Beneficial eating:
How nutrition affects your psyche

Eat your plate! For generations, children have heard this admonition when they sit in front of their still almost full plate and just poke around in their food. At this moment, many parents worry that their child is eating too little and may even develop growth or development problems as a result. But these fears are usually unfounded. Find out why in this article.

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Adults have acquired countless eating habits throughout their lives. Some of them are longstanding societal traditions, such as the norm of eating three meals a day. Other habits they have picked up from their parents or have developed because of personal lifestyles.

Children are not yet familiar with these habits and therefore orient themselves to their natural feelings of thirst and hunger. As soon as they feel one of these, they come forward and want to drink or eat. If you don’t feel hungry, you simply don’t want to eat. When feeding children, parents often forget that children need much less food in a day than adults. The benevolent amounts offered to children are usually much more than they can possibly eat. In addition, children have more appetite on some days and less on others. Therefore, it is logical that they do not eat regularly and especially not always the same quantities. It may well happen that your child devours a huge portion one day and then doesn’t feel hungry at all for three days.

“Beneficial eating is about more than healthy eating. It’s not just what we eat that’s important, but how we eat. Consciously enjoying food and celebrating meals together – that makes a lot of difference.”