Concetti Chiave
- Young children require nutrient-rich diets including proteins, energy foods, minerals, and vitamins to support rapid growth and activity.
- Meals for young children should include diverse food groups like milk, meat, fish, eggs, legumes, vegetables, and fruits, and should be prepared using easily digestible methods.
- Older children, who are also active and growing, need diets that provide ample energy alongside body-building and protective nutrients.
- Adolescents experience rapid growth and have increased appetites, requiring diets rich in proteins, carbohydrates, and vitamins.
- Adolescent girls need increased iron intake to prevent anemia, compensating for menstrual iron loss.
Nutritional needs of Young Children
• Young children, like infants from 0-1 years and toddlers 1-2 years, are growing rapidly. They are also very active, they require food for growth and their activities.
Guidelines for providing children's meals:
- the food must be rich in protein for body building, energy foods for their activities, minerals and vitamins for protection and vitality.
- their food should be rich in milk, meat, fish, eggs, legumes for example beans, soya beans, yams, potatoes, vegetables and fruits.
- meal times should be regular.
- young children's meals must be cooked by the most easily digested methods.
- an excessive consumption of sweets and candied that may lead to tooth decay should be avoided.
- meal time for children should be a pleasurable time.
• Older children: These are also growing and active. They equally need body building and protective foods. They spend much energy at play. Therefore they require sufficient energy giving foods in their diets.
• Adolescents: Adolescence is a period for rapid growth ( about the age of ten to twelve years). The adolescents therefore need proper feeding.
They also have increased appetite. Their food should be rich in protein, carbohydrates,'unwraps and vitamins.
• Adolescent girls: Require increased intake of iron. This is to make up for that which they lose monthly during menstruation.
Insufficient supply of iron in the girls diet can result in "anaemia".
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