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5 Ways To Improve Your Child’s Health

5 Ways To Improve Your Child’s Health
If your child continues to fall ill, here are five ways that can help improve the health of your child so that you can continue to grow and develop to their full potential.

Children fall sick all the time and feel hot or cold, and despite several chances to say that it helps your child build up your immune system, no parent wants to see his son fell ill. And this article may be a little help to improve the health of your child so that he continues to grow and develop to their full potential.

1. Eat more fruits and vegetables

Fruits and vegetables are rich in vitamins, minerals, fiber and antioxidants are good for health, and protection against disease. For example, broccoli contains a source of vitamin C, which is good for immunity. Papaya is a good source of beta carotene for eye health. Without the essential nutrients, children may stop growing and may even affect the development of their mental and motor abilities. Various types of fruits and vegetables have a mix of different types of substances. The trick is to add fruits and vegetables of different colors in the daily diet of your children. If you feed your kids with green broccoli, add some carrots or calluses; Or you can also add some seaweed on top of white rice to taste better as well to maintain health.

2. Soak up the morning sun rays

Living in Indonesia, should not be too hard to let your children get a healthy dose of vitamin D from exposure to sunlight. According to the National Health Service, Vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium and phosphorus, minerals that are important for healthy bones and teeth. If your child vitamin D deficiency, it can cause your child’s bones become soft and weak, which can lead to rickets and other bone deformities. Exposure to sunlight helps the children to get 80%, but there are also some foods that contain vitamin D naturally that you can add to your child’s diet as fatty fish such as salmon, herring, mackerel and sardines.

3. Make sure your hands stay clean

Children are naturally curious and constantly touching something that is around them, It can be unleashed and very susceptible bacteria cause diseases such as diarrhea, acute respiratory infections and diseases of the hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). Health Promotion Board suggest to you that your baby’s hands free of germs by washing hands frequently with soap and water, especially after using the bathroom, touching common surfaces, playing with a pet and before eating. Your child care provider should also give examples of good personal hygiene.

4. Time enough sleep

It’s important that your child has enough sleep for good health quality. If your child does not have enough time to sleep or quality of sleep, it can affect temperament, learning and behavior in everyday situations. According to a survey by Nanyang Technological University (NTU), revealed that more than a third of students in primary schools showed signs of students who lack sleep in an activity at school, which may cause the value in school decreased, skills, decision-making and improving the symptoms anxiety and depression.

5. Do not forget to exercise

If your child is constantly playing with his favorite gadget, and most of the time just to play games, you should encourage him to participate in more activities that involve physical.

M. Michael Lim, Senior Head of Clinical Exercise Physiologist and Sports Medicine Hospital Program KK Women’s and Children (KKH, for its acronym in English) said:
“Beyond the physical benefits, exercise has a positive effect on a child’s mental, emotional and cognitive development of children”.
As a walk to the park, cycling, swimming – or even have fun with small children, such as playing hide and seek, ball games and explore the playground.




  • Yanuar Wisnu

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    • Play therapy is a form of exercise that needed by children.Some mothers should be aware of the child's normal development milestone.This can be available in charts.Medical experts use this as a tool in determining if a child with delayed motor development.It is not ideal to let the child be always carrying by a mother.If they do, it will not increase the strength of child's limbs.

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