The influence of picky eaters on children
The healthy growth of human body needs six nutrients: protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and water. These nutrients exist in one or several foods. Only by maintaining a balanced diet can we ensure a comprehensive and balanced nutritional intake. Picky food can easily lead to insufficient intake of some nutrients, leading to malnutrition, weak constitution, poor resistance, easy to get sick, and even affect children's growth and development.
The main factors leading to children's picky eaters
1. Influenced by adults' eating habits: children love to eat, parents don't eat this, parents are picky eaters, and children follow the school. This is a common phenomenon. Over time, children have developed the bad habit of being picky about food.
2. Bad eating habits: children can't eat on time, and eating too many snacks will affect their appetite. As the saying goes, "Hunger is sweet as honey, and fullness is not sweet." The child's stomach is not big, and it takes 3-4 hours to empty the food in the stomach. If you feel hungry when you eat, it will smell good when you eat. If you eat irregularly, but snacks, crispy rice, biscuits and various drinks, there will always be food in your stomach, and your stomach will not rest. In this way, when it's time to eat, your child will lose his appetite. No matter how good the food is, he will naturally be picky about food.
Children's tastes are different from those of adults: children need light and sweet food, while most adult foods are rich in flavor and mixed with spices. These dietary problems have not attracted the attention of parents.
4. Effects of diseases and drugs: Various acute and chronic infectious diseases, parasitic diseases, digestive tract diseases, and the lack of certain elements, especially trace elements such as zinc and iron, are the common main causes of anorexia. In addition, the side effects of taking various drugs during illness are also a factor.
Countermeasures Against the above factors, take the following measures:
1. Avoid the influence of adults' picky eating habits on children. Parents must set an example, stop being picky about food and drive their children to eat reasonably.
2. Try to get rid of bad eating habits. Teach children not to eat snacks, drink less drinks, eat regularly and have a full meal.
3. In order to stimulate children's appetite, try to make the rice taste better, change the pattern, and make it delicious when cooking. A dish can be cooked in a variety of ways, and then a good name is given to arouse children's curiosity and interest, so that they want to eat, love to eat and eat more.
During the child's illness, the food must be light and liquid, suitable for the child's taste. Pay attention to rational drug use and try to choose drugs with small gastrointestinal side effects. Check the children on time and follow the advice of the health care doctor.