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...

Preschoolers are active, bubbly, cute, spirited and adorable children (below 5 years). There are a lot of growth activities taking place inside their cells. They need a lot of nutrition to support such activities. Nevertheless, most of these preschoolers are pretty opinionated about eating. Some of them may even have grown a food faddism. At times, they may not eat anything at all. But one needs to add nutrition to their palate. How can a person do that? Let us see if this works. -  Eating with Family These kids are very eager to eat what others are eating. They are always curious to taste such food. This is also an opportunity to offer the right balance of nutrition to the child. Since family meals usually feature an assortment of meals in moderate quantities, the child can get a bit of everything from different family members. This can fulfill its need for nutrition to some extent. Offer some portions of lean meat, eggs, poultry, whole grains, legumes etc....