“Creating” Healthy Babies – Beware of the 10 Biggest Feeding Mistakes

Parents expect their babies grow fast and strong, but this is not an easy and simple thing, which also contains many scientific reasons. In the baby feeding process, many new fathers, new mothers due to the influence of some “traditional thinking”, a little inadvertently fall into the following 10 feeding errors. One of the myths: the more the baby eats, the stronger the body Little Hao Ran’s mother is always worried about the baby’s nutrition is not enough, I hope he can eat more, often worried that he did not have enough to eat when eating. Usually, as long as the little Hao Ran want to eat, mom never limit, but also often give him some “nutritious” food, such as cream cakes, fried chicken legs, chocolate and so on. See little Hao Ran more and more fat, but the mother thinks nothing of it, until he grows when he will be thin. Comment: baby often too full will affect the IQ. Because: (1) too full after a large amount of blood deposited in the gastrointestinal tract to digest food, will cause the brain relative ischemia and hypoxia, affecting brain development. (2) too much satiety will lead to fat accumulation in the body caused by “obese brain”. Obesity makes the brain groove back tightly together, folds disappear, the cerebral cortex is smooth-like, which affects the baby’s intellectual level. (3) too much satiety will inhibit the physiological function of the brain intelligent region. (4) Too much satiety will also contribute to the premature aging of the brain. Recent research department, too much satiety can be induced by the body to produce a kind of brain can promote premature aging of the material – fiber sprout cell growth factor, fiber sprout cell growth factor, it can make the brain premature aging. (5) Too much satiety can harm the brain due to constipation. Most of the baby’s diet is based on highly nutritious fine food, the baby ate easily constipated. Constipation, metabolic products accumulated in the digestive tract for a long time, the intestinal bacteria produce a large number of harmful substances. These harmful substances are easily absorbed by the intestine, into the blood circulation, stimulate the brain, so that the brain nerve cells chronic poisoning, affecting the normal development of the brain. Reasonable feeding: Although the baby’s growth and development is very rapid, but it is not the more you eat, the better. As long as the rate of growth and development is normal, such as height, weight growth in the normal range, there is no need to let him eat too much, especially those who are not easy to digest fatty foods. Myth No. 2: Eat “oil and water” easy to cause atherosclerosis, small Yaru 9 months, the mother to add supplemental food can be serious, according to the age of the month to do, but is not to small Yaru add a little bit of “oil and water”. Mom believes that the baby’s blood vessels are very tender, easy to be “oil and water” hurt, may not happen in the future will be hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure or heart disease. Comment: In fact, small babies and adults also need fat, fat is one of the three major nutrients inseparable from the growth and development of the baby, the baby’s health has a very important role. If the lack of lipid nutrition, it will affect the baby’s brain and tissue and organ development, but also recurrent infections and skin eczema, dry and flaky skin and other fat-soluble vitamin deficiencies. Reasonable feeding: after the baby added complementary foods, the mother should gradually add some “oil” in the diet. Should be mainly vegetable fat, because of its high absorption rate, high essential fatty acid content, more suitable for infants and young children. Animal fat in the cream and fish oil is rich in plant-based fat in the lack of vitamin A and vitamin D, can be appropriate to add a little, but do not eat more. Misconception No. 3: Never let the baby eat snacks Xiao Guotao’s mother rarely let him eat snacks, she thinks children eat snacks is a bad habit. Because, snacks will seize the baby’s stomach, affecting the baby’s normal diet, hindering the body’s intake of nutrients. Point: Children are very active, hands and feet all day long non-stop activities, consume a lot of heat energy. Therefore, every day in addition to the main meal properly supplement some snacks, can better meet the needs of the metabolism. Studies have shown that children who eat snacks appropriately will have a more balanced nutrition, which is an important way to take in a variety of nutrients. Reasonable feeding: snacking is not a bad habit, the key to grasp a scientific scale. First of all, snack time should