• Encourage your child to eat slowly and chew the food properly.
• Eat meals with the family as often as possible.
• Discourage eating while watching TV.
• Encourage Healthy Snacks.
• Include a variety of delicious healthy foods for meals and snacks.
• Set a good example for your children by eating a healthy and balanced diet.
• Don't place your children on any restrictive diet with out proper supervision.
• Do not use food to punish your child.
• Occasional change of place and crowd will over come the monotony.
• Encourage children to enjoy fruits and vegetables by giving them different varieties from an early age.
• Do not add unnecessary sugar to drinks and foods.
• Don't give skimmed milk to less than five year old.
• Don't give whole nuts to children under four years old since they may choke.
• Regularity in meal timing is essential.
• Tea and coffee should be restricted as they over stimulate the system.
• Salads can be made interesting for them by adding crushed peanuts or incorporating in sandwiches.

Can a child eat sweets and candies?

Let your children have occasional sweets. It is not going to cause much harm if taken in moderation. The draw back of excessive consumption of sweets and candies are it spoils the appetite and cause tooth decay. Sweet containing fermentable carbohydrate which adheres to the tooth surface is the major dietary factor influencing tooth decay. The greater cariogenic effect depends up on longer the sugar stays in the mouth. This is due to stickiness of the carbohydrate. Encourage children to brush their teeth before and after going to bed . Ice cream and cakes are marginally better than hard candies because there are at least some nutrients in the milk and grains.