Nutrition Across Lifespan Flashcards
Breastmilk and Babies
-fewer hospitalizations
-beneficial for premi
-easily digestible
-many vitamins and minerals
-mom (lowers risk of cancer, enhances weight loss post partum)
-first 6 to 12-24 months
-formula (lacks antibodies and not complex)
Breastfeeding Complications
-personal comfort
-time and frequency feeding
-mothers diet can pass through to baby
1-3 months
-eating enough if:
-seems alert, content, active
-steadily gaining weight
-feeds 6-8 times a day
-wetting/ soiling diapers
4-7 months
-try solid food
-iron fortified infant single grain cereal
-if making own food (puree, steam veggies, nothing with high levels of nitrates)
Foods to avoid while feeding
-honey before 1
-cow’s milk before1
-unpastuerized drinks
-foods that can cause choking
-100% juice/ sugar sweetened
-caffeine
8-12 months
-table foods
-feed themselves 9 months
-12 mo old start drinking cow’s milk
0babies drink less eat more
Toddlers
learning to feed themselves
-serve nutrient foods (iron, ca, zinc, vita D)
- Need 1,000-4,000 calories
-offer toddler 2-3 meals and 2-3 healthy snacks
Milk and Iron
-most kids under 2 should drink whole milk to get calcium, vitamin D and fats
0watch out for iron deficiency after year 1
-To limit iron deficiency
-limit childs milk intake (16)
-include iron rich foods
Children
Nutritional Needs
-Females
-tend to always have lower calorie needs than men
-prioritize iron, calcium, zinc, vita d
-don’t battle over food
Adolescents
-diet affects health (prevent disease and cancer, school work, mental health)
-incorporate more fruits and veggies
-create healthful eating habits
-increased need for calcium and vitamin D
-Iron- meat, dark green leafy vegetable
-Greater risk of dietary inadquacy than any other age group
Women
-need less calories than men
-more likely to have some health problems related to nutrition
-different needs during diff stages of life
-Vitamin D, calcium, Iron -many preg women don’t get enough iron
Pregnancy and calories
1st- 0 cals
2nd- 340 cals
3rd- 453 cals
-lactation 1-6: 330 cals
lactation 2 6: 400 cals
Before and during preg
-need more protein, calcium, iron and folic acid
-seafood is recommended
nursing mothers
drink more water
-eat a varied healthful diet
-multivitamin and minerals