Parents want their children to be healthy and smart, especially some new mothers and new fathers, always worried that their children will not have enough to eat and affect their development, so they let their children eat non-stop, in addition to the basic three meals a day, they will also give their children extra snacks.
Don't you know that such behavior is not only not conducive to the child's physical development, but also to the child's intellectual development, which will make the child stupid.
Children who are too gluttonous do not promote physical development and affect the level of intelligence
"Gluttony" is known in medicine as "hyperinvestia", which refers to the amount of food eaten by children, which greatly exceeds that of infants and young children of the same age, and such children are more like to eat greasy, sweet food, and mostly do not like exercise.
Since long-term intake is greater than consumption, fat storage in the body leads to physical obesity. Excessive increase in physical fitness not only affects physical health, but also hinders the development of children's intelligence.
Why aren't gluttonous children smart? It is often affected by the following aspects
Physiologists, psychologists, and nutritionists agree that to make a child smart, you must first have a well-developed brain. Especially in early childhood, newborn babies weigh one-third of an adult's brain, while 2-3-year-olds weigh two-thirds of an adult's brain, and by age 7, the brain weight is equivalent to the brain mass of an adult.
Gluttony reduces blood flow to the brain
After people eat, food should be digested and absorbed through the peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract and the secretion of gastric juice, if the child eats too much at one time, or has been eating non-stop, then the blood in the stomach and intestines will be mobilized from all parts of the human body, including the blood of the brain to the gastrointestinal tract due to insufficient.
If the brain is in a state of ischemia for a long time, then the development of the brain will also be affected. Foreign pediatric experts have found that eating too much in childhood will cause abdominal distention, digestion and malabsorption, if you are in such a state for a long time, then the personality will also become impatient, and the response to external things will become abnormally sluggish, and the attention will not be concentrated.
Gluttony can cause obesity in the brain
For those small babies who have just been born, their adipose tissue will only make up 16% of their body weight, compared with about 20% at the age of 4-6.
Under normal circumstances, the fat growth of the human body will be very small, but if the acquired diet is too much, or the intake is higher than the consumption, then the calories will be converted into fat in the body, and too much fat stored in the brain will cause "obese brain".
The study found that a person's level of intelligence is related to how much the folds of the brain are. The more pronounced the folds and glea of the brain, the more folds there are, the higher the level of intelligence, and vice versa, the lower the level of intelligence.
Once too much fat causes an "obese brain", then the folds in the brain will be tightly pressed together, the cerebral cortex will be smooth, and the natural level of intelligence will be reduced.
Gluttony can lead to constipation and damage the brain
In life, if the child's diet is mainly high calories, these foods remove a lot of fiber in the process of processing, the child is easy to constipate after eating, once constipated, there will be a lot of metabolites in the body accumulated in the digestive tract, these metabolites will produce a large number of harmful substances, it is easy to stimulate the brain, so that the brain nerve cells are chronically poisoned, affecting the normal development of the brain.
Gluttony causes premature brain failure
After too much food, the body will produce a substance that causes premature brain failure - fibroblast growth factor, in this regard, gluttony will make the brain premature aging.
Therefore, from the beginning of the child's infant stage, it is necessary to develop good eating habits: one is not partial to food, two are not gluttonous, three are not overeating, and the fourth is to strictly control snacks, pay attention to the balanced combination of diet and nutrition.
Children's gluttony is caused by a variety of reasons, mainly in the following aspects
First, the doting of parents
Some parents often provide too much food for their children, so that children can obtain passive psychological satisfaction in the process of passive eating, resulting in a greater demand for food. Or parents also regard food as a reward, and over time, children will be gluttonous.
Second, when you are mentally and emotionally unsatisfied
Parents will find that when the child has a negative mood, take out a few pieces of sugar, the child will immediately stop crying, and the sweet tooth will make the child temporarily forget those unpleasant experiences. Even some children, after being frustrated, can easily return to the need for food.
There are gluttonous babies at home, how can parents improve the problem of gluttony in their children?
For gluttonous babies, parents should also pay attention to the choice of food:
Pay attention to fiber intake
Whether it is soluble fiber or non-water-soluble fiber, the calories contained in it are relatively low, such as whole wheat bread, fruits, vegetables, etc., which can be used as the main food that children usually consume.
Water-rich fruits and vegetables
Like watermelon, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, mushrooms, etc., these water-rich fruits and vegetables are easy to make people feel full, but also do not grow fat.
Food is divided into small portions
Parents may wish to divide the food into small portions, and pay attention to the speed of eating when eating, slowing down the speed of eating, which can also reduce the total intake.
Kojima would like to say:
It can be seen that children should not eat too much, to ensure that there is sufficient nutrition, eat to be fine, diversified, to have regularity, this is the scientific way of eating.