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10 Ways to Shape Young Tastes

Tastes and cravings are learned in the body and in the brain but influenced mostly by cultural eating practices. While American children learn to love hamburgers, children in China or India learn to love other foods. Here are some time-tested ways to shape young tastes from birth onward.

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1. Breastfeed As Often and for As Long As Possible

Almost everyone now knows that human milk is the gold standard for infant nutrition. In fact, the positive effects of breastfeeding on adult health is the prime example of how early metabolic programming can protect against adult diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure. You can lower the incidence of just about every disease by breastfeeding. And the effect is does related: the longer and more exclusively you breastfeed your children, the greater the health benefits. Research has traced some of these health-promoting effects to the fact that breastfed children grow up with lower and more stable insulin levels. Growing up with too high and unstable insulin levels in the bloodstream produces an unfavorable biological environment, so the body and brain cannot grow optimally. Other benefits of breast milk include its heart-healthy fats and immune boosters and the gut-friendly quality of human milk protein. Here are some specific ways that breastfeeding can shape young tastes.

It promotes a good gut feeling.

Breast milk is known as an “easy in, easy-out” food. Its perfect balance of the right kinds of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates makes it easy on the intestines. Breastfed babies begin life associating good gut feelings with eating. They also associate the warmth and comfort of being close to Mom with mealtime. Could there be a better food-mood connection?

It provides ideal metabolic programming.

Breast milk gives babies the best possible metabolic programming in the first weeks and months of life. The unique brain-building fats in breast milk help infant brains grow to be the best they can be. The many immunological factors in human milk help the baby’s own immune system to develop. It’s interesting to note that breastfeeding during infancy is associated with a lower lifelong risk of many diseases thought to be caused by immune system dysfunction, including juvenile diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and Crohn’s disease.

It introduces foods of the culture.

Breast milk plays an important part in transmitting taste preferences for different cultures’ cuisines. A mother’s milk actually carries flavors from the foods she eats. Breastfeeding gets babies ready to enjoy the more flavorful foods their families eat. Variations in the taste of the milk from day to day prepare baby for a varied diet in the years ahead.

It prevents overeating.

Breastfed babies seem to grow up being better able to decide how much to eat. Studies have shown that children who are breastfed are less likely to be obese in adolescence.

2. Shape Young Tastes by Serving Fresh or Frozen Baby and Toddler Food

Introduce your baby to the flavor of fresh foods right from the start. The less canned formula and jarred food your baby and toddler eats, the better. When toddlers eat fresh food, they learn what real food tastes like in the mouth and feels like in the gut. They learn to enjoy a greater variety of flavors and textures. These early encounters with solid food are a window of opportunity for shaping young tastes. If your baby and toddler eats only freshly prepared, unsalted, and unsweetened foods, your child will prefer these foods and be more likely to reject salty, sugar-sweetened junk foods. It’s as simple as that.

Infants and children do have a built-in preference for sweet-tasting foods. Breast milk is naturally sweet, and studies of newborns have demonstrated that babies just a few days old prefer sugar water to plain water. Babies’ inborn preference for sweet food is nature’s way of ensuring that they like to drink the good stuff – their mother’s milk – that helps them grow. Human mild and the healthy fresh foods that older babies enjoy such as bananas and other ripe fruits have a natural sweetness in them that is not overwhelming or artificial. A baby whose favorite foods are Mother’s milk and squishy bananas probably won’t go on to enjoy beverages sweetened with massive amounts of sugar, corn syrup, or artificial sweeteners. These foods will taste sickeningly sweet when compared with the naturally sweetened foods he learned to love early in life. When artificial sweets hit the programmed receptors in the lining of his gut, they trigger an internal biochemical alarm that registers as “yucky.” On the other hand, children who grow up with a steady diet of sweetened, salted, and greasy fast foods don’t register these foods as “yucky” because they have become used to them.

