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Friday, August 12, 2011

Healthy Snacks

With the growing population and the growing pollution, there are many other cascading problems arising all over the globe. Many would agree that providing a healthy nutritious diet to the growing kids has been a perennial one. Scientific studies have proved that over the years, nutrition content from the raw food has been vanishing with time. That indicates that not just there is a growing dearth in the volume of food grown, but also the quality issues in terms of nutrient content of foods is also arising.

Statistics like these add multifold problems to the mothers who already have a difficult time ensuring that their growing kids receive a healthy nourished food intake. A strict regime of 3 rigorous meals in a day many a times is not enough. Mostly kids will have their lunch in their day-schools, to which most of the moms do not have a control. So, one is mostly left with the option of feeding a sumptuous breakfast and a dinner. Well, instead of gulping down kids with the nutritious food during these 2 meals, means of exploring more ways of rounding up the nutrients in other ways can be looked into.
The best way is to introduce a SNACK-TIME in the kid’s menu. The best thing about snacks is that it can be introduced in any time of the day, in-between meals and also in-between play time. To sound it a little good, it could be called a HEALTHY SNACK-TIME for the mothers, but for kids it should always be a snack-time. The trick is to make-up for the nutrients that the kids must not have made it during their customary meal times of breakfast and dinner.

The nutrients most important in the growing stages of life are calories and protein. Firstly, considering Calories, undoubtedly its intake is directly proportional to the amount or the volume of food taken. This analogy makes most of the mommies sad because the kids are always fussy with their intakes. In that scenario, feeding more in order to meet the daily calorie requirements goes futile. To deal with this issue, solution lies in introducing energy-dense foods to them. It can be easily and smartly done with the help of introducing BAKED-POTATOES in the form of healthy snacks. Potatoes are dense sources of carbohydrates that will meet up with your child’s energy requirements. The other healthy recipes that can also be included in the dense-calorie category include BANANA-SESAME PANCAKES and CORN TWIST to name a few.

Proteins are the body-building foods. For the over-all development of limbs and vital organs, amino-acids are required by the kids in their diet. Before moving on to the foods rich in protein content, a little knowledge is required here for the mothers to be more familiar of this nutrient. Proteins after ingestion break down to amino acids in the body. These amino-acids are the actual building blocks of the body. There are as many as 22 different kinds of them available. Thankfully, moms do not have to worry about all of them, only 8 of them are considered essential for the human form. Hence, moms have to be sure about including a whole bouquet of proteins in the food menu of their kids, in order to supply their bodies with all the essential amino-acids. Healthy protein rich snacks can be introduced such as the CRUNCHY SOYA BEAN SNACK, COTTAGE CHEESE PANCAKES, SPROUTS VEGGIE SALAD and TOMATO STUFFED with KIDNEY BEAN.

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