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Breastfeeding.
Things Expectant Parents should know: Once you take in, make
a commitment and be prepared to do whatever it takes to make
breastfeeding work for you and your baby. Have an open mind
and be prepared to learn. Breast feeding is a learned art
that has been lost to the majority of mothers in a
bottle-feeding society....
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Family Nutrition
- Junk Food Vs Healthy Food: With more women working
full time, even health - conscious parents are finding it
easy to tolerate less than desirable eating habits....
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Watering your
Growing Child: Water Is Cool Teach your children to
acquire a taste for water, the most vital drink of all!
Water is essential to good nutrition! ....
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Refined Sugar:
The Sweet Poison. Refined sugar is one of the worst things
we can give to our body, especially our immune system.
Refining sugar means all its vitamins, minerals, protein,
fibre, water and other synergists have been stripped away....
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Failure To
Thrive: The term “Failure to Thrive” is commonly used to
describe younger children who are not growing normally. They
usually have a weight that is low for their age and a
declining growth rate, meaning they are not gaining weight
as expected....
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Hand Expressing
Breast Milk: The Low - Tech Approach Expressing milk
with the hand works very well for some women because it
helps to relieve full breast and avoid problems with
engorgement....
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Manual or
Electric Breast Pump: All breast pumps work on the same
principle of suction, which is used to draw milk from the
beast into a container. The only differences are how much
suction the pump produces, or how many suction - and -
release cycles the pump is able to produce each minute....
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Breastfeeding
While Working: Women have always worked and breastfed.
In the olden days, mothers had lots to do including going to
the farm besides nursing their babies. There are good
reasons to continue to breastfeed even while working....
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Child Care -
Getting Yourself Ready: The theory of handling your baby
over to somebody else, probably an absolute stranger, has a
very different feeling when dealing with the reality. How
will your baby cope with out you....
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Choosing the Best
For Your Family: Finding high-quality child care is very
important, but not always easy, given all the details you
need to consider....
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Nipple confusion:
Nipple confusion, also called a bottle preference, arises
when a breastfed baby is given an artificial rubber or
silicon nipple and must try to learn to nurse from both his
mother's breast and the bottle nipple....
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Prenatal
Supplements: Women and Certain Health Issues Women with
dietary restrictions or pregnancy complications needs to
take a prenatal supplement and not just for the folic acid
and iron....
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What To Do If You
Just Can’t Seem To Get It Right: The easiest way to
learn about good latch – on is in a one-on- one session with
a knowledgeable expert who can show you how to get baby
latched – on correctly....
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Eating According
to Body’s Needs: If only Body Could Talk. Although our
body does not have a spoken language, it communicates....
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Getting Ready For
Breast Feeding: Mother's Position: How you sit, how you
hold your baby and how you offer your breast all affect how
your baby breastfeeds, What's more, positioning utimately
determines how....
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Building
Closeness By Breast Feeding: When women look back on the
time they spent breastfeeding their babies, what the
remember most is the intimacy of feeding a baby at the
breast. Wheather you're someone who is swept away by the
romance of....
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Peak Extra
Fortified: Enhanced Performance: By now, you must have
seen or heard the new wave across the nation. It is the wave
of an ideal food that contains most principles of a well
balanced diet. It contains the essential....
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Chid Care -
Choosing the best for your family: An increasing number
of parents rely on child care so they can work or go to
school. However, as parent, you need to carefully select
your child care because the type of....
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Why is the intake
of Dairy Product good? Some parents often ask if their
children really need to take milk and other diary products.
The answer is yes. Dairy products provide alot of nutrition.
Milk, for instance, is a....
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Adequate &
Variety Diet for Children: Be A Role Mode; Many of us
have unhealthy eating habits but remember you are your
child's role model. So eating junk food, while offering your
child vegetable, just won't....
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Child Care -
Getting Yourself Ready: Close your eyes for a moment and
try to picture yourself dropping your child off at the care
center on your way to work. How do you feel?
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Prenatal
Supplements: Are they necessary? A pre-natal supplement
is a vitamin and mineral supplement you take daily to ensure
you are getting the right amount of important nutrients
during pregnancy for optimal fetal development and growth...
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The Importance of
Milk in the Diet: Although milk is processed, it is not
a engineered food. Milk is considered an ideal food because
it contains most principles of a well balanced diet. Milk is
about...
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Healthy bones
nutrition: What are the bones? The Human skeleton is
composed of 206 bones which begins to develop before birth
and it takes about 20 years for....
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What are eating
disorders? Eating disorder involves self-criticism and
negative feelings about appearance and eating behaviour that
harms the normal body....
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Good Nutrition is
Essential for Good Oral health: A child's dental care
actually begins before birth in which the gum develops
during the month of....
