years after the birth of a child, we will pay special attention to his nutritional status: He ate appropriate? He looks right? He healthy? If he is now well developed, we will greatly relieved. However, this time the significance of nutrition for children, far beyond his immediate growth and development, the health of its children have a more profound and more lasting.

early nutrition and life quality of life

the past, we believe that a good grasp of daily nutrient intake and consumption of the balance between, on the master Well, the child's healthy diet. It now appears that this concept is too narrow.

from the daily diet, the children not only to get his normal growth and development of necessary nutrients, but also the accumulation of his life, a variety of nutrients essential to health. This view comes from a new concept of nutrition – “nutrient banks”, which in recent years, research on child growth and development (especially longitudinal studies) and adults of the aging process caused by the combination concept. This concept allows us to see the future of early nutrition on the importance of quality of life.

storage and loss of nutrients is a physiological phenomenon. From the view of human life, in childhood, the main trends in the storage of nutrients; to late life, and those of important nutrients intake in children less than people with adequate intake of people into old age after in vivo nutrients remain in a certain physiological level, these nutrients supported the organizational structure and physiological functions in good level, they can maintain good physical health. “Nutrient banks” operating mode that early life nutrient inputs on health are crucial.

to “nutrient banks” in know this?

we should work in two directions: the first is to re-understand child nutrition, change the misconception, correct the error term, the establishment of proper nutrition behavior; second is to strengthen baby food research, production and market management.

Here are some well-established principles of child nutrition, follow these principles, can greatly increase the nutritional quality of children:

1 to prepare pre-pregnancy nutrition: growth and development of the fetus to create a good nutritional environment, remove the risk factors.

2 pregnancy nutrition surveillance: to reduce malnutrition in early pregnancy, adjusting mid-pregnancy nutritional balance, weight gain during late pregnancy to prevent too fast and too heavy.

3 encourage breastfeeding: breastfeeding, breastfeeding while improving the quality of the children who can not breast-feeding formula to provide closer to breast milk.

4 2 years of age do not use milk feeding, and children with age appropriate formula feeding; attention to and strengthen the clay paste food to feed, no longer use the “food supplement”, “weaning food” so the error term.

5 in the solid food feeding stage, with emphasis on natural foods, balanced meals, to prevent all kinds of “tonic”, “health products”, “soft drink” or “fast food” disturbing the child's diet and nutrition.

6 lifetime drinking milk: feeding children around the world Research results show that: the importance of continued breastfeeding thing – formula milk and other dairy foods on human health have an important role. Therefore, from birth to old age should be drinking milk.

taken from the New Zealand Chinese Herald