The report reflects three major problems of global child nutrition imbalance: malnutrition, hidden hunger and overweight.
Nowadays, not only many children can hardly eat food, but more and more children eat too much food they don't need at all.
Children's intake of food or absorption of nutrients is not enough to meet their growth needs.
Children don't get enough vitamins and minerals for their growth.
Children's weight is too heavy for their height.
It is easy to understand malnutrition or overweight. But what is "hidden hunger"? It often becomes the most confusing place for many parents who pay special attention to their children's growth.
Actually, it's easy to explain
We have to eat a lot of food for our children every day, but unfortunately, some foods are at best "satisfying hunger", so that children are not hungry or full. However, it is not good for vitamins and minerals needed in the body, resulting in less intake of children and uneven nutrition. This is "hidden hunger".
0- 14 years old is the peak of children's growth and development. If the child does not get enough nutrition during this period, it is likely to have irreversible consequences such as developmental retardation, endocrine disorder and abnormal metabolism.
Let's give a more vivid example. Some time ago, Dr. Zhang Wenhong specifically pointed out that children should mainly have milk and eggs for breakfast and try not to drink rice porridge.
At that time, it also triggered a cultural dispute between China and the West, as well as various unconvinced "porridge cultures" in China.
In fact, to put it bluntly, rice porridge belongs to this kind of food that "satisfies satiety" but has no "sufficient nutrition". Because more than 75% of rice porridge is carbohydrate, it has nothing to do with the necessary nutrition of the body, and children have had enough porridge for a while, but they have not taken enough nutrition.
In the long run, it will definitely be bad for your health!
In other words, your doll may have eaten fat for nothing, but in fact, he may be in a state of "hidden hunger"!
See if you often use these foods to help children "replenish their bodies"?
I talked to my friend about "bone soup" the other day.
Many people think that after meat is heated and boiled at high temperature, all the nutrients enter the soup. Therefore, I like to make all kinds of soups for children. Of course, meat cannot be wasted. Since there is no nutrition, chew it yourself!
However, experts point out that after the meat is boiled in water, only a small part of the nutrients are dissolved in the soup, while 95% of the nutrients remain in the "meat".
Well, your kindness inadvertently supplements nutrition, but it makes the child malnourished.
If you take the child out to play, he is sweating and thirsty. Choosing between pure water and pure juice, I think many parents will buy pure juice directly for their children!
It seems that pure juice is 1000 times better than pure water in color and nutrition.
Really?
The American Academy of Pediatrics explicitly forbids babies under one year old from drinking juice.
When fruit is juiced, the nutrients will be lost sharply after oxidation. In addition to giving children enough sugar, it also increases the risk of dental caries and obesity. It's really better to quench your thirst with a bottle of pure water.
In addition, when going out to play, wash some fruits and let the children eat by themselves.
Children drink milk every day and love it, but they don't grow up.
Look at what milk you bought for your child first! To tell the truth, although pure milk has a faint milk flavor, compared with those sour and sweet yogurt and denatured milk, it can't attract children's taste at all.
Therefore, whenever a child says that he likes drinking milk very much, we will look at the ingredients of "milk" in the child's hand.
Deteriorated milk, in the final analysis, is just a kind of drink with a very attractive taste for children, and the so-called attraction to children is that there are a lot of sugar and additives in it, which makes children "addicted".
If you want your child to be really healthy and avoid "hidden hunger", you must not lack the nutrition that your child needs during his growth.
Simply put:
Rice porridge is not nutritious, is it Then we add some coarse grains: brown rice, millet, oats, red beans, mung beans and so on. Rice porridge is served, and then nutrition comes up.
In addition, for children, the digestive function is still not perfect, and more attention should be paid to the proportion.
Avoid excessive condiments, especially sugar, soy sauce, spicy pepper and aniseed. Let children realize that the original taste of food is better.
Where there is processing, there is bound to be loss of nutrition. Therefore, when you can taste the original fruit snacks, don't choose too many techniques and procedures.
For example, when you can chew fruit, don't squeeze juice; When you can eat nuts, don't pursue the deep-processed taste of pepper and salt, spicy taste and so on. If you can eat fruits in season, don't choose fruits that are out of season.
The nutritional imbalance in childhood is likely to bring health problems to children throughout their lives.
Lack of essential nutrients will weaken children's immune system and increase the risk of gastrointestinal diseases and cardiovascular diseases in adulthood.
However, the relevant report specifically pointed out that improving children's nutrition can directly promote children's performance in school; Including improving enrollment rate, attendance rate and grades in subjects such as mathematics and reading.
Therefore, a healthy diet for children is very important for their growth. Eat well, eat well!