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Meat
Children’s dieticians consider, at the given age the most part of all proteins should have an animal origin. It promotes high assimilability of proteins and keeping of nitrogen in an organism. Nitrogen is vital in synthesis of DNA and RNA connections which are responsible for all biochemical processes in a human body.

The major source of animal protein is meat, however not of all its varieties are useful for children of 1,5-3 years. So, pork and meat of some birds (ducks, geese) contains surplus of hard animal fats excessively loading digestive system of the child. Therefore it is better to choose a low-fat beef and veal, and also meat of hens, chickens, turkey and rabbit.

Fish
Fish is very useful product for children from one year. Fish protein is high-grade and digestible. Within a week a child can eat dishes from meat for four - five days and two - three days - from fish.
It is better to use low-fat varieties of sea and river fishes (pike perch, cod, hake, sea perch, etc.).

Eggs
Eggs have great value in children’s diet as they contain a lot of digestible nutrients. Vitellus contains complex of liposoluble vitamins A, D, Е, phospholipids and various mineral substances and microelements.
However, despite of their advantages, one shouldn’t abuse them it is impossible, as they can cause allergic reactions. Eggs are used only hard-boiled or as various dishes (omelets with milk or fresh vegetables, salads with an egg, cheesecakes, etc.), but not raw.

Fat products
Butter and vegetable oil (sunflower, corn, olive, etc.) are used as sources of fats for children from one year. Vegetable fat is a rich source of vitamin Е and polyunsaturated fat acids, and butter - A.
Fats are better to be used in a natural kind: butter in sandwiches and ready vegetable purees or boiled soft porridges, and vegetable fat - for seasoning of salads, vinaigrettes, and the same porridges or purees.
Kids in the age of 1-1,5 years need 12-15 g of butter and 3-5 g of vegetable oil each day, and from 1,5 to 3 years 17 g and 6 g respectively.

Cereals, bread and bakery products are included into an obligatory daily diet of the child of 1-3 years, providing an organism with carbohydrates and proteins.
In the age of 1-1,5 years the most important cereals are oatmeal and buckwheat, but others are also quite possible - fine-ground barley, pearl-barley, wheaten, etc.
Children of three-year age can eat rice, buckwheat, oatmeal and semolina cereals.

Kasha can be prepared with milk and without it, with vegetables or fruits. For example, very useful and tasty are porridge with apples, with raisin or banana, boiled rice with pumpkin or carrots, a buckwheat cereal with apple.

In total the child needs about 15-20 g of cereals a day.
Choosing bakery products give the priority to products from a meal which is rich with vitamin B and dietary fibers, which stimulate intestines work. Children in the age of 1,5-3 years need 50-100 g of bakery products in a day, and 30-40 g in the age of 1-1,5 years.

Fruits, berries, vegetables and potherbs are an obligatory component of children food. They are an indispensable source of vitamins C, Р, provitamin A (carotin), easy digestible carbohydrates - glucose and fructose, organic acids, pectin and dietary fibers, some minerals and microelements.
Daily ration of a child of 1-3 years should contain enough fresh vegetables (1-1,5 years - up to 200-250 g, 1,5-3 years - up to 350 g), and also fruits and berries - (1-1,5 years - up to 100 g, 1,5-3 years - up to 130-200 g). They are useful both raw (provide good training of a masticatory apparatus and a gastrointestinal tract), and as fresh juices rich with vitamin C.
Every day a child in the age of 1-1,5 years needs about 80-100 ml, and 1,5-3 years - 100-150 ml of juices.

From vegetables the most frequently used are potato, carrots, cabbage, turnip, beet, vegetable marrows, pumpkin and tomatoes. Green-stuff and wild-growing greens are also very popular (provided absence of specific contra-indications) - fennel and salad, spinach and parsley, sorrel, green onions and garlic, ramson, nettle.

From fruits parents can choose from apples, pears, plums, bananas, citron and tropical fruits. From berries - raspberry and a blackberry, ash berry, gooseberry and sea-buckthorn berries, and also bilberries, red bilberries, cranberries.
All seasonal fruits, berries, vegetables and greens in a natural kind are useful for the child. They also may be given as juices and purees, or used in compotes.

The diet of the child in the age of 1-3 years should necessarily include some sugar, which provides quick energetically valuable substances for the growing organism. The daily norm of sugars makes about 35-40 g for children of 1-1,5 years and 40-50 g for kids of 1,5-3 years. A source of sugar may be dried fruits, confectionery. From the last the most recommended are wafers, fruit candy, fruit candy, fruit caramel, jam and honey if the child has not allergy. Chocolate and chocolate sweets raise excitability of nervous system, can cause an allergy, and therefore should not be given often.

Kids are very active and losses of water are rather noticeable, therefore they cannot be limited in drinks. But parents should not compensate lack of liquid by sweet compotes, juices or drinks, as it leads to an appetite depression. Whether to allow the child to drink during a meal or not - depends on specific features of the child. If the child experiences difficulties with deglutition and eats slowly and reluctanly, certainly, it is better to drink after food. In intervals between meal water should always be available for children. Usually kids are given just boiled water, cooled to room temperature or mineral water without gas. Herb teas, for example, from fennel or camomile are also recommended.

Fat meat promotes formation of cholesterol plaques on vessels that accelerates ageing of an organism and leads to cardiovascular diseases.

Mayonnaise. Mayonnaise is very high-calorie product, in addition to it, it contains huge amount of fats and carbohydrates, and also dyes, sweeteners, substitutes and so on. Not only mayonnaise is that harmful, but also ketchup, various sauces and seasoning, which are widely offered in our shops. The contents of dyes, substitutes of tastes and the genetically-modified products in them, unfortunately, are not smaller.

Instant noodles. All this is a sheer chemistry injurious for your organism.

Salt. Salt reduces blood pressure, disturbs salt-acid balance of an organism, and promotes congestion of toxins. Therefore if you can not refuse it, at least, try to not use it in large quantities.

Alcohol. Even in minimum quantities prevents assimilation of vitamins. Except for it, alcohol is just high-calorie product.

Chewing candy, fruit candy, “chupa-chups”. They contain huge amount of sugar, chemical additives, dyes, substitutes and so on.

Chips, both corn and potato are very harmful for an organism. Chips are just the mix of carbohydrates and fat in an environment of dyes and substitutes. French-fried potatoes also won’t give you something useful.

Sweet aerated drinks - a mix of sugar, chemistry and gases to distribute faster harmful substances through an organism. Coca-cola, for example, is a remarkable means from a scale and rust. Aerated sweet drinks are harmful because of high sugar concentration. Therefore, having satisfied thirst with such fizzy water, you want to drink again in five minutes.

Bars of chocolate. These are huge amount of calories in a combination with the chemical additives, genetically modified products, dyes and aromatizers.

Sausages. Meat delicacies remain one of the most harmful products. They contain so-called latent fats (pork skin, bacon, internal fat), all this is veiled with aromatizers and substitutes of tastes. Many manufacturers of meat products use transgenes. So sausages, almost completely consist of transgenic soya.

We eat to live. However not any food is useful. An irregular meal is the direct way to adiposity, to heart diseases, to gastrointestinal disturbances.

The fat food leads to increase in weight. An abundance of food, containing plenty of substitutes and dyes, gradually poisons an organism, and also causes addiction.

The cooked food deadens feeling of satiety. The rough vegetative food stimulates work of the digestive system. Therefore make the daily diet so that it included raw vegetables and fruits - as much as possible.
Some foodstuffs are especially unhealthy, though they are widespread and very popular.