3. Graze on Grow Foods

One of the most common problems parents of one- to three-year-olds raise during routine checkups is that their child doesn’t eat enough. We believe one of the main reasons parents think their child doesn’t eat enough is that they expect their child to eat three good-sized meals each day. But young children have tiny tummies about the size of their fists. They feel more comfortable grazing on mini-meals throughout the day. Grazing is actually healthier for them.

Not only do most kids eat too much junk food, most older kids eat too much — period! This is true of adults as well. “Supersize me,” we say at restaurants. We have come to view large portions as the norm, and this has turned us into a nation of habitual overeaters. There are sensors in the stomach called stretch receptors. When the stomach is filled with a certain volume of food, these receptors signal the brain, “Stop, you’ve eaten enough!” Research on animals suggests that those who eat too much end up with stretched stomachs that wait longer to send the stop signal. A grazer, someone who eats small portions more frequently, gets used to feeling satisfied with less. By offering your child frequent mini-meals throughout the day, you can literally shape the size and portion expectations of your child’s tummy.

4. Avoid the ‘Terrible Threes”

Don’t feed your child foods containing these three artificial additives:

high-fructose corn syrup
hydrogenated oils, or “trans fats”
any color additive with a number symbol attached to it (e. g., blue #1, yellow #5, red #40)

These are three easy-to-remember ways to recognize foods that merit the label “junk food.” Not only are these ingredients themselves unhealthy for your child, but any packaged food that contains them is likely to be something you don’t want your kids to eat. If you make this one change – avoiding foods that contain any of these three ingredients – you will have gone 90 percent of the way toward de-junking your child’s diet. Food packagers actually add ingredients that are designed to entice children to crave a particular “mouth feel.”

5. Serve Nutrient-Dense Foods

Your baby or young child’s first foods should be grow foods, which we also like to call “superfoods.” These are the foods you most want your children to eat when they are older, so it’s important that they learn to like them and see them as a part of their everyday diet.

Grow foods are fresh foods or packaged foods that have undergone minimal amounts of processing. They are foods you eat as close to their natural state as possible. They do not contain artificial or factory-added ingredients, and they are nutrient dense — they pack a lot of nutrition into a relatively small volume of food. Nutrient-dense foods are different from calorie-dense foods, those that pack a lot of calories into a small volume of food. Studies have shown that children who are habitually fed nutrient-dense foods tend to prefer them and are less likely to overeat than children who are fed a steady diet of nutrient-poor foods.

6. Model Healthy Eating Habits

Studies have shown that children tend to develop food preferences and eating habits similar to their mothers’ preferences and habits. If you present nutritious foods as the norm (“This is what we eat”) and eat them yourself, your children will eat them, too. It’s as simple as that. It is also important to keep your preschool and school-age children from exposure to junk food and advertisements for junk food.

7. Shape Young Tastes, Don’t Control Them!

Studies have shown that rigidly restricting children’s access to certain foods focuses more attention on these foods and increases children’s desire to eat them. Parents who try to control their children’s eating habits end up with kids who are more likely to overeat and to eat the wrong kinds of foods. Also, children who are raised in families with highly controlling and restrictive attitudes toward eating tend to have a higher level of dissatisfaction with their bodies.

Instead, think in terms of shaping your child’s food preferences. “Shaping” means providing your child with opportunities to make wise choices, and directing and redirecting behavior in ways that help your child learn to be in charge of himself. It’s good discipline, applied to food. Shaping is like gardening. You plant the seed, and while you can’t control how fast the plant grows or when it blooms, you can pull the weeds around it and water it and prune it to help it grow more beautifully. Don’t coerce your children into eating or penalize them for not eating. Don’t make threats such as “You must eat your vegetables or you can’t watch TV.” Long-term studies have shown that this is a for sure way to keep your child from liking vegetables. It’s okay, though, to set some priorities: “Grow foods before fun foods!” Just make sure there’s a tried-and-true favorite grow food on the table so that your child is guaranteed to enjoy eating at least one grow food on the way to a healthy dessert.

