Nutrition and child brain development
What you'll learn
- Brain growth and development in children start during pregnancy. Proper brain growth needs specific nutrients such as healthy fats, proteins and complex carbs.
- Change feeding strategies to help your child build a healthy relationship with food that will last throughout their life.
- Build healthy meals containing carbs, proteins and healthy fats. Avoiding trans fats and minimizing simple or added sugar are important pillars
- Prepare a healthy eating environment for your child, and to teach by example not by preaching all the time.
Requirements
- No medical background is needed, only eager individuals who want to improve their children's health in general, their intelligence, mood and learning abilities.
Description
What our children eat everyday have an impact on their health not only when they eat it but on the long run. Many health problems that we see in our children start and progress as a result of malnutrition (under or overfeeding of our children). Our feeding strategies also affect their relationship with food maybe for the rest of their lives.
This course highlight the importance of nutrition not only on the child’s physical growth and development but on the brain growth and developmentof the different cognitive functions. To build a healthy long productive life, you must start early even before the child is born as the first 1000 days are crucial (270 days during pregnancy then the 730 days during the first 2 years of their age) where 75% of brain growth takes place within.
It is important that the child eats all the needed food groups from carbs, fats, proteins and enough water intake on a daily basis together with limiting and avoiding all those junk fast food that are eaten frequently nowadays. Understanding all different aspects of healthy eating will help parents and child caregivers make better choices for their children. When children have healthy relations with food, they can easily reduce their prevalence of many mood problems, behavioral disorders, learning difficulties and chronic diseases.
Who this course is for:
- All parents and child caregivers
Instructor
![Maha khalifa Ali](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.1 Instructor Rating
- 21 Reviews
- 108 Students
- 1 Course
Physician, Clinical Nutrition Specialist graduated from Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams University and obtained several postgraduate diplomas in Clinical Nutrition, Children Nutrition & Brain Development, Gut Restoration, Nutrition for Athletes and Total Quality Management in Healthcare from several reputable institutions, American University in Cairo, International Sports Sciences Academy USA, American Fitness Professionals & Associates USA and The Health Sciences Academy UK.
I have around 20 years experience of work in multinational pharmaceutical companies, education and healthcare. I worked in several domains of clinical trials, medical & marketing departments, teaching, and nutritional consultations.
Many people have a lot of misconceptions when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle which negatively impacts their health throughout the years. I believe one of my main missions as a physician is to disseminate proper medical data based on scientific research in a simplified easy way so as to build health awareness to help everyone enjoy a healthy productive life. My first kindle book on healthy food is published on Amazon in June 2021.