The Spring Festival is approaching, and this is the happiest time for children. But many people don't know that in fact, the Spring Festival is also the time when children are most vulnerable to health damage.
In recent years, the news of "small patients" gathering in the hospital during the Spring Festival has been reported by many media.
Beijing Youth Daily reported in 2018 that most of the high-incidence diseases in children during the Spring Festival are "eaten out and played out", of which digestive system diseases and accidental injuries such as falls and burns are the most common.
Small patients waiting for treatment during the Spring Festival
Xinhua Network also reported that during the Spring Festival in 2017, from the Chinese New Year's Eve to the second year of junior high school, Hunan Children's Hospital hospital received a total of 897 cases of children with gastrointestinal diseases.
Why celebrate the Spring Festival,
Children are more likely to get sick
This is because, with the improvement of the living standards of the people on the mainland, many families during the festival are extremely rich in food, and most of them are high-protein, high-fat, and high-calorie foods, but there are relatively few high-fiber foods.
If you let your child eat these types of food continuously, it is easy to cause indigestion in your child.
In addition, during the festival, many families' meals are more prepared, and it is easy to have leftovers. If stored improperly or for too long, meals can easily spoil. When your child eats spoiled food, it can trigger an acute infection of the gastrointestinal tract.
In addition, during the winter vacation, the child's three meals are not regularly and quantitatively as in the past, which are the causes of digestive diseases.
Therefore, it is recommended that parents be happy during the holiday, or supervise and take care of their children in all aspects such as diet, and have a happy and healthy Spring Festival.
Celebrate the Spring Festival
Children should eat like this!
Experts remind that during the festival, parents should adhere to the four principles of their children's diet to help children eat healthily and reduce the occurrence of gastrointestinal diseases.
First, the combination of meat and vegetarian should be paid attention to
Chicken, fish, eggs, all kinds of seafood although delicious, but too much consumption may destroy the normal weak alkali environment in the body, resulting in excessive stomach acid or induce a variety of diseases, etc., in addition to the child's diet should also be diversified, pay attention to the intake of vitamins and foods with high fiber content.
Second, drink snacks should be eaten less
Drinks contain a variety of additives and a large number of sugars, carbon dioxide and other components, drinking a large number of people will affect the appetite, and even increase the burden on the child's heart and kidneys.
Chocolate, nuts, fries, preserved fruits, candy and other snacks are high-calorie, multi-sugar and salt foods, and excessive consumption will affect the normal diet.
Third, staple foods should be eaten well
On the holiday table, the dishes occupy the main position, and some children basically do not eat staple foods, which is actually unreasonable. Infants and young children, in particular, need to get enough energy from staple foods to meet the needs of growth and development.
The fourth is to develop regular eating habits
Many children open the "foodie" mode as soon as they arrive at the New Year, and some children sleep until three o'clock in the day before getting up and eating two meals a day, which is a manifestation of irregular diet, and it is easy to cause digestive disorders for a long time.
During the holidays, parents still need to help their children maintain good work and rest habits, rest and eat on time. The child's diet should be as far as possible according to the original time and law. After your child has eaten meat, avoid having him eat ice cream, drink cold drinks, etc.
During the Spring Festival, children can easily overeat. It is particularly worthy of parents' attention that long-term excessive consumption of high-protein and high-calorie foods may even affect the growth and development of children, such as precocious puberty.
Precocious puberty, the main consequence is to affect the child's adult height. Children with precocious puberty secrete sex hormones in large quantities prematurely, resulting in rapid bone age growth, premature closure of the epiphysis, and cessation of height development, resulting in lower adult height than normal.
Now more and more experts have reached a consensus: obesity is an important cause of precocious puberty in children.
Long-term intake of high-calorie, high-fat, high-protein, and high-sugar foods can easily lead to obesity, excess nutrition, increase gonadal hormone secretion and promote estrogen formation in the body, thereby accelerating the emergence of secondary sexual characteristics. That is, obese children are more likely to have precocious puberty.
Many parents know nothing about children's precocious puberty. Xiaobian searched around the Internet and found that many people summed up the "blacklist of precocious foods", such as chicken, soy milk (soy products), anti-seasonal fruits and vegetables and so on.
Is it really the culprit that causes precocious puberty in children eating these things? Let's listen to the small editor explain one by one.
Does eating chicken cause precocious puberty in children?
No.
