Children's dietary nutrition: what to eat and what to avoid

Author: Yang Ruizhen, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: In the rich and varied lives of modern people, diet and nutrition remain a fundamental and important component. For the sake of survival, people must obtain various essential nutrients from the outside world through digestion, absorption, and metabolism to maintain normal physiological functions and physical growth and development. This continuous process is what nutrition is all about. Looking ahead at the development of clinical medicine and preventive medicine, the shift from focusing on individual diseases to focusing on the physical and mental health care of the community has become a major trend. Paying attention to children's dietary and nutritional education aligns with the development of international pediatric health and medicine. The phenomenon of picky eating and poor appetite among children is widespread, yet dietary and nutritional education has not received sufficient attention in China. Many parents are helpless in dealing with their children's unhealthy behaviors. This book provides many scientific truths that parents cannot afford to ignore regarding the dietary and nutritional do's and don'ts for children of different ages, serving as a reference for parents.