue that raises controversies and is found in everyone’s lips. The spectacular advances that have experienced food and nutrition sciences in recent decades reveal the importance of adequate food as one of the best ways for promoting health and physical and emotional well -being.

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this research is that we know the food level of children, how we can improve their diet, mainly raise awareness of the father of the bad food consumption that is leaving the little ones in the house how habit. If we create a food routine that gives us the ability to have a country with better numbers regarding the amount already of people with this food, it would be something exceptional, and what better way to achieve it than to start from childhood, stage inThe one that adults depend on us definitively, if the person is educated and taught to nourish themselves properly in the future we will have a healthy adult, or at least considerably descend the amount of diseases that in largepart are due to overweight.

INFORMATION

Current situation of the Mexican child around food

Education with limited learning:

• 8 out of 10 girls and boys of 6th grade do not reach the expected achievements in the areas of language and communication.
• Almost 3 out of 10 adolescents between 15 and 17 are out of school.

In order to increase learning and educational quality indices in Mexico, UNICEF suggests relevant learning through curricular autonomy, taking into account the contexts in which girls, boys and adolescents live. UNICEF also recommends strengthening early alert systems at the national level so that the information received from these systems can be used by educational authorities in the prevention of school abandonment.

Obesity and overweight

1 in 20 girls and boys under 5 years old and 1 in 3 between 6 and 19 years suffer overweight or obesity. This places Mexico among the first places in child obesity worldwide, a problem that occurs more often in the northern states and in urban communities.

Malnutrition

1 in 8 girls and boys under 5 years of age suffers chronic malnutrition. Malnutrition occurs mainly in the states of southern Mexico and in rural communities rather than in urban ones;The most affected are indigenous households.

Breastfeeding

In Mexico only 3 out of 10 babies feed only with breast milk during their first 6 months of life. Breast milk is the best food for babies, since it gives them all the nutrients they need and helps prevent many diseases;It also gives mothers benefits.

FAO explains that, for the maintenance of organic functions, growth and development it is necessary to consume food in adequate quantities. If the organism does not receive enough nutritional substances, nutritional problems such as anemia and malnutrition occur;If alterations such as obesity are ingested excessively, which tends to be associated with degenerative chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension and cardiovascular diseases.

Food and health

Today, food is an issue that raises controversies and is found in everyone’s lips. The spectacular advances that have experienced food and nutrition sciences in recent decades reveal the importance of adequate food as one of the best ways for promoting health and physical and emotional well -being.

There is no ideal diet that serves everyone, but a universal criterion in terms of the type of food that must be consumed within the daily diet, which on the one hand guarantees that the energy and nutritional needs of all of the entirePeople who make up a healthy population, and on the other, collaborate in the prevention of certain alterations and diseases related to food imbalances.

A correct, varied and complete food is essential. A balanced diet whose most recognized model is the Mediterranean diet, which allows on the one hand, that our body works normally and on the other, prevents or at least reduces the risk of suffering certain alterations or diseases in the short and long term. It is enough to remember the impact that diseases such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, eating disorders are in our society … are related to unbalanced diet.

It is essential, therefore, to enhance from the school environment the need for a balanced diet, through health education as a transverse subject.

Balanced feeding is one that includes sufficient diversity of food in the appropriate amounts, depending on the characteristics of each person and their lifestyle (active, sedentary …), and that guarantees that the energy and nutrient requirements that are coveredOur body needs to maintain a good nutritional, health and well -being state.

Thus, we have to provide children with a menu according to their physical and nutrient rich activity. We must not, under any circumstances, do without:

• Proteins: In our society it is very difficult to have protein deficiencies. They come from meats and fish, which is recommended to take them on the plate, and eggs.
• Minerals and vitamins: They are totally essential in children’s diets: iron, calcium, vitamin D or zinc are necessary for the optimal development of the little ones.

The most recommended foods are legumes, while they are energy, they are also low in fat. Blue fish, olive oil, vegetables, dairy and fruits are mandatory products that we cannot suppress in your diet. Precooked foods will be banished to oblivion, since they contain a high amount of calories.

