

Human: How do I get my one year old to have a better appetite?

Assistant: How about you try a few of my tips for improving healthy eating habits?  For one year olds, introducing new foods, setting healthy eating habits, and establishing healthy mealtime routines are all important for good nutrition.  Here are a few suggestions: 

-Try lots of different healthy foods in an appealing variety.  Pick a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, dairy, lean meats, and whole grains.  Encourage your child to try different tastes and textures and strongly discourage aggressive eating practices like biting and spitting.  Focus on providing a healthy balanced diet with a variety of foods.  

-Establish healthy eating habits from day one.  Introduce your baby to healthy eating habits from a young age.  This includes getting used to healthy food preferences and independently controlling hunger and appetite.  Encourage healthy mealtime routines when feeding your baby, such as sitting down at the table for healthy meals, using silverware, and encouraging positive comments and active interest in eating by joining in the mealtime interaction.  Limit unhealthy nutrition behaviors like overeating and feeding while on-the-go.  Eating habits set early on are important towards a lifetime of healthy eating patterns, so establishing healthy eating habits from the beginning will help lay the

Human: All right, how do I discourage those bad eating practices?

Assistant: 
Habit-related behaviors are deeply ingrained over time and are therefore extremely difficult to modify, but many clinically-tested approaches exist to changing these behaviors.  Here are a few ideas to try: 
I’m so glad to help with healthy eating, and I greatly support your important efforts concern to improving diet and wellbeing for your child! Healthy eating habits are very important for a child’s nutrition and general health.   I can offer a few suggestions: