what are the most nutritious foods for kids?
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Fruits, Vegetables, Cheese, Milk, \n\nThe 5 food groups.
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Generally, practicing good nutrition means balancing your daily food intake to incorporate healthful amounts of nutrients like protein (lean meats, low-fat milk, legumes),  and complex carbohydrates (green vegetables, fresh fruits, whole grains in bread and cereals).  Proper choices should result in foods high in dietary fiber, which are found in many fruits and vegetables, whole grains and legumes.  These foods help build muscle, aid digestion and are generally quickly metabolized.\n\nAt the same time, good nutrition dictates care in the intake of simple carbohydrates (refined and other sugars)and saturated fats (meat, dairy, many oils).  Simple carbs are often called "empty calories", since they have little benefit.  And while some fat is necessary in every diet, saturated fats are among the worst.\n\nA typical teen diet can easily be modified to accomodate good nutrition.  Fast food is not always the enemy; you just have to be aware of the alternatives to the typical burger-fries-coke that is the antithesis of good nutrition.  Incorporate more fresh fruit and vegetables as snacks.  Sandwiches made with whole wheat bread without cheese and mayonnaise but with lots of veggies is a suprisingly healthy choice.  Diet soda (especially sweetened with Splenda) are just as tasty, but with little or no calories. Nonfat milk is best, but 1% tastes just as good as 2%, but with half the fat.   Lean chicken or fish entrees, paired with wild rice or baked potato (it's what you put on it that's dangerous!) and green beans or broccoli is as healthy and nutritious a dinner as you will ever eat--and it's delicious!\n\nIt only takes a little bit of thinking to make the kinds of changes in your eating habits that will not only help you become a nutritious eater, but a healthier and more energetic one to boot.
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Don't force a kid to eat.  Instead do the following:\n\n--Give him vitamins.\n--Make sure he only has access to healthy foods.\n\nThink about quality, not quantity of food.  Otherwise, you'll set your child up for a lifetime of eating disorders and weight problems.  \n\nOnly provide healthy foods.  Just let the kid eat as much or as little as he wants.  He won't starve himself to death.\n\nPlus, it sounds like he needs his tonsils out.  A good diet can't improve bad tonsils.  Ask your doctor about a tonsilectomy.
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Vegetarian, lots of fat free milk, and water. Make sure you take pre-natal vitamins. You should eat healthy, you don't need to eat extra food, just enough that you are satisfied.
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Our 10 year old has been like that for a long time. We are all lacto- vegetarian and grow most of our food here too.  I have to blend-hide all sorts of veggies into everything we make (esp dark greens like kale, spinach, collards. We also grind up broccolli, cauliflower, carrots, misc squash in our misc recipes too.)  We are great at hiding so much stuff in and he never knows! We are amazed at how many awesome veggies we get into each gallon of spaghetti sauce or a vegetarian sloppy joe type sauce! As long as the sauce is mostly red in color and not too green we get away with it! He is sensitive to herbs I use too, so little by little I add more and he is adjusting and developing gradually, a more sophisticated palate. I use a Vita Mix and both the small hand held blenders, but any blenders can work.\n\nHe is good about the fruit.\n\nNow that he is ten and learning more details about nutrition as a science, we are asking him to start logging his diet into a computer program so he can see how high or low he was in his misc daily nutrients. He will be in fifth grade and he is good on the computer, so we are starting that this fall. (I have been a nutriton prof for decades) If he refuses to eat what we make for him, he is not allowed to make any of his favorites like ramen noodles or mac and cheese unless he adds a cup of veggies to it. I hope to teach him how to make some foods he has liked so he can take pride in his nutriton and skill in making something.\n\nWe make the following:\n\nvegetarian chili (lots of veggies in the sauce blended in!)\nveggie burgers (with lots of veggies to add on top like tomatoes, spinach leaves, cucumbers, grated carrots)\nsloppy joes with TVP (veggies hidden in sauce)\nspaghetti sauce with TVP (veggies hidden in sauce)\npizza (with lots of veggies hidden in sauce) he picks veggies to put on pizza...self serve veggie toppings before we put it in the oven\nstir fries with his favorite veggies\nraw finger veggies he likes with a healthy salad dressing type dip\nfalafels with pita bread and he puts his "salad" in the pocket\nbean tostadas with lots of "salad" for him to put on top\nwhite bean soup in a spagheti sauce type sauce (lots of veggies blended in)\nvegetarian eggless quiches with lots of veggies he likes\nveggie tempura type thing with different indian spices in the batter\n\nThese have worked great.  If he lived alone he would probably just eat junk, but gradually he will learn what he needs to know.
