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General Eating Guidelines
The Dietary Guidelines for Children and Adolescents states that children need sufficient nutritious foods to grow and develop normally. For optimal health they should be encouraged to:
- Enjoy a variety of nutritious foods
- Eat plenty of vegetables, legumes and fruit
- Eat plenty of cereals (breads, rice, pasta, noodles), especially wholegrain varieties
- Include lean meat, fish, poultry and / or alternatives (eggs, legumes)
- Include milk, yoghurt, cheese and / or alternatives (reduced fat varieties are not suitable for children under 2 years, because of their high energy needs, and should only be encouraged in older children and adolescents when the diet has diversified)
- Choose water as a drink
Care should be taken to
- Limit saturated fat and moderate total fat intake (low fat diets are not suitable for infants)
- Choose foods low in salt
- Consume only moderate amounts of sugars and foods containing added sugars