be appropriate, the best arrangement between meals, not half an hour before the meal to 1 hour to eat. Secondly, the amount of snacks should be moderate, can not affect the main meal. In addition, to choose light, easy to digest, nutritious, do not damage the teeth of the small food, such as fresh fruit, dried fruit, nuts, milk, pure fruit juice, dairy products, etc., not too sweet, too greasy. Myth No. 4: eating sugar is detrimental to the baby’s health Yuhua’s mother never let him eat sugary snacks, for fear that Yuhua teeth bad. Besides, eating sugar will also affect the appetite, but also easy to grow into a little fat, and damage to hearing. In short, the mother believes that the baby to eat sugar has a lot of harm but no good. Comment: Studies have found that sugar is not harmful to the growth and development of children, proper eating sugar will be beneficial to the body, such as hot water bath before eating a little candy to prevent dizziness or defecation; activities, half an hour before the appropriate amount of sugar can be supplemented with energy to maintain energetic, flexible body; hunger and fatigue to eat sugar, will quickly correct the symptoms of hypoglycemia; 2 hours before the meal to eat some sugar not only does not affect appetite, but also can be Eat some sugar 2 hours before meal not only does not affect appetite, but also can replenish energy, which is conducive to growth and development. Reasonable feeding: you can choose some sugary snacks for your baby, such as dates, raisins, dried fruit, fruits, hard fruits and small packaged dairy products. They can satisfy the baby’s sweet tooth, but also to supplement the calories, but also get the body needs other nutrients. Myth No. 5: the more protein to eat, the better the little wisdom to eat, mom kept giving her fish, clip shrimp, clip meat to eat. Mom thinks, the baby only eat more high protein will grow taller and stronger. But the little wisdom not only grows not strong, but also unexplained often low fever, but has not been able to find the reason. Comment: The baby is always fever, is likely to be too much high protein intake caused. Excessive consumption of high-protein foods, not only gradually damage the arterial blood vessel walls and kidney function, affecting the main food intake and brain cell metabolism energy crisis, but also often cause constipation, so that the baby is easy to “fire”, causing fever. In addition, excessive consumption of high-protein foods will increase the burden on the digestive tract, so that the body protein content is too high. Protein in the intestinal tract abnormal decomposition, producing a large amount of ammonia, resulting in elevated blood ammonia, and in severe cases can even cause protein toxicity syndrome. Reasonable feeding: three meals a day to let the baby balanced intake of carbohydrates, proteins, fats and other essential nutrients for growth and development, can not only focus on high protein food. Otherwise, it is easy to cause high blood pressure, coronary heart disease and cancer and other modern “civilization disease”. Misconception No. 6: Lactic acid milk or lactic acid bacteria drinks instead of milk Little Yun Ting does not like to drink milk, which can be anxious mother. The baby grows body especially need milk protein, do not like to drink milk how can it? Luckily, there are many kinds of milk products on the market now, so the mother took Xiaoyunting to choose. Unexpectedly, the taste of sweet and sour lactic acid milk by the little Yun Ting love, which finally let the mother relieved. Mom thought that lactic acid milk and milk have the same nutrition. Comment: The so-called milk usually refers to fresh milk, pure milk, yogurt and a variety of milk powder, their protein content is very high, not less than 2.5 grams per 100 milliliters of emulsion; lactic acid milk or lactobacillus drinks in the milk content is very small, per 100 milliliters of emulsion protein content is only 1/3 of the milk. but the lactic acid milk or lactobacillus drinks taste sweet and sour, very much like babies, and they are very similar with milk in the outer package and sensory shape, the name contains the word “milk”. They are very similar to milk in terms of packaging and sensory shape, and their names all contain the word “milk”. Therefore, many moms often buy these drinks. Research has shown that long-term consumption of lactic acid milk or lactobacillus drinks will greatly affect the growth and development of babies. Reasonable feeding: Lactic acid milk or lactobacillus drinks should not be used to completely replace milk. If babies like this flavor of drink very much, as long as they have ensured an adequate intake of