The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has given a set of data: nearly 2 billion people around the world are suffering from "hidden hunger". Among them, the population of "hidden hunger" in China has reached 300 million.
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Logically, in this era, eating and drinking enough is already a basic survival requirement, and most families can meet this standard, so why is there still the dilemma of "hidden hunger"!
What is "hidden hunger"?
First of all, I need to explain to you that "hidden hunger" is not "not enough to eat", these are two concepts.
It refers more to a state of hunger that may have been eaten, but due to insufficient nutrient intake or excessive intake of certain nutrients, resulting in a "shortage" of another nutrient, resulting in a "hidden" nutritional demand.
The "Report on the Nutrition and Chronic Disease Status of Chinese Residents (2015)" pointed out that the dietary structure of the mainland people is mostly unreasonable, which in turn has led to the emergence of a large number of "hidden hunger" people.
Among these people, children need the most attention from their parents because of their large base and far-reaching impact.
According to UNICEF's findings, some 110 million children under the age of 5 are members of "hidden hunger", especially in some less developed places, and the situation is even more serious.
As for why children are easy to be recruited, experts believe that this is inseparable from some of the diet and living habits of young parents.
The following behaviors of parents need to be reviewed
It may cause children to fall into "hidden hunger"—
1. Habitually order takeout or eat fast food
With the acceleration of people's pace of life, takeaway has become a treasure for many workers to "continue their lives". Among them, there are some young parents, when it comes to working days, both husband and wife have to go to work, so the diet is more convenient and fast, and everything is simple.
Occasionally, when you are busy, you will directly order takeout for your child or take it to eat fast food, just to save time and fill your stomach, but this eating habit is often not very healthy.
Therefore, most of the takeaway is heavy oil and salt, children eat too much, often easy to get fat, not to mention, there may be abnormal blood lipids, the sensitivity to taste will also have an impact.
In addition, takeaway is basically fast food processing, nutrition is not comprehensive, for the development of children, is not a good choice.
2. Unreasonable feeding methods
Chinese parents are often prone to make the following mistakes when feeding their children:
★ I think that soup bubble rice, bone soup, rice soup and the like are nutritious, so I give my children a lot to eat.
As everyone knows, the nutritional composition of these foods is relatively single, and it is not suitable for long-term intake, and soups such as large bone broth are often higher in oil content, and other nutrients are not much, and children will only gain weight when they eat.
★ Excessive intake of meat, vegetables, fruits do not eat much.
Some parents think that meat is more nutritious, eating can help children strengthen the body, but this single nutritional structure, often leads to the lack of vitamins and minerals in the child's body, easy to indigestion, not to mention, but also easy to encounter "hidden hunger".
3, give children too many supplements (nutritional products)
I often hear parents around me say that their children are deficient in calcium, zinc, and iron, and then go to pharmacies or hospitals to prescribe a bunch of nutritional products to supplement nutrition.
However, experts said that under normal circumstances, children through the way of food supplements, balanced nutrition, can fully supplement the required nutrition, unless it is some special circumstances, only need to eat additional nutritional supplements.
And nutrition is not more the better, one kind of nutrition to make up too much, is bound to lead to another kind of lack, so it is self-defeating, and eventually lead to unbalanced nutritional intake, "hidden hunger" will also find your child.
What are the dangers of "hidden hunger" to children?
1. Affect physical health
Combined with the daily diet of Chinese families, the most common hidden hunger in children is: lack of iron, vitamins and minerals in the body, and the lack of these nutrients often has the following effects on the body.
√ iron deficiency: children are prone to anemia, the body's color is relatively poor, and memory will also be affected;
√ vitamin deficiency: the lack of vitamin A will make the child's eyes easy to fatigue, dryness, immunity decline, vitamin B1 is easy to lead to inattention, lack of vitamin D is easy to cause the child's development is affected, the body's synthesis of calcium substances is insufficient;
√ mineral deficiency: Your child's bones and teeth are not strong, and the body's metabolism may slow down.
2. Affect height development
We all know that in addition to the innate genetic inheritance of children's height, acquired nutrition is also very important, whether it is unbalanced nutritional intake or insufficient intake, it will lead to height development affected.
Note: Especially when the child is deficient in vitamin D and calcium substances, bone development is often limited; in addition, too much greasy food will also make the child fat, affecting the secretion of growth hormone, the epiphyseal line may also be lifted and closed, and the child will often grow tall.
3. Affect intellectual development
Children until about 8 years old, the intelligence will be fully developed, basically equivalent to adults, in this stage, the intake of enough nutrients to allow the brain system to develop completely.
If there is insufficient nutrition or uneven intake, then brain development will naturally be affected, and the space for intellectual development will be compressed.
How to avoid "hidden hunger"?
The most important point is to start from the diet -
1. Balanced intake of diet. According to the study, the human body needs to consume more than 40 kinds of nutrients every day to meet the needs of various organs, so it can eat more than 12 kinds of food every day, eggs, fish, dairy products, vegetables, melons and fruits should be included.
2. Adjust eating habits. Try to eat less takeaway, eat regularly, not picky, not partial, and eat less snacks.