Hello everyone, I'm a tomato mom!
My mother-in-law said to me a few days ago: Today's children are so happy, eat strawberries in winter, ice cream in summer, all year round, melons, fruits and vegetables, meat, eggs, milk and fish, all kinds of imported food across all continents. There is only food that we can't think of, and there is nothing that children can't eat. However, you said that the neighbor Xiaole this child, how did there be malnutrition?
Neighbor Lele's mom and dad work in Beijing, he is the only child in the family, living with his grandparents. Mom and Dad go out to earn money, and grandparents take care of his life. The child was raised white and fat, only 10 years old and already weighed more than 90 pounds. However, the recent school physical examination, the doctor said that the child actually had symptoms of anemia.
How can such a fat child be anemic? Grandparents didn't believe it. Because usually, the food standards at home are almost arranged according to the child's preferences, and the child can also eat and sleep, there is nothing abnormal.
Mom and Dad then took the child to the test, and the test result was still anemia. It turns out that this child's biggest hobby is that he likes to eat fried food, and he does not like to eat vegetables the most, what fried skewers, kebabs, fried chicken, roast duck, are his favorites.
The family is such a child, of course, want to eat what to buy, the result of the child although obese, but the physique is very poor, often cold, immunity is not good.
As a health manager, I want to tell you that children do not eat as much as possible, nor do they mean that they can be nutritionally comprehensive by eating whatever they want. There is a type of malnutrition called "hidden hunger."]
"Hidden hunger" refers to the lack of nutritional needs of the body due to insufficient nutritional balance and lack of vitamins or minerals, as if it were a state of hunger.
"Hidden hunger" is not hunger, it may be excessive fat, but other nutrients are not enough. Our human body is like a wooden barrel, and the lack of any kind of nutrient will make the water in the bucket overflow.
According to 2016 data, about 2 billion people worldwide are in a state of hidden hunger. There are nearly 300 million people on the mainland. That's a very large number, and a significant number of them are adolescents and children in the stages of physical development.
The harm of "hidden hunger" is very large, the body lacks the necessary nutrients, will affect the health of the body, especially adolescents, it is the stage of rapid growth of the body, if the nutrition is not enough, it will cause insufficient height, intellectual development and other lifelong regrets.
How to judge whether your children are "hidden hunger" people? We can judge by the following symptoms.
Your child is severely overweight or underweight.
Children with better physical health, their figure is relatively symmetrical, not too fat, not too thin. Therefore, if the child is overweight, or too thin, it will be more nutritious, or malnourished, parents should pay attention to it.
Children are picky eaters, partial eaters, unreasonable diet structure, unbalanced nutrition.
Children are not short of food now, but why do they have symptoms of "hidden hunger"? Because this part of the child is more picky eaters. For example, he does not eat vegetables and fruits, likes fried foods, likes to eat snacks, does not spend less money, and eats very full, but the nutritional content is not high.
Therefore, if the child is picky eater, partial eater, and anorexia, parents should pay attention.
Children have poor immunity and often get sick.
Some children often have some small symptoms, such as long mouth sores, inflammation of the corners of the eyes, repeated colds and so on. These can all be caused by your child's vitamin deficiency. Hidden hunger is most likely to lack several nutrients, including iron, iodine, zinc, vitamin A, D and other substances.
The lack of different vitamins will cause different symptoms, if the child often has repeated angular cheilitis, colds, parents should take the child to test it.
Hidden hunger endangers children's physical health at any time, how to let our children get rid of hidden hunger and thrive healthily?
Eat coarse grains appropriately and eat less "delicate" foods.
The food that children eat now is relatively refined, but such refined rice, refined noodles, and refined sugar will make children accumulate fat, cause some hormonal reactions, and pose a threat to physical health.
Reduce the intake of "trans fatty acids".
In fried foods, fast food, and some desserts, the content of trans fatty acids is very high, which interferes with the normal metabolism of the child's body, easily causes inflammation, and affects physical health.
There are nutrients to consume more.
Cereals such as rice and wheat are at the bottom of the food chain and the foundation of good health. Grains should not be ground too finely, and it is appropriate to eat a little coarse grain, because the surface of the grain contains a large number of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients and dietary fiber are hidden in the bran bran.
Vegetables and fruits can not be less every day, it is best to control between 300g-500g dark vegetables are high in nutrition, you can appropriately increase the consumption. Fish, poultry, meat, eggs, milk and soy products, every day to have high-quality protein.
Children eat "miscellaneous", nutritional balance, good health, all kinds of nutrition can not be less.
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