To provide enough nutrients for their children's development, many parents spare no money to buy nutritious foods. They even spend a lot of money to buy imported fruits.
In fact, there are fruits that are expensive but are not necessarily beneficial for growth and development children's growth. However, there are 3 types of fruits below that are very good for children, parents should let their children eat them regularly.
3 types of fruit that are good for children
1. Citrus fruit
Citrus fruits have a delicious sweet and sour taste that many children like. These citrus fruits contain a lot of vitamin C, which helps reduce inflammation and pain, helping children increase the body's resistance and recover quickly from illness.
If your child has a cough due to a cold, "orange steamed with rock sugar" is very effective in treating dry mouth, loosening phlegm, and nourishing the lungs. In addition, parents can make orange juice to supplement vitamin C for children.
2. Apple
Apples are a fruit that is sold all year round, easy to find, and very affordable.
In Oriental medicine, eating an apple every day will prevent many diseases. In fact, it has been proven that eating an apple a day will help improve immunity and increase the body's resistance.
Apples contain many different vitamins and minerals, providing many necessary nutrients for the human body, ensuring the comprehensive development of children.
3. Dragon fruit
Dragon fruit is also one of the familiar and popular fruits in every home. Dragon fruit is not only rich in zinc and potassium but also contains a lot of water.
If children regularly eat dragon fruit, it can help supplement vitamins and fiber for the body, and the mineral content can help maintain bone cell structure, thereby promoting optimal height development.
Note that dragon fruit is cold so feed children in moderation, avoid eating too much at once.
Good habits should be maintained in children
In addition to letting children regularly eat fruit, parents should also maintain some of the following good habits:
1. Exercise moderately
Children who are lazy and lie on the sofa playing on the phone all day long will be extremely detrimental to their growth and development.
Scientific and reasonable exercise will significantly improve children's height. Sports parents should encourage their children to practice include jumping rope, shuttlecock, basketball, swimming...
If possible, children can play many different sports. Only reasonable exercise can promote children's bodies to develop well.
2. Make sure to get enough sleep
In life, many people have the habit of staying up late, children are no exception. When adults go to bed late, children also form the habit of staying up late. If children often stay up late, it will prevent the body from secreting growth hormone, thereby affecting height.
Growth hormone is mainly secreted during sleep at night, the time of greatest secretion is from 9am to 1pm. Therefore, if you want your child to grow in height well, you need to train him or her to have the habit of going to bed early and getting up early, avoiding staying up late.
3. Balanced nutrition
Some children like to eat a lot, while others are picky eaters. This eating habit is not beneficial for children's growth.
Parents need to know that only when children are guaranteed a comprehensive and balanced diet can their bodies develop normally. Excess or lack of nutrition is detrimental to children's height and growth development.
In short, parents should focus on certain fruits that are beneficial for their baby's growth and development. In addition to paying attention to diet in life, the above 3 good habits are also very important, only then can children grow up healthy.