Many adults talk about fat changes because the health education we have always received is to eat lighter foods that are less fatty. But fat is particularly important for children.
Jing's mother went to work more than 4 months after giving birth. She needed to milk after work. She discovered a secret of breast milk. The fat content in breast milk 6 months ago would be higher, that is, after the breast milk becomes frozen, the butter on the top will be more, and the yellow oil on the top of the breast milk squeezed out after 6 months will be less.
When we look at the milk powder in the second paragraph of the first paragraph, the obvious difference is that the fat content of the milk powder in the first paragraph is much higher than that in the second paragraph. The main reason is that the younger the child, the more fat it needs.
But the fat that we adults avoid and fear is particularly important for our infants and young children. Especially when children before the age of 2 years old have a rapid growth in brain weight, fat is too important.
There are three main reasons:
. 60% of our brain is made of fat
, a psychologist at the University of Aston, UK, found that 60% of human brain tissue is fat.
When we go to the market to buy pig brains, we will find that the pig brains are white. That is because most of the pig brains are fat, and the white fish soup cooked in our daily lives is that many people think that protein is not actually the case. Those are the fat in the fish emulsified into the soup. We thought the protein was white, but in fact, fat was also white after emulsification. Sphingomyelin and cerephospholipids in
fat are essential for the development of the nervous system. DHA is also a fat, and its importance to our brain has been certified by many scientists.
. Fat is the three major energy supply substances of energy supply king
. Protein and carbohydrates plus fat. 1 gram of protein and carbohydrates can provide 4 kcal calories, while 11 grams of fat can provide 9 kcal calories. With so much weight, fat will provide more calories.
The smaller the baby, the more calories it needs, but he can't eat much, so at this time, you must increase the fat content. Therefore, the baby less than 6 months mentioned earlier, whether it is breast milk or milk powder before feeding 6 months of milk, it will have higher fat.
The article written by Jing Ma also suggested that if the child is thinner or is , it is recommended that you consider drinking a piece of milk powder for a longer time. A fan just commented on the article: My child is a premature baby, and he is over one year old. Two days ago, he also went to the maternal and infant store to buy milk powder without three pieces and took it. What's amazing is that I found that the child has really grown heavier and taller during the period of drinking a piece of milk powder.
So fat energy supply is particularly important for children's growth and development.
. Fat promotes the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins
National Health and Family Planning Commission recommends: Replenish vitamin D several days after birth, 400 IU per day.
Most hospitals still give their children vitamin AD, because there are still many children in my country who have vitamin A deficiency. The importance of , whether it is vitamin A or D, is self-evident.
These two vitamins are fat-soluble vitamins. One feature of fat-soluble vitamins is that they are soluble in fat, that is, they can be better absorbed and utilized with fat.
And the vitamin AD we have worked hard to replenish also requires fat.
resides in the above three points, fat is particularly important for children.
For children under one year old, milk is the main food, while for babies within 6 months, they need the most fat, and therefore the fat comes from milk, whether it is breast milk or milk powder.
It is recommended that breastfeeding mothers should pay attention to the intake of high-quality fat:
. It is recommended to eat vegetable oil
vegetable oil (except palm oil and coconut oil ) are mostly unsaturated fatty acids, which are easy to digest and absorb, and are also helpful for brain development.
It should be noted that excessive intake of invisible animal oil can also lead to excessive saturated fat in the milk and cause the risk of diarrhea in infants.
For example, often drink some chicken soup. It is recommended to skim the thick layer of oil on the pork feet soup. You can even peel off the chicken skin and then make the soup.
Animal fat and animal skin are very high in fat content, so it is recommended to eat less or even not.
. It is recommended to eat sea fish once or twice a week
When buying sea fish, choose relatively fat sea fish. When we eat sea fish, we mainly want to consume DHA, and DHA is fat, and there are more fat fish.
. A pack of nuts a day is also a good choice.
You can consider matching dried nut bags with several kinds of nuts, or you can buy some walnuts or pine seeds and other nuts by yourself. The polyunsaturated fatty acids contained in it can be turned into DHA in the body and given to the baby through milk.
