used to have a colleague from Henan. One summer vacation, I went to their house for half a month. Fortunately, I am not a picky eater, and because I grew up eating rice, I was suddenly allowed to eat all kinds of pasta. I thought it was delicious, but after staying at their house for half a month, I gained three pounds!
Later I felt that pasta was really nourishing!
Then I observed the children in the north who like to eat pasta and the children in the south who like to eat rice, and found that there is indeed a difference in their growth and development. Children in the north are generally overweight, and most of them are chubby, while those in the south Children are relatively thin!
Is it really better to give children more noodles?
The gap between southern children who have been eating noodles since childhood and northern children who have been eating noodles will widen when they grow up
The first gap: weight
Chinese residents’ nutrition and chronic disease status report, 2020 shows that those aged 6 to 17 years old The overweight and obesity rate among children and adolescents is close to 26%, and it reaches 10% among children under 6 years old!
A study in the United States found that childhood obesity will be extended to adulthood in 70 to 80% of children.
That is to say, children who eat pasta since childhood will be more likely to become obese when they grow up..
Pasta tastes better than rice. Pasta is easy to become addicted. For example, you can use pasta to make various noodles or dumplings, and eat it again and again. Once a child is addicted to eating pasta, his stomach will be stretched. Big, Eating too much pasta will lead to excessive sugar intake, while excessive carbohydrate intake can easily lead to obesity.
The second gap: language expression ability
describes a person who can speak, saying that he is eloquent or quarrels with each other, which means that when speaking, I will use our lips, and I will also use my lips. Our tongue also uses many muscles in our mouth.
When we eat, we need to chew the rice to swallow it, which can better exercise the oral muscles . However, when eating pasta, because it is easy to eat, especially if it is cooked soft, it basically does not require much effort and does not require much chewing. Swallowed, that is to say, the children in the north may look strong, but their limbs are really well-developed, and their language expression ability is worse. However, the man's children look small and exquisite, and their mouths are very good at talking.
This is also related to diet. Eating rice can better exercise oral muscles, but eating pasta is difficult to exercise oral muscles , so children in the south have stronger language skills.
The third gap: Confidence
People who like to eat pasta since childhood often feel full after eating only pasta, and then consume less other meat, eggs, and vegetables, which can easily lead to vitamin deficiency, especially in the northern winter. Vegetables are relatively expensive to begin with, and they may often only eat noodles without vegetables or fruits. Such children are actually more likely to develop iron deficiency. Once iron deficiency occurs, the blood and oxygen supply to the brain is insufficient, and the brain's response slows down.
In the south, because it is richer in food, they eat rice as well as various vegetables, broths and fruits. Children in the south have more balanced nutrition, sufficient brain nutrition, and faster brain reactions.
In addition, children in the north are prone to obesity due to eating pasta, and may be ridiculed by other people in society, while children in the south will have a more well-proportioned figure.
Southern children are well-proportioned, eloquent, and have quick brain reactions, and will naturally be more confident.
Therefore, do not simply feed your children only pasta when they are young, especially children who gain weight too quickly., Eat as little as possible. Even if you don't eat pasta and give your child more meals, you can better control your child's weight and avoid unclear speech.
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Here are the basic principles of adding complementary foods, such as when to start adding complementary foods? What are the signals for adding complementary foods? How to feed complementary food? When is complementary feeding scheduled?
There are also misunderstandings that parents can easily fall into when adding complementary foods, such as using juice and rice soup as the baby's first complementary food, using juice or bone soup to prepare rice noodles, using bottles to feed complementary foods to babies under one year old. Adding salt to baby food supplements, , etc. are all wrong. Mothers can avoid them if they know about them in advance, which can save their babies from suffering.
Not to mention the diet for babies from six months to three years old, what should they eat at each meal? At what time is it scheduled? And how to prepare each complementary food? What raw materials are needed? What nutritional supplements can I give my baby? There are not only picture and text tutorials, but also video tutorials. Parents can choose according to their preferences.
It can be said that after getting this book, parents will not have to worry about their babies' complementary foods. If they follow the complementary foods in the book, their babies will eat well and grow taller.
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