Children of new diseases: nutritional excess

Almost all parents are most concerned about the children, inadequate nutrition, Zhang Bugao, long is not strong, has always encourage children to eat more, eat well point. Each time a child any discomfort, or have so little abnormal, parents worry about missing the lack of it, and then quickly buy some tonic tonic. Recently, experts point out that excess nutrients as children, in particular new trends in the incidence of urban children.

What is nutrient surplus? Excess nutrients include two sides, namely obesity; the other is to add excess nutrients.

More than children with simple obesity

With the improvement of living standards, and now more and more children with simple obesity, childhood obesity has also become important issues affecting children's health is one.

Japan is often a rough estimate using the following formula standard weight of children:

1 June: weight (kg) = birth weight (kg) +-month-old × 0.7 (kg);
7 December: Weight (kg) = 6kg + months of age × 2.5kg; 2 ~ 12 years of age: body weight (kg) = age × 2 (kg) +8 (kg).

Body weight of more than is generally believed that more than standard body weight of 20 ~ 29% of mildly obese, ≥ 30 ~ 49% with moderate fat, ≥ 50% was severe obesity.

The reason is often caused by obesity are many, in addition to genetic factors, but also closely related with the eating behavior. Over-feeding, premature to add high-calorie food, using food as a reward or punishment means may also lead to childhood obesity.

Childhood obesity should be aware of and guard against. Mother, the late pregnancy should be to prevent excess nutrients and avoid the occurrence of large children, should insist on breast-feeding after birth. After adding complementary feeding, according to the actual need for appropriate infant feeding, within three months after birth to avoid feeding solid food.

To child health care clinics for regular medical examinations for early detection, such as the tendency to obesity in children, you should appear in the control diet, increased physical activity in attention. 1 year of a child if the weight has been heavier than should be appropriately reduced milk and the main, non-staple food intake, with vegetables, fruit instead. The child a symbol of a balanced growth is healthy, do not think that the more fat the better to raise a child.

Pairs of pediatric obesity has occurred should be adjusted diet, limiting daily intake, and to strictly carry out the calculation and control. Should be strictly limited fat, fried foods, cream butter with food and cold drinks, nuts, candy and high sugar drinks, desserts, Western fast food and puffed food. At the same time to increase the amount of exercise, adhere to every afternoon or evening exercise about one hour. Reduce excessive sleep time for weight control.

Children too easily into the nutritional supplement of excess

Many of our children is almost what to what, like Chisha on Chisha, but now the children have been very existence of the problem make up the majority of parents do not know the child "had up" series of children's nutrition, excess-prone diseases.

Susceptible to low blood pressure too much calcium. Too much calcium children vulnerable to low blood pressure, and enable them for possible future risk of heart disease. The main symptoms of too much calcium the body edema sweating, anorexia, nausea, constipation, indigestion, if calcium and vitamin D are too easily lead to hypercalcemia, calcium deposits in the cornea, such as peripheral vision will affect the deposition in the heart valve will affect the heart function, deposited in the vessel wall will add to hardening of the arteries.

Zinc poisoning zinc too easy to occur. Manifested as loss of appetite, abdominal pain, lack of energy, and even cause acute renal failure. Too much zinc will inhibit iron absorption and utilization, resulting in blood and liver contain iron reduction in the amount of the passage of time will result in children, iron deficiency anemia.

Prone to cause too much cod liver oil supplement of vitamin A, D intoxication. Cod liver oil contains vitamin D and vitamin-rich A. Excess can cause do not want to eat, face apathy, skin dry, polydipsia and polyuria, significant weight loss.

Tonic too easily lead to sexual precocity. Some of "Let the kids tall" nutritional supplements that contain some of the more dubious ingredients that may lead to child sexual characteristics of dysplasia. There are a number of nutritional supplements containing ginseng, pilose antler, donkey-hide gelatin, Chinese caterpillar fungus, pollen, royal jelly and other ingredients, children are often consumed in the short term appetite appears strong, energetic, long-term drinking can cause developmental abnormalities of sexual characteristics.

Due to various reasons, and sometimes children need nutritional supplements. When you need to take, it can to the hospital for examination, medical diagnosis determine whether the child through the need for fortification, and under the guidance of doctors and dietitians to take. Must not be blind to the child taking nutritional health products, resulting in terrible consequences of Destructive Enthusiasm.