Posts Tagged ‘Nutrition’
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
The components in mother’s milk changes every 24 hours to respond to the needs of infants. A new research showing how breast milk may help babies newborn to sleep.
Breast milk contains various elements, such as nucleotides, which performs a very important role in regulating the babies to sleep on a regular basis. The findings, published recently in the journal Nutritional Neuroscience, states that breast milk composition changed in certain times throughout the day.
The scientists found three nucleotides in breast milk (adenosine, guanosine and uridene) that plays driving or resting the central nervous system, making the baby calm and sleeping.
Breast milk collected from 30 women who lived in Extremadura, was declared on 24-hour period, with six to eight samples per day. Concentrate, concentrate the highest nucleotide found in samples at night (8 pm to 8 am). “It made us realize that breastfeeding effect on babies sleep”, Cristina L. Sánchez, chief author of the article and a researcher at the Laboratory at the University of Extremadura Chrononutrition.
While breast milk produced during the day has a special component that can stimulate the baby’s activity, in contrast component of breast milk at night helps your baby to sleep and rest.
To ensure proper nutrition, the baby should be fed at the same time when milk was removed. For mothers who do not work outside the home, surely this is not a problem because usually the baby nursing directly. But for working mothers who took his mother’s milk during the day, then it should be given breast milk during the day also (the following day or on subsequent days)
Because breast milk is milked in the day contains the components that are useful to make an active baby (help him learn new skills). While breast milk is removed at night usually are taken directly by the baby because the mother was at home working, or if the mother’s milk mother’s milk at night, the allotment is to be given to babies at night, too, since breast milk night contains components to make babies sleep rested.
Therefore, it is important for a mother to include the date with hours when they take breast milk to help the mother remember mother’s milk is breast milk taken in the daytime or breast milk taken at night.
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Organic baby food is increasingly recognized in recent years. The trend of consuming these foods increased along with awareness about the importance of dietary factors for health. Even some people are willing to pay more to get their fruit or organic vegetables that are rarely spelled out in the market.
Eating organic food regularly are believed to protect the body from various diseases. Organic food is an agricultural product that is free of chemical fertilizers, chemicals and elements of preservatives, coloring, and sweeteners, ranging from planting to packing and processing of organic food penyimpanan.Memang actually not really free of additives, but the levels are regulated very strict to be in tolerable limits.
And now, not just adults who consume organic foods, the baby began to be kept invested early on his health with a healthy diet. It would be difficult for parents to control children or teenagers who have known food “junk food.” Fear of dependence on the type of fast food might be overcome by introducing early on a healthy diet.
In terms of taste, some mention of organic baby food is less tasty, but some also said any better than non-organic baby food. Delicious organic food or not this still have an advantage over non-organic, which do not contain extra sugar and salt.
Organic baby food is generally the effect of natural sweetness from the juice of corn or wheat starch. Reviewed in terms of price, organic food is pretty draining the pouch. Manufacturing process required special treatment and be careful who because it was expensive.
In the processing of any organic baby food you should be careful not to lose their nutritional content. You have to find out how the right temperature for cooking so that nutritional value is not lost. How organic broccoli and carrots cooked, whether the color is not to fade? How to maintain the mineral elements and vitamins in organic food does not quickly disappear? How mature organic food storage to keep it sterile? And others so forth.
To get all the information on this organic baby food, you’ll want to ask a nutritionist.
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
In infants aged 8 months or more, than to give up breastfeeding, mothers can serve oatmeal. Usually, the choice fell on a lot of oatmeal products on the market. With fiber, fitokemikal, vitamins, minerals, protein, and low-fat, healthy babies and avoid constipation. In addition, the sense of satiety can also survive for several hours.
Prepare oatmeal itself is very easy. With just boil until thickened, pureed already be presented. Some mothers usually add sugar, salt, milk, or fruit to add flavor. But avoid giving too much sugar and salt, because it can affect the baby’s appetite for another intake, and results in allergic infants.