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Gastro Esophageal
Reflux: GER stands for Gastro Esophageal Reflux, a
condition commonly called "acid indigestion","heartburn" and
acid "reflux". "Gastro" refers to....
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Eye Safety and
Healthy Nutrition Development Stages: Infants are born
with an underdeveloped visual system which develops with
them through the first year of life. Between ages four and
six months, your child should start to reach out or flutter
the....
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The Nutrients
Journey to the brain: Children need to eat an essential
diet that will supply nutrients to their brains. Nutrients
must survive an attack by....
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Protein Group -
Tropical Almond Nuts: Almonds are nutritionally an
excellent source of Vitamin E and Magnesium as well as a
good source of protein, calcium and fibre. They Help lower
blood cholesterol levels and help....
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Traditional
Breakfast Foods for Children - Akara Fritters or Ball:
Beans are a part of our staple diet in this part of Africa.
They are use as part of various recipes like akara fritter
or....
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Protein Group -
Nuts: What are Nuts? Nuts are seeds that are encased in
hard outer shells, They grow on flowering upright trees or
shrubs. Nuts offer an abundance of nutritional benefits and
can ....
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Protein Group -
Beans: Maximizing its Health Benefits; Beans are
extremely beneficial in all diets. They contain high protein
level, complex carbohydrates and dietary fibre....
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Caffeine:
Does anyone need Caffeine? Generally, people, adults and
school children alike, drink caffeine to help them wake up
and feel sharper or more alert, caffeine actually causes
dehydration....
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Fats, Oil and
Sweets: Fats, Oil and Sweets contain nutrients which
maintain body functions and help achieve healthy....
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Protein Group -
Bush meat: Many families in Nigeria love bush meat
because of it's nutritional value of high protein and low
fat. The good news is that families, can....
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Whole Grain-
Wheat: Wheat is probably the most important cereal crop
in the world. It is present in foods like bread, chin
chin....
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Refined Grain
White Rice: Rice is the staple diet of about two-thirds
of the world's population. White rice, or refined rice, is a
complex carbohydrate that serves as....
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Milk Group Milk
and Milk Products: The milk group of the Food Pyramid
contains products and foods like yogurt, cheese, chocolate
and ice cream. Milk is a good source of high quality
protein....
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Impediments of
Good Child Nutrition: Children are not born with an
innate ability to choose healthy diets. It is the parents'
attitudes toward food that influence how they select foods
for their children.....
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Importance of
Good Nutrition: The importance of good nutrition in
every family and society cannot be over-emphasized. Eating
the correct type and the right amount of food throughout
one's life means.....
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The Grain Group
Whole Grain: Grain products are foods made from cereals
like wheat, rice, oats and barley. Examples of these
include.....
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Vegetables: A
Vegetable is basically any part of a plant that can be
eaten. This includes buds, flower buds, leaves and shoots.
Vegetables comprise......
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The Health
Benefits of Fruits in children: Children and adults
everywhere love fruits, because eating them is both
pleasurable and rewarding. A daily consumption of fruits
perhaps the cheapest and easiest way to give children their
daily requirements of vitamins and minerals......
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Avocado Pear:
The avocado pear contains more nutrients than any other
fruit. It is especially high in protein, fibre, some
B-vitamins, zinc and potassium. It also contains calorie
rich unsaturated fatty acids, a reason why......
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Orange Vegetable Group Sweet
Potato: Most people do not know that sweet potato is a
vegetable. Well, it is - and a very nutritious one...
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Vegetables
Lettuce: Lettuce is one of the most delicate salad
plants around. It contains a rich variety of nutrients like
dietary fibre.....
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Vegetables Kuka
Leaves: Kuka leaves are obtained from baobab trees. The
Leaves, whether fresh or in a dry powder form, are used to
make.....
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Sugar and
Children's Diet: sugar is the sweet crystalline
substance obtained mainly from sugarcane. It is used in many
foods.....
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Weaning Your
Child: Weaning is a process in a baby's natural
development stage when he or she transits from breast milk
to other sources of nourishment.....
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Constipation
in Children: Constipation is a common intestinal problem
in children and adults. It occurs when there is a painful
passage of.....
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What makes a
Good Snack? Children love to snack and the truth is that
snacking is important for their well being. A good snack
contains...
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Importance and
Preservation of Fish: Fish is an easy and economical
source of protein, iodine and unsaturated oils for families
everywhere. Fishes are.....
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Basic Facts
About Eggs: Eggs are one of nature's most nutritious
creations. They are rich in protein, low in sodium,
contain.....
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Healthy
Digestion in Children: Teaching your children how to eat
well is something you must make a habit this year since this
will help them.....
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Preventing
Food Contamination At Home: Germs that can cause food
poisoning are usually controlled by cooking or refrigerating
the food. Given the opportunity though, these germs will....
