High School Age People - What is a 'balanced diet' for a toddler?

[arabianequine]

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Sometimes, it is more a case of 'children learn what they live.' You can send them to school & have the best teachers there, but if they go home to something totally different, they're going to go with what is 'normal' & 'familiar' to them, thus, passing on poor eating habits to their kids & so on.
I'm not saying that the cycle can't be broken; I know it can.

True they are home more then being educated so they will learn what they live more then likely....will power is a whole different story and I am a bad one to learn it from.

 

[call ducks]

Heehe, here in NS they have this healthy food act thingy... So there is No...

-Pop
-chips
-some types of cookies
- or any surgery foods.


a balanced diet for a 2-4 year old (ummm)

1-2 servings from the Meat and Alternatives

I think 1-2 servings of Dairy products

3-4 servings of Fruits and Veg.

1-3 servings of Grain.


Now i am not 100% on this but took what would be a recommended 'diet' for me and cut it in half.

 

[welsummerchicks]

The parents of the scurvey kid said he didn't like anything other than oatmeal.

However, when they returned to the hospital for a followup visit, the kid was eating a variety of foods and had recovered from scurvey.

So if it can be changed that quickly, I would say it was far more about what his parents wanted to feed him than what he wanted.

I could not believe that kid was in such horrible pain, blood pouring out of his mouth...

I don't think outside of out and out physical abuse, I have seen anything so bad.

I also think that was severe enoughh that social services should have been called in and put some serious heat on the parents, so the would be afraid to ever do anything like that again.

 

[jerseygirl1]

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Now THAT is a priceless memory!!!!!!!!!!

 

[SallyF]

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In a previous life (like about 35 years ago) I was a dietetic intern in an unnamed hospital. We saw a baby (somewhere between 8-12 months, as I recall) hospitalized for jaundice. After various types of testing, somebody thought to ask the mom what the child ate. She fed him strained carrots because she said that's all he would eat. Yep, the carotene in the carrots turned him a lovely shade of yellow-orange. I often thought of him when I had friends with children who "only" ate chicken nuggets and hot dogs!

Dietitians have preached for years about including varied foods in the diet. Now, every time, I hear about the latest antioxidant miracle food, I get out the salt shaker and prepare to wait for the next miracle to come along... count 'em: acai berry, cranberries, tomatoes, green tea, blue-green algae, you name it. I take all those articles with a grain or two of salt! Nothing beats a varied diet with either none or the absolute minimum amount of junk food.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

No lie, I just read this from one of my friends on facebook...

sitting in the ER watching 3 crazy grown women feeding a baby (who cant even sit up!) chilli peanuts!!!! what is wrong w/ ppl?!?!?!

Chili peanuts for a BABY?

 

[Raiquee]

I give my son for Breakfast: oatmeal (insant but I am going to make it myself now), cereal, pancakes (which I make and freeze to heat up in mornings) but on weekends we have eggs, bacon/ham, toast etc.
Snacks: fruit (both fresh and dehydrated), cereal
Lunch: Sandwiches (ham, turkey, peanut butter & jelly etc), sometimes hotdogs, some fruit or veggie usually. Possibly leftovers from dinner the night before.
Dinner: Whatever we are eating. Could be pizza I made to pasta to soup to venison stroganoff to whatever.
Drinks: Mainly milk, sometimes 100 percent apple juice.

Does he occassionally get mac n cheese? Sure if i'm eating it. Does he get mcdonalds? Rarely, but sometimes we have a lot going on. Does he get a cookie once in awhile, sure! Point being, even being a "younger mom" I find myself trying to give my son the best possible food. He eats a lot of wholesome food from our garden, he eats complete meals, and he eats a wide variety of things. I am not an organic person (although I would like to feed more organic produce that we grow) but really go ask a bunch of moms and I guarantee you most of them are not organic. It's so expensive, and to feed a family on top of it is even more so!

Sorry I just get emotional about this because I catch a lot of crap about being a younger mom and everyone thinks "Young moms don't know how to raise kids" when I agree with everyone else, it's the "IDIOTS" that don't know how to raise kids!

 

[welsummerchicks]

Well, I think it's fair to say that 'not all young parents are feeding their children a balanced diet'. I don't think a broader generalization than that is fair.

I am incredibly glad YOU are, though. It's just that not everyone takes the time to learn it.

I went thru a phase of being very health conscious when young. All organic and vegetarian and all that.

Then for some years, due to a very demanding job, that went on the back burner. I was just too busy. I grabbed snacks out of the vending machine and ate a lot of junk and worked a lot of long hours. Now that I'm older and I can just envision all that fat piling up in my arteries and clogging up my heart, I'm right back to being much more health conscious about food.

 

[EmtheFishLady]

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Exactly. I have a cousin who feeds her daughter instant mac and cheese and ramen. That's it. Claims that's all she'll eat.

 

[Dunkopf]

What did cavemen do?