protien powder Help

KimINfortheWin

For starters I want to think everyone who has commented I got a way bigget outcome then I expected.

Just a few things about his diet. (fell so ashamed as a parent to put this ut in the pen but I have really tred so much)
Only eats certain kinds of nuggets, chips, fry's,
Lies bananas, apple, and pop tarts,
NO: milk, Peanut butter, Veggies, red meat,

I do have him on a vitamin (he loves the one he takes always wanting more) I believe its is helping..

His dr always talks about pedicure. We have tried if off and on sense he was 4 but never liked it and would gag until he throw up..

What about homemade sweet potato fries? Or regular fries but sprinkled in nutritional yeast?
Homemade pop tarts that have much better ingredients? http://dessertswithbenefits.com/homemade-pop-tarts/
I had just Googled it and now digging through the rest of that website myself!
If he likes apples and bananas, can you make him a smoothie with those? (just sneak some more stuff in when he's not looking. Like a few baby carrots. Raw zucchini.)

I managed to get my kid to eat raw snowpeas the other day by telling him that they were too good, that there was NO way he'd like them. He wasn't going to eat any of mine! (Reverse psychology). He ate probably 10 with ranch dressing.

cookiealbright

Maybe he's just small for his age. These Percentiles are for most - but not for all. My oldest son was like a spider monkey when he was little. All arms & legs - tall & skinny. Wouldn't eat half the time and had unlimited energy. In high school he played football and tried so hard to be 200 lbs, couldn't do it. He took protein powders, make protein shakes, lifted. Did everything he could but still couldn't do it. He's 34 now and weight 260 and of course, trying to lose weight.

If you son is otherwise healthy and he's not hungry, I don't see what the problem is. He will eat when he's hungry (same advice my doctor told my mother when I was little, but he also said to her, "Do you want her to look like you?" - my mom was 5'2" and weighed 200 lbs.) I was a skinny kid too, but healthy!

Gavery1

I personally wouldnt give it to my child. Too much protein can be really bad and some of them are filled with a lot of sweetners etc. My husband and I were on one that gave us both really bad headaches apparently due to the msg in it. You can get build up shakes from boots which may be more suitable for him but I would check with doc first. I know doctors also used to give a liquid that was full of calories but I can't remember what it was called now. Good luck with it.:-)

The doctors are very quick to mention PediaSure but it is pricey and it is heavily marketed to them by Abbot. they have a pretty good site and you can see what their various formulations contain to compare to other options:
https://pediasure.com/
My son would drink the chocolate ones without the slightest complaint, but the cost was difficult to justify.

There is sure a lot of sugar in some of those formulations... 18g in an8 oz drink. :noway: But the protein levels are far more in line with a growing child's needs over what a mass-market whey protein powder would provide. (Just the right amount vs. WAY too much)

SUGAR IS NOT THE DEBIL!! :noway: *unless you have problems with it which the majority does not*

The stuff has to taste good or the kids just won't drink it. How do you propose you get children to drink something that is good for them if it doesn't have any sugar?

18 grams of sugar in one serving is over what a child should have per day. And you think thats OK???!!!

55in13

18 grams of sugar in one serving is over what a child should have per day. And you think thats OK???!!!

If my child's pediatrician tells me that my child is not the one to whom you refer, then yes, I think it is okay. For a child in the range of the OP's, the AHA says 4-8 teaspoons which is about 17-34 grams.
http://life.familyeducation.com/nutritional-information/obesity/64270.html

ETA - also look at the end of that article. The average child is currently getting triple what the guidelines suggest. I am not saying they are wrong, but this is not a "sky is falling" problem.

LongIsland27itl

Go to your local vitamin shoppe and look. There's tons of fun favors skid would like, cookies n cream, chocolate milk shake etc.

No_Finish_Line

i don't think age would matter as far as how health protein powder would be for you.

but, it does basically always contain trace amounts of toxic metals... so taking it from a young age through adult hood would probably magnify any potential issues with that. the metals may also have developemental issues that an adult wouldnt have to worry about.

my thoughts are that there is probably a better way to do it, there is NO WAY your going to find a protein powder that he isn't going to be keenly aware of whenever you put it in his food,

and if you can magically find a way to mask the taste of the powder, then i think you've also found a way to make real food more paletable to him.

No_Finish_Line

Go to your local vitamin shoppe and look. There's tons of fun favors skid would like, cookies n cream, chocolate milk shake etc.

they sound fun and tastey until you try them. all the cookies and cream i've had taste nothing like cookies or cream. probably even less so to a 5 year old.