eating well is important #719048

The preference towards one food or another depends on the experience lived during the first years of life. On many occasions, the fear of trying new foods translates into nutrient-poor diets. But if adequate nutritional education is applied from the first years of life, this translates, in the future, into correct eating habits. Rejecting new foods is usually more common at the time when the diet changes from liquid to solid. the fear that many parents feel to introduce new foods "is a totally normal response", but it should not materialize. The fear of the new (neophobia) is usually, in the case of food, a "survival mechanism" that focuses especially at the moment in which children begin to change their diet. To help them, Practices such as forcing people to take new products should be avoided, “rather the opposite”. It doesn't help eitheroffer food "as a reward." But one of the problems that not only parents but also educators have to face is the reverse path, that is to say, that a boy or girl accustomed to eating a varied diet begins to reject food. Set role models, through the family, help establish the most appropriate food preferences. The imitation factor has a key role here; If food patterns include foods such as fruits and vegetables from childhood, it is most likely that they will end up adopting the same habits naturally. How can this model be fixed?