Text/Themi Mama (original article, welcome to share and forward personally)
Every time I go to the community to walk, I can always meet some kind aunts, and all kinds of people are blocked.
As long as you see thin children, these "warm-hearted" aunts will use all kinds of words to "fatten": to give children more meat, drink more bone soup, see the baby thin and pitiful, insist on drinking milk to get fat.
Some mothers can't bear such psychological pressure, and gradually they are far away from the entertainment activity of "walking with a baby".
Some mothers argue that they simply go their own way, ignore it, and don't hear anything out of the window.
In fact, it is very responsible to tell everyone that the fat and thin of children is difficult to see with the naked eye, and it is not possible to draw conclusions by comparing with children of the same age.
To know whether the child is really thin or fat, or to follow a certain scientific principle.
How to judge the fat and thin child? The "growth and development curve" should be controlled
The old man often says: the child's fat mound is blessed, but in fact, it is not necessarily good to be fat, and it must be bad to be thin, for the growth of children, health is the most important.
So how to judge the fat and thin of the child? You can control the growth and development curve.
To determine whether the boy is fat and thin within the normal range, you can use the following table.
To determine whether the girl is fat and thin within the normal range, you can use the following table.
Before many parents reported that they did not know how to read this table, today to share with you in a unified way.
If your son is 2 years old this year, weighs 11kg and is 76cm tall, then in the fat and thin curve chart, it is marked at the following red dot.
Many parents mistakenly use the "middlemost" curve as a standard to judge, but this is not the case.
Rather, if the baby's growth curve is within the "range of 5 lines" is a normal standard, then if it exceeds the range of these 5 lines, we may need to be vigilant.
If you pay special attention to the problem of children's height, fat and thin, you can look at the growth chart as a long-term thing, make a good record, in fact, you can judge whether the child is in a healthy state.
Of course, there may be some parents who feel that their children have been thinner since childhood, or have always been fatter, so will there be any difference between the two when they grow up?
Children who are "thin from a young age" and "fat from an early age" have two obvious differences when they grow up
In the eyes of many older generations, if a child is strong, chubby, and fleshy, he is in good health and blessed.
Maybe we often see some old people pinching the baby's face and saying: Fat is good, especially pleasing.
But from a scientific point of view, it is often not what we think, with the growth of children, children who have been thin since childhood, and children who have been fat since childhood, there will be a gap of 2 aspects.
(1) From small fat children, it is more likely to be obese after growing up
A researcher once did a long-term follow-up survey and found that:
88% of fat children will continue to be obese in adulthood, in short, if there are 10 fat children, then nearly 9 of them will be obese in adulthood.
After analysis, it was found that this is because once a person begins to be obese, the volume of fat cells in the body will increase.
When the volume of fat cells increases to a certain extent, and can not meet the needs of "fat", then the fat cells in the body will be more and more. As a result, you will go further and further down the road of obesity.
And there is a more serious fact, that is, once the fat cells are increased, they will almost no longer naturally decrease, which means that obesity has become a foregone conclusion to some extent.
(2) The physical fitness of small fat children is not as good as that of thin children
We may see such a phenomenon, some children are obviously very thin, watching a wind can blow down, but it seems that they have never been sick, but those fat dolls that look strong are sick at both ends of three days.
This is because obesity will increase the burden on various organs of the body, which will induce many situations that are not conducive to physical health.
And thin children, because the burden of body organs is relatively light, so the energy consumption will be less, the nutrition absorbed by the child will be fully digested and absorbed, for the development and growth of the body, there is a better foundation.
In addition, if the obese child still loses weight after adulthood, then his overall image will be greatly reduced.
When the child grows up, the child who is too obese may have certain limitations in the fields of marriage, children, and social interaction.
Whether it is fat or thin, parents should play a regulatory role
On the issue of the child's body shape, I think that whether it is fat or thin, as long as it can be guaranteed to be within the range of healthy standards, it is actually harmless.
However, once it develops in the direction of endangering the child's health, parents should be vigilant, prevent problems before they occur, and avoid further affecting the growth and development of children.
In addition, in the process of daily diet, parents should also play a regulatory role, such as fried, high-sugar and other foods, must avoid children eat too much, as well as like some roadside stalls of junk food, parents should also control their children's intake.
Just as the so-called children have no small things, only to ensure that children have a healthy body, in order to let children better embrace the future.