Hidden deep enough! These foods are harming children's brains, and many parents are still feeding their babies regularly

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Alcoholic snacks

There is a consensus that children should not drink alcohol, because alcohol is very harmful to children - it inhibits the central nervous system, affects brain development, and in severe cases, it can cause epilepsy.

But for some "invisible alcohol", people often don't pay so much attention.

• For example, egg yolk pie, chocolate pie or some layer cakes contain alcohol;

• There are also Liao lee products, such as wine-stuffed balls, Liao lee drinks, etc.;
• Alcoholic beverages, such as sour plum soup.

The recipe for sour plum soup includes black plum, which is rich in fruit acids, benzaldehyde and other compounds, and after steaming or yeast fermentation, it produces a low concentration of alcohol compounds.

• There are also some fruits, such as lychees, longans, pineapples, grapes, apples.

Because the sugar content is relatively high, the sugar will also produce alcohol after microbial fermentation after being left in hot conditions for a long time.

Although the content of these snacks is not high, alcohol is a thing, and a drop can hurt the body.

I always said before, "Aside from the dose, talking about toxicity is playing hooligan!" However, it is not for alcohol! Suitable! Use!

So, it's still important to pay more attention.

Learn to read the ingredient list, put the fruit soon and eat fresh.

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Caffeinated snacks

What baby doesn't want a cup of milk tea with ice in summer? Adults too.

But tea is a super big consumer of caffeine, whether it is milk tea, fruit tea, or tea drinks, as long as it contains tea, there will be caffeine.

However, the amount of caffeine is related to the type of tea and the amount of tea used.

There is another category that children like, but it is easy to overlook, that is, matcha products also contain caffeine.

According to the Japanese Food Standard Ingredient List, 32mg of caffeine is contained per 1g of matcha powder.

In addition to this, cola and some functional drinks (such as Red* Cow) also contain caffeine.

If the baby consumes too much caffeine, it will cause damage to the central nervous system, be easily excited, and affect sleep.

While it's okay to try a bite or two once in a while, there are significant health risks associated with frequent intake over a long period of time.

There is no international consensus on how much a child can take.

The American Academy of Pediatrics is stricter and recommends that children under the age of 12 avoid consuming caffeine of any kind.

The European Food Safety Authority recommends that children should not consume more than 3 mg\kg body weight for caffeine.

"Assessment of Dietary Caffeine Intake and Wind Direction of Chinese Residents": The caffeine intake of minors under 18 years old is 2.5mg\kg.

In short, don't touch it if you can't touch it when you're young.

Therefore, when you choose snacks for your child, you must pay more attention to the food ingredients, look at the ingredient list, and make sure that there are no alcohol, caffeine and other child-friendly ingredients.

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Snacks that affect brain development

Recently, I learned a new word - sugar oil brain.

A team from Yale University has found that foods high in sugar and fat can subtly confuse the brain's reward circuits and reshape the brain.

"Habitual daily intake of sweet and high-fat snacks will control the reward mechanism of human beings"

Whether sweet or fatty, when these foods touch the tip of the tongue, the taste buds send signals to multiple areas of the brain, which in turn releases dopamine to produce an intense feeling of pleasure.

How smart is the human brain?

In no time, you will learn how to satisfy yourself, know where the most delicious food is located, and how to get it.

Originally, children can drink sugar-free soy milk, but after adding three points of sugar, they think it is very delicious, and then they slowly get used to three points of sugar, and then they can get used to seven points of sugar, ten points of sugar, and finally more and more sugar, and they can no longer drink unsweetened soy milk.

In order to pursue more pleasure, the brain will crave more, eat and eat, and modify the reward mechanism.

Originally, the baby's hunger was only physiological hunger, but after turning into sugar and oil, it would attach a hedonic hunger - if you don't eat, you think, and you can't stop eating, and you will unconsciously make the baby dependent on this kind of food.

This is also why, many people can still have another piece of cake even if they are full; If you don't have a small dessert for a day, you feel flustered; If you don't drink milk tea for two days, you feel bitter.