8. Surround Your Child with Nutritious Foods

What’s in your pantry? Studies show that preschool-age children are more likely to eat the foods that are most accessible. When children see a bowl of fruit or a platter of raw vegetables sitting on the table as snack food, this is what they will eat. They won’t go looking in the pantry for junk food. (This strategy works on moms and dads, too.) Restock your pantry with the foods you want them to like. These will become their familiar foods, or “family foods,” the ones that are the norm for your family. One reason fast-food restaurants and junk-food snacks are so popular is that they are very accessible — no chopping, no cooking, no dishes to wash. Just place your order at the drive-through window, or pop open the plastic wrapper. Reminders that these foods are available can be found almost everywhere. Tastes are shaped not only in mouths and guts but also in little eyes. Make sure your kids see healthy food when they walk into your kitchen.

9. Expose Your Child to a Variety of

New Foods

We often hear parents complain, “My child just won’t try new foods.” Food researchers believe that an aversion to trying new foods is a built-in safety mechanism. Back when food was hunted or gathered from the fields and forests, it was smart to be cautious about trying new foods. Some could be poisonous – most likely the ones that were not sweet and that had a funny taste. Familiar foods, the ones the family ate all the time, were the safest. Experts in infant feeding and development believe that this innate fear is what causes a toddler to go through a stage of finicky or picky eating.

Whatever the reasons behind food aversions, getting children out of a food-choice rut can be frustrating. But it’s important to try. Your children need to eat a variety of foods to get the right balance of vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. It takes creative marketing to get children to experiment with new tastes and textures. Here are some new-food marketing tips:

Start early.

Studies show that new foods are most likely to be accepted between two and three years of age. This is why it’s important to introduce a variety of grow foods during that window of opportunity in the early years.

Go small.

Begin with small amounts, such as 1 or 2 teaspoons. That way if your child doesn’t like the new food, no one gets frustrated and you don’t worry about wasting good food.

Make hunger work for you.

Children are most likely to accept new foods when they are especially hungry. Try offering new foods at times when your child is most hungry, such as at a midafternoon snack. A new food can be a fun novelty at snacktime. At mealtime, when other choices are available, a child may be less likely to try something new.

Hide the food.

Be sneaky. Hide a new food in a tried-and-true favorite food. Use a larger amount of the favorite food (e.g., four parts familiar food to one part new food), and each time you serve this combination, gradually increase the proportion of the new food.

Repeat, repeat, repeat!

Try the “rule of ten.” Studies from the Department of Nutrition at Penn State University have shown that repeated exposure (usually between ten and twenty times) to a new food eventually leads most children to accept it. So if your five-year-old shuns broccoli, don’t give up after only three or four times. Keep offering it in different presentations (e.g., steamed or raw with dip, drizzled with olive oil, covered with cheese, mixed with pasta, in soup and salads). Eventually your child will eat broccoli because it’s there, letting him know “this is what we eat. ”

Play copycat to shape young tastes.

When you eat something that you are trying to get your child to like, let your child see you eat it with gusto. Children like to copy their parents, and they’re curious when it seems they might be missing out on something fun. If there’s something you want your child to try, eat it right in front of him without actually offering it to him. He may try the new food simply because you are eating it. Of course, you may have to fake it if you want your child to learn to like something you don’t enjoy. Parents who want to shape their children’s tastes toward healthy food often find themselves eating better when their kids are around. If a parent says, “No way am I eating that,” the child won’t eat it either.

Try the two-bite deal.

In our family we encourage our children, “Take two bites. If you like it, fine. If you don’t, you don’t have to eat it. You can try it again another time.” If it’s really a no, don’t push it.

Be enthusiastic.

Introduce the new food with enthusiasm and excitement. Make an appreciative face and say, “Yum, good!” Play show and tell: Name it, show it, describe it, take a bite yourself, and talk about how tasty it is. If you child rejects the food, don’t force the issue. Research shows that children are more likely to accept new foods when they are simply exposed to them rather than forced to eat them. Continue to serve the food, and one day your child may surprise you by asking for it. Be sure to present new foods positively. Children are more likely to try new foods willingly when the atmosphere around the table is happy and positive.

