by Amy Norton
health reporter
Diet For Rapid Fat Loss - A Little Fat, Sugar OK for Kids If Diet Is Healthy: Study
Monday, (Health News) - Cutting Junk Food of children's diets is important, but if a little sugar and fat helps them eat their vegetables, this is a good trade-off , a leading group of pediatricians say.
New recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics emphasize the importance of introducing children to a wide variety of "integral food" - fruits and vegetables, whole grains and nuts, to fish and low dairy.
and doing this, parents need to make palatable foods, let's say the guidelines published on February 23 online in Pediatria magazine.
in the last decade "tremendous progress" was made in improving the nutritional quality of meals and snacks available in US schools, said Dr. Robert Murray, a human nutrition professor at the State University of Ohio and Co- Author of the Academy Recommendations.
Still, Murray said, there is work to be done in renovating the general diet of US children - including lunches and sack snacks that they bring to school.
And although it is important to limit processed foods - often high in sugar, salt or fat - parents should not focus only on reducing things "bad" of their children's diets, Murray said.
"I think people can be thrown off the track when a nutrient is labeled" bad, "he said." All food categories can be discarded. "
If the only milk, a small child will drink is flavored milk, for example, extra sugar may be worthwheat - as long as the child's general diet has limits on sugary foods, according to the Academy Recommendations.
In the same way, if a pinch of brown sugar receives your child to eat oats, or a little salt and fat - like vegetable oil or cheese - will encourage you to eat your vegetables, so parents should not be afraid to use them, said Murray.
"Think of sweeteners, fat, salt and spices like ways to make foods rich in more palatable nutrients for children," he said.
Children's eating habits are a national concern because of the high prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States. As children had fat M in high calorie foods, their diets have become limited or disabled in the main nutrients, the directory authors say.
The advice of the organization is the sound, said Wesley Delbridge, a registered diet and spokesman for the Nutrition and Dietetics Academy.
"An entire diet approach is where it is," said Delbridge. He agreed that judicious use of sugar, fat and salt can go far to make children eat healthy foods.
"Children as sauces and dips," Delbridge said. Then they will be more willing to eat vegetables, he watched, if they are served with a small amount of homemade ranch sauce made of low-fat yogurt, or hummus (a dip made of chickpeas).
is also a good idea, said Delbridge, to involve children in shopping preparation and supermarket meals, and to give them choices - asking them which fruits or vegetables they want at lunch, for example .
Introduction A wide variety of healthy foods from an early age is important, but also assumes patience, observed Delbridge.
"takes an average of 12 exhibitions to a new food for a child to accept it," he said. "Do not be discouraged if your child does not like something for the first time. Try again, try with different cooking techniques."
Feeling for dinner as a family is also key, said Delbridge. It's a chance for parents to teach their healthy eating children and "bind" with them, he said.
"Make dinner fun," he advised. "These vegetables can end up becoming a" comfort food "for your child because they are tied to good memories."
and children do not need to be deprived of all sweets, since this can only lead to desire, Delbridge and Murray said.
"Maybe you can move them from a chocolate chip cookie for a cookie of oatmeal," Murray said. "If you make little things like that, throughout the diet, it will make a difference."
Murray serves in the speakers of the speakers for the National Council of Leitians and the American Dairy Association.