Many times it's not that you love much, but that your brain keeps giving instructions to keep thinking about these high-fat and high-sugar foods.

The brain is unconsciously changed and reshaped in this way.

This is similar to the mechanism of drug, gambling, and gaming addiction, which is to allow the nerves to adapt to the behavior, and then constantly increase your desires.

So, what are the snacks with a sugar and oil mixture?

Many people hear that sugar-oil mixtures are high-fat, high-sugar foods, but they are not too accurate.

Sugar-oil mixtures are high in sugar (including sugar water compounds such as starch, which can be converted into sugar in the body), high in fat, and highly processed.

Like what:

small desserts, biscuits, doughnuts and other pastries that children can't refuse;

Primary school students' favorite spicy strips, potato chips, French fries, fried chicken, puffed food, etc.;

There are also young people's milk tea, baked cold noodles, fried cakes, etc.;

We all know that high oil and high sugar make children more likely to gain weight, and long-term intake also has the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

It even causes the deterioration of nerve function, affects brain development, and makes children's memory decline and become more and more "stupid".

Therefore, try to provide this kind of sugar and oil mixture as little as possible to cultivate a healthy and light diet for your baby.

And don't take these foods as a reward:

• If you go home at once, I'll buy you a little cake;
• After school, I will do my homework seriously, and I will let you eat a bag of potato chips.

Avoid "adding insult to injury" to enhance the neural circuit of the reward mechanism and block the path of brain glycooil.

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Tooth-hurting snacks

It is said that the current baby, 3 out of 5 have tooth decay.

Most of the students in DD kindergarten have tooth decay, and a few babies have black teeth.

Many mothers say that they don't usually eat much sugar, why do they still have tooth decay?

Because it's not just sugar that damages your teeth!

There are also a lot of daily foods that we think are okay, and it hurts our teeth.

The American Dental Association (ADA) has released several foods that damage teeth, in addition to sugar, which I believe everyone has not expected.

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Acidic foods

Such as lemonade, orange juice, citrus fruits, etc.

There are also drinks such as cola and soft drinks.

God knows, how surprised Mother C was when she heard citrus, and asked me three times in a row if it was true? Is there a scientific basis? This is her and DD's favorite fruit.

But it can't be helped, the fact is that teeth are often exposed to acidic foods, and the enamel is easily corroded, which makes it easier to decay.

So, eat in moderation and remember to let your child rinse his mouth after eating.

As for drinks and fruit juices, even if they are low in sugar, there are acids in them, which can also damage tooth enamel.

It is recommended to give the child less to drink, if the child really wants to drink, for example, DD and CC will want to drink when they see others.

We usually choose nutritious happy water that can be supplemented with vitamins or minerals by the way.

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Snacks that easily adhere to the surface of your teeth

For example, starches, such as potato chips, cakes, desserts, etc.;

For example, if it is too sticky, it is like preserved fruits, gummies and various dried fruits.

The surface of the tooth is smooth to the naked eye, but in fact, under the scanning electron microscope, the surface of the tooth is pitted, and it is easy to attach food debris.

Therefore, the finer and stickier the food, the easier it is to attach to the teeth in large quantities.

In addition, these foods will stay on the teeth for a longer period of time, which will cause more damage to the teeth.

When my grandmother first returned to her hometown, I didn't want to cook because I got up early with Mother C, so I went to the dessert shop downstairs to buy some cakes, desserts, and doughnuts for CC for breakfast.

I found that during that time, there was obviously a lot more yellow tartar on the teeth of the two babies than before.

This kind of food can be eaten occasionally as a dessert, and try not to eat it for breakfast every day.

Today's article, I don't want everyone to be too anxious, and I don't want everyone to ignore it too much.

One size fits all is certainly not realistic, and the main thing is to be a reminder.

If you can not eat, you will not eat, and if you can eat less, your child's eating habits are hidden in the subtleties.

As gatekeepers, we parents can give our children a better body and more benign eating habits if we are more aware and controlled.

Source: Baidu Nan Gongzi

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