Health of Children and Soy

If you have a child then it is so important to make sure you give the right choice of a variety of nutritious and tasty foods so thus you can help your child get a healthy weight throughout his/her life. Read also ways to boost brainpower!

One of great choices for children is soy. What is the correlation between soy and the health of children? What can be done by soy to maintain the children’s health?

Why you should choose soy?

It is undeniable that the health of children is also associated and referred what they eat! To keep the health your kids, (depending on the age of kids) they should be given 0.5-2 cups of vegetables /day, 5oz of protein /day, 3-2 cups of low-fat milk or free-fat milk /day – according to Mypyramid for Kids.

Soy-foods have a high amount of protein that will be helpful to fulfill vegetable, meat, or dairy requirement. The high content of vegetable, dairy or meat is dependent on the type of soy-food that you choose.

There are also a lot of fortified soy-foods that can be good choice for the sources of Vitamin-D, iron, fiber and even calcium (all of these substances are important elements for growing kids).

If you want to give the nice diet for your kids (without sacrificing flavor so thus will be helpful to keep the desire to eat of your children) then soy-enhanced foods are welcome idea. They are not too bad idea to add variety & nutritive value without needing to sacrifice taste.

Soy-foods are easily to be enjoyed & accepted by kids and popular for tasty alternative to dairy & meat. Therefore, it is not too bad idea to introduce soy-foods early to your children in order to contribute and promote good healthy habit or patterns that last a lifetime for your child. Overall, soy is good source of protein and so recommended for growing children.

Other advantages of soy-foods for children

1. Soy is not only good idea for a tasty alternative in kid’s meals but also helpful to prevent the progress of a certain adult disease. There are several studies or researches shown that soy can lower the risk of breast cancer and reduce the bad cholesterol.
2. Like mentioned before, kids can get a lot of nutrients for development and growth by consuming soyfoods.
3. Soy-foods also can be a good alternative choice for a kid who is allergic to a certain food, such as peanut butter can be replaced by soy nut butter-, milk can be replaced by calcium carbonate fortified soymilk or tofu-, etc.
4. Soy is one of nice ideas if you are looking for cost-effective ingredient. And you can make if for healthy snacks for your kids so thus you don’t have to worry your kids will get obesity.

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Reference: www.soyfoods.org