On the street, you often see many children eating sweets. They are holding lollipops, marshmallows, and chocolates in their hands. Some are bought by Baoma herself, and more are grandparents or grandma. Grandpa took the child out to play and bought it for the child.
After these children generally eat candy once, they can't go back after opening the door to eating candy. When adults do not give it to them, children will cleverly use crying to try to control their parents. Children in the rebellious period will even get out of parental control and make people crazy. Only when they are satisfied again will they return to normal.
In fact, this kind of behavior of children is obviously addicted to sugar, even adults can hardly control the desire to eat sugar.
Why are children addicted to sugar? Z11z
Bao Ma Xiaoyang in the mothers group has a baby who loves to eat sweets. At first it was bought by grandparents. Since then, after the baby remembers the taste, he often cries because he can't eat sweets. He didn’t eat, so Xiao Yang couldn’t bear to buy a lot of candies for his baby online, including chocolate, lollipops, soft candies, hard candies, QQ candies...
did not expect that the baby just started eating one by one and then evolved After eating it in packets, Xiao Yang realized that the child was addicted to sugar.
believe that there are many such cases in life. When an adult puts a mouthful of sugar into a child’s mouth with the help of an adult, the child learns that sugar is a substance that can make them happy, precisely because of the "dopamine" secreted by the brain. .
The World Health Organization also mentioned: When the sucrose, fructose, and glucose syrup in sugar collide with taste buds, not only can they promote dopamine secretion and make people happy, but also endorphins are secreted in the brain.
It is no exaggeration to say that endorphins, like opioids, can make people "pleasure" and "pain", making children and adults unable to stop, and even if they are out of control, they have to focus on "eating sugar and quitting sugar". In the vicious circle, it is very difficult to stop it, and it will have an adverse effect on the child.
Children often eat sweets, how much harm is it to their health? Z11z
orthopedic doctor Dr. Winster said: Don’t give sugar to children under 1 year old, because the oral development is not perfect and the teeth begin to grow at the age of 4 to 6 months, long-term sugar consumption will not only affect the child’s dental health, increase tooth decay and The risk of bad teeth, the calories in sugar can also be easily converted into fat, affecting bone metabolism and causing obesity in children.
The World Health Organization recommends that it is best not to add sugar in complementary foods and snacks for children under 3 years old. For example, drink fruit juice instead of boiled water, eat biscuits with fresh fruit, eat more original foods, and prevent children from developing bad habits of eating heavy-tasting foods, so as to reduce the risk of chronic diseases in children as adults.
In addition to candy, these "invisible sugars" should attract the attention of parents:
1, lactic acid bacteria drinks: Many mothers like to drink lactic acid bacteria drinks for children who accumulate food in the spleen and stomach, the purpose is to help children regulate the intestinal flora, and specifically check the following Fat content.
However, parents do not know that although some brands of lactic acid bacteria drinks on the market are "zero fat", the sugar content is often between 14~15%, which is equivalent to the child's intake of 25.5g of sugar for every 170ml of lactic acid bacteria drinks. It’s hard not to be a fat man.
2. Honey water: With the advent of winter, many children have colds and fevers. I have seen some parents give them honey water after taking medicine, or give them a spoonful of honey directly.
Although the American Academy of Pediatrics believes that drinking honey may relieve coughing in children over 1 year old, the sugar content of honey should be more than 80%, which is equivalent to a spoonful of honey containing more than 20g of sugar. It is really "unlimited". Eat more Not good for kids~
