The standard diet for your baby follows the nutrition pyramid

The baby preparing to eat is also the time when the mother needs to pay attention to the nutrition tower. Based on specific information about the use of scientific food, mothers will build a nutritional menu for children in each stage.

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What is the Nutrition Tower?

Child Nutrition Tower

Nutrition pyramid for preschool children

Nutrition pyramid is not a new concept in medicine nor new to modern young mothers, but not enough "coverage" to reach all mothers using breast milk. But this is the era of technology, just want,  after giving birth, mothers can start to learn specific information to build the perfect weaning diet for babies.

What is the Nutrition Tower?

With the desire to help people choose a reasonable, nutritionally balanced diet to keep their body healthy, nutrition experts have visualized the amount of food consumed by a person in the month, arranged according to each food group like the Egyptian pyramids, called the "Tower of Nutrition".

The Nutrition pyramid is used to illustrate the average amount of food that experts recommend an adult should eat per person per month to prevent disease.

The balanced nutrition pyramid helps mothers to visualize specifically how to use each food

Currently, the nutrition tower consists of 7 floors in order from the bottom so the top includes:

Food

Green vegetables

Ripen fruits

Animal meat group

Fat group

Salt sugar

The food groups at the top of the pyramid should be limited to eating, and the foods at the bottom of the pyramid should allow more.

Child Nutrition Tower

When babies eat weaning, mothers are also advised to ensure that they provide enough 4 main food groups: starch, fat, protein, fiber. Of course, for those who are already solidly eating, that is around 8 months of age onwards.

Depending on the age, the child's diet will change. Specifically, when babies start to eat solids, they should not feed much because at this time it is necessary to balance breastfeeding , food is just training gradually, does not play an essential role in providing nutrition.

When the baby is 18 months old, the baby's diet is equivalent to that of an adult, consisting of 3 meals and 2 snacks a day. Children can use about 450-700ml of milk and dairy products with 100-150ml of juice per day. Note that giving children only fresh fruit juice to limit the use of carbonated soft drinks or bottled fruit juices as much as possible.

Calculation of diets for infants in early life is very important. If the diet is appropriate, the child will avoid common diseases such as obesity, rickets, diabetes. The child's need for fat in meals does not exceed 30%, so mothers should not use saturated fat contained in meat, dairy products, palm oil, and coconut oil. Sugar often provides great energy but has low nutritional value, so it is also limited to use.

How much to eat to grow up? In fact, about 17% of children are facing obese malnutrition. Mother's solution would be: Either let your child eat as much as he wants, or force your child on a diet. Either way is not good for your baby's health and development. Instead, you should plan a scientific diet for your child to support ...

Nutrition pyramid for preschool children

The ration to ensure energy for preschool children is 1300 Kcal, with reasonable micronutrients. To help make it easy to estimate the amount of each food to be eaten, the amount of food is presented in terms of serving units per food. The food groups on the same floor are interchangeable.

Every child's developmental stage needs an appropriate diet

Morning, Noon

2 units of grain

1/2 unit of vegetable

1 unit of meat

1 unit of milk

2 units of grain

1 vegetable unit

1 fish unit

1 unit of milk

1 fruit unit

2 units of grain

1/2 unit of vegetable

1.5 egg units

2 units of milk

1 fruit unit

In addition to diet, ensuring physical activity is extremely necessary for children to develop well and have good health. There are no specific recommendations but according to World Health Organization recommendations for 5-year-olds who need moderate or higher physical activity (such as walking, running, jumping rope, tag games, basketball football, swimming, cycling…) for at least 60 minutes a day. You can split up the exercise time but at least 10 minutes each.

Thus, with the maternal nutrition tower, worries about the baby's diet will be reduced. However, in order to ensure that the baby has the most scientific, reasonable and complete nutrition regimen for the baby alone, mothers need to consult more nutrition experts.