All young persons require high calorie diet to make up for the energy expended in games, studies and other exercises. They require strong muscles, bones, eye-sight, good digestion and flexible joints. Their diet should be a balanced blend of Vitamins, Minerals, Cereals, high fibres, green vegetables, ripe fruits, proteins, carbohydrates, dairy and poultry foods. Give them a glass of whole milk daily, with some fresh/ripe fruits, or else juices of fruits and vegetables. Their diet should be rich in whole wheat/grain flour, soybeans, pulses, fats, eggs, fish etc. Every effort should be made that growing children are never starved of a nutritionally balanced diet. Children should never be encouraged to have a preferred fascination [or fast foods, fried foods, spicy and cooked foods or, for that matter, any food which is sold in the food jaunts. If the young ones are served the sort of food they seek outside in their own homes, there would be two advantages-firstly there shall not be any doubt as to the purity of the food served, and secondly it would be cost effective also, and finally the children and parents will have the satisfaction of having their meals together, with other members of their family. This togetherness is a boon and tonic [or the entire family. Modern life style and faulty habits have rendered our horne kitchens as barren places, for being used in emergent times/occasions only. Let us revive the culture of home kitchen and dinning table culture. Often change your food menus so that element of monotony is ruled out. Let the growing young people enjoy a wholesome and nutritious diet with their elders. Kitchen garden culture is a welcome device-it gives everybody a chance for gardening (which is an exercise), [or procuring fresh and pure fruits and vegetables, it will bring down kitchen bill and will meet choosy and selective likings of many of the members (if not of all) of the family. Nature has innumerable foods to satiate demands of the persons, and the farther we go away from the lap of Nature and fail to utilise and enjoy its riches, the nearer we reach to calamitous and terminal ends of our lives.
Finally, parents should not apply draconian rules to their children, who should be allowed occasional food deviations also. Always avoid a repulsive, rebound and reactionary situations. An unfriendly kitchen and an imposed food monotony is often the basic cause of break-up of many joint family kitchens. So, ensure good health of all, through satisfactory food from a common kitchen, to satiate even choosy taste buds.
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