As people's living conditions improve, the global childhood obesity rate is also rising year by year.
Obesity has become a popular public health problem worldwide, and our country is no exception.
The continuous research on "children's obesity factors" is to control the number of "little fat guys".
In recent years, experts have pointed their finger at "childhood sleep", believing that different sleep habits may affect children's body shape development.
The truth "lived down on everyone's expectations"! The results of the
study show that insufficient sleep is significantly positively correlated with the risk of overweight and obesity in children!
According to the survey results,
When the average daily sleep time of one week is less than 9 hours, the probability of children being overweight and obese is 43.1%;
When the average daily sleep time of one week is 9 hours to 10 hours, the probability of children being overweight and obese is 34.4%;
When the average daily sleep time of one week is more than 10 hours, the probability of children being overweight and obese is 28.6%. What’s more interesting is that the in-depth analysis of the survey results found that
average sleep time per week is greater than 10 hours, but when the sleep time at night on weekends is less than 9 hours, the probability of overweight and obesity can increase by 54.1%.
If children sleep more during the day, the probability of obesity can be reduced by 19.7%.
It can be seen from this that children's sleep is closely related to childhood obesity.
If the child has a balanced diet but his body develops horizontally uncontrollably, parents may think about whether the baby stays up late for a long time.
No matter what age you are in, losing weight is a hard "big project".
In order to give children a healthy future, parents should cultivate good sleeping habits from an early age and help their children stay away from the threat of "little fat guys".
Establish a good habit of sleeping as soon as possible
Newborn babies are in the sleep stage nearly 70% of the time every day, and gradually form a circadian rhythm until 3 to 4 months.
Starting about 6 months, the baby's sleep can last for 6 to 10 hours.
Parents need to take the opportunity to gradually quit their baby's night milk habits so that the baby can sleep better.
Let the baby fall asleep naturally, avoid patting and coaxing to sleep
"Self-calm" is a skill that children must learn to go from "wake state" to "sleep state".
can be cultivated from birth.
The way to coax the baby to sleep by patting his back, shaking or even circling the room, actually hinders the baby's sleep.
Research shows that babies who need parents to coax them to sleep and have a continuous sleep time of less than 6 hours at night are 2.1 times more likely to sleep on their own.
Cultivate good sleep patterns
Keep awakening time at least 4 hours before going to bed at night, and the bedtime time for children at night should not exceed 21:00 at the latest.
If you encounter holidays, you also need to control your sleep time to avoid staying up late.
You should know that it takes 3 months to cultivate good habits, but it takes only 3 days to destroy good habits.
References:
[1] Wang Huishan. Sleep care behavior and child health [J]. Chinese Journal of Children's Health 2021, 29(5), 465-467.
[2] Zhang Xuerong, Chen Tianjiao, Ma Jun. Correlation between sleep time and overweight obesity in school-age children [J]. Chinese Journal of Children's Health 2021, 29(11), 1176-1180.
