In the past, due to the relatively low economic level, people’s quality of life was relatively poor, and the growth of children could only be satisfied with food and clothing, not to mention nutritional supplements.
In modern society, people’s living standards are constantly improving, and they are paying more attention to the growth and development of children. Parents are no longer comparing their children’s academic performance, but even height and weight have become the objects of involution.
It is well known that adequate nutrition during the critical period of children’s growth and development is very important for children’s height development. Therefore, some parents give their children supplements for three meals a day, and even let their children take various health care products.
We often say that extremes can be counterproductive, and it is really beneficial for the children that parents go to great lengths to provide nutrition for their children. growth and development? Let’s hear what the pediatricians have to say.
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To supplement the child, it will affect the growth!
The healthy growth of children is inseparable from three meals a day. Broken heart, carefully preparing a table of dishes must consider whether the child likes it or not, and also consider whether the nutrition is comprehensive. It can be said to be racking their brains for cooking.
Many parents fall into a misunderstanding when it comes to children’s meals, because they want their children to grow taller and taller. If you are strong, you must eat more nutritious food, and firmly believe that expensive is good, such as bird’s nest, sea cucumber, deer antler, ginseng, etc., but have not thought about whether the child’s body can withstand the supply of these nutrients?
Pediatric experts believe that long-term use of nutritional supplements in children can easily lead to precocious puberty, because most of the supplements on the market contain hormones. After a child eats a lot of it, it will cause a surge of sex hormones in the body, change the child’s normal endocrine, directly damage the child’s physical and mental health, and affect the child’s normal growth and development.
This is because the child’s stomach cannot digest these nutrients, which will increase the burden on the body over time and break the normal The balanced state will also make children overnutrition, resulting in excessive obesity, and severe people will increase the risk of diabetes and obesity, making children feel inferior in front of others, which is not conducive to the healthy growth of children.
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Pediatric experts call to stop eating, eat more or affect the development of children, remind parents: remove the dining table p>
1, bone broth
Many parents feel that bone broth has high nutritional value, so they boil bone broth for children every three days. However, bone broth contains a lot of purine substances, which will be converted into uric acid after entering the human body. When the level of uric acid increases, the burden on the kidneys will also increase. The child’s kidneys are very fragile, and problems will occur over time.
Although the calcium content in bones is rich, the calcium content in bone broth is very small, because bones are rich in calcium. The calcium content of the bone is dissolved into the soup, even if it is stewed for a long time, it cannot be fully released, so the child eats bone soup and does not play the role of calcium supplementation.
2, Chocolate
Chocolate should be the favorite of many children, but as a high-calorie food, its protein content is very low, its fat content is very high, and the proportion of nutrients is not in line with children’s growth. developmental needs. And eating too much chocolate before meals can easily lead to satiety, which will affect appetite and disrupt normal living patterns and eating habits.
In addition, chocolate contains substances that excite the nervous system. After eating, the child may affect normal sleep. This affects the normal secretion of growth hormone and affects the height, and chocolate contains a lot of sugar, often eating it will cause tooth decay and increase intestinal gas.There are many cases that cause abdominal pain.
3. Milk beverages
A variety of sweet and sour milk drinks are popular among children, but milk drinks contain some acidic substances, of which oxalic acid is high. Drinking for a long time may affect the absorption of calcium, resulting in excessive calcium loss, resulting in adverse reactions to osteoporosis in children.
In addition, after drinking too many beverages with high sugar content, the child will feel full and lead to other foods The intake is greatly reduced, which affects the intake of other nutrients, resulting in partial eclipse and unbalanced nutrition in children; milk drinks are high in sugar, and long-term drinking may corrode teeth, resulting in premature dental caries, thus affecting the health of teeth .
4, bamboo shoots
When spring comes, the buds of bamboo shoots emerge from the ground, and many people will rush to pick them. Fresh bamboo shoots have a crisp taste and high nutritional value, but they are not immune to immunity. For poor young children, eating bamboo shoots can easily lead to allergic dermatitis and digestive tract diseases.
Fresh bamboo shoots contain insoluble oxalic acid, which easily combines with calcium to form calcium oxalate. Excessive consumption is harmful to children’s health. Urinary system and kidneys will have adverse effects, especially for young children in the growth and development period, whose bones are not yet mature, oxalic acid in bamboo shoots will affect the body’s absorption of calcium and zinc, eating too much bamboo shoots will lead to growth and development due to calcium deficiency slow.
5, puffed food
For example, all kinds of puffed foods such as potato chips and shrimp chips are crispy and loved by children, but the nutritional content of puffed foods is too much single seasoning and too many additives High lead content has a huge impact on children’s growth and development, and frequent consumption can also cause children to gain weight.
Puffed foods are generally fried, high-fat, high-calorie, low-fiber foods. The nutritional structure may lead to excessive obesity and fat accumulation in children, and long-term eating may cause problems such as high blood pressure or cardiovascular disease in children.
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The correct posture for supplementing nutrition to children – reasonable supplementation, multiplier effect
1. Targeted feeding of nutritional products for children, such as children with calcium deficiency, eat more calcium tablets, combined with milk and other calcium-rich foods, if they lack other vitamins, eat corresponding vitamin tablets.
2, pay attention to the combination of meat and vegetables, do not blindly eat meat or blindly vegetarian, to ensure that children have a balanced diet, if Usually it is a combination of meat and vegetables, so there is no need for additional supplements.
3. Regularly go to the hospital for physical examination, prescribe the right medicine according to the child’s exact physical condition, and follow the doctor’s advice.
In summary, whether it is overnutrition or malnutrition, it is not good for children, parents Do not decide whether or not children should take supplements based on the physical condition of adults. It should be based on the development of the child and the doctor’s diagnosis. Using improper means to achieve rapid physical growth will not only be useless, but will affect the child’s health.