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What Should Be The Food-chart For An Unhealthy Child?
Question: what should be the food-chART for a unhealthy child(7 years)
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For a child who is 7 years old, the nutrients she needs include protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins, minerals, and fiber. High-sugar, high-fat snack foods, juice, fruit drinks, soda, and milk between meals can decrease your child's appetite. So these should be in limit.
Apart from these, the diet chart of a 7 year old should include:
1) Six to eleven servings each day of grains which can be ounce or about one cup of ready-to-eat cereal, one slice of brown bread, half a cup of cooked cereal, rice or pasta or two to three XXXXXXX cracker squares.
2) Three to five servings each day of vegetables including a cup of raw, leafy vegetables, or one cup of bean or vegetable soup, half a cup of vegetable juice, one medium baked potato or 5-10 regular size french fries.
3) Two to four servings each day of fruits including a medium XXXXXXX banana, peach, pear, or nectarine or half a cup of fruit juice.
4) Two to three servings each day of milk or milk based products
5) One serving of meat each day
Encourage your child to choose low-fat healthy foods such as lean meats, fruits, vegetables, and low-fat milk products and avoid fried foods, chips, and many snack foods.
Hope this answers your query. If you have additional questions or follow up queries then please do not hesitate in writing to us. I will be happy to answer your queries.
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Wishing you good health.
Thanks for posting your query.
For a child who is 7 years old, the nutrients she needs include protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins, minerals, and fiber. High-sugar, high-fat snack foods, juice, fruit drinks, soda, and milk between meals can decrease your child's appetite. So these should be in limit.
Apart from these, the diet chart of a 7 year old should include:
1) Six to eleven servings each day of grains which can be ounce or about one cup of ready-to-eat cereal, one slice of brown bread, half a cup of cooked cereal, rice or pasta or two to three XXXXXXX cracker squares.
2) Three to five servings each day of vegetables including a cup of raw, leafy vegetables, or one cup of bean or vegetable soup, half a cup of vegetable juice, one medium baked potato or 5-10 regular size french fries.
3) Two to four servings each day of fruits including a medium XXXXXXX banana, peach, pear, or nectarine or half a cup of fruit juice.
4) Two to three servings each day of milk or milk based products
5) One serving of meat each day
Encourage your child to choose low-fat healthy foods such as lean meats, fruits, vegetables, and low-fat milk products and avoid fried foods, chips, and many snack foods.
Hope this answers your query. If you have additional questions or follow up queries then please do not hesitate in writing to us. I will be happy to answer your queries.
Please accept my answer in case you have no follow up query.
Wishing you good health.
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