ONE in FOUR children are picky eaters!
As a Nutritionist and mother of four wonderful children, I realizing the POWER and POTENTIAL in focusing on nutrition in the EARLY YEARS to set children up for a LIFETIME of good eating habits and optimum health.
TOP TIPS:
Encourage child to eat at a table.
Avoid snacking before meal time.
Chances of success in introducing a new food are higher when the child is hungry.
Remove food from packaging and serve in bowl or plate so the child does not grab onto visual identity and insists on only eating particular brand foods.
A child or person may learn to tolerate a food and not necessarily like it - this is okay.
Ensure meal time can be as relaxed, as possible. If the parent/caregiver gets easily frustrated from push-back, this may create a negative association with meal time.
Lead by example and keep processed foods to a minimum at home.
ADDRESS and PREVENT PICKY EATERS
Providing insight from well researched clinical studies, I guide parents with valuable tips and tools to encourage children to eat better.
DID YOU KNOW
Picky Eaters grab onto VISUAL identity of food - avoiding packaged foods or remove packaging is beneficial to ensure wider variety of food is eaten.
EAT a RAINBOW
Childhood is the PERFECT TIME to encourage your little person to ‘eat a rainbow’, because eating a variety of foods, all colors of the rainbow, will ensure a broad range of nutrients are taken into the diet, whereby reducing the risk of nutritional deficiencies which may lead to illness and disease in future.
FOOD AVERSIONS
If you don't like a particular food(s), chances are you will not offer that food to your child. Perhaps you are still getting used to certain foods?!
GOOD NEWS
The proven method, as used by world -renowned feeding clinics, is EASY for parents and LEAST STRESSFUL for children, with only one SMALL addition made to ONE meal of the day.
The POWER is in our hands NOW!
Our ability to INFLUENCE our children SHRINKS over time, and although it is not impossible to teach new behavior to picky eaters, it is much easier for parents/caregivers to address eating habits and behaviors of a child at a younger age.
Let’s work together to build healthy habits,
strengthen a child’s resistance to colds and flu,
and give them the building blocks for a healthy, long life.
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