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Baby Food: The fine art of feeding babies

Exactly What is a Balanced Diet?

You often hear the phrase 'balanced diet' and its advantages, particularly for pregnant mothers and growing children. What does this mean?

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Food During the Second Year

Your baby's development is not as fast now as it was in the first year, so you don't have to increase his food requirements.

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Foods That May Cause Asthma in Children

Foods that may cause asthma are wheat, eggs, milk, chocolates, beans, potatoes and fish. A child with low immunity levels, coupled with a faulty diet is an easy prey...

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Diet for an Anaemic, Lactating Mother

Pregnancy can deplete the body's iron reserves and iron deficiency can lead to anaemia. Include a lot of greens and red meat in your diet.

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The Right Food Choices

Mothers are always worrying about their children's food habits but don't know how to make right food choices for their growing children.

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The Food Pyramid

It tells you the right foods to eat and in their correct proportions, and ensures a healthy diet for you and your family.

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Thyroid Malfunction in Women

Malfunctioning of the thyroid gland in women leads to obesity and related problems. Besides medical intervention, you need to plan your diet carefully.

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Spices of Life

Whether it's the hot pepper in your soup, the crunchy cumin seeds in mother's mango pickle, or the soothing ginger tea, spices have fired up Indian cooking like few ingredients.

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The Milk Express

Milk - a complete food or the nutritional nightmare? Opinions vary, but most people are agreed that nothing can replace milk in delicious foodstuffs it is used to make.

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The Overweight Child

So you think that the unusual plumpness of your child is cute and will go away as she grows older? Perhaps you ought to think again.

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Food Fads

Between two and five years, many children develop all kinds of food fads for many of which the parents themselves may be responsible.

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Diet for a Preadolescent

A growing child needs a very carefully designed diet plan, complete with calcium, protein, carbohydrates, iron, vitamin C and zinc, among other vitamins and nutrients.

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Avoid Bribing

While some amount of persuasion regarding food is alright, and the child likes a bit of fuss now and again, overindulgence and bribing should be avoided.

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Every mother should have some basic knowledge of the right way of cooking food so that the food value is preserved. Cooking involves many processes like boiling, steaming, frying, roasting, or baking.

And Now it's Fizzy Fruits!

British supermarkets are riding high on the possibility of injecting carbon dioxide into fruits, to make them fizzy and sweet for kids to eat. But will it make the kids eat ordinary fruits?

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