#sponsored by @healthyeatingresearch 🎉 New Year, new healthy drink🚰recommendations for kids! If you’re a parent and you want to simplify your life, save money, and have a well-hydrated child, I’m partnering with HER to share a solution that will help! Experts from the AAP, AND, AAPD, and AHA have come together to release new evidence-based recommendations for what kids and teens should drink as part of a healthy diet. 🌟 Here are the top 3 things to know from the report: 1️⃣ Plain drinking water💧 is the best option to keep kids healthy and hydrated. It’s also often the most accessible and affordable. 2️⃣ Plain pasteurized milk 🥛 is another healthy option because it provides important nutrients that growing kids need, like calcium, potassium, and vitamin D (which kids don’t typically get enough of). 3️⃣ 100% fruit 🍎 + vegetable 🥕 juice can be part of a healthy diet but in limited amounts (100% juice means everything in the container comes from a fruit or veg with no added sugars or artificial ingredients). Top tips: If your child doesn’t like 💦 water, try offering a fun new water bottle, decorating it with stickers, setting water consumption goals using rubber bands, or adding frozen berries 🍓 or fresh fruit 🍊 for flavor. 🙋🏻♀️ My 2 cents as a pediatric dietitian and mom? These are “gold-standard” hydration recommendations based on the latest research, not a demand for parental perfection! Please don’t worry if offering your kids only🚰 &🥛 doesn’t currently feel doable (it certainly doesn’t for me, given my girls’ obsession with Starbucks 😒). Just know it’s a good goal to keep in mind and work toward together over time. 🌟 If you’re curious about where/whether sports drinks, soda, caffeinated beverages, sweet tea, and more fit into these recommendations: 👉️ Learn more at healthyeatingresearch.org 👉️ Follow Healthy Eating Research for credible childhood nutrition information all year Xo 🥰 Malina
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