Co-cook.

Children are more likely to eat foods that they have helped to prepare. If they’ve invested a lot of time and energy in helping to make the meal, they are going to want to sample their handiwork. They may even try the new food during the preparation and enjoy it.

Try peer pressure.

Invite other children to your home for a meal – kids who you know eat a variety of foods that you want your child to learn to enjoy. When children see other kids, especially their friends or slightly older kids whom they look up to, eating a new food, they are more likely to try it.

10. Enjoy Happy Meals

Eating is supposed to be pleasurable. The more friendly the atmosphere around the table, the more likely your children are to try new foods prepared in different ways, and also to eat appropriate amounts – not too little and not too much.

“My kids just won’t eat healthy food,” you may complain. What good is all this nutritional advice if your kids won’t eat what you serve? For those of you with infants less than one year of age, following our advice will be a “piece of cake.” Just get them on the right track from the start (which also means getting yourselves on this same train), and they’ll grow up eating healthy.

But what about the rest of you? Your kids are several years old, and you’ve already “ruined” them with chips, crackers, and cookies, and they completely refuse anything green or brown. Take heart. Of course, you haven’t really ruined them. You (like 99 percent of Americans) just never thought it mattered much. Your children will eventually accept these changes. In fact, their hearts, brains, muscles, hormones, bones, skin, and immune systems will love ‘you for It (even if their attitudes don’t quite so quickly). They will grow up without heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, and a whole host of chronic diseases. Maybe when they’re in their seventies and are able to play tackle football with their grandchildren, they’ll stop and finally realize “Hey, I’m still active and healthy, and I have my parents to thank for it!”

Dr. Bill Sears: What Foods Should You Eat to Make You & Your Baby Smarter? - Ep 146

“If you can present health in an interesting and fun way to children, they will make a change.” – Dr. Bill Sears

Helping your children to create healthy habits by eating nutritious, whole foods can be quite the challenge. So this week on the Open Sky Fitness Podcast, we invited Dr. Bill Sears aka The Trusted Source for Parents to come on the show and share his tricks and tips to give children the small nudge they need to start thinking about being healthy for life.

We also took some time at the beginning of the show to answer a question from the Open Sky Fitness Podcast group on Facebook about static stretching vs dynamic stretching in relation to pre-workout and/or post-workout

“You don’t get fat by eating healthy fats. You get fat by eating junk carbs.” – Dr. Bill Sears

It’s basically impossible to get kids to eat all of their vegetables at dinner or eat a piece of fruit instead of a cookie as a snack. But if we associate health foods with something that is relevant and important to the child, eating healthy could become a major focus for them.

Simply call a group of foods something like “soccer food, “tall food,” or “pretty hair food. ” If your child is having a hard time believing you, ask a mentor such as a sports coach or teacher to help step in.

Dr. Bill’s Rules of Two

It takes two months to help a child like healthy foods. To help them stay on track, teach and remind them of this saying that Dr. Bill came up with:

“Eat twice as often, eat half as much, and chew twice as long.”

The Best Nutrition for Babies

“A mother’s milk contains the very nutrients that the brain loves such as the best fats and that’s why healthier and smarter babies tend to be breast-fed. Mother Nature intended it to be that way.” – Dr. Bill Sears

A mother’s milk is vital for a healthy brain and according to the latest research, babies could benefit from it most if they’re breast-fed for up to 3 years.

When a baby begins to eat solid foods, Dr. Sears recommends including avocados and salmon.

At 6 months, babies can begin to eat avocados and salmon at 7 months to help develop a healthy brain. Why avocados? Because the brain is the No.1 organ affected by nutrition and healthy fats are a great way to introduce healthy, fatty, solid foods.

