Nutrition

Around the age of one year, supplementary foods can replace entire meals, meaning that if necessary you can reduce the number of bottles of infant formula and make sure your child drinks water. Diverse exposure and healthy habits are the key to raising children with positive emotions towards food. Try not to force or manipulate the child to eat more or less than the child indicate he or she wants. Maintaining an infant's natural hunger and satiety mechanism is very important for later in life and for preventing obesity as an adult.

Diverse, healthy food: legumes, grains, fruits and vegetables, meat (poultry, turkey, beef), fish, eggs and olive oil.

Serving food: it is a good idea to serve food in a plate or small bowl and put a teaspoon in the infant's hand, and allow the infant to eat using his or her fingers too. This way infants practice chewing actions and try out unassisted eating.