Class bells started to ring in schools. In these times, most parents focus on their children's school success and ignore school nutrition. But we should not forget that the source of children's success is a good school nutrition. School age is also a period when children's eating habits change and the foundations of the nutritional pattern they will follow throughout their lives are laid.
How Can We Prevent Malnutrition at School!
Since school-age children are in the age of growth and development, they must consume every food group in a balanced manner. We can list these food groups as meat group, dairy group, grain group and fruit-vegetable group. As we all know, most of the foods sold in school canteens are far from these food groups, and on the contrary, they consist of packaged products with very high sugar content, harmful fats, but with attractive appearances. Such foods pave the way for many metabolic disorders in children later in life and harm their growth and development.
Of course, we may not be able to control the food that children eat at school every minute of every day. Children may often turn to these tempting packaged foods at school, or they may not like the food served in the cafeteria and skip meals. To prevent these possibilities, you can prepare a lunch box for your children consisting of foods you have prepared yourself. In the lunch box, you can focus entirely on your child's tastes and favorite foods. You can make your child's snacks healthy by adding a sandwich made with kefir and whole wheat bread, your child's favorite nuts, and fresh fruits and dried fruits. In addition, you should definitely give your children the habit of having breakfast before sending them to school to prevent them from getting hungry quickly and turning to packaged foods during the day. A strong breakfast in the morning keeps the child fit during the day and increases school performance. You can arrange dinner by looking at the lunches served at school and ensure that your children have a balanced diet.
Teach children about proper nutrition with nutrition education!
Children should always You cannot keep track of what they eat, but you can give them proper nutrition habits by giving them nutrition education at home. Healthy nutrition begins and is learned within the family, with the role modeling of parents. With the beginning of school, these eating habits develop and change. For this reason, you should teach them to gain correct eating habits by telling them which foods are good for them at home, which foods are harmful and how they can grow in a healthy way. However, when teaching, you should not force or punish your children, but on the contrary, you should make them love healthy eating and gain this habit in a fun way. Finally, you should not forget that this is a natural process that continues throughout life.
I wish everyone a healthy and happy day..
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