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Updated: April 30, 2024 14:31 IST

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Children aged between one and three years need 13 gm of protein per day. For children between four and
eight years, it is 19 gm per day.

Six-year-old Gungun Sharma’ s daily diet is a classic example of how parents, in


their zeal to ensure the best nutrition for their kids, may be unwittingly
overfeeding them and triggering childhood obesity. Given the latest row over
added sugar in Nestle’s Cerelac and the general unawareness about reading
labels of supplements and packaged food, are you giving them more than they
can chew? Also, is the child’s home food enough?

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Let’s consider Gungun, who weighed 30 kg (about 10 kg overweight) when she
walked into the consultation room of Dr Vibhu Kwatra, the paediatrician-
pulmonologist at Rainbow Children Hospital at Delhi’s Malviya Nagar. “Her
mother told me she had eggs, jam on bread and milk with fortified powder. The
child had packaged fruit juices instead of colas during the day, cookies for
snacking. She even dribbled ketchup on her sandwiches. And a chocolate piece
or two. Despite all the home food her mother was cooking, there was a sugar
overload in her diet — added sugars in her health drink, morning cereal,
packaged juices, cookies, jams, tomato sauce. No wonder her weight increased,
making her sluggish,” says Dr Kwatra. Now the girl has taken up swimming
lessons to avoid the risk of developing diabetes in her later years.

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