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How to Build a Healthy Food Relationship
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1. Is that a good relationship with food at all?
A good relationship with nutrition is characterized by a lack of categorizing food into allowed and prohibited, and by allowing oneself to consume a variety of even less healthy products without feeling guilty and an obsessive calorie counting.2. Is there anything you can do to make the relationship with food work?
Here are some tips for caregivers that can help your child develop a healthy relationship with food.3. Allow me to learn how to eat and taste freely
Already in the expansion phase of the diet, it's important to make sure that the baby can taste and touch the food himself, get to know the texture and smell of the food. Giving the child food to eat on his own is messy, but it also has many advantages: it develops the sense of touch, sight and smell, it teaches decision-making, and it builds the awareness that eating can be a pleasure.4. Don't make him eat
For parents, it's important that the child is fed. They often assume that meals have to be eaten to the end, and so they show their concern. But forcing the child to eat has negative consequences. They lose their natural ability to assess their needs and their hunger and satiety signals from the body. It is important to make sure that food is not a source of stress for both the child and the parent, and remember that the caregiver decides what the child eats, but the child decides how much he eats.5. Take care of the conscious food
It's important that the child eats a meal without any additional distractions in the form of TVs, books, or toys.. it's best that the food is eaten at the table.. feeding the baby while watching a fairy tale or playing will keep him from focusing on the food, not noticing what he's eating, what it tastes like, color or consistency, and not observing if he has eaten.6. Don't treat food as a reward or punishment
You have to be careful not to make too many emotional associations with food, or as a punishment, you don't go to the playground until you eat dinner, and you shouldn't treat food as a reward by saying that if you're kind, you'll get chocolate, and food should be a natural activity, not under pressure.7. Invite the child to the kitchen and cook together
Cooking together can be very satisfying, it teaches cooperation, and the foods a child cooks are usually more likely to be eaten. Even a toddler can participate in the cooking process when the activities are adjusted to his age.8. Have a meal together
Having a meal together with a child is an opportunity to build family bonds.. sometimes mealtimes are the only time during the day to have a peaceful conversation and share what's going on at school or at work.. it's worth keeping a nice atmosphere at the table.9. Respect Your Child's Choices
Each of us has a few foods that we don't like. It's completely natural. The younger ones also have their own taste, smell, or food preferences.10. Make the changes gradually
Bad eating habits should be corrected. If until now meals have been eaten together, if everyone in the household has eaten dinner separately or in front of the TV it's never too late to change this. However, these modifications should not be made radically, they should be done in small steps.11. Is that a good time to go to a specialist?
When a child has problems with biting and chewing food, vomiting and constipation occur very often, and the only acceptable consistency of meals are poppies, it is good to seek help from a pediatrician or a neurologist at the expansion stage of the diet. If a young child consistently and for a long time refuses to eat and does not gain weight, it's good to discuss the situation with a child's dietitian.
