Keywords: children; Bad eating habits; exist
Children in the growth and development stage have extensive needs for nutrition. The living conditions of modern families are getting better and better, so there should be no nutritional problems. But in fact, we can see that many parents indulge their children, which leads to their willful indulgence and only eat what they want. As a result, there are many problems in their diet. Such as: picky eaters and partial eclipse. According to the survey, children with partial eclipse account for about 35% in rural areas and as high as 50% in big cities. Incomplete and unbalanced nutrition intake will adversely affect children's physical and intellectual development. In order to make children grow up healthily, parents must pay attention to their overall diet and help them overcome picky eaters.
First, the definition of picky eaters and its harm to children
(A) the definition and performance of picky eaters.
Picky children like certain foods or condiments. If you like to eat, you love to eat more, and if you don't like to eat, you don't eat. This kind of food selection criterion of "there is not enough food you like and nothing you don't like" is picky eaters or partial eclipse. Children's picky eaters are often manifested as follows: some prefer meat to vegetables, some only eat vegetables without meat, some only eat eggs, some don't eat eggs at all, some like sweets, some only eat pickles, and so on.
(B) the harm of picky eaters and partial eclipse to children
Two-year-old Liang Liang only eats side dishes, but doesn't eat other dishes. Besides, when eating, she should be fed by adults, and if she doesn't feed, she won't eat. Every time I eat, I always pick out the dizzy dishes in the bowl, frowning and unhappy. She is thin, sallow and emaciated, and she feels unstable when walking. Compared with children of the same age, she looks a little unhealthy, just like a child with poor nutrition and poor movements. It can be seen that picky eaters have a series of hazards to children, mainly in the following aspects:
1, the harm to children's health
(1) affects children's growth and development.
At present, picky eaters are the most common phenomenon among only children. The main performance is that I like to eat certain kinds of food, but I don't care about the food I don't like. Over time, the appetite gradually decreased, and sometimes even refused to eat. Because eating too few varieties and quantities will cause nutrient deficiency, that is, nutrient deficiency in medicine, which will not only affect the growth and development of children, but also make children suffer from nutrient deficiency. Such as rickets, anemia, recurrent respiratory tract infection, etc.
(2) lead to malnutrition in young children.
No food in nature can completely contain all the nutrients needed by the human body. Each food contains only different nutrients. If you only prefer certain foods, you can't meet your physical needs. If you don't like to eat certain foods, you may lose the source of essential nutrients for your body. For example, many children don't like to eat green vegetables, which will lead to vitamin C and mineral deficiency, and sometimes abdominal pain and constipation; Some children who don't eat kelp will cause iodine deficiency, and in severe cases they will get "big neck" disease. If all kinds of food are eaten, the nutrients contained in the food can complement each other, maintain an appropriate proportion, and achieve a balanced and reasonable dietary standard, which is more conducive to the healthy growth of children. Each food contains different nutrients, such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, inorganic salts, trace elements and water, etc., which have their own unique functions in composing human tissue structure and exerting their unique physiological functions. No matter what kind of nutrients can be lacking for a long time, even if some nutrients are required in small amounts every day, for example, the iron intake is only about 10 mg every day, and the lack of one of them will easily lead to iron deficiency anemia.
2. Harm to children's mental health
Picky food and partial eclipse also do great harm to children's mental health during their growth and development. Long-term nutritional deficiency will also lead to children's hyperactivity, inattention, and weakened creativity, imagination and thinking ability, resulting in slower intellectual development than children of the same age after entering the park. The study found that some children are picky eaters, "Lickitung", and have difficulty in making sentences at school, all of which are related to the lack of chewing training when they are 4-6 months old, that is, they don't eat muddy food.
3. Harm to children's future growth
Lack of nutrients will even affect the competitiveness and pioneering power of adults in society. Nutrition in early childhood is far more important than the growth and development in recent years, and it also has a deeper and more lasting impact, even for a lifetime. Because from the daily diet, children should not only get the nutrients necessary for their normal growth and development, but also accumulate all kinds of nutrients vital to people's health for life, so as to ensure that the nutrition in the body can still be maintained at a certain physiological level and maintain a good health state in old age. This is a new concept-"nutrient bank", which comes from the combination of children's growth and development research and adult aging process research in recent years (nutrient bank refers to how to give balanced and sufficient nutrients in early childhood, especially in the first year of birth, so that the body's regulation mode of nutrients can reach normal physiological level, which can ensure the loss of nutrients in long-term, adolescence and even middle-aged and old age. Preventing some diseases that should not happen at that age in advance is equivalent to putting money in the bank and taking it out when you need it. The image metaphor is "nutrient bank"). From this concept, we can see the importance of children's nutrition to the future quality of life, and the harm of picky eaters to children's future growth.