Artificially feeding mothers to choose milk powder with their eyes. The fat in milk powder mainly depends on three points:
. Vegetable oil in the ingredients list Source:
Generally, we will see vegetable oil in the first column of the ingredients list in milk powder. Most of the milk powder will write down which type of vegetable oil is added later, such as walnut oil (usually, milk powder with walnut oil will be widely promoted, because walnut oil is more expensive and contains a lot of polyunsaturated fat oil, which is good for the development of the child's brain.)
So seeing milk powder with walnut oil in vegetable oil has a lot of points.
However, there are not many milk powders added with walnut oil on the market now, so it is also OK to add soybean oil and coconut oil.
But if we see palm oil or palm liquid oil in our vegetable oil, palm kernel oil will greatly reduce points. Jingma suggests that you can give up choosing this milk powder.
When we eat in restaurants outside, we will find that it seems that oil is not expensive. The fragrance of those dishes is soaked in oil. Because the restaurant uses palm oil, which is cheap and has oily oil, and has a high saturation. But it is not easy to digest after eating.
The biggest disadvantage of palm oil for young babies is that it can easily cause constipation and prevent calcium absorption .
Research by neonatologists at Detroit Medical Center in the United States shows that palm oil can combine with calcium to form calcium soap, excrete it from the body, affect calcium absorption, and make babies' stool dry.
So it is generally recommended that children look at the vegetable oil in the ingredients list when choosing milk powder, and choose without palm oil.
. Look at the DHA content on the nutritional ingredients list, that is, the content of doco-hexachloride
Nowadays, most milk powders will add DHA and ARA, which are two fats that are particularly important for infant brain development. Now the state stipulates that the English abbreviation is no longer allowed in the label of infant milk powder, so parents should find the content of 22 carbon hexasulfur acid (DHA) and 20 carbon tetrachloric acid (ARA).
mainly depends on the doco-hexachloric acid, because the national standard adds 20 carbon tetrachloric acid (ARA) not less than the doco-hexachloric acid (DHA).
22 carbon hexachloride is not only important for the development of the child's brain, but also has a great effect on the development of children's vision, immunity, and allergies.
Two years ago, the amount of doco-hexachloric acid in milk powder is generally marked with mg of , such as 90 mg. But now the national regulations have also changed, and they must be expressed as the percentage of total fatty acids.
. The country has requirements for the same number of fatty acid content. The maximum cannot be higher than the number and the minimum cannot be lower than the number. So we mainly focus on the high proportion. When choosing different brands, we can focus on the high proportion. Jingma saw that the general proportion of the market reached more than 0.3% is relatively high.
. Try to choose OPO structural fat (that is, 1,3-dioleic acid 2-palmitate triglycerides are written on the ingredients list, or some milk powders call it Sn-2 palmitic acid structural fat)
OPO is actually a fat structure in breast milk. OPO structural fat has the following benefits:
a, promotes the complete absorption of fat and improves the baby's absorption rate of fat.Promote the growth and development of children.
b, promotes calcium absorption and prevents constipation.
Studies have found that the content of calcium and fatty acid soap in the feces of babies with OPO structured fat has been significantly reduced, and the stool is relatively soft. This means that calcium has been absorbed and not excreted from the body.
c, promote bone development
Because OPO will promote calcium absorption, milk powder containing OPO can make children's bones develop better and grow taller.
d, promote intestinal health
study found that infancy, the number of lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacterium in infants and young children drinking opo milk powder will be higher, which means that OPO milk powder can promote the growth of intestinal probiotics in children.
e, can reduce children's crying
, because the child's intestinal digestion is good, it is not easy to have bloating, and calcium absorption is good, of course, the child will sleep better at night.
f, promote brain development,
OPO structural lipids will have a positive impact on the baby's brain, protect the nervous system environment and resist pain sensitivity, and can also promote the absorption and utilization of DHA.
Topic: Do you usually look at these ingredients when choosing milk powder for your children?
I am Jing Ma, a girl's mother, a trainer in the maternal and child industry, an original author of multiple platforms, a doctor, a pharmacist, nutritionist, and psychological counselor in the parenting industry, providing parenting consultation to thousands of parents.
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