For father than mother, the most gratifying thing is to see the children eat more and have fun. However, when the baby's food intake gradually decreases, it often appears listless and weak, so we must pay attention to it. Once the child's appetite is reduced, the intake of nutrients will also decrease, which will directly affect the baby's health. Therefore, with the help of professional nutritionists, let dad know more about the factors of baby's loss of appetite than mommy.
Adequate nutrition is very important for children's growth and development. Ding Qiaoling, a nutritionist in the Nutrition Room of Wan Fang Hospital, said that although childhood does not grow as fast as infancy, it is the most important stage of brain development and intellectual development. If the child's long-term nutritional intake is unbalanced, it will easily lead to insufficient nutritional intake, which will lead to slow growth and development, inattention and poor resistance, further affecting learning attention, and may also lead to emotional instability.
Explore the reasons for children's loss of appetite. There are many reasons for children's loss of appetite. Dad must learn to identify the reasons and help the children improve their situation. Ding Qiaoling, a nutritionist, has compiled the following reasons that may lead to children's loss of appetite for parents' reference.
Pathological factors
Nutritionist Ding Qiaoling pointed out that when a child is sick, his appetite will drop obviously, such as fever, oral ulcer, gastroenteritis and flatulence in the abdomen. If you suddenly can't eat, you can ask your child if there are any symptoms. Because the baby can't express it yet, we can observe whether his activity is declining. If this happens, it is recommended to take the child to see a doctor immediately.
Irregular work and rest
Many parents entrust their children to nannies or elders because of their busy work. Sometimes the elders want their children to get enough sleep, which leads to the irregular time for children to get up, which leads to insomnia at night, disordered work and rest, irregular eating time, disordered physiological clock, impaired appetite and even affects children's development. Therefore, it is necessary to keep children's life and rest in a regular state.
Bad eating habits
In addition to the irregular work and rest mentioned above, the meal time is not fixed and the interval between meals is too close. If children eat too many snacks and desserts in the middle of dinner, especially too sweet or too oily, it is likely to affect their appetite for dinner and make them always hungry during non-meal time. Under such a vicious circle, the nutrient intake is unbalanced, which affects their growth and development.
Too much or too little exercise.
If children stay at home all day and engage in static activities, resulting in insufficient exercise and low body heat consumption, it is bound to be difficult to feel hungry. On the contrary, if you do excessive exercise, especially strenuous exercise or games before meals, excessive fatigue may also affect your child's appetite.
The room temperature is too high.
Facing the arrival of winter, many parents are worried that their children will be cold and turn on the indoor heating very strongly. However, when the room temperature is too high, it may reduce the appetite of children. Parents are advised to set the room temperature at around 24 ~ 26℃.
Environment affects mood.
Nutritionist Ding Qiaoling explained that children's appetite is actually closely related to their emotional state. If the child is in a bad mood and the dining atmosphere is not good, it may lead to the child's loss of appetite and not wanting to eat. In addition, if children are allowed to play while eating, or watch TV while eating, it will affect their appetite because of distraction.
Forcing children to eat.
Compared with mothers, many fathers refuse to eat certain foods when they see that their children eat less or are picky about food. Because they are worried about uneven nutrition intake, they are impatient, forcing their children to swallow the food in front of them, and even reprimanding them. However, this method is easy to produce the opposite effect, leading to a greater rebound of children, and even disgust at eating and lose the desire to eat. In fact, as long as the proportion of food that children don't like is adjusted, or other favorite ingredients are mixed, so that children have time to slowly accept disgusting food, there will be no adverse effects. Nutritionist Ding Qiaoling emphasized that children's food intake varies from person to person and is often influenced by other states. As long as their activities are normal, there is no need to worry too much about their small appetite.
The food is the same and the appearance is monotonous.
Children are more interested in bright objects. If the food prepared by dad is always monotonous or the menu remains unchanged, not only adults but also children will get bored. Therefore, parents are advised to pay attention to the color, aroma, taste and shape of food, and try to use seasonal ingredients according to the season to increase food diversity. In addition, add a proper amount of salt to taste, otherwise the food is too light and tasteless, which may lead to the loss of appetite of children, and they don't want to eat any more after eating a few mouthfuls.
How much does the child know about nutrition?
The nutrition required in early childhood will vary with age, sex and activity. During this period, children's growth and development is very rapid, and it is also the golden age of brain development. Therefore, it is very important to eat six kinds of food in a balanced way. Parents should divide the required calories equally in dinner. Children with small stomach capacity can give 1 ~ 2 snacks in the middle of meals to supplement nutrition and calories. However, snacks are not snacks, but small meals. Babies over 65,438+0 can gradually eat the same food as adults (whole grains, beans, fish, eggs, low-fat dairy products, oils and nuts, vegetables and fruits), and the weight of each category should be adjusted. According to DRIs, active babies are in 1. For boys aged 4 ~ 6 years, it is 1550 ~ 1800 calories, and for girls it is 1400 ~ 1650 calories.
Make good use of coup to promote children's appetite. How to improve children's loss of appetite? Nutritionist Ding Qiaoling shares the following tips to help parents easily help their children grow up healthily.
Key 1: Develop a regular routine for children.
