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Build a Healthy Diet for Children

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Children need a healthy diet & balanced to meet nutritional needs in order to grow & develop properly. Needs of the food intake of healthy & balanced, fulfilled of food that contains enough elements needed by the body, either macronutrient or micronutrient.

And along with the growth of the child’s age, dietary changes, physical conditions or environmental conditions, then the child’s nutritional needs may change & vary from child to child with other children.

One of the factors that influence whether or not enough nutrition is of appetite, because appetite affects the balance of the food that enters the body. But often occurs in children, just want to eat certain foods such as instant noodles, burgers or processed meat products without going to eat any vegetables.

This of course affects the intake of nutrients for the body. Child’s appetite may also be influenced by something else, like a less varied diet from food & creamed transition to solid foods.

Caring Communities against Thalassaemia

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Thalassaemia ….., this word may still seem strange to some, but now increasing numbers of people with Thalassaemia in Indonesia. Thalassaemia itself is a blood disorder caused by insufficient production of hemoglobin (red blood cells) caused by the disruption in the process of chain formation of red blood cells because of damage to genes in the body. So for people with Thalassaemia, the only way to increase the amount of hemoglobin (Hb) in the blood is by way of a blood transfusion either continuously or from time to time depending on the type experienced Thalassaemia.

Thalassaemia is a genetic disorder, so it can be passed down from parent to child, although not to the whole child. For couples who turns each have a gene carrier (carrier) Thalassaemia, then it will have the possibility to have children who are patients of Thalassaemia as much as 25%. For more details can be viewed at the following chart:

According to the WHO in 1994, the number of people who have a carrier or carriers of Thalassaemia genes in the world reached 4.5%, or about 250 million people, of which 300 thousand children suffering from Thalassaemia are born each year and of that number about 60-70 thousand of which are β Thalassaemia major patients who require blood transfusions continuously since the diagnosis even though the baby. And the number is increasing so that based on data from WHO, the number of carriers in 2001 represented 7% of the total world population.

So as to further enhance public awareness of the disease Thalassaemia, then on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 held at Jakarta, held a press conference event on The Thalassaemia Ambassador or ambassador Thalasaemia. Thalassaemia ambassador program is a joint program of PT. Novartis Indonesia with Orange for Kids organization which aims to provide education from patient to patient, thereby increasing the life expectancy of patients with Thalassaemia. In this program, which is also an ambassador Thalassaemia Thalassaemia patients will provide education to the other patients to improve adherence to undergo blood transfusions and iron chelation also take medication regularly and motivate patients to continue to have a zest for life and have a good quality of life as well as useful in everyday life.

Concern for Thalassaemia disease and the sufferer can be done by any person, whether through education about the disease and by the way do not stay away from the sufferer.

How to Handle a Difficult Child to Eat

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The problem is the difficulty of the little eating problem that most parents experience. You may also experience it. In order to welcome the national child day 2009, Fonterra Brand held a talk show and contest with the theme of children tips to overcome the little trouble eating. Parents who have children with difficult problems must be overcome eating. It’s hard to eat the children feared could lead to nutritional deficiencies in child development. If the condition is difficult to eat allowed dragging on, it is feared the child to be of low nutritional status (malnutrition) so that the growth process is not optimal.

A child experiencing a golden period in the first 30 months of life. In this golden period of extremely rapid growth of the child, the brain is no exception. If there is a shortage of nutrients in these times will result in development that is not optimal, especially brain development that will affect the child’s intelligence.

Here are tips for parents can do to overcome the difficult child to eat:

  • Since the age of 6 months, babies and toddlers begin to be given additional food or complementary feeding. Give these foods slowly.
  • Parents introduce any kind of solid foods one by one by the number of bit by bit in a few days. This helps the child in adapting to the taste and texture of food.
  • Give examples of good eating behaviors in children. One cause of the difficulties frequently encountered food is feeding behavior in the house itself. Parents often do not provide a good example of how to eat, such as eating on the phone or watching TV.
  • Variety of food, flavor and appearance also plays an important role in providing food to children. Type of food-that’s just boring food and display will reduce the spirit child to eat.
  • Eating scheduled. Provision of foods schedules recommended in order forming a constant and continuous discipline of children.
  • A pleasant dining atmosphere. Creating a pleasant atmosphere at mealtime can help overcome the child’s condition is difficult to eat. Never force a child in any form, should parents give examples of how to eat well.