Help your child prepare to mix foods? 7. Poisonous threats health

Children's health cannot be ignored, and diet has a positive development for children's health. However, for convenience, modern people are keen to eat "dish-dish-mixed" meals, such as fried rice, stir-fried noodles, soup noodles, Italian noodles, baked rice, and so on, which may cause children's learning and health crisis.

According to the online questionnaire of the Dong Foundation, there are about 70% of the parents who prepare lunch boxes in school. The tableware prepared by helping children is a bowl or a bowel box, of which 40% of the parents will prepare an extra bowl for their children to prepare soup; and only about 20% of the children will prepare a meal plate or a separate bowel box for their children.

The reason may be related to convenience, fast eating, etc. However, habits bring the following adverse effects on children's diet education, health, etc.:

Impact1 It is difficult to understand the amount of food

You Lihui, deputy director of the National Health Administration, said that the amount of food and nutrition are closely related to health. If various dishes are put in large bowls, it is not only difficult to know the amount of food, but also difficult to evaluate whether the child is eating a balanced nutrition.

If you can add it separately, you can use the words "the meat ratio of each meal is 221", "the amount of vegetables is the same as vegetables, and the palm of beans, fish, eggs and meat" to lead your children to understand various types of foods and the concept of balanced proportions.

You Lihui pointed out that the Taiwanese version of "My Meal Panel" launched this year is to use the meal pane icon to allow the public to easily understand the types, portions and proportions of each meal, and implement a balanced diet. During elementary lunch time, if parents can prepare meals for their children, it will help improve their children's understanding of the amount and types of food.

Influence 2 Meal appearance affects food temptation

You Lihui further explained that one of the keys that affects food temptation is "food appearance". When the originally delicious and beautiful dishes are mixed together, the beauty is greatly reduced, causing children to lose the opportunity to learn visual aesthetics from cuisine. For children, "appearance" can affect food appetite more than "taste". Only by separating "dishes" can the meal be beautiful and delicious.

Remind parents that if they cannot change their behavior of serving meals with large bowls, they should also establish good dietary concepts and use existing large bowls to guide their children's ability to plate: "Food one side, dish one side", and maintain the original cooking style as much as possible; and remember to use a colander to dry more soup juice when serving dishes to avoid eating too much soup juice.

Influence 3 Losing the opportunity to recognize ingredients

Lin Liangqing, director of the School Security Group of the National Education Administration, said that when various foods are mixed together, children cannot see the original appearance of the ingredients at a glance and cannot eat the original flavor of the food, which makes "food education" gradually fail, creating a sense of strangeness to the ingredients, and also affects the choice of food in the future.

Each dish has already considered its taste and taste when cooking. If mixed together, it will greatly reduce the deliciousness, such as the crispy taste soaked in soup juice, which will become soft. In addition, because it is not clear what ingredients the dish has, if there are fine bone thorns in the meal, it will also increase the risk of swallowing.

Lin Liangqing said that the quality of school nutrition lunches has always been the government's efforts. Not only are the ingredients from over-level ingredients to be checked and certified, but the menu is also designed by nutritionists to consider the nutrition required for children's growth and development. Under the premise of nutrition and health, make more changes and carefully cook the meals to make them more delicious. If you can "separate the dishes", whether you use a dish or a box with separate boxes, you can eat the color, fragrance and flavor of the dishes.

Influence 4Influence skills for using chopsticks

Lin Liangqing observed the tableware commonly used by children in schools and found that when food is mixed together in large bowls, compared to holding chopsticks, most children choose soup spoons with higher convenience. Over time, they lose the ability to hold chopsticks correctly, and the muscle groups used to hold chopsticks and soup spoons are different, and there are also differences in behavioral development.

With the rise of Westernized diet and the rapid food industry, fewer and fewer people will use chopsticks correctly compared with the previous generation. Chopsticks are an important tool for the food culture in Eastern countries. If children no longer use chopsticks, it may also mean that the food culture is gradually disappearing.

Xu Huiyu further explained that school lunch time is the best time to implement healthy diet education. In addition to enhancing knowledge about diet, it can also actually implement dining gifts, such as starting together, using tableware appropriately, etc., and improving dietary vegetarianism through mutual assistance and cooperation with the same family.

Effect 5: Excessive oil sugar salt and heat

Xu Huiyu said that the school lunch dishes are designed by nutritionists, and during the cooking process, it will reduce the amount of oil, sugar and salt as much as possible, reducing the amount of heat and flavoring that children can get too much. However, if you use a large bowl to serve, mix the flavored soup juices such as vegetable juice, gravy and other flavored soup juices with the food, and use a spoon to dig invisibly, you will eat all the more flavored ingredients, which will affect health in the long run and will not benefit taste cultivation.

Influence 6: Developing into "eating too fast" is a bad habit

When the dishes are mixed in a large bowl and eaten with a spoon, it can help children speed up the meal in a limited time, but it should be noted that the health crisis caused by "eating too fast" is caused.

Attendant doctor of the Department of Children's Gastrointestinal and Hepatology at Changgeng Hospital of Linkou said that Japanese studies have found that children who eat fast and eat slowly have higher proportions of overweight to obesity, and higher waist and height than 0.5.

Because eating too fast, the brain cannot receive enough information when eating, so that children can eat too much before eating, resulting in obesity. Some children are also prone to indigestion and stomach irritation..

Crisis 7: "Eat soft but not hard"

Another problem with the mixture of dishes is that if the dishes have more soup and are easy to soak other dishes. When the food becomes soft, it will directly reduce the chance of children "chewing". Zhao Shunqing pointed out that chewing can stimulate saliva secretion and aid digestion. In addition to preventing the occurrence of stomach diseases, it also stimulates brain cells and helps improve children's learning and memory. In addition, chewing also has the effect of massage and cleaning teeth, which is beneficial to periodontal health.

Consultation Expert/Deputy Director of the National Health Administration You Lihui, Director of the School Security Group of the National Education Administration Lin Liangqing and Dong Foundation Xu Huiyu and the attending physician of the Department of Children's Gastrointestinal and Liver of Chang Geng Hospital Zhao Shunqing