Practice Question
Lydia is at the clinic for their 4-year-old check-up.
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Rationale:
🔵 Preschoolers are often picky eaters because of neophobia (fear of new foods) and a slower growth rate, which naturally lowers appetite.
🔵 Describing preschoolers as picky eaters helps normalize the behavior for caregivers and reduces unnecessary anxiety about fluctuating intake.
🔵 Introducing new foods one at a time allows children to explore taste and texture without feeling overwhelmed and helps caregivers monitor for allergic reactions.
🔵 Presenting foods separately (not mixed together) lets preschoolers see and identify each item, which makes them more likely to try the new food.
🔵 These strategies promote positive mealtime experiences, support gradual acceptance of new foods, and encourage healthy eating patterns without force.
Now the incorrect alternative statements from this item:
Overweight
🔵 Calling most preschoolers “overweight” is inaccurate and can cause unnecessary concern without proper growth-chart assessment.
🔵 The common issue in normal preschoolers is picky eating, not a universal state of overweight, so using this term misguides the teaching.
Malnourished
🔵 Many picky preschoolers still have adequate overall intake over several days and track well on growth curves, so they are not truly malnourished.
🔵 Using “malnourished” might frighten caregivers and does not accurately reflect typical developmental eating behavior.
Limit the variety of food offered
🔵 Limiting variety reinforces picky eating and reduces exposure to new tastes and nutrients.
🔵 A wider variety of foods helps preschoolers expand preferences and meet nutrient needs more effectively.
Prevent snacking between meals
🔵 Healthy planned snacks are an important part of a preschooler's dietary pattern, helping meet energy and nutrient needs with small stomach capacity.
🔵 Completely preventing snacks may cause excess hunger, irritability, and overeating at meals, which is not ideal.
Avoid new foods
🔵 Avoiding new foods would worsen picky eating and prevent children from expanding their diet.
🔵 Evidence-based guidance encourages repeated, gentle introduction of new foods rather than avoiding them.
Limit dairy
🔵 Dairy foods provide calcium and vitamin D, which are essential for bone growth in preschoolers.
🔵 Unless a child has allergy or intolerance, routine advice to limit dairy is not appropriate for typical picky eating.
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- Category: RN Nursing Exam(s)
- Subcategory: Examplify Exam(s)
- Domain: Nutrition
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