Children's eating behavior authority analysis

Partial eclipse, anorexia, food refusal, and the resulting physical and mental discomfort and various diseases, is a common phenomenon in childhood, and it is also one of the problems that parents feel a headache. The disorder of modern children's diet has become a social issue that cannot be ignored.

Pay attention to your child's pre-dinner emotions...

A good pre-dinner emotion is an important measure for children’s increased appetite, which is especially important for preschoolers.
According to survey data, nearly half of the children in modern life suffer from anorexia, partial eclipse, and refusal to feed, which is caused by bad mood before meals. Because many parents do not understand or ignore the strong psychological changes of children, there are some inappropriate words and actions before the children eat, leading to a decline in children's appetite.

Researchers emphasize that children will experience a leap in intelligence from early childhood to school age. Due to the increasing independence of their daily lives, their thinking has undergone some changes. In terms of eating, the performance is particularly prominent. In this period, the relationship between children's fasting and appetite is no longer simple, because there is already psychological intervention between these two physiological aspects. Children may not want to eat on an empty stomach, or they may continue to eat their favorite foods after they have had a full meal. Eating at this time is not just a physiological appetite, but an empirical, active appetite. This shows that the child's appetite, in addition to its physiological instinct, requires more training. Therefore, valuing children's pre-dinner emotions is an important part of developing children's good eating habits. Among the families in our country, there are two most prominent behaviors that affect children's pre-dinner emotions:

Eating alone: ​​The fast-paced life of modern life makes young parents who shuttle between their careers and emotions forced to have their children eat alone. Many parents are not aware of the importance of having children with their children. There are two obvious disadvantages to allowing children to have meals alone: ​​on the one hand, the children’s long-term independent eating will give them a strong sense of loneliness and abandonment. He or she will think that parents are indifferent to their own lives. The dining table extends to life, which ultimately affects the formation of personality and affects the feelings of two generations. On the other hand, children will eat more alone according to their own preferences, delicious to eat more, do not like to eat less to eat or simply do not eat; or eat a little, play for a while; some simply dumped the food lies Say he ate; other hygiene instructions such as washing hands before meals, children will see if the wind and rarely follow. Over time, children will gradually develop poor eating habits and lifestyle habits.

Love sent it: When it was time to eat, the child was unable to get rid of it because he was reading a book or playing in a state of tension. He did not want to eat. This was not because he intended to suppress his appetite, but his spiritual role had radically cut off the fasting and the appetite. The physiological relationship between. At this time, parents should observe carefully and use appropriate words and deeds to guide children to turn their attention to eating. For example, several minutes in advance of dinner, the children are asked to help wipe the table, bowl, take things, or use more exaggerated words to predict what kind of food today, how its nutrition and taste, and fully mobilize the child's emotions. Do not scold and scold children before meals. This kind of practice has a great influence on children's emotions. Maybe it is just a few words. It will make children's positive dining mood go away, and the next step is to refuse food in bad moods. Reasonable things.

Correctly treat children’s partial eclipses...

Partial eclipse is a bad habit, this is beyond reproach, but the media is too exaggerated to introduce a partial eclipse, so that parents of children with partial eclipse habits are deeply fearful or powerless. Partial eclipses are not all as terrible as people think. Children's partial eclipse should be treated differently.

Partial eclipse phenomenon has been widespread since ancient times. Partial eclipses should not be determined solely on the basis of their preference for a particular type of food, but rather on the effect of this on the individual's health. Because humans have a wide range of food choices, as long as they do not lead to nutritional imbalances in the body, do not worry too much about children’s partial eclipse. The partial eclipse phenomenon of children in our country can be roughly divided into four types:

Psychogenic partial eclipse: A nutrient can be used to supplement a harmless partial eclipse. Children who have a psychological partial eclipse will refuse to eat certain foods due to habits and psychological factors. If you are afraid of suffocation, you will not eat fish and shrimp; you may be afraid to eat into the mud and refuse to eat lotus roots; you may see the pig's ugly appearance or chicken droppings and refuse to eat pork and eggs. However, because children do not eat too much food, they do not usually suffer from severe malnutrition due to their refusal to eat such foods. The nutrients they lack can often be supplemented from other foods. The results do not affect the health of children.

Empirical partial eclipse: is a partial eclipse that may cause nutritional imbalance in the body.

Such children often start from experience and intuition and refuse to eat a lot of food. If you do not eat fish, meat, chickens, ducks and other protein-rich foods, or do not eat vegetables rich in vitamins, cellulose and so on. There may be two consequences: First, they may obtain protein from eggs, seafood, dairy products, etc., and obtain vitamins and cellulose from fruits, tomatoes, melons, and potatoes. The nutritional structure in the body is basically balanced; Failure to timely supplement the nutrients it needs under the influence of subjective and objective factors will naturally impair health due to imbalances in nutrition.

Allergic partial eclipse: is a partial eclipse that is easily overlooked.

Due to changes in species genes, extensive use of chemical fertilizers and insecticides and herbicides, and contamination of living environments of plants and livestock, etc., there is an increase in sensitized substances contained in foods, which easily causes allergic reactions in children with inadequate immune function. However, this allergic reaction may not show typical skin rashes, flushing, and other symptoms, but mostly manifested in different severity of gastrointestinal discomfort, general fatigue, irritability and lack of energy. As a result, when they see non-allergenic foods that are similar or similar to the color, taste, and shape of sensitized foods on the table, they immediately develop a phobia-refusing mentality and even give up the meal. For this kind of situation, parents must carefully observe and find out the source of sensitization. In later life, try to avoid the appearance of such food in front of children, and gradually correct the partial eclipse of children from psychological to physiological. In general, these partial eclipses have little effect on the health of children.

Absolute partial eclipse: is a very dangerous partial eclipse.

The causes of this kind of partial eclipse are numerous and complex, and are closely related to the child's psychological factors, disease factors, and habitual factors. It is often seen that children like this kind of food do not involve other foods, such as eating only desserts, only eating rice and pickles, and only eating fatty foods. Because they do not want to eat other foods, the body's nutritional structure will be unbalanced and detrimental to health. In this regard, parents often feel powerless, and have to turn to the specialist for guidance, and use reasonable methods to treat children. Or start from the psychological adjustment, slowly expand the scope of children's feeding, and gradually develop healthy eating habits, so that children eventually get correction.

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