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In fact, our animal-derived foods, including poultry, pork and beef, as well as milk, also contain trace amounts of estrogen and progesterone.
Chicken is extremely low in estrogen, and after high temperature cooking, these estrogens are destroyed and reduced or lose their hormonal effects. And when we eat these chicken wings, how much we will absorb is also unknown.
From the current research results, there is no reliable evidence to prove that chicken is related to precocious puberty in children. In 2020, the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology published a case-control study of 568 people, "Correlation between Dietary Patterns and Precocious Puberty in School-Age Girls in Shenzhen", and a high-calorie and high-fat diet was a risk factor for precocious puberty, with a nearly 2-fold increased risk. The balanced dietary pattern and the high-protein dietary pattern are the protective factors for precocious puberty.
Is drinking soy milk related to precocious puberty in children?
It doesn't matter.
Soybeans or their products are mainly rich in high-quality protein, unsaturated fatty acids, soybean phospholipids, soybean oligosaccharides, and vitamin B and various minerals. In addition to this, it also contains soy isoflavones.
Soybean isoflavones, known as "phytoestrogens", are a class of secondary metabolites formed in soybeans, which can play a role similar to estrogen and regulation of endogenous estrogens, and play a two-way regulatory role in the body.
But soy isoflavones are estrogenoids and are not equivalent to human estrogens. As you can tell from the name, it is a "class" of estrogen. Moreover, its content in general soy milk is very low. Each 100 grams of soybeans cooked contains 65.11 mg of soybean isoflavones, and the recommended intake of soybeans per day according to the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents is 25 grams to 35 grams, which is equivalent to 500 ml-600 ml of soy milk.
The average person drinks a cup or a bowl of about 200-300 ml, and the content of soy isoflavones is only 6.5-11.39 mg. Not to mention that many people can't drink this amount.
Eating out-of-season fruits and vegetables,
Does it cause precocious puberty in children?
Strictly speaking, the so-called "plant hormones" are actually called plant growth regulators, and human hormones are two different things.
Plant growth regulators are primarily used to promote fruit ripening, increase yields or facilitate picking, with dosages and rules approved by the state and subject to safety assessments.
For example, the bulking agent used to promote strawberry fruit fall is a kind of plant growth regulator that makes strawberry fruit fuller. In fact, the amount of plant growth regulators used is very small, and it only works on plants, not on the human body.
It can be seen that whether it is chicken, or soy milk and off-season fruits and vegetables, as long as the child eats normally and appropriately, these foods themselves will not directly cause children's precocious puberty.
prevent precocious puberty,
Start with a healthy diet
A large cross-sectional study led by the Shanghai Children's Medical Center published in 2018 examined the relevance of three dietary patterns – traditional diet, unhealthy diet and protein diet – to precocious puberty in children:
The "traditional diet" is based on foods rich in vegetables, fruits, red meat, white meat, aquatic products and seafood
The "protein diet" contains a large amount of bovine colostrum, protein powder foods and dairy foods
The "unhealthy diet" contains a large number of desserts/snacks, soft drinks and fried foods
The study found that both traditional and protein dietary patterns showed no association with precocious puberty, and that poor dietary patterns were significantly positively correlated with precocious puberty in boys and precocious puberty in girls.
Preventing precocious puberty, this can be done
Under the condition of a normal diet, do not give your child health supplements. In particular, you should not eat nutritional supplements that do not have the "blue hat" logo or contain hormones.
Be sure to eat a balanced diet and control your child's weight. In the critical period of children's growth and development, the diet should be balanced, including fresh vegetables and fruits, fish, meat, eggs and milk, nuts should be involved, and vitamin D should be appropriately supplemented, and calcium supplementation should be reasonable, so that children can not be partial to food and not picky eating.
It is forbidden to sleep with lights on at night. Sleeping with the lights on for a long time disrupts the light cycle, thereby inhibiting the secretion of melatonin and affecting the expression of melatonin receptors. It is also possible to cause precocious puberty through the regulator GnIH (gonadotropin inhibitory hormone), a regulatory agent that affects sex hormone secretion by melatonin.
In addition to the above content, it is also recommended that parents urge their children to participate in more physical exercise; avoid exposing children to cosmetics containing hormones for adults.
Happy Chinese New Year
Don't forget to eat healthy
Good luck with one
Happy and healthy Spring Festival!
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