Healthy diet and positive environment essential to children's early development

Good nutrition provides long-term benefits for children that will help shape their future. — Freepik

In the hectic world of parenting, it is easy to get caught up in the daily grind of raising a child, especially during their first five years, which are filled with rapid physical growth and brain development.

However, recent reports from the Health Ministry show that 7.4% of Malaysian children aged 12 to 59 months face developmental delays, with social delays being the most common among other areas which include cognitive, physical, language and social-personal delays.