What could be easier than calm the child candy, chocolate please, to give the New Year box of sweets? Alas, most of the candy, you should not be given to children up to 5 years.
From 0 to 6 months. The child does not need any food other than mother's milk, or special blend, which it replaces. Juices, fruit drinks, and especially sweets such young children is contraindicated.
From 6 months to 1 year. At this time, parents usually begin to lure a child: introduce him to adult foods. Traditionally, it is vegetables, cereals, dairy products and meat. If the age of the child fell to the season of berries and fruits, can be pureed and try to offer the baby. If you want to pamper baby sweet or worried that savory food he does not eat, give preference to bananas, sweet baked apples, peaches, seasonal berries.
Do not rely on family stories that you yourself have a 1-year-fed biscuits or bagels, about that "so convenient to sharpen teeth, and generally so long you can take the child." From the point of view of health, in addition cookies or other additional sugar in the baby food is not the slightest need, and milk teeth from sweets only suffer because deteriorate enamel.
Please note that in the majority of infant cereals that are sold in stores in the form of powder, sugar is present, especially if the name indicates that cereal with fruit. In this case it is better to buy a dairy-free cereal that has no sugar, and add the milk already in the cooking time, if you think it necessary ingredient.
From 1 year to 2 years. At this age, the baby begins to suspect that a piece of cake, which is happy to eat Mom and Dad - it's not "kaka", but just the opposite. Because the main guarantee health care for the children - on himself set an example of healthy eating.
Like it or not, up to 2 years, almost every kid necessarily acquainted with sweets: treat grandmother will bring a present guests, buy my mother in an attempt to rein in hysterics, etc. Warn grandmothers that it is sweet, you can give a child at this age: dried fruits, homemade marmalades and fruit candy, sweets, which are 100% fruit, a special children's biscuits without the addition of palm oil.Remember that it is not necessary in the pursuit of a healthy diet to replace the usual sweets on diabetes, as part of which the fructose. Excessive consumption of it violates the appetite and creates other health problems.
children over 2 years It may be in limited quantities to give chocolate and honey, a slice of homemade apple cake, low-fat ice cream.
Sucking candies, caramel 4-5 years can not be given for safety reasons, even if the candy on a stick. Also banned chewing candy and all sweets, which contain margarine and palm oil (which is almost all the shops cakes, pastries and other desserts). Of course, children under 5 years old should not be given sugary carbonated beverages, in which sugar rolls.
Ideally, the sweets that you give the children have to be home-made, the maximum lean and savory. For example, you can prepare jelly with fruit pieces, replacing the gelatin in the agar. Do not go on about the child, if it lacks the sweetness from store shelves because from your steadfastness of its health depends directly.
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