Children Daily Care

Obesity happens when there is a sustained period where the energy intake exceeds energy expenditure. While it is more commonly known to control the diet of your child to prevent or manage obesity, increasing energy expenditure and physical activity is also of equal importance so as to ensure that your child sufficiently expends the energy that is taken into his or her body.

Childhood obesity happens when there is a sustained period where the child’s energy intake exceeds his or her energy expenditure. Controlling your child’s diet and energy intake may be difficult as it requires the whole family to adopt a healthy lifestyle and diet rather than just the child. Here are some tips for preventing and managing obesity in your child, which includes giving your child a balanced diet, managing their food refusal and eating foods with low GI.

It is important to boost the immunity of children and safeguard their health as they have an immune system that is less prepared to deal with toxins. Also, when children enter child care or preschool, there will be an increase in the exposure to germs and environmental pollutants that will pose as health risks to them.

Growing up healthily in a child care centre: Find out how your child's nutritional needs will be met at the child care centre.

Praise: The Best Gift. Everyone enjoys praise; acknowledgment of effort is a precious gift we can give one another. However, it is not just that praise feels good, it is an effective tool for teaching children about good behaviour.

Raising Healthy Children: Tips For Healthy Eating: Switch sugar-rich foods with something more nutritious.Switch to whole grain options. Introduce the concept of eating like a rainbow to the children.