Now the living conditions are better, but the children are not better than the previous children can eat, they are significantly lower than the same age children, or simply refuse to eat, some eat very slowly, some watch TV while eating or being chased by parents to feed. Parents are often helpless in the face of such children, the less the child eats, the more parents fear that the child is hungry, the more they want to feed some, so every meal is like a battle, the family atmosphere is tense. Some parents even describe it this way: “The child will pretend to be sleepy and refuse to eat at mealtime, and once the table is lively and playful as usual.” What is going on here? Hungry for food is the original instinct of all animals, as well as people. The reasons for this can be summarized as follows: 1, parents do not understand the physiological characteristics of young children. 1 year old, the child’s growth rate is slower than in infancy, the demand for nutrition is also reduced, resulting in appetite is not as strong as in infancy, as shown by reduced food intake. If parents think that their children should eat more when they are older, repeatedly inducing or even forcing them to eat will cause them to resent it and lead to anorexia instead. The change in the child’s appetite can also be manifested as fluctuations in the amount of food eaten at each meal, perhaps eating more at this meal and less at the next meal, as long as the total balance is maintained within a few days, occasionally a few bad meals, parents need not be anxious. 2, the diet structure is not reasonable. Parents lack the necessary nutritional knowledge, and simply provide children with high protein, high sugar food (such as chocolate, etc.), or over-eating cold drinks, indiscriminately give “nutritious food”, but make appetite decline. 3, the meal arrangement is not reasonable. Normal children every 3 to 4 hours to empty the stomach contents, blood sugar to drop will produce appetite. If meals are not regularly, snacking, there is always food in the stomach, blood sugar does not drop, there will be no appetite. 4, parents have too high expectations of the amount of food. Many parents are envious of their neighbors’ overweight or obese children, thinking that this is a good performance of raising, and always feel that their own normal weight children on the thin side, so by feeding more to gain weight becomes their common desire. 5, night feeding. Normal infants can stop feeding at night from 4 to 6 months of age, concentrating on daytime feeding can fully meet the child’s nutritional needs throughout the day, if the night feeding time is too long, it will inevitably affect the appetite of the next day. How can I improve my child’s appetite when he/she is already anorexic? The following principles can be followed: 1. Regular, regular place to eat. 2. Limit the time of eating: less than 30 minutes per meal. Timely removal of overtime food, put away all snacks at home, wait until the next meal to provide new food, only provide plain water between meals, do not drink water within one hour before the meal, so as not to dilute stomach acid, affecting digestive function. 3.Reasonable arrangement of meals, avoid too much. 1 to 3 years old children for 3 main meals plus 2 to 3 snacks, snacks can be arranged in the middle of the two main meals, after 2 years old to reduce the snacks after dinner, try not to eat before bedtime, bedtime additional meals can be arranged before 1 hour before bedtime, the amount should not be too much. 3 to 6 years old can be arranged for 3 main meals plus 1 to 2 snacks. 4.Provide age-appropriate food, not too much or too little. 5.Encourage independent eating. Children can participate in the act of eating from the age of 1 year old, encourage the use of hands to grasp food, and then older spoon feeding, and then develop an interest in eating. Parents should not worry about their children dirtying the table and floor and deprive them of the opportunity to do it, they should put up with the age-appropriate eating mess. From the age of 2 years old can be completely independent eating; 6, to avoid distracting children when eating, such as watching TV, playing with toys, etc. 7, feeding to promote appetite, you can use the child’s favorite fun name to call food or made into a variety of shapes. 8, parents maintain a neutral attitude, not to coerce punishment, do not use unhealthy food as a reward. 9, parents themselves should set a good example of eating. 10.Provide age-appropriate food texture, choose nutritious and easily digestible food. 1 to 2 years old should cut fine food, more than 2 years old can eat normal food. 11.Establish a good parent-child feeding relationship. The caregiver decides what the child eats and when to eat; let the child decide for himself how much to eat and participate in the choice of food appropriately within the allowed range. 12.Adopt appropriate cooking methods and process and prepare meals individually. Food for young children should be steamed, boiled, stewed and simmered, not fried, baked or cooked. The taste is light, not too salty, not spicy and stimulating, and as far as possible without MSG, chicken essence and other condiments. 13, encourage children to do more outdoor games and activities. Outdoor activities for more than 2 hours a day is conducive to maintaining children’s energy balance and avoiding excessive thinness and obesity. 14.Avoid bad eating behavior, such as eating while drinking soup. If you really need to drink soup, you can arrange it after the meal. A mouthful of rice and a mouthful of soup can easily lead to food not being fully chewed, increasing the burden on the stomach. 15, appropriate use of spleen and stomach herbs to improve food accumulation. Anorexia in children is not only related to improper feeding, but also may be related to some systemic diseases, such as hepatitis, enteritis, long-term constipation, etc. It may also be related to the use of certain drugs. If the appetite does not improve after correcting the bad eating habits, medical help should be sought. Chinese medicine has unique and precise efficacy in the treatment of anorexia.