“The root cause of most illnesses and ailments is inflammation because our immune system is out of balance. We’re a sicker society than we’ve ever been. People will object and say, “Well, we’re living longer.” That’s true, but we’re living sicker. Our health spans, not our life spans, is what’s really important.” – Dr. Bill Sears

To help prevent inflammation, Dr. Bill suggests following the 5 S Diet:

The 5 S Diet

Salmon (Wild Alaskan Salmon)
Smoothies with healthy fats
Salads
Snack Smart
Science-based Supplements

What Not to Eat to Avoid Inflammation

“The organ most defected by artificial sweeteners is the brain. When you consume aspartame, the crave center in the brain lights up and you crave more sweeteners. You don’t lose weight by drinking a diet cola. Soft drinks are the number one cause of inflammation.” – Dr. Bill Sears

Avoid anything with:

Added sugars on food labels
Chemical foods that include
- High Fructose Corn Syrup
- Artificial Sweeteners
- Flavor Enhancers
- MSG

Don’t Do Diet Drinks

Dr. Sears, or Dr. Bill as his “little patients” call him, has been advising busy parents on how to raise healthier families for over 40 years. He received his medical training at Harvard Medical School’s Children’s Hospital in Boston and The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, the world’s largest children’s hospital, where he was associate ward chief of the newborn intensive care unit before serving as the chief of pediatrics at Toronto Western Hospital, a teaching hospital of the University of Toronto.

He has served as a professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto, University of South Carolina, University of Southern California School of Medicine, and University of California: Irvine. As a father of 8 children, he coached Little League sports for 20 years, and together with his wife Martha has written more than 40 best-selling books and countless articles on nutrition, parenting, and healthy aging.

He serves as a health consultant for magazines, TV, radio and other media, and his AskDrSears.com website is one of the most popular health and parenting sites. Dr. Sears has appeared on over 100 television programs, including 20/20, Good Morning America, Oprah, Today, The View, and Dr. Phil, and was featured on the cover of TIME Magazine in May 2012. He is noted for his science-made-simple-and-fun approach to family health.

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4:20 Static stretching vs dynamic stretching in relation to pre-workout and/or post-workout

7:35 Why dynamic stretching is good for the body

14:00 Static stretching and its benefits

21:35 Introduction to Dr. Bill Sears

23:00 Inflammation and Inflammatory Diets

26:30 The Dr. Sears Wellness Institute

31:00 The 3 Magic Words to teaching kids how to eat healthy

32:00 Why avocados and salmon are such great foods for babies and young children to eat.

33:50 Why the ideal amount of time to breastfeed your baby could by 3 years.

35:40 Dr. Bill’s Rule of Twos

38:00 The connection between the tongue, brain, and gut to help shape young children’s taste buds

39:20 How can we help multiple children start to like healthy foods.

44:00 How to talk to your child about healthy foods like salmon

49:45 Why is inflammation so important?

52:50 What are some of the foods that people should be eating to help with inflammation

58:10 What foods should people stay away from to avoid inflammation

59:35 Is there a danger of inflammation from diet sodas?

1:05:35 Why crash diets don’t work compared to just eating whole foods on a regular basis.

1:12:00 Why we should take our health into our own hands.

1:15:30 Rheumatoid Arthritis: food and exercise recommendations

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It is important to note that the authors do not call for giving up sweets for good, they write about reasonable and conscious consumption. The book contains recipes.

Fernholm A., Lamm K. The Big Book of Food and Children

The book describes in detail the relationship with the food of a child of preschool age. Starting with breast milk and artificial feeding, ending with the conscious period of the baby, from two to five years. It tells about allergies, lack of appetite, the need for vitamins and trace elements, the age stages of the baby's development and his nutritional needs. There is a chapter on sugar, advice on how to consume it wisely and when the word "no" is necessary. A short summary is written at the end of each chapter.
A separate section is devoted to pregnancy, that is, intrauterine nutrition of the baby and cases where complications in the mother's health can prevent the child from developing. At the end of the book there is a subject index and an index of recipes.

