Question

‘Peer group and media play an important role in selection of food’ among children. Justify your answers with two examples of each. What four dietary considerations will you follow for school going children while planning meal?

Answer 1

Explanation:

• Peer group and media have significant impact on the quality and quantity of the food children consume.  
• Children get more prone to similar food items influenced by peer groups during the lunch or tea breaks in schools and academic institutions.
• Children are easily getting along with television, internet, mobile applications which is having a huge impact on the food they consume.

Dietary considerations:

• Children have to consume milk, fruits, nuts, vegetables, ghee, butter, etc.
• Children should be practiced to eat millets, grains, pulses, green leafy vegetables, sprouts, soaked nuts such as almonds, fenugreek.  
• Children should be given the less spicy and oily food and more steam food is preferred.
• They should consume more proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, fiber, and fats for the rapid growth brain and body.