APT diet solutions by Apeksha Thakkar

  Ways to deal with FUSSY EATERS (AGE 3-5 Years) As a practicing dietitian for more than a decade, I encounter cases in my daily practice about mothers getting anxious about their children nutrition. Caregivers often request me to help them with some enchanted tonics, which can take care of little one’s immunity and weight; Bid on prescribing multivitamin tonics available over the counter on the prescription letter head has become quite rampant these days. The most common grumble I hear dealing with paediatric cases, ‘Ma’am I’m trying my level best to feed right nutrition to my little one, but he/she is refusing and not cooperating, I’m losing out on my patience’. As a healthcare professional, I find this extremely noteworthy to aid certain strategies, by providing required guidance to the mothers to handle fuss eating in compliant ways. Let’s discuss important pointers for the caregiver for smooth, efficient journey towards optimum nutrition. Prompt starter:  : Researches hav...

T he most common complain health practitioners come across on a daily basis is about kids’ unwillingness to eat nutritionally thriving vegetables. With the cessation of breastfeeding and initiation of the process called weaning, this transition holds a lot of importance to develop appropriate food taste for kids of a very young age. Apart from using traditional methods like roasting, stir-frying, steaming there are other ways of making a child eat almost all class of vegetables. If introduced at an early age, kids can befriend vegetable culture quite comfortably. The below-mentioned guidelines will ensure smoother, healthier and enjoyable fondness towards eating vegetables without any pertaining signs of force-feeding(As that never helps). Vegetable Purees are the best: – This is the most easily-accepted technique, as that comfortably hides a vegetable in a blended version. They are also very good for efficient digestion. Purees can be made up of practically any vegetable and by ...