Svetlana Bronnikova “Intuitive Eating. How to stop worrying about food and lose weight”

The author of the book, a well-known clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and founder of an obesity clinic, is convinced that the causes of excess weight are emotional overeating, unprocessed feelings that encourage us to eat without hunger, and also absorb not what we really want. Indeed, many of us feed off boredom by drowning out stress or because we happen to be in the right company. The author believes that without identifying specific causes of eating disorders, treatment will be meaningless. At the end of each chapter there is an "Experimentarium" with tasks, completing which you can learn a lot about yourself, learn to hear the signals of your body and begin to enjoy food.
The book is not about baby food, but why is it in this collection? Because, by changing their attitude to food, any adult will have a different attitude towards the nutrition of their child.
The book is voluminous, 432 pages. Contains theory and practical tasks.

Evgeniy Komarovsky “I don't want to eat... Secrets of a child's appetite. Refusal to eat: An analysis of the causes and ways to solve the problem”

The problem of lack of appetite is one of the painful problems for many parents. In an attempt to feed the baby, grandmothers and mothers are ready to move mountains, but the popular doctor Yevgeny Komarovsky advises first to deal with the problem, and only then stuff a hundred and one healthy dishes into the child.
The book focuses on lifestyle changes and family regimen. Indeed, if the baby walked actively for a couple of hours without snacking on the way, then at home, most likely, dinner will be eaten with a bang. The author believes that a “hungry child” is often a problem for parents, and a healthy baby will never be hungry. At the same time, the book contains recommendations on what to do in case of illness of the child.
Small brochure, 32 pages. Written easily, as, indeed, all the books of Dr. Komarovsky.
There is also a good book by the same author: “What is a "varied diet" and who needs it? Passion about sweets.

Elena Ul'eva "Creating a child's appetite"

An essential book for many parents. Here are 31 rules that must be followed in order for a child to have an appetite. For example, offer the baby freshly prepared meals, do not scold the child for uneaten food, observe the daily routine, as well as the diet. Many of the tips will seem obvious to some, and important and necessary to others.
The author painted useful and not very useful products, gave ideas for unusual design of different dishes. Each topic, advice or recipe is accompanied by a fairy tale, a poem, and sometimes a riddle. Perhaps this is the best technique for your little one?
Attached is a table of protein, fat, carbohydrate and calorie content of some products.

Sergey Afanasiev “Three views on baby food.

From two to seven years”

The book is dedicated to the conscious period in the life of a baby - from two to seven years. This period is characterized by flexibility, at this time it is easier to lay the foundations of a healthy diet, to make it habitual.
Three chapters of the book reflect three views on baby food: from the point of view of the doctor, from the point of view of the mother and from the point of view of the child. Alas, it often happens that these positions may not match. The author is working to balance these positions, to help parents decide what is healthy and what is not, and how to act in the formation of the child's eating habits.
The book contains many simple recipes that will suit not only children, but also parents. In addition to theory, the author tells what and how to cook, how best to serve, how to organize the feeding of a child so as not to discourage his interest in wholesome and healthy food.

Sears M., Sears W.

“Your child and you. Healthy nutrition for the whole family”

The authors managed to avoid a narrow view of baby food as something special. Their advice concerns the nutrition of the whole family, because it is impossible to build the ideal nutrition of the child without adjusting the eating habits of the parents.
What are fats, proteins, carbohydrates for? How does sugar harm the body? What stimulates the immune system? How to learn to read labels in stores? Why does the body need calcium? What you need to know about vitamins? How much water does the body need? How are breast milk substitutes made? Harm or benefit of milk? Optimal nutrition for children and adolescents. Food and healthy lifestyle. Recipes for delicious and healthy meals. The book is voluminous, 560 pages.
William and Martha Sears are well-known popularizers of the so-called "natural parenthood", parents of large families.

Irina Brekht Proper nutrition is like a minefield

Split meals, intermittent fasting, negative calorie foods, the keto diet, veganism, foods that will save you from cancer, and more.