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The best foods are those naturally rich in water, melons, citrus fruits and so on. They will also have vitamins and nutrients to help maintain your daughters electrolyte balance as well. Your best bet is always water just bring a liter or two with you depending on how long you'll be out for. If your daughter doesn't like water than juice is fine too, pop would work but's not the best option. Your best bet for quickly rehydrating your daughter while she's out without throwing off here electrolye imbalance is to look at gatoraid, poweraid and other sprots variety drinks, yes they may be high in calories, but she'll be burning those off anyways. The plus is that the sports drinks have added sodium, vitamins and potassium that can become depleted while working out or sweating. \n\nThe best offense is a good defense, if your daughter is willing you could work her up to having 1.5 to 2 liters of water a day higher if she really enjoys sports and outdoor activities, that would help her body stay well hydrated indoors and out. \n\nIf it's a major problem, like she's getting sick from not having enough water, you should go to a doctor, but it doesn't sound that serious. Your body burns water when you're working out, if it's hot out when you're working out it will burn more you simply need to replace that water.
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How many kids DON'T eat junk food daily? That's the real question. Look around my brotha, the world is FAT! Anyway, I eat junk food daily (thankfully,  caught it before I became fat...and I am now trying to control it.) I also eat my fruits and veggies!
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This source link is great. Check out the heading "What You Should Eat & Why". Good luck!
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well we can start out by replacing junk food with heathy food in our schools and at home. exercise with our children by taking walks together. teach them about junk food and what it can do to our body's. parents should set the example.
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Reduce their intake of junk food and focus more on physical activity.Control TV viewing and video games and instead set an example to kids by eating healthy and doing physical activities yourself.Make them more conscious of their appearance and encourage them to look smart.Make them realize the importance of not coming across as sloppy people.
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With A Child you really want to take him to a registered dietition.Who can give you suggestions in a safe and scientific way.\n\nYou do not want to try and give him fatty sugar laden foods to gain weight because that is not good for their health in the long run!\n\nIncrease the childs overall caloric intake,make sure you give them a multi-vitamin supplement as well,give them nutritious meals full of whole grains,vegetables,fruits,protein sources like nuts,seeds,eggs,cheeses and meat,make sure the child does not have a thyroid problem and/or food allergies that can be contributing to the problem.\n\nSnacks of dried fruits,nuts and seeds are are high in calories and very nutritious.\n\ncut up apple with organic peanut butter,almond or other nut butters gives them good fats,protein and calories.\n\ncheeses and fruits would also be good provided the child is not allergic to dairy products,in that case you could do almond or other health food cheeses.\n\nwhole grain bread and organic butter is another good option,you could do whole cream cheese on top of a whole grain cracker.....\n\nGood luck!
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I would say as little as possible.  You want them to get fat?  There is no "daily allowance" as if they NEED sugar.  Drink Juice (100% and not sugar water) instead of pop.  Fruit in stead of sweets!  Dried fruits are yummy because their sweetness in concentrated.  Granola bars and fruit snacks are not as healthy as you might think.  If you want to spoil them occasionally, fine.  They will appreciate it more if it's not an everyday thing.  And another thing, I would avoid any cerial that has a cartoon character as their mascot.
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Firstly, stop being a twelve year old girl.  Secondly, protein, foo', protein.  Meat, cheese, milk, nuts, beans, and thirdly, anything nutrient dense.  Think whole grain bagels, not cheetos.
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Simple site for kids:\nhttp://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/vitamin.html\nBreaking down vitamins:\nhttp://home.kc.rr.com/philj413/health/vitamins.htm\nMore info:\nhttp://sparkpeople.com/resource/nutrition_articles.asp?id=116\nHere's mineral link:\nhttp://www.promatrixtech.com/Minerals.htm
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1. Iron foods - Best thing to overcome the problem\nGive them enough Spinach. If they don't like it. Make some patties or pastries with spinach. They will love to eat it. Spinach is 100% of iron.\n\n2. If the iron level is too low, give them an iron tonic (children love to have syrup than tablets) until they overcome the lower level.
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Any kind of meat, poultry, fish etc.\n\nBeans\nEggs\nNuts\nWhole Grains\nMilk and other dairy
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http://nutritiondata.com/index.html\n\nIt's the best I've seen.