Children Healthy Care

What is nutrition?
Nutrition refers to everything your child eats and drinks. Your child’s body uses the nutrients from food to function properly and stay healthy. The nutrients include carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals. In the right amounts, these nutrients will give your child the energy to grow, learn and be active. Your child’s body stores what is not needed for energy as body fat.

Why is proper nutrition important?
Poor nutrition can cause health problems, overweight and obesity. Some of the health problems associated with poor nutrition can be serious and can even cause death, especially when your child grows and enters adolescence and then adulthood. By helping your child learn healthy eating habits can help prevent these health problems.

Avoid weight problems now has many benefits for your child. First, it is much easier to maintain a healthy weight to lose weight. And children who maintain a healthy weight during childhood are more likely to maintain a healthy weight as adults.

I can really make a difference?
Yes! Choose healthy foods and being physically active is not something that comes naturally to everyone. But as yet these healthy choices can be learned and become a habit. As a parent or caregiver of a child, you are a role model and has the potential to influence the child’s environment. Even small changes in eating and exercise habits of the family can have a great influence on the health of your child.