“Food is the material of edible and contains different components to meet the body needs for growth or maintain a healthy body condition. Basically meal consisting of water, nutrients and additives. “Said dr. Nita Ratna Dewanti, SpA.
“Nutrients composed of substances of macro and micro substances. Substance that is a macro that includes fats, carbohydrates and proteins. While the substance of vitamins and micro minerals and water. Functions including food to provide energy (fat, carbohydrate, protein), as the body’s defenses, and important for growth (protein, vitamins and minerals, water) “continued Ramsay Hospital pediatrician International Bintaro.
One of the essential nutrients that is milk. Recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) states, 300-455 kcal from dairy cows in one day. It means that satisfy around 50% of caloric needs per day of dairy cows. The rest is obtained from solid foods. Children 1 year of age require 1000 calories every day, recommended 340-455 calories obtained from milk, the rest come from other solid foods.
About the child’s feeding difficulties, dr. Nita said that the refusal of food kids this age might just be because the digestive organs of the child is not ready to accept the food provided. This can be caused because the texture of foods that are too coarse or too thick, it can even be caused due to food portions are not in accordance with the ability to swallow a baby, he explained.
Ramsay International Hospital child psychologist Bintaro Dra.Niniek A. Bawani said, there are some constraints that occur at different age stages. In infants aged from 6 months (had to get extra food), your child may often sprayed not want to swallow food or eating.
