Form a taste of how to instill in the child a habit to love healthy food

Everyone knows that proper nutrition - one of the factors of health of the whole organism. How to create a child's right habits and taste preferences, to inculcate the habit and taste for healthy meals?
Taste preferences of the child are not related to heredity or characteristics of the organism, much taste preferences - a matter of habit. And the task of us as parents, these habits form properly in early childhood.
Proper healthy diet needs a good permanent "advertisement". Here are the main stages of a child's passion for wholesome food.

1. While the baby is still in my mother's tummy

The right thing to start "public relations" healthy food during pregnancy, when the baby develops in utero. In fact, being a mother tummy, crumb swallows amniotic fluid, which contains aromatics those products that mother eats.

By the 28th week of fetal development, the child reflects mimicry their impression of taste - taste (sweet) gives him pleasure, sour, spicy, bitter causes wrinkling face.
After the 32 th week of pregnancy the baby is already happy to swallow the amniotic fluid, which he liked, and vice versa, trying to swallow her as little as possible for one that has an unpleasant taste.
The composition of the food of the future mother directly influences the taste preferences of the baby with the introduction of complementary foods first: that the mother ate often, the baby will accept with pleasure, and on the contrary, those products that were not in my mother's menu during pregnancy or fall into it very rarely will a disgust.

2. Breast-feeding

The next important step in laying the bricks forming the taste preferences of the baby - baby food up to a year.
Breastfeeding the baby take over her mother's taste preferences to certain products that likes to have a mother, and the baby will love.
Children on artificial feeding will continue to be more indulgent food with a sour and bitter taste than other peers.

3. Advertisement useful products

Studies show that children are interested in unfamiliar dishes and are ready to try 10 times more than the familiar food.
Do not force your child to eat what he rejects, or instead of love, he hates it forever. Wait until the child will be interested.
To attract attention and help induce sympathy for wholesome food can make it as accessible as possible for the child. Put a plate with fruits and vegetables on the table in the dining room or in the nursery baby.

If you are happy to eat healthy food and offer her child, he will get used to eating that way. The child develop into a preference for vegetables and fruits rather than chocolates and biscuits

The child is easier to adopt a new product, if you mix it with food already familiar. For example, a fish for the first time let us, to mix it to a favorite of soup or vegetable puree.
The smell of food plays an important role in shaping a child's taste preferences. Give preference to home-cooked meals on their own, rather than bought in cooking. If a child child will hear from the kitchen quenching flavors roasting vegetables, such as for life such odors will associate him with his native home.

4. Avoid satiation

In the formation of healthy eating habits, it is important not to allow satiety to any one product. If something a child eats too much, for example, is very fond of corn porridge, and you will be happy to give it to him every day, very soon it may flatly refuse porridge, making it into a "black list". Alternate food, make food in variety.

You will be interested to know, some fish to give the child as the first feeding.