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Essential Nutrition for Children

Proper nutrition is important for growth and development, especially for vulnerable groups like children and pregnant/lactating women. The document outlines the importance of nutrition for children, noting rapid growth in the first year requires the right foods. It then classifies the basic food groups into energy/carbohydrate foods, body-building proteins, and protective vitamins and minerals, providing examples. Meal planning can utilize these food groups for balanced, nutritious meals on a limited budget.

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Essential Nutrition for Children

Proper nutrition is important for growth and development, especially for vulnerable groups like children and pregnant/lactating women. The document outlines the importance of nutrition for children, noting rapid growth in the first year requires the right foods. It then classifies the basic food groups into energy/carbohydrate foods, body-building proteins, and protective vitamins and minerals, providing examples. Meal planning can utilize these food groups for balanced, nutritious meals on a limited budget.

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Proper nutrition is necessary for health

attainment and maintenance, optimal


growth and development of individuals
particularly among the vulnerable groups:
children (infants, pre-schoolers) and women.
Nutrition for pregnant and lactating women
should always be emphasized to ensure
good nutrition during these periods.
A. IMPORTANCE OF NUTRITION FOR
CHILDREN

A child grows and develops more rapidly during the


first year of life than at any other time. On the
average, a baby should double his weight by the
fifth to sixth month and triple it by the end of his
first year. This rapid growth of bones, muscles and
tissues can take place only if
the baby is getting enough
of the right kinds of food.
To be more specific, nutrition is important
because:
• It helps in the development of the brain, especially
during the first year of the
child’s life;
• It speeds up the growth and
development of the body
including the formation of
teeth and bones;
• It helps fights infections and diseases;
• It speeds up the recovery of a sick child; and
• It provides the child more energy.
B. BASIC FOOD GROUPS

1. Classification
2. Functions
3. Nutrients
4. Food Sources
B. BASIC FOOD GROUPS
Classification:
The 3 basic food groups are:
1. Energy foods (energy-giving) :
Carbohydrates : wheat, rice, corn, etc.
Fats or lipids
2. Body-building foods:
Proteins : soy, meat, poultry, seafood.
3. Protective (regulating) foods :-
Vitamins & Minerals : All fruits and vegetables as well
as dairy products
Classification Functions Nutrients Food Sources
•Body-building or •Help build & repair •Protein Fish, pork, chicken,
GROW foods body tissues beef, milk, cheese,
•Develop body butter, kidney,
resistance to beans, mongo,
infections peanuts, bean, curd,
•Supply additional
shrimp, clams
energy
•Body-Regulating •Normal •Vitamins A&C Tiesa, ripe papaya,
or GLOW foods development of the •Minerals: mongo, guava,
eyes, skin, hair, •Iodine
yellow corn, banana,
bones and teeth orange, squash,
•Iron
•Increase carrot
protection against
diseases
•Energy-giving or •Provides enough •Carbohydrates Rice, corn, bread,
•GO foods energy to make the •fats cassava, sweet
body strong potato, banana,
sugar cane, honey,
lard, cooking oil,
coconut milk,
margarine, butter
The Basic Food Group is a food pattern to help you
select the right kind of food everyday. It is also a
guide in planning, selecting and preparing meals
for the family. It is also called the GROW, GLOW
and GO foods.
Guide in meal planning
Rice with sinigang na karne is a one-dish-meal. Look
at the ingredients and let us see which food groups
they belong:
meat body-building food
Sitaw body-regulating food
Kangkong body-regulating food
Gabi energy-giving food
Rice energy-giving food
One-dish-meals are nutritious and are cheaper than
buying or preparing separated meals and vegetable
dishes, especially with a limited food budget.

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