The atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger
One of the least things you can do to visit relatives and friends is to have dinner.
However, behind its happiness and harmony, there is a health risk worthy of parents' vigilance, that is, it is easier to spread the virus during the meal.
Don't believe it.
The Hangzhou Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention once did an experiment:
The staff ordered 6 dishes, each divided into two portions, comparing the number of bacteria with and without chopsticks.
Diners undergo strict "pre-job training", and the same dish must be alternately used with public chopsticks and non-public chopsticks to ensure that everyone has the same number of hands on each dish. The result surprised everyone!
The number of colonies of non-male chopsticks is much higher than that of the group with male chopsticks.
Dishes like dried pot tea tree mushrooms and pickle octopus, the difference is even tens of times hundreds of times!
Why is that?
Because if you don't use chopsticks, everyone will transmit the bacteria they carry to the dish through the chopsticks, and there will be cross-infection between different dishes.
Where is this meal? It's germs in the carnival!
Someone would definitely refute me:
Where does a family eat dirty with each other? As for being so exquisite?
This is really not my pretense.
You know, there are tens of thousands of germs in the saliva of adults, as long as they have eaten outside, it is equivalent to bringing the bacteria outside home.
The most common of these germs is Helicobacter pylori.
Just this month, Helicobacter pylori was officially listed as a definitive carcinogen!
It can cause dyspepsia, chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer and other diseases, not to mention, it may also cause children with iron deficiency anemia, anorexia, affect the growth and development of children, and increase the risk of stomach cancer in the future.
Serious, but also directly threaten the child's life.
The point is that because its performance is sometimes not obvious, such as only occasional bloating, abdominal pain, etc., many people do not know that they are infected with bacteria.
Coupled with the stronger infectivity of Helicobacter pylori than hepatitis B, it often causes one person to get sick, and the situation of infection of the whole family is really not to be underestimated.
According to statistics, its infection rate in China is nearly 60%, and nearly 700 million people are infected.
Fortunately, for most adults, due to their good resistance, they can coexist peacefully with Helicobacter pylori.
However, for children with weaker resistance, the pathogenicity will be higher. In addition to Helicobacter pylori, Epstein-Barr virus, herpes simplex virus, human herpesvirus type 6, and even tooth decay bacteria in adult mouths can also be transmitted indirectly to children.
Mouth-to-mouth transmission is one of the main routes of transmission of these viruses.
So if you want to stay away from them, not only use chopsticks, but also pay attention to the following dining details: many parents feed their babies, afraid of the food is hot, habitually will give a "blow", such a small action, it may be with the saliva also "blow" into the meal, infecting the child.
Do you want me to say that if the meal is too hot, let it dry for a while, and if it is too big, take a small fan to blow it?
Not to mention the behavior of feeding chewed food to the baby in the previous news, is this the fear of slow bacterial infection?!
In fact, eating with the child, as long as the child can eat by himself, give him a good share of food and let him play on his own.
Even if you put aside the germs, sharing meals is a lot of benefits.
Take the light taste. Most of the elderly taste began to deteriorate, only "heavy taste" meals can have the appetite to eat, so the dishes are either too salty or too oily, which is really unhealthy for children
Bao Mama also said in the previous article that the recommended daily salt intake of children is generally much lower than that of adults.
In addition, there will be more or less invisible salt in snacks, and according to the taste of adults, the amount of salt intake in a day can easily exceed the standard.
At the same time, it is also extremely easy for children to develop a dietary preference for eating salty from an early age, and when they grow up, when their bodies are affected by a high-salt diet, it will be difficult to change when the time comes.
From the perspective of nutritional balance, it is even more necessary to divide meals.
Even today, when everyone can eat enough, more than half of the annual deaths under the age of 5 on the mainland are due to malnutrition.
This malnutrition is often caused by poor eating habits such as picky eating by children.
If you think about it, a family sits together and eats, and the child clips one less dish and one more bite of fat meat and no one notices.
If the meal sharing system is adopted, parents can match meals according to the nutrition that their children need every day, and it is clear at a glance what the children are left to eat.
Do not wait for the child to be overly obese, or anemia and iron deficiency, not high, precocious puberty, etc., then regret may be too late.
Reply to the keyword "invisible hunger" in the background to see how the baby eats every day to achieve nutritional balance.
Bao Mama shattered thoughts
In fact, I also understand that although the meal sharing system is advocated every year, it is too difficult to implement.
First of all, whether cooking or washing dishes, the workload must be doubled;
Secondly, it is difficult to refuse the enthusiasm of others for feeding;
You also have to take care of the glass hearts of the elders in the family, worrying that they feel abandoned.
This change in living habits has indeed had a great impact on the etiquette education we have received since childhood, and if we want to do it, we must not only put more time and energy into it, but also have a strong heart to face various misunderstandings and misinterpretations.
But you know, our environment is also changing!
Previous viruses, at best, had a limited range of transmission.
Now because of the development of transportation, no matter how far away the virus can break out globally in a short time, this epidemic is a living example!
If we don't change at this time, do we still expect the virus to accommodate us?
The meal sharing system, more use of public chopsticks, do not pass on the germs to others, and do not take the germs home, is the greatest courtesy to the people around you!
Let us, from now on, bear in mind the exhortation of Dr. Zhang Wenhong:
Chopsticks should not touch together, nor indirectly;
Don't use your own spoon to serve soup on your plate; don't use your own chopsticks to pick vegetables from each other.
For others, for ourselves, but also for our families!
Forward this article, from now on to develop the habit of sharing meals.
One more person sees it, the more understanding it has, and the more one person participates.
The health of our families is thus more protected.