In addition, some babies reportedly susceptible wheat allergy, or commonly called celiac disease. However, research conducted AK Akobeng physicians indicated that exclusive breastfeeding can reduce the incidence of celiac disease up to 53 percent.
Porridge oats are usually given when the baby was eight months, although some other mother had gave it to their babies at the age of six months, without any impact. This is because of different abilities in infants receiving solid foods. But if you still are unsure, consult a doctor and a nutritionist before deciding to give your baby cereal.
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Properly, a mother must always be patient in feeding their children, because of eating not only makes children fulfilled their nutritional needs, but these activities can also be used as a learning experience for toddlers. At the time the child starts talking, eating activities can be used as a means for mothers to teach the concept of taste, expression of taste, color concepts, the concept of texture, the concept of number, and size concepts.
Patience by mothers in performing this activity can facilitate the process of eating and toddlers to develop their insight and knowledge. In terms of eating, the mother or caregiver to act as mediators to introduce various concepts and facts which met the child in his environment. An example is when feeding, the mother can provide information about what to eat, what it’s like, what color, how much, and so forth. Feeding techniques while learning can be done through a few tips:
- Arouse the attention and wants the child to react. Mother took the child to eat and give a sign that the meal has arrived. To attract the attention of children, maternal use of verbal and nonverbal expression, to enable the sensing of children. Mom then took the plate and let the kids hold eating utensils, food, and imitate what the mother said. She was also the name given food, taste, shape, texture, and tightens up with an expression of voice or expression. Repeat this several times.
- Giving praise and raise confidence and competence in children if the child is eating properly. Mothers should not be stingy praise for his son. For example, if he had spent one tablespoon of food, just the mother’s praise of their versatility. Especially when the food can be spent with the neat.
- Get children to plan all activities shall be taken, all actions have demonstrated that patterns of activity in preparing meals, children should also be involved, such as washing hands, preparing food, telling stories about what was done the mother, to clear the table after dinner activity is over. This is done many times, in order to form habits and a healthy diet.
- In order for the learning process becomes much easier and pleasant situation, the mother should also make eye contact with toddlers. In addition, mothers are advised to have a sense of empathy, would give the baby a chance to speak, trying to share a pleasant feeling, and follow what the initiatives and responses of children. Mother or child interactions during feeding intensively this remedy can be used as a means to improve the cognitive abilities of children.
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Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Mother’s Milk is very important for infant nutrition for the first year. Although busy with her job, she must continue to give milk to their babies by providing dairy milk. Dairy milk is squeezed from the breast milk, stored and given to infants when mother worked and separated from their infants. Do not worry about the quality of breast milk given or not still have the same quality. Most importantly Mother must know how to store and presentation.
Things that should be the Mother of note in providing dairy milk to her baby:
- Breast milk stored at room temperature can stand 4-6 hours. For breast milk stored in the refrigerator can last about 2-3 days. If you travel long enough, the Mother can take advantage of the freezer so that milk can be refrigerated for up to 2-3 months.
- If you find any signs such as a different odor (sour), seemed clotted and darker color, indicating that breast milk is damaged. Segara throw away and replace it with breast milk is still good. If it was accidentally given the effects that arise can baby diarrhea.
- When finished flushing and storing it in a plastic sugar, mark the date of milking. So Mother knew where the mother’s milk should be used first.
- Do not heat the milk over the fire that could make dead heat absorption of the enzyme. Simply put the milk into a bowl of warm water (± 82 degrees celcius) so temperatures approaching body temperature Mother breastfeeding.
- Suggested to provide dairy milk with a spoon, not bottle. This is to avoid nipple confusion baby. Nipple confusion is a condition in which infants feel confused because before he was through breast feeding and suddenly have to breastfeed with a bottle of milk. In addition, because the milk that comes out of the bottle easier than breast, little can be lazy sucking breast while feeding back on the Mother.