Children should keep the good habit of going to bed early and getting up early, otherwise getting up and going to bed will be delayed, and the time for breakfast and Chinese food will be too close, resulting in a vicious circle and affecting eating.
Tip 2: Don't eat snacks and desserts before dinner.
Eating snacks before meals often affects children's appetite. Parents should not exchange a bite of rice for a candy. Snacks should be arranged two hours before meals, and seasonal fruits and vegetables, milk, soybean milk, bean curd and tree roots should be selected as children's snacks. Dietitian Ding Qiaoling reminded that children should not drink low-fat or skim milk before they are 2 years old.
Tip 3: increase the variety of ingredients.
No matter whether children are tired of eating or picky eaters, parents can make their children eat unpleasant things by changing their cooking methods. For example, if children don't eat eggs, they will use them to make pudding or cakes. Hate green vegetables, put them in spring rolls and jiaozi. Besides, some changes can be made in the color and shape of food, such as pumpkin rice and salmon rice balls, which are all children's favorite dishes.
Tip 4: Use lovely tableware.
Sometimes what children need is an atmosphere. When the environment becomes attractive, their appetite will naturally increase. Parents can prepare lovely or children's favorite tableware, and let the children learn to eat by themselves slowly. Don't be afraid of children getting dirty. Let them do it by themselves, which will increase their interest in eating.
Tip 5: Appropriate activities every day.
Children should be allowed to do appropriate activities every day, such as playing outdoors and sunbathing. Don't always stay at home and do static activities. Exercise can not only stimulate appetite, but also help physical development.
Tip 6: Create a comfortable dining environment.
The environment is too noisy and it is easy to distract children. Therefore, when eating, we should reduce the conversation volume of adults, try to avoid the frolicking sound of other children, and at the same time maintain a comfortable room temperature and good ventilation to avoid the sultry environment.
Tip 7: Parents lead by example.
Children at this stage will imitate their parents. When children begin to learn to eat, parents should take the lead in forming the habit of regular meals for the whole family, enjoy the happiness of eating together, try not to be picky about food and don't eat snacks in front of children. You can also use stories or picture books to learn about food when parents and children are reading together, or invite children to prepare food together to enhance their interest.
Discrimination method of children's growth and development
If parents want to know about their children's growth and development, they can refer to the New Children's Growth Curve. The growth curve of children is based on the reference value of the average height, weight and head circumference of infants in China. The new growth curve has five lines, which are 3%, 15%, 50%, 85% and 97% respectively. The growth curve of the baby falls between 3% and 97%, which belongs to the normal range. If the child falls below 3%, parents don't have to worry too much, because the baby's growth is continuous, although it is on the low percentile line, as long as it grows steadily. Once a child's short-term growth curve is larger than two curves (such as 50% → 97% or 97% → 50%), it is necessary to ask a doctor for an evaluation.
Appetizing recipes are on the table! After eliminating pathological factors and letting children return to good eating habits and environment, what methods can improve their appetite for some children with poor appetite? Ding Qiaoling, a nutritionist, said that some parents let their baby eat mud food for too long, which may lead to the baby's boredom and rejection of eating. At this time, you can adjust the texture of food according to your baby's chewing ability, and you can prepare soft and granular foods, such as soft rice and diced carrots. In addition, adding sweet and sour fruits and vegetables to dishes, such as tomatoes, apples, pineapples, mangoes and other ingredients, can achieve appetizing effect. In addition, it can also be matched with brightly colored ingredients to increase children's visual experience, such as sweet peppers and purple potatoes.
Recipe 1: tomato and applesauce noodles
Ingredients: ground meat150g, 2 tomatoes, 1/4 apples, 1/3 onions, 2 cloves of garlic, 5 mushrooms, broth or water.
The way of doing things
1. Beat apples and 1.5 tomatoes into paste, and dice the remaining half of tomatoes, mushrooms and onions for later use, and mince garlic. If it is a baby with poor chewing function, please grind the meat twice. 2. Add an appropriate amount of vegetable oil to the pot, add minced garlic and onion and stir-fry until the onion is translucent, and add mushrooms and stir-fry. 3. Put the minced meat into the pot and stir-fry until the minced meat changes color. 4. Add tomato apple puree and diced tomatoes, stir well, add appropriate amount of broth or boiled water, and finally add salt to taste. Homemade tomato sauce poured on white rice or noodles becomes an appetizing meal.
Recipe 2: small salmon rice balls
Ingredients: 3/4 bowl of white rice, half slice of salmon, proper amount of salt, 3 small broccoli, 1/3 corn.
1. Steam the salmon, broccoli and corn. 2. Chop the salmon spines, cut the broccoli into powder, take the corn or cut it into powder, and stir the salt and rice evenly. 3. The stirred salmon rice is kneaded into a circle or triangle.
Recipe 3: Banana Oat Soft Cookies
Ingredients: banana100g, instant oats 40g, nuts.
The way of doing things
1. oven preheating 175 degrees 10 minutes. 2. When the oven is preheated, mix bananas and oats evenly, then add nuts and stir well. 3. Spread the baking paper on the baking tray. Dig the stirred banana oats into small balls and put them on baking paper to flatten them slightly (you can use a rice spoon or scraper to avoid touching your hands). 4. Bake the baking tray in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes (the baking time depends on different ovens and favorite tastes).