{"id":1733,"date":"2017-04-03T12:59:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T10:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dieticiansatwork.co.za\/blog\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2017-04-03T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T10:59:08","slug":"fussy-eaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dieticiansatwork.co.za\/blog\/fussy-eaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Fussy Eaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Children can be very fussy eaters and may refuse food to show independence or just to be able to have control over a small part of their lives or they may be too busy playing and learning to be interested in food.<\/p>\n<p>All the great advice about healthy eating and nutritional requirements becomes extremely difficult for the parent to follow, causing a great deal of stress for both the parents and the child. Your child will not become malnourished. Fussy eating is normally a short-term problem that will resolve over a short period of time. For those that remain fussy for longer periods, keep trying but don\u2019t fret. Children will eat when they are hungry.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guidelines for fussy eaters<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Follow a meal and snack schedule<\/li>\n<li>Make meal time family time<\/li>\n<li>Start with small portions<\/li>\n<li>Set a good example<\/li>\n<li>Help your child to try new foods<\/li>\n<li>Make meal times fun<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children can be very fussy eaters and may refuse food to show independence or just to be able to have control over a small part of their lives or they may be too busy playing and learning to be interested in food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dieticiansatwork.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/delfin-bananas-1737840_1920.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CNFS-rX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dieticiansatwork.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dieticiansatwork.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dieticiansatwork.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dieticiansatwork.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dieticiansatwork.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dieticiansatwork.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/dieticiansatwork.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dieticiansatwork.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dieticiansatwork.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dieticiansatwork.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dieticiansatwork.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}