With the rapid development of the mainland economy, people's lives are getting better and better, and traditional diets such as rice, stir-fried vegetables and noodles gradually cannot meet people's needs, but those popular foreign foods such as fried chicken, burgers and cola have attracted people's attention. Especially children, they love these fast foods very much, and they can't wait to eat these foods three times a day.
Therefore, when the proportion of precocious puberty in mainland children suddenly increased, parents naturally paid attention to their children's diet, but was the reason for "ruining" children really fried chicken and soy milk?
First, there are more than 530,000 children with precocious puberty on the mainland, and the harm it causes is ignored by parents
It takes 18 years for our child to grow into an adult, which is a slow and gradual process, because each stage of the child has the characteristics and focus of each stage of development, and cannot develop too late or too early. However, the growth and development of children with precocious puberty is ahead of the normal growth and development path.
In medicine, precocious puberty refers to abnormal diseases in which girls develop before the age of 8 and boys before the age of 9, mainly manifested as breast development, testicular enlargement, voice change, and the growth of pubic hair and armpit hair.
In January 2018, data released by the China Association for Health Promotion and Education showed that the prevalence of precocious puberty in children in mainland China was about 0.43%, with about 530,000 children.
The problem is that precocious puberty is not just about early development for children. It is very harmful to children, if it cannot be detected in time, intervention and treatment, then it will affect the child's life, the specific harm can be divided into the following 3 points:
(1) Height: Children will be taller than their peers in the early stage, because the bones of precocious children will develop and grow prematurely, which will cause the early closure of the epiphysis, resulting in stagnation in height development, so that the final height in adulthood may be much lower than that of children of the same age.
(2) Psychological aspect: Precocious puberty may have a certain impact on children's psychological aspects, and some children with precocious puberty will have premature breast development, or pubic hair, armpit hair, voice change, early menstruation, sperm loss and other secondary sexual characteristics.
However, because the mind and mind are still in the stage of young children, premature sexual characteristics and genital development may cause children to have an inferiority complex, and shy and nervous emotions will appear.
(3) Disease: Children with precocious puberty will have abnormal proliferation of cells in the body, which may lead to disorders of the endocrine system and increase the incidence of certain tumor diseases compared with other children of the same age.
Second, children's precocious puberty is really eaten? Are soy milk and fried chicken the "culprits"?
As the saying goes, diseases come from the mouth, because children have a soft spot for fried chicken, hamburgers and other foods, many people have to suspect that they are the "culprits" of precocious puberty among mainland children, but what is the truth? Let's talk about them separately:
1. Fried chicken
Due to the hot sales of fried chicken, everyone believes that the growth rate of normal chickens can not meet the needs of fast food restaurants for chickens, so some people think that fried chickens are made of fast chickens with growth hormone, as long as they can grow fast and good.
You know, most of the audience of fried chicken are children who have not yet developed well, and children eat foods containing growth hormone, which will seriously affect the balance of hormones in their bodies, so that the growth hormone content in the child's body exceeds the normal level, and it is strange that it is not precocious.
However, in fact, fast-growing chicken is not a chicken with growth hormone, which has nothing to do with growth hormone, it is another breed of chicken, so it does not cause precocious puberty. However, if children often eat fried chicken and lack exercise, it may cause excessive body calories and cause fat accumulation, which leads to obesity and increases the risk of precocious puberty.
Therefore, the problem is not in fast-growing muscles, but in obesity caused by high-calorie, high-fat foods, which is one of the factors that cause precocious puberty.
2. Soy milk
Soy milk and eggs can be said to be a must for children's breakfast, because both contain extremely high protein, which plays a very important role in children's growth and development.
However, the high incidence of precocious puberty in children makes parents worry, so they start with their children's diet. It was found that soy milk contained soy isoflavones, which are estrogen-like, so parents think that if the child drinks too much soy milk, the estrogen level in the body will rise, resulting in a high incidence of precocious puberty.
In fact, soy isoflavones are only estrogen-like, which only play the role of estrogen-like and endogenous estrogen regulation in the human body, and are not estrogens in the true sense and will not produce the same effect as estrogen in the human body. As long as it is drunk normally, it has basically no effect on hormone levels in the body.