Aspects to carry out a good diet

A healthy lifestyle is one that provides the individual with the highest quality of life, eliminating diseases and providing physical, mental and social well -being, both in the present and in the future, for this it is important that food is correct. This aspect in current western society is very

important due to the large number of overweight people and psychological diseases such as bulimia or anorexia, avoiding excessive intake as well as malnutrition and problems it carries. Some aspects that detail how the feeding of children and that we must promote from Early Childhood Education are:

• Varied: Children have to eat everything and taste the flavors of different foods. The key to educating them in healthy eating habits is to offer a varied diet from their first years of life. It is difficult for the child to learn to eat well if he has not given them the possibility of making contact with a wide variety of food in all their forms.
• Healthy: food with less fat must be chosen, with salt paca, abundant, vegetables and in quantities that are consistent with your appetite and your needs.
• Balanced: breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner should be combined and thus made a balanced diet. Food should be distributed throughout the day so that the body obtains from them the nutrients it needs, according to their demands.
• Nutritious: food from all groups must be offered so that you can choose the ones you like the most. And it is important to prevent children from consuming superfluous foods, full of empty color, such as sweets, chucheías … or precooked like pizza and hamburgers.
• APPEECIBLE: If foods are cooked in different ways, combine the foods we know that students like less with others who like more and present the dishes at the table attractive, we have many guarantees that foodIt is more appealing.
• Funny: They can be part of the purchase, meal preparation, prepare the table … This can be an opportunity for good habits and in addition to that they have the pleasure of enjoying at the food.
• Surprising: teach them everything we know about food, what they are for, what functions they develop in the body ..
• Educational: It is essential that healthy eating habits are carried out at home and at school.

For all this, it is necessary to join forces to educate in a healthy and balanced diet.

NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION

The eating habits acquired in these stages of early childhood education are decisive in food behavior in adulthood, it can influence the behaviors of the following generations. Education should therefore be considered as an indispensable tool in the prevention of eating disorders.

Through nutritional education, it is intended to modify the food behavior of people, since it constitutes an effective instrument to promote health and prevent disease.

Not only is the school where students are nutritionally educated, since in this work the family, the environment and the social media (television, cinema, etc. are decisive.). Eating habits can only be understood in a biographical context of concrete socio-psychological and cultural factors.

Educational implications

The establishment in the School of Health Education, within this, for proper food, is justified in todayCurrent family. A family in which their nature and the role that parents play, has changed a lot. But the need for correct food that children and teachers have to work for proper food in children have not changed the need for children.

Family implications

The family is the direct agent in the child’s food process, since food is an act of the family environment. This implication is specified in essential aspects that are the following:

• The elaboration and presentation of food.
• The preparation of the table and the elements distributed in it.
• The adequacy of the amount of food to the child’s appetite, without exceeding the logical limits of quantities or creating problems by default.
• The attitude of adults to act regularly and coherence.

Teaching implications

Early Childhood Education must address food among its educational contents.

The purpose of educational performance is to create healthy habits, within health education. Basic teaching implications consist of:

• Guide eating habits in those children who, for various reasons, do not have adequate behaviors.
• Instill healthy attitudes through awareness and personal conviction.
• Help children to understand the need to take certain foods and restrict others.

Didactic proposals

There are many activities that we can carry out to promote from schools and more specifically from childhood education classrooms, adequate eating habits.

Then I explain some didactic proposals that can be carried out in the children’s classrooms:

• We prepare the weekly menu for breakfast
• The development of units or projects that have as theme the food.
• The introduction of stories that are based on correct feeding. Some are:
• In the kitchen with the three twins of Roser Capdevila.
• Lila learns to eat from Eduarda summer Sancho, Montse Doménico.
• Good manners at the table of Patricia Gais
• Tales to eat without stories …

CONCLUSION

Food is a section within the transverse issue of health education, so we can develop activities around the subject throughout the course following a globalized methodology, that is, working the reader-writing, logical-mathematics, psychomotor …Around food.

We must also take into account the need for a close collaboration between school school, since eating hours develop fundamentally at home, with the family.

The correct way to control this is having a good diet, food made at home since outside food is even more processed, they contain more chemicals and that is what can affect children, this will help improve theChild metabolism.