Healthy And Full Breakfast
Only 7.5% of Spanish children performed a complete and balanced breakfast. Is your child one of them?
The breakfast is the most important meal of the day for a child should be a 30% of the nutrients that the body provides a day, as it provides the energy needed to cope with morning chores helps your physical and intellectual effort done at school. However, many times this breakfast is not complete nor balanced. The 20% of children just take a glass of milk and more than 55% does not include any fruit , just a carbohydrate such as crackers or cereal to accompany milk.
A healthy and complete breakfast should include:
- Milk. Milk or yogurt are an essential source of calcium, protein, iron and zinc.
- Cereals. Both as bread or flakes provide carbohydrates and help keep glucose levels in the body.
- Fresh fruit. Enter fruits provide vitamin C as orange juice or kiwis.
They should avoid fatty foods, bakery products, soft drinks and stimulants. If it takes some food to school to take in the recess , it should be sought in addition to breakfast and not as a substitute. In any case, always be maybe apiece of fruit that some pastries.
4 tips:
- Raises the child with time for breakfast. One of the problems preventing a complete breakfast are the rush, most breakfast in less than 10 minutes.
- Offer him the washed fruit and other prepared food and affordable.
- Fix up the table in an appealing way. The food "enters the eye" and more on the little ones d ela home. Help them to wake up the morning appetite with an attractive presentation. For example, an orange plate with fruit (kiwis, alternating orange) cut around and in the center a toast with jam accompanied by a bowl of funny drawings full of milk and cereals.
- Whenever possible, eat breakfast with your child. The best example is the director, so be the first to meet the standards of a good full breakfast and equlibrado.
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