milk, you can drink some as a snack to help digestion. Misconception No. 7: sweet drinks to quench the baby’s thirst Xiao Jia Ling, like many babies, do not like to drink plain water, mom gave him a push away, love to drink sweet and sour drinks. Mom thought, anyway, drinks are also made of white water, the same can replenish water. So she bought a lot of sweet and sour drinks and put them in the house. As long as the little Jialing thirsty, mom will give him a drink. Comment: Drinks are made of water, but they can never replace plain water to quench your thirst. Because, these sweet and sour drinks often contain sweeteners, colors and flavors, while the baby needs very little real nutrition. In this way, the baby drank instead of quenching the thirst, but easy to have a sense of satiety, affecting the normal eating. Reasonable feeding: the baby’s best thirst-quenching drink is no better than plain water. In order to increase the flavor to attract babies, can be in plain water with some pure fruit juice. Myth No. 8: fortified food more good Little Yuxuan’s mother often give her a variety of fortified cookies, bread or rice and noodles. Mom had read in some books that there is almost no natural food that can meet the nutritional needs of people alone. From this mom thought that the baby grows and develops so fast, surely the more fortified food she eats, the better. Comment: Adding some nutrients, such as lysine, iron, zinc, vitamin D, vitamin A, vitamin B2, etc., to children’s food can indeed speed up growth and development or prevent certain nutrient deficiencies. But this kind of fortified food is not more good, too much food will affect the balance of nutrients in the body, but also cause poisoning, such as vitamin D and vitamin A poisoning. In fact, poisoning is more terrible than nutritional deficiency. Reasonable feeding: suspected that the baby lacks a certain nutrition, before supplementing the best first to the hospital to do the relevant examination, to be determined under the guidance of the doctor to choose the targeted fortified food. Remind a point, in taking fortified food during the frequent review, so as not to take too much. Myth No. 9: to the baby “tonic” little one Wei’s mother in order not to let her son lose in the “starting line”, often buy some tonic for the baby to eat, the family often have pollen, cinnamon, ginseng royal jelly, etc. And every time whenever the baby is not feeling well, it is best to wait until the doctor to determine the guidance to use targeted fortified food. And every time as long as the baby has any discomfort, or so a little different, the mother is worried about the lack of this and that, and then quickly buy some tonic supplements. Mom believes that before the age of 3 is the fastest growing baby, fast growth in this period is very critical. Comment: Ginseng royal jelly or pollen contains certain sex hormones, may be used to promote children’s growth faster, but at the same time will also make the epiphysis closed earlier. This will not only result in short stature later in life, but will also trigger precocious puberty, as well as bleeding gums, thirst, constipation, elevated blood pressure, abdominal distension and other symptoms. Reasonable feeding: do not arbitrarily give the baby to eat supplements, if growth retardation early to see a doctor, and under the guidance of the doctor to use supplements. Myths of ten: the baby should eat more refined food small new Ya 1 years old, but the mother always feel that the baby is still very delicate, every day always give her the choice of the most fine food, such as refined white rice, refined white flour. She thinks that such food is delicate, easy to digest and absorb, suitable for the baby’s intestines. Comment: While it is true that rough food is difficult for children to digest and absorb, too fine food is also prone to lose natural nutrients that are extremely beneficial to health. Because in the refined rice refined noodles were removed from the shell of rice or noodles, rich in protein, fat, iron, calcium, and B vitamins and promote intestinal peristalsis of fiber. Eat too fine food for a long time, will make the B vitamin intake is reduced, affecting the development of the nervous system; will also be due to chromium absorption is reduced to affect the development of vision, become an important cause of myopia. Reasonable feeding: babies should be allowed to eat brown rice and brown noodles. However, the baby’s gastrointestinal digestion and absorption ability is weak, give them to eat the best rough rice and noodles to standard rice or standard noodles for good. However, fine rice and noodles can be occasionally given to the baby to taste.