Moreover, the content of soy isoflavones in soybeans was originally not much, not to mention that soy milk is made of beans after soaking, cooking, and polishing, containing less soy isoflavones, and the impact on the human body is not large, so there is no close relationship with children's precocious puberty.
Since children's precocious puberty is not eaten, what exactly causes precocious puberty in children? Research suggests it may be related to:
1. Environmental factors
Due to the rapid development of modern industry and agriculture, the washing spines used in large quantities in the production and living process, as well as pollutants such as pesticides, have seriously polluted the natural environment, resulting in long-term residue and accumulation of hormone-like pollutants in soil, water and various foods including plants.
Children are still in the stage of growth and development, the body's resistance and immunity are relatively low, when it is directly or indirectly ingested into the body, hormones can bind to the hormone receptors of the reproductive organs, causing abnormal reproductive development.
2. Psychosocial factors
Due to the excessive publicity content of mass media such as social media, movies, television, DVDs, newspapers and magazines, which can stimulate children's neurological and psychological reflexes through the visual system and auditory system to cause endocrine metabolism to be enhanced, resulting in the early initiation of changes in the hypothalamic-pituitary gonadal axis of the human body, so that children have precocious puberty.
3. Contraceptive pills and adult cosmetics
If a child mistakenly ingests the parental contraceptive pill, the use of it may also cause precocious puberty. Because contraceptive pills contain a lot of hormones, and cosmetics contain a lot of chemicals, children mistakenly eating contraceptives will cause hormone levels in the body to be out of balance, and chemicals are also very damaging to children.
4. Drugs of abuse and health products:
Improper use of drugs and excessive use of health products can lead to adrenergic hyperplasia, changes in thyroid function, and the initiation of changes in the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, resulting in premature sexual maturity.
Third, preventive precocious puberty, we can do this
1. Early detection and early treatment
In addition to mastering the necessary medical knowledge, parents should pay more attention to whether their children have premature secondary sexual characteristics, such as the sudden acceleration of height growth in children under the age of 10.
It is found that before the age of puberty, girls menstruate, breast bulge, pubic hair hyperplasia, and boys appear in advance, testicular penis enlargement, voice thickening, beard pubic hair appears, should go to a regular hospital in time, make a timely diagnosis, and actively take cause treatment.
2. Change the diet structure and eating habits
Properly control the diet structure, avoid excess nutrition, eat less meat and fried food, do not eat or eat less vegetables and fruits cultivated by chemical fertilizers, and avoid the accumulation of plant hormones in the body.
Usually eat more green food, which contains a variety of amino acids, minerals and trace elements, can promote bone development and muscle growth, is conducive to body metabolism, prevents the influence of hormones, and generally does not cause precocious puberty in children.
3. Control environmental pollution
Environmental protection is a basic national policy of the mainland, and the whole society should enhance its awareness of environmental protection, actively study and formulate countermeasures, and take effective measures to curb the further deterioration of the environment, protect children's physical and mental health, save precocious children, and put an end to the occurrence of precocious puberty.
4. Avoid drug abuse and nourishing foods
In order to make their children taller and smarter, some parents give their children some nourishing foods for a long time, and the result is the opposite, not only did not grow taller, did not improve the level of intelligence, on the contrary, girls menstruation in advance, breast bulge, pubic hair hyperplasia, boys' testicles enlarged, beard pubic hair or sperm, resulting in precocious puberty. Therefore, it is necessary to control and avoid the abuse or irrational use of drugs and health products so that children can grow and develop normally.
5. Pay attention to early childhood education
It is necessary to let children receive health culture education in early childhood, receive traditional Chinese virtue education, do not contact with and abandon all kinds of pornographic culture, purify children's minds, and improve their spiritual realm.
Carry out sexual mental health education before the germination of children's sexual consciousness, cultivate children with scientific sexual knowledge, so as to gradually cultivate their temperament, cultivation and temperament, and make them children with noble personality.
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