When to start on solid foods? At now , you'll have an idea or are confused because you've got received an excessive amount of advice from family and friends with different opinions. Rice, oatmeal, or barley? What infant cereal or other food are going to be on the menu for your baby's first solid meal? Have you set a date? Remember that every child's readiness depends on his own rate of development. • Head control: Your baby should be able to sit in a high chair, a feeding seat, or an infant seat with good head control. • Babies may be ready if they watch you eating, reach for your food, and seem eager to be fed. • Can he move food from a spoon into his throat? If you offer a spoon of cereal, he pushes it out of his mouth, and it dribbles onto his chin, he may not have the ability to move it to the rear of his mouth to swallow it. That's normal. Remember, he's never had anything thicker than breast milk or formula before, and this may take some
Introduction to overeating Overeating is a case of consuming calories more than required by the body on a particular day or even a single meal. These extra calories will not be converted into energy by your body more calories than your body uses for energy. People sometimes overeat, depending on the age, sex, height, and physical activity only a fixed amount of calories is required anything more than that is extra and is overeating. You might be overeating just because you love food, or you have been a victim of stress and depression and started to overeat. Are you overeating? To find out you first need to know the calorie requirement of your body as explained above calorie requirement varies with age, sex, physical activity, and health condition. For example, a person who has a very active lifestyle will need more calories compared to a person whose life is sedentary. Thereafter, you can breakdown your food habits and item consumed into calories and compare for a period of