When a child’s physical condition is weak, parents need to be particularly attentive to ensure meticulous care. To promote the healthy growth of children, it is especially important to prepare nutritious meals. Faced with children’s potential picky eating issues, parents need to be flexible in changing dishes, stimulate the child’s appetite, focus on incorporating high-quality proteins and calcium-rich foods to prevent a decline in health. In daily dietary arrangements, it is recommended to include soy products, bone broth, fish, shrimp, sesame, and seafood, which are rich in calcium and help strengthen the child’s immune system. Additionally, increasing children’s outdoor activity time, adequate sun exposure, and supplementing with foods rich in vitamin D can promote calcium absorption. Protein is an essential nutrient for children’s growth and can be supplemented through rice, millet, red beans, eggs, fish, meat, poultry, dairy products, and soy products. When cooking eggs, meat, and fish, reduce frying, simplify the rice washing process, and avoid nutrient loss. Furthermore, introducing moderate amounts of ingredients such as dates, longan, mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, and black fungus, which combine nutrition and mild characteristics, can enhance the child’s physical health. Fat, especially unsaturated fatty acids, is crucial for children’s brain development. Since the body cannot synthesize them on its own, ensuring the diet includes plant oils and foods rich in plant-based fats, such as walnut porridge, black sesame porridge, peanut porridge, or fish head soup, shellfish soup, and wild game stew, can greatly benefit children’s intellectual development. As for toddlers with low resistance, their symptoms may include irregular bowel movements accompanied by diarrhea, susceptibility to illness during seasonal changes, slow recovery from minor wounds, susceptibility to infections, susceptibility to infections from other children in group settings, and experiencing more than three colds a year.
