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- The primary NIH organization for research on Toddler Nutrition is the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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Toddler Nutrition
Food provides the energy and nutrients that young children need to be healthy. Toddlers are learning to feed themselves and to eat new foods. They should eat a variety of foods from all of the food groups.
Some things to watch for:
- Make sure your toddler gets enough iron
- Toddlers between 1 and 3 need 500 milligrams of calcium each day
- Don't feed your child seafood, peanuts or tree nuts before age 2 or 3
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Start Here
- Nutrition Guide for Toddlers(Nemours Foundation)
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Overviews
- Feeding and Nutrition: Your One-Year-Old(American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Feeding and Nutrition: Your Three-Year-Old(American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Feeding and Nutrition: Your Two-Year-Old(American Academy of Pediatrics)
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Specific Conditions
- Dietary Fat and Toddlers(American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Dietary Supplements for Toddlers(American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Feeding Vegetarian and Vegan Infants and Toddlers(Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics)
- Vegetarianism(Nemours Foundation)
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Related Issues
- Be a Healthy Role Model for Children: 10 Tips for Setting Good Examples(Dept. of Agriculture) - PDF
- Also available in Spanish
- Extended Breast-Feeding: What You Need to Know(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Sample Daily Menu for a 2-Year-Old(American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Self-Feeding(American Academy of Pediatrics)
- Snacks for Toddlers(Nemours Foundation)
- Stopping the Bottle(Nemours Foundation)
- Toddlers at the Table: Avoiding Power Struggles(Nemours Foundation)
- When Your Toddler Doesn't Want to Eat(American Academy of Family Physicians)
- Also available in Spanish
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Financial Issues
- Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)(Food and Nutrition Service)
- Also available in Spanish
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Clinical Trials
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Toddler Nutrition(National Institutes of Health)
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Toddler Nutrition
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Journal Articles
References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
- Article: It's not the contents, it's the container: Australian parents' awareness...
- Article: Assessment of food, nutrition, and physical activity practices in Oklahoma...
- Article: Meals in Our Household: reliability and initial validation of a...
- Toddler Nutrition -- see more articles
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Directories
- Child Nutrition Programs by State(Food and Nutrition Service)
- WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) State Agencies(Food and Nutrition Service)
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Organizations
- KidsHealth(Nemours Foundation)
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National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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Newsletters/Print Publications
- Toddler Nutrition and Health Resource List(Dept. of Agriculture) - PDF
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Law and Policy
- Frequently Asked Questions about WIC(Food and Nutrition Service)
- Also available in Spanish
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Patient Handouts
- Age-appropriate diet for children
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