Dietary considerations for children with dwarfism and precocious puberty

  Many parents of dwarf children often think that their children are short because they usually eat too little or are too picky about their food. Instead, over-nutrition is common, and over-nutrition is one of the main reasons why the incidence of precocious puberty is increasing year by year. Children who are short in stature need less than other children because of their slow growth, and most of them do not eat much. From time to time, we also find that children who are originally short grow significantly more food if they show pubertal development, for this reason.  In both short and precocious children, it is better to have a balanced diet, i.e. a reasonable mix of meat and vegetarian dishes, and a balanced intake of coarse and fine grains. Overall, it is better to have a relatively wide range of recipes. Some parents restrict their children’s diet too much after they find out their children have precocious puberty is also not good. As a growing child, basic nutrients should be guaranteed. It is recommended to drink 1-2 bags of milk and 1 egg per day (regardless of the cooking method, whether alone or in a dish or soup, as long as it is cooked), while other meat dishes need to be limited. Although milk and eggs are not guaranteed to be safe, too much restriction is certainly not beneficial.  For some of the fatter children, it would be better to eat some fruit or have some soup or something before eating and slow down the pace of eating. Although it is not a very reasonable way to eat. Because, our feeling of stomach fullness and hunger is not felt by the empty or full stomach, but by the high or low blood sugar. When the blood sugar is low, the stomach feels empty. If you eat too fast, although you have reached the normal serving size, but because blood sugar has not yet come to rise sharply to the normal level, you will also feel not full, you will eat more.  Due to various advertising campaigns and other reasons, there are also often parents who believe that their children will be deficient in zinc, calcium and so on. In fact, except for the need for proper vitamin D supplementation during infancy to prevent calcium deficiency, a normal diet will not cause micronutrient deficiency, and since it is a micronutrient, it is never better to have too much! Too much can cause other harm. I often give parents the analogy: “An egg, without any external factors, can hatch chicks, but if the nutrients needed for life are the same, the chicks will not hatch”. Other foods are also made of cells and have various nutrients, but the content and ratio of various nutrients vary from food to food. Please remember: medicine is better than food! Humans cannot synthesize their own proteins, and no health food can be comparable to natural food!