Rapidly the end of the academic year is approaching. Schoolchildren have to take exams. The load on the body will be increased. There will come at once physical and emotional fatigue, and the work of the brain will decrease. Problems with concentration of attention and memory will begin.
Menu for the week
To give confidence in their abilities and intellectual abilities will help competently compiled menus. The basis of such a menu should be fresh vegetables, quick-frozen foods, they should not contain preservatives or artificial power engineers. Semi-finished products should be excluded altogether.
If the child refuses the dish, and you tell him that this product is very useful and its nutritional value is high, then the conversation can be considered vain. Just try to diversify the menu more often and decorate dishes nicely. This will attract the attention of the student and arouse the desire to try the dish. The table should always be especially clean, comfortable, equipped. Books and laptops should be removed from the table.
Every day children should consume sour-milk products, butter and vegetable oil, green vegetables and any fruits, as well as cereals.
Three times a week the child should eat eggs, meat and fish, cheese and cottage cheese. Legumes must also be served, but only less often.
Teach your children to snack. Interest in delicious dishes: milk dessert or fruit salad, a cocktail of fresh or baked fruit. They really like vareniki, nut salads with honey, cheese desserts.
There is a sense to involve the child in cooking a delicious dish. It is easy to make a fruit salad or curd. In addition to the fact that the pupil possesses an economic skill, he also distracts from intense mental work. His brain rests.
Coping with stress
Excellent results of the exam can be obtained if you have not only a sufficient amount of knowledge, but still be seasoned and calm, be able to cope with a stressful situation. And it is almost impossible to instill in the child self-control as the norm of behavior, it is necessary to back it up with the right foods. Weaken nervousness and excitement will help products that include all the vitamins of group B, vitamin C, and also copper and magnesium.
In an emergency, you need to eat a boiled egg, a piece of sea fish with vegetables dressed with olive oil. Drink - mineral water without gas. Nuts, poultry, herring, all grains, salmon and beef offal will help to cope with stress. It is important to eat a lot of protein.
Weakness, fatigue, bad mood
Many children complain of fatigue, bad mood, depression before the upcoming tests. This is more true of girls. In these moments, they begin to eat a lot, that is, to seize their negative mood. This is normal, you should not be afraid of this habit. But there is no need to bake, sweets and chocolate, and foods that contain a lot of B vitamins.
Offer the baby red meat, eggs and milk, nuts. They have a lot of B vitamins. Folic acid will increase the depressed mood. The organism also needs calcium and magnesium, iron. They are many in pumpkin and sunflower seeds, green leafy vegetables. In an emergency, give a piece of whole grain bread with a boiled egg or salmon.
Good cope with fatigue glucose (pasta, bread), as well as cheese, nuts and whole grains. Quickly give a positive result of bread with cheese and egg, a glass of homemade yogurt.
Memory attenuation
During the school grades, students often notice that their memory is weakening. And during this period, its activation is required. It is necessary to remember the material studied, to remove the gaps. It is also necessary to quickly remember numerical and graphic data. The helper products will come to the rescue here.
Improve the state of memory products containing complex carbohydrates, folic acid, potassium and magnesium, choline, zinc and necessarily B vitamins. This is sea fish, lean meat, nuts, potatoes, liver, egg, milk. Prefer to bake products in foil and without oil, cook on the grill, cook for a couple.
Concentration of attention
At different stages of training, the concentration of attention is different. It reaches its climax in twenty minutes after the beginning of the lesson, fifteen minutes is at this point, and then begins to gradually decline. The body needs rest.
Alternating work and rest is necessary during self-training. Take small breaks. It's good to breathe fresh air on the balcony, to look into the distance to rest your eyes. Drink a glass of fresh juice or eat a vegetable salad. Restores the concentration of attention to any product rich in B vitamins, ascorbic acid and calcium. Suitable nuts, low-fat piece of meat with bread or a slice of tuna. A pupil must receive a sufficient amount of calcium with food. Therefore, there should always be cottage cheese on the table.
On the eve of the exams, you need not only to organize literate meals, but also to provide the child with sufficient stay on the street, physical exercises. Before the day of exams, the child should get a good night's sleep and go for an examination of knowledge in high spirits. Excellent marks for you!