What should I pay attention to in child nutrition?

  With the improvement of living standards, children grow some “fat” and some “thin”. Both are signs of unbalanced nutrition, which can easily lead to children not growing during the “growth period”. Many parents believe that children should eat more, eat well, will develop faster and grow taller. So, often like to force the child to eat this and that, to make up for the east and west. In fact, sometimes these practices affect the child’s physical and mental development and health, more harm than good.  Nutritionists and psychologists have confirmed that, digging to let children eat more of this and that, and even when children appear partial food, refusing to eat, parents take wishes, cajoling, reprimanding, scolding, etc., to force children to eat, the results, often leading to children’s rebellious mood and fear, aversion to eating psychology, over time it is easy to cause malnutrition, so that is in the growth and development of children’s health is affected. In the long run, it is easy to cause malnutrition, so that the health of children in the growth and development period is affected. Therefore, when a child is paranoid and refuses to eat, it is not necessary to force him or her to eat. Parents must be based on the characteristics of the child’s growth and development, combined with the specific circumstances, scientific recipes and reasonable meal arrangements, and to create a good appetite for children to stimulate the dining environment, so that children are happy and enjoyable to eat.  First, establish a hunger and satiety rule for your child. Old people often say: “If you want your child to be healthy and healthy, commonly used three hunger and cold”. Children should be full and hungry, there is a sense of hunger, only then there will be appetite. Experts believe that children tend to rely more on their intrinsic instincts than adults for the regulation of their diet. Their appetite is often determined by intrinsic hunger and satiety. In other words, they are really hungry and will eat obediently even if they are not forced or compelled to do so. In order to make your child feel hungry, you should make three meals a day at regular intervals and not give snacks to fill their stomachs for fear of starving because one meal is not full. Enough sleep, regular life, more outdoor activities, such as playing games, walking, swimming, etc. will increase the child’s hunger.  Second, create a good environment, do not force to eat. Children are curious about everything. The so-called model is to take advantage of the child’s nature of good imitation, to induce them to eat. Parents can describe vividly for the child before the meal will be eaten delicious meal to stimulate the appetite of the child. The method of persuading children to eat should be appropriate, do not force the child must eat a certain food, and do not use the language of “do not eat food to get sick and injections” to intimidate children, so that children have a fear of eating vegetables and boredom. For children who fiddle with food and do not eat, do not severely reprimand, but should be more patient help, so that the child to build confidence in eating consciously.  Thirdly, proper cooking, balanced meals. Children’s teeth and bones are growing and developing, food should be softer and easier to chew, do not use adult color and flavor standards to measure and evaluate the child’s diet is good and poor. In the structure of the diet, there should be sweet and salty, meat and vegetables, coarse and fine. The single eat milk, fish, eggs, although good nutrition, but easy to constipation; single eat vegetables and fruits, not only easy hunger can also lead to malnutrition. All day milk sugar, chocolate, fruits and melons, will disrupt the rule of hunger, affect the digestive function, reduce appetite. Therefore, the diet must be balanced not to lose one or the other.  Fourth, the situation, teaching knowledge. At the dinner table, when the child is in a good mood to eat, parents should seize the opportunity to consciously talk about the nutritional value of food, so that children know that various foods have their unique benefits to human health, so that children know the harm of partial food.  In short, children who are paranoid and refuse to eat should be identified, given patient inspiration and guidance, to explain the advantages and disadvantages, and gradually corrected, do not use suppressive methods to force children to eat. “One bite does not make a fat person.” As long as the quality and quantity of food is good, the child can be supplied with adequate nutrition to ensure the healthy growth of the child.