At present, malnutrition and obesity coexist among children in China. In the face of this common phenomenon, we should take it seriously and find ways to solve it in order to improve children's health.

Malnutrition in children

The lack of trace elements such as iron and vitamin A is a common problem among children in urban and rural areas in China, and malnutrition among children in rural areas is more serious. The growth retardation rate and low weight rate of children under 5 years old were 17.3% and 9.3% respectively, and the growth retardation rate was the highest in the age of/kloc-0, with an average of 20.9% in rural areas. It shows that the unreasonable addition of complementary food for infants in rural areas is very prominent.

Children are malnourished. From the difference between urban and rural areas, some rural areas are underdeveloped and lack nutrition supply. There are many children in the city, and there is plenty of food at home, but they just don't like it, which is commonly known as anorexia.

* Source: Minutes of the 9th Annual Meeting of Children's Food Professional Association.

Overweight and obesity in children

In recent years, the prevalence of overweight and obesity has shown an obvious upward trend, but many parents do not pay attention to their children's obesity, and habitually think that their children will lose weight when they grow up in a long physical stage. As we all know, childhood obesity is easy to develop into adult obesity, and it is more likely to develop into health problems such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia in the future.

The reason for this phenomenon is that parents mistakenly think that the more children are fed, the better, and the fatter they are, the more snacks they have every day, so that fat can accumulate in the body. Coupled with bad living habits, watching TV for a long time at night, less physical activity, getting fatter and fatter.

Overcome children's dietary problems

Many parents will start to be anxious when they see this. Children's diet is the most difficult problem for parents to overcome, because we all want to give our children the best and often follow their ideas. We all tried our best to satisfy what they wanted to eat, which eventually led to the result we didn't want.

How will we solve it?

First of all, parents should change themselves first. Parents' eating habits will affect their children. Give them correct guidance and communicate with them patiently.

At this time, we should take healthy eating habits as the benchmark, please put away your indulgent heart!

Children's nutrition and obesity prevention

Do the following four things to make children healthier:

1. Develop a good eating habit of three meals a day;

2. Eat more vegetables, fruits and whole grains;

3. Eat less processed snacks with high salt and sugar, such as preserved fruits, canned fruits, sugary drinks, ice cream and salted nuts.

4. Increase outdoor activities for at least 60 minutes every day;