{"id":18197,"date":"2020-02-19T11:31:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T11:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=18197"},"modified":"2020-02-19T11:35:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T11:35:20","slug":"18197","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=18197","title":{"rendered":"Abbott\u2019s \u201cGrow Right\u201d Initiative to Help Parents Achieve Holistic Growth in Toddlers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dr. Irfan Shaikh (Head – Scientific and Medical Affairs, Abbott Pediatric Nutrition);\u00a0Dr. Eileen Canday (Head, Dietetics & Nutrition Department at Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai, since April 2014. An Executive member of The Indian Dietetic Association (IDA), Diabetic Educator from International Diabetes Federation and Renal Disease counsellor); Dr. Priya Chandrasekhar(Pediatrician, Indira Child Care&Consultant, Apollo Children\u2019s Hospitals and KanchiKamakoti Child\u2019s Trust Hospital)<\/div>\n
at the Grow Right Initiative.\u00a0This charter is aimed to support and put to rest the challenges and worries faced by toddler mums related to right growth & nutrition.<\/div>\n
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Abbott\u2019s \u201cGrow Right\u201d Initiative to Help Parents Achieve Holistic Growth in Toddlers
\nChennai,\u00a0 February 2020: Abbott brought together leading experts to form India\u2019s first ever Grow Right Guild that developedthe Grow Right Charter guidelines across four critical growth parameters \u2013 nutrition, play, nurture, and impact. The Grow Right charter defines right growth as a combination of physical, cognitive and mental progress that should be observed carefully and holistically during the foundational years of childhood. The guidelines include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Right Nutrition guidelines will help parents better manage mealtimes and ensure a complete and balanced diet for their toddlers.
\n\u2022 Right Play addresses the growing concern among parents about unchecked screen-time and inadequate playtime by defining appropriate ways to creatively engage with toddlers.
\n\u2022 Right Nurture guidelines are designed to assist evolving behavioral trends in response to increasingly dynamic influences a toddler faces in today\u2019s digitized world.
\n\u2022 Right Impact guidelines will help toddler parents identify and manage red flags in key growth and development markers.<\/p>\n

Dr. Irfan Shaikh, Head Pediatric Nutrition \u2013 Scientific & Medical Affairs, Abbott Nutrition said, \u201cProblems with eating habitsmay lead to significant negative nutritional, developmental and behavioral issues in toddlers. Early recognition and management are key to addressing this concern. During early childhood, the brain develops rapidly and is particularly sensitive to the external environment. WHO also recommends 60-minutes of vigorous physical activity or play per day as it provides additional health benefits.It is alarming to see that most Indian children are not meeting the recommended levels of physical activity*.\u201d<\/p>\n

Addressing a frequently asked query by toddler moms, Grow Right Guild member, nutritionist Dr. Eileen Canday,decoded micronutrient deficiency saying, \u201cHidden hunger or micronutrient deficiencies are the most common issues we see in toddlers today. As foods become more accessible outside homes — at malls, restaurants, and through online food delivery, parents\u2019 job of ensuring that their toddler is receiving the right nutrition becomes tougher. While these make the child seem full, they lack key micro and macronutrients. One way to deal with this is to, pick the occasions carefully to eat out! You can eat out, but make sure to choose healthy foods, and let the selection of the meals be guided by the ingredients.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Priya Chandrasekhar, emphasized on the importance of understanding growth in toddlers, \u201cChildhood is a period of rapid growth and development and is a critical phase, which lays the foundation for markers of a healthy adult life. The average growth* of a child from the age of two till the growth spurt at puberty continues at a rate of approximately 6\u20138 cm per year, and 2 kg per year. However, every child has a unique pace of growth which may vary, and parents must rely on established standards \u2013 like the World Health Organization growth charts for growth measurements.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0(L-R)\u00a0 Dr. Irfan Shaikh (Head – Scientific and Medical Affairs, Abbott Pediatric Nutrition);\u00a0Dr. Eileen Canday (Head, Dietetics & Nutrition Department at Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai, since April 2014. An Executive member of The Indian Dietetic Association (IDA), Diabetic Educator from International Diabetes Federation and Renal Disease counsellor); Dr. Priya Chandrasekhar(Pediatrician, Indira Child […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18202,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18197\/revisions\/18202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}