KidDiets

The Best Diet Plans For Kids

A good diet plan gives your children the nutrients they needs every day while staying within their daily calorie goal. Many diet are planned for loss weight or preventing diseases, and we will mention in another topic. This essay just focus on balanced and healthy diet plans for “normal” kids.

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Outline

                                                         1. What is good diet plan?
                                                         2. Nutrients for kids
                                                         3. What children should and should not eat
                                                         4. Diet Plans for kids

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1.    What is best diet Plans?

The good diet plan is the arrangement of meal guide you follow to get balanced health. A healthy eating plan emphasizes vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and fat-free or low-fat dairy products; includes lean meats, poultry, fish, beans, eggs, and nuts; and limits saturated and trans fats, sodium, and added sugars. Thank to the diets, your children feel energized and nourished.

2.    Nutrients for kids

Nutritents for kids is based on the same principles as nutrition for adults. Everyone needs the same types of nutrients - such as protein, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, and fat.

Consider these nutrient-dense foods:

·         Protein. Choose seafood, lean meat and poultry, eggs, beans, peas, soy products, and unsalted nuts and seeds.

·         Fruits. Encourage your child to eat a variety of fresh, canned, frozen or dried fruits - rather than fruit juice. If your child drinks juice, make sure it's 100 percent juice without added sugars and limit his or her servings.

·         Vegetables. Serve a variety of fresh, canned, frozen or dried vegetables. Aim to provide a variety of vegetables, including dark green, red and orange, beans and peas, starchy and others, each week. When selecting canned or frozen vegetables, look for options lower in sodium.

·         Grains. Choose whole grains, such as whole-wheat bread, oatmeal, popcorn, quinoa, or brown or wild rice. Limit refined grains such as white bread, pasta and rice.

·         Dairy. Encourage your child to eat and drink fat-free or low-fat dairy products, such as milk, yogurt, cheese or fortified soy beverages.

·         Fat. We should regularly choose foods with healthy unsaturated fats (such as fish, nuts, seeds, and healthy oils from plants), limit foods high in saturated fat (especially red meat), and avoid unhealthy trans fats (from partially hydrogenated oils).

3.    What children should and should not eat

Daily dietary guideline for boys and girls at different ages

(* Calories and Dairy depend on growth and activity level)

Children need different amounts of specific nutrients at different ages. So what's the best formula to fuel your child's growth and development? Check out these nutrition basics for girls and boys at various ages, based on the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
It’s easier to think of what children should eat in terms of proportions rather than actual amounts.
Roughly half of what you eat should be fruit and vegetables.

• Vegetables, just over a quarter.
• Fruit, just under a quarter.
• Cereals (pasta, bread, rice) just over a quarter.
• Protein (meat, fish, some vegetables such as garbanzos or chick peas)
• Dairy should make up a little extra portion. It’s an addition rather than part of what you actually need.  

The parents should limit child's calories from:

• Added sugar. Limit added sugars. Naturally occurring sugars, such as those in fruit and milk, are not added sugars (such as brown sugar, corn sweetener, corn syrup, honey and others).
• Saturated and trans fats. Limit foods high in saturated fat (especially red meat, poultry and full-fat dairy products), and avoid unhealthy trans fats (from partially hydrogenated oils).

So what's the best formula to fuel your child's growth and development? Check out these nutrition basics based on the latest Diets for Boys and Girls at various ages.

4.    6 Diet Plans for kids

6 Diet Plans for kids

Note: This menu is planned for a four-year-old child who weighs approximately 36 pounds (16.5 kg).

1 teaspoon = 1⁄3 tablespoon (5 mL)                          1 ounce = 30 mL

1 tablespoon = ½ ounce (15 mL)                              1 cup = 8 ounces (240 mL)

The adults need to do make sure that we are presenting our children with healthy food options and eventually they will learn to love and eat healthy food.