Now your baby needs breast milk are met, and Mother can still work. Let the spirit of feeding your baby again!
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Saturday, July 24th, 2010
Kids are very difficult to eat vegetables. Besides the color of dark green vegetables, it also tends to weird in the mouth of the child. Whereas these vegetables are rich in vitamins and minerals they need in times of growth and development. For example, spinach contains many minerals iron, or calcium-rich greens and broccoli with vitamin A it. If kids want to eat vegetables, vitamins and minerals it needs fulfilled and Mother did not have to worry anymore.
In addition, many vegetables also contain fiber digestion is good for the little guy. If he is less fiber it can constipation and can lower the body’s immune system.
Use Tricks
Rejection of the child to eat vegetables began to introduce vegetables to her Mother. When the child had once refused then onwards he will try to get away. Thus vegetable consumption habits must start early precisely when he introduced solid foods (6-8 months).
But if the child had already rejected the Mother inevitably have to be creative to do tricks so that children continue to eat vegetables. Here are some ways that can be used mothers:
usually the child refuses vegetables because of the color and shape. Sports food and hide vegetables such as by slipping it in between the rice balls formed.
Build mood child as comfortable as possible. If a child in a comfortable atmosphere and happy mood he will tend to spend their food. Instead it will be rejected if the atmosphere is uncomfortable and forced.
- Encourage children to show creativity
Mother could take her to make food from vegetables. For example making fried croquettes with spinach content. Little will be eager to eat the food his creation.
Tips:
- Do not force the children eat vegetables. The more he will be increasingly forced to hate vegetables. Just Kreatifkan Mother tricks.
- Mother and her husband should also be pointed out to eat vegetables. Always provide menus vegetables at home and ate together. That way he can learn from the habits of their parents
Tags:Calcium, creation tips, fiber, green vegetables, growth and development, immune system, Inulin, Nutrition, prebiotic, Toddler, Vegetables, vitamins and minerals
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
The rainy season is often associated with the seasonal outbreak of various diseases. Real changes in the rainy season is the occurrence of drastic weather changes, high relative humidity, wind blowing hard with the changing direction, temperature and humidity fluctuations are sharp, and there is a striking difference in temperature between day and night, forcing the body to adapt extra hard.
This condition, in addition to causing discomfort, also makes the body susceptible to disease. During this season, airways and gastrointestinal tract most microorganisms most esophageal disorders. Infectious diseases such as coughs, colds, sore stomach like diarrhea began infecting people, especially children, because their defense is not as strong as adults.
Conditions that do not fit your body will definitely invite more and more diseases are easily nested our body. So willing umbrella before the rain, by strengthening the immune system of course is the most effective prevention in order to avoid illness in the rainy season.
Strengthen the immune system really easy to do. Start by eating a balanced nutrition, regular exercise, adequate rest and maintaining cleanliness. During the rainy season would take extra effort so that the immune system works better. One thing to note during these disease-prone, try to provide enough time for rest and sleep for children.
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
Bananas are useful to increase the concentration power of children. Bananas are the fruit with high concentrations of nutrients and energy. Creamy texture makes the banana fruit is often used as a choice for baby food. For children, the benefits of bananas can also be a healthy lunch to school.
Bananas are very fit to be a menu of breakfast and lunch meals to school children. Banana pieces can be mixed into the cereal or breakfast food. Bananas provide enough energy for the children to be ready to follow the lessons in school.
Consumption of banana can help the process of learning in children because bananas contain potassium. Potassium is found in bananas which act to increase the concentration of children’s learning.
Bananas are also high in vitamins B, which is useful for retaining the activity of the nervous system works. For this, students can concentrate longer.
In one banana indeed contained many nutrients. Vitamins and minerals are superior compared to other fruits and vegetables, especially for vitamin B6 (piridoksin), C, potassium, fiber, and manganese.
