The importance of a child diet, on their health and development . 

There are many bad effects that camber come life-threatening from an unbalanced diet there are obesity osteoporosis diabetes obesity happens when you uncontrollably eating healthy foods it is one of the most common health issues in the world being abuse can shorten your life span the problem of obesity among young children is being grossly fat or overweight this usually easily happens to young children because some parents like to treat their children a lot whether it is with food or other items. Having a lot of body fat can affect your everyday life this is because being bigger can make you unfettered which means you can get tired of doing exercise quite quickly. risks of obesity are:

Type II diabetes 

coronary heart disease

 some types of cancer such as breast cancer and bowel cancer

Being obese can affect the way you think upon life, for example, it can make you depressed, and can cause low self-esteem. These are both mental health problems that will need help with for example counselling. 

Osteoporosis is a condition that causes joints to become painful and stiff. It is the most common type of arthritis in the UK.

Obesity, when you are obese, you can get osteoporosis, this is because of all that XS body weight pressure on your joints, particularly your knees and hips. You can get diagnose with it from the doctors. Mild symptoms of this can be cured by, regular exercise, losing weight if you are overweight, wearing suitable footwear and using devices to reduce the strain on your joints during your everyday activities. You can try to avoid this by staying as healthy as possible. 

Diabetes is a lifelong condition that causes a person is high blood sugar levels to become increasingly high. Type one and type two of them are two main types of diabetes. 90% of adults who have diabetes have Type II, this is because it is more common. Main symptoms of diabetes are: feeling really thirsty, very tired, weight loss and loss of muscle bulk, blurred vision and cuts or wins that heal slowly. Diabetes can affect a Childs life because it means they can't eat as much sugar as all the children, and on a certain type of diabetes, you can gain weight. The more XS weight that you carry , The more likely people will develop Type II diabetes. You can make sure you're eating plenty of fruit. When you get Type II diabetes, you can't just get rid of it, you need to take insulant which helps it, and keep checking your blood pressure.         

A child may require a special diet because they are a vegetarian . Being a vegetarian me that you disagree with eating meat, you don't think it's the right thing to do. If The child is vegetarian it is probably because the parents/carer have influenced it onto the child because they don't want the child to eat meat either. There are still a lot of food choices available to vegetarian if a child is a vegetarian, they can eat things like jacket potato with beans and cheese. This is the healthy food option. Another example of this is they can eat omelettes with salad. A child might also like eating a roast dinner which uses Quorn meat instead of meat.

Food allergies can be a cause of why children need hey specific diet. For example, if a child is allergic to something; they have to be careful to make sure they avoid foods that contain it. 

Lactose intolerance is where you can't have products that contain dairy. Children with this condition need to limit on avoid products that have there in it. Lactose is the sort of sugar found in milk products. 

Coeliac disease is a common digestive  condition were the small intestine becomes inflamed I want able to absorb nutrients. Children with this illness need to have a gluten-free diet.   

Cystic fibrosis is where children need to have a lots of calories, to help them with their disease. Fats and vitamins can easily leave their bodies, so the need to eat lots so that body can work.

Some children have a specific diet, due to what religion they:

If the family are Hindu, then this means that they cannot eat any meat that comes from Macau, which for example is beef. Quite a lot of people that are Hindus, don't eat any meat at all. Hindus encourage people to be vegetarians. They think that towels are special, and should get looked after, not killed and then eaten. 

Some people that follow Buddha don't eat any type of meat.

Christians believe that you should not eat meat on Fridays full stop apart from that they eat everything else for example meat and veg. 

Peoples diet can depend A lot on their culture and where the family came from. Some people in another country may have a very different idea of what food is than you have. 

In some countries, they eat animals which in other countries would be thought of as pets. People from some Coke cultures my eat very hot and spicy foods.

In Australia, people are used to eating and enjoying a wide range variety of foods from many countries because they have people from different countries that live there too. 

Most people in the world buy and grow food. Some people, live on the food that they grow. Also some people cannot grow food so they have to buy it. It depends where about they live.

                                       

               

Adults in earlier setting can help children to make healthier food choices by, making healthy snacks available to the children. Four example slices of fruit, yoghurt or cheese and crackers.    

Another way is by being a role model, so because children look up to what the adults do, if the adults a healthy meals then hopefully the children will want to do that to. The adults good help this by overly enjoying the healthy snack/meal in front of the children therefore making them want it to.

Giving the children the choice, will make them feel more free and in control and not forced into anything. Encouraging children to eat healthy is really important well they are young so they get into a routine of it hopefully when they get older and carry it out. Stuff in the setting could also said PE lessons this is encouraging them to do exercise and stay fit, this is keeping them healthy. 

Adults in the setting could put posters up around on walls so that the children can see them. Make sure the children feel comfortable about asking for fruit/healthy meals/snacks or drinks for example water or sugar free juice.