Many mothers report that their children eat well every day, but their height and weight are still not up to standard. There are also mothers who reflect that the child does not appear picky eating, eats a lot of three meals a day, and has meat and vegetables, but the height is not long?
There are even some children who are malnourished, but their usual living habits are very normal, fruits, vegetables, calcium tablets are also many, why do these situations occur?
In fact, we have always felt that there are particularly nutritious foods in our lives, there are many fake nutrition on the surface, and children not only do not grow tall, but even cause some diseases.
In 2019, UNICEF published a survey on the situation of children, which explicitly mentioned that 700 million children under the age of five worldwide are suffering from invisible hunger caused by a lack of essential nutrition.
According to this data, one in every seven children has such a situation, so the overall proportion is still relatively large.
Seeing this, many mothers may ask, what is invisible hunger? Children eat a lot of food every day, what is this thing?
Invisible hunger, literally not difficult to understand, that is, usually watching children eat a lot, but in fact, the necessary nutrients are not ingested much, so it leads to invisible hunger, in other words, that is, children do not feel hunger, but many organs in the body, even bones and blood do not ingest enough nutrients, will feel "hunger".
To make it clear to everyone, if the child only eats rice for three meals and does not eat any vegetables, the stomach will not feel hungry, and even feel that it is eaten.
On the surface, it does not affect normal life, but it must be clear that the nutrients contained in rice are very limited, it can only provide enough calories and sugar to the child, and there is no way to provide the child with protein, vitamins and nutrients.
This is likely to cause the brain and bones to lack the necessary nutrients, so it is very dangerous in the long run.
The causes of invisible hunger are generally two points: one is that the structure of the diet is unreasonable, and the other parents have a relatively low awareness of food, mistaking foods with low nutrient density for foods with high nutritional value, and often give them to the baby.
So in life, which way of eating will easily make the baby form a state of invisible hunger?
Often drink soup without eating meat
A large number of people feel that if the ingredients are cooked into soup, the nutritional value will be higher and it will be easier to absorb. In particular, meat is cooked into broth, the taste is delicious, protein and vitamins will become smaller molecular structures, then children will be easier to absorb.
In fact, most of the nutrition of meat is concentrated in meat, if it is made into soup, it is not much nutrition, only a small amount of amino acids and minerals.
But the rich substances contained in meat are very much, such as protein, phospholipids are particularly important for the growth and development of the baby, if you want the baby to have a very strong body, enhance the baby's resistance, so that the baby can grow rapidly, you must let the baby eat meat.
Drink plenty of porridge
Most people think that rice porridge is a good thing, in fact, 90% of rice porridge is water, which can only supplement part of the water and energy, in addition, white rice porridge has no nutritional value.
There are many parents will choose to let their children eat white rice porridge in the morning, in fact, this practice is wrong, breakfast can eat milk, eggs, but try not to drink white rice porridge, because white rice porridge is very stomach capacity, once you drink a bowl, don't want to eat other things.
If you have to choose to drink porridge, you can choose polenta, millet porridge, sorghum porridge can be. Especially in the hot summer, mung bean porridge is also a good choice.
The difference between fruits and vegetables
Fruits and vegetables must not be confused, especially the older generation, think that vegetables and fruits are the same thing, can supplement the same vitamins, so when children do not like to eat vegetables, most of them will use fruits instead, in fact, this cognition and practice is very dangerous.
The minerals and vitamins contained in fruits are not comparable to vegetables, and if children do not eat, or rarely eat vegetables, even eating a truckload of fruits will not provide enough nutrition.
If you want your child to avoid invisible hunger, be sure to recognize what is high-density food.
Food density is also equivalent to the amount of a certain nutrient content in the food, in other words, if parents have been eating steamed buns, white porridge, rice and other staple foods for their children occasionally switched to coarse grains is also a good choice, such as corn.
However, if the child is too small and the gastrointestinal function is relatively weak, then the coarse grain is not easy to be digested, and too much coarse grain will affect the absorption of minerals.
Finally, in the advice of all mothers, usually in the diet of children, in addition to meat and vegetarian collocation, we must consume sufficient dairy products, if the children in the family are already children over six years old, they should ensure that there is 300g of milk intake every day.