Compared with apples, bananas contain more protein, more carbohydrates, more phosphorus, more vitamin A and iron, vitamins and other minerals. Many benefits can be obtained from a banana. In addition to very useful in preventing stress, bananas also improve thought, treat gastrointestinal inflammation, and nourish the eye.
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
Having optimal brain function, especially in terms of memory, is a dream for every parent to their child. More than 40 years ago, research has found a link between brain function and various nutrients in food. This relationship has been happening since the fetus is in mother’s womb. One of the important nutrients is choline.
In the body, choline is important as the main composition of the membrane of normal cells as well as maintains the integrity of cell membranes in biological processes, such as flow / stimulus information, intracellular communication, and bioenergy. Moreover, choline can also help the normal function of the brain through the establishment of neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which is the form of choline compounds which play an important role in brain function.
Acetylcholine is a chemical compound which acts on the process of storage and recall of memory, attention, or concentration of a person. The more acetylcholine is synthesized, the more that is released into the nerve so that the better memory and attention processes
Brain development in children has been started since the fetus is in the womb. Therefore, adequate choline intake must be considered in pregnant women or nursing mothers. This was due in at the moment is a critical time to get the baby’s brain development is the best memory.
To ensure availability of adequate choline in the newborn, nature has arranged a number of ways including through the placenta and breast milk (breast milk). During pregnancy, the amount of choline in the mother’s body reserves decreased due to be distributed to the fetus through the placenta.
The number of choline in the placenta to reach 14 times higher than the amount of choline in the blood. The purpose of choline accumulation in the placenta is to ensure the availability of choline to the fetus.
During breastfeeding, choline from the mother will also be released into breast milk. The number of choline in breast milk can reach 100 times the amount of choline in maternal blood. Therefore, breast-fed babies will get the amount of choline are sufficient for the development of brain cells function as memory centers. This is in line with the goal of exclusive breastfeeding program announced by the government with the aim to arouse the nation so that more mothers want to breastfeed their babies.
Adequate choline intake on each person differs according to age. On average as much as 550 milligrams of adult male / day, women 425 mg / day, whereas in infants and children are fewer in number again. If choline intake is very excessive (> 3.5 g / day) would be symptoms of low blood pressure, nausea, and diarrhea. Conversely, choline deficiency on the circumstances, there will be disturbances in liver function.
Although choline can be synthesized by the body itself, in certain circumstances the body can also experience choline deficiency. To prevent the occurrence of choline deficiency in pregnant women, nursing mothers, as well as healthy adults, should be given additional food or supplements containing choline high as egg yolks, milk, beans, chicken and beef liver, pork, beef, shrimp, soybean and wheat kernel. Moreover, choline can also be found in potatoes, peas, cauliflower, oats, sesame seeds and flaxseeds and green leafy vegetables.
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Monday, July 12th, 2010
Preparing food with a different way of cooking is one way to prevent boredom eating in children. Steaming is the way to cook with indirect heat so food remains tender and not dry. In order for the higher nutritional value, see to include a variety of vegetables in your cooking menu.
Ingredients:
3 potatoes, rinse
Contents:
1 pc onion, finely chopped
150 grams of tuna, chopped pieces
75 grams of fresh tomatoes, cut into small boxes
15 ounces grated cheddar cheese
Salt
Oregano
Direction:
1. Peel the potatoes that have been cleaned in two parts. Steam for 15 minutes.
2. Removing the inside of the steamed potatoes with a spoon so that the remaining forms such as bowls.
3. Mix the inside of potato with a little salt and then mashed up into mashed potatoes.
4. Prepare: onions, tuna, fresh tomatoes and brokolli already been cut.
5. Mix mashed potatoes with tuna, tomatoes and broccoli pieces. Sprinkle grated cheese on top and oregano.
6. Potatoes that have been filled with a mixture of mashed potatoes, tuna, tomatoes and broccoli into a steamer. Steamed again for approximately 15 minutes.
7. Steamed Potatoes Mix tuna & veggies ready to be served.
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