Reasons why children don’t like to eat breakfast

It is a very common phenomenon that children don’t like to eat breakfast. During the childhood stage, the child's body is in the development stage, and special attention should be paid to nutritional intake. Only sufficient nutrition can maintain the child's physical development. If children do not eat breakfast, they may suffer from malnutrition and poor physical development. In order to solve the problem of children not liking to eat breakfast, we must understand the reasons. Here are the reasons why children don’t like to eat breakfast.

reason:

First, because children have irregular diets and irregular eating times, it is easy to cause gastrointestinal dysfunction. In addition, the slow gastrointestinal motility at night and getting up late in the morning make it easy for them to miss breakfast time or become uninterested in breakfast, which will form a bad habit of not liking to eat breakfast.

Second, because children eat snacks constantly and at irregular times, they tend to ignore normal mealtimes (especially breakfast);

Third, some children have the bad habit of eating at night, their appetite is small, their breakfast is monotonous and tasteless for a long time, etc., which can easily cause children to not like to eat breakfast.

Therefore, when a child refuses to eat breakfast, it is necessary to promptly identify the cause and treat the condition accordingly to avoid affecting the baby's growth and development.

What effects will it have on children’s bodies if they don’t eat breakfast for a long time?

According to studies, if children do not eat breakfast for a long time or have a poor quality breakfast, they are likely to suffer from inattention, fatigue, poor academic performance, palpitations, etc. It is also easy to lead to a lack of trace elements and vitamins, and affect the child's digestive system, causing digestive system diseases. Therefore, it is easy to cause nausea and stomach upset in babies during breakfast.

How to deal with children not eating breakfast?

1. Children should have a regular diet and daily life, and eat at regular times and in regular amounts; breakfast should have the following characteristics; a reasonably balanced diet should be provided, providing sufficient energy and an appropriate amount of protein, such as steamed bread, noodles, milk, soy milk, etc.

Second, the breakfast tableware can be fun to increase children’s interest in breakfast; breakfast should be changed and diversified every day.

Third, if the child does not want to eat, avoid forcing him. As long as you do not let your baby eat snacks and develop regular eating habits, your child will gradually accept breakfast.

Functions of breakfast:

Breakfast is the first meal for children after they wake up in the morning to end their hunger, and it plays an irreplaceable role in children's dietary nutrition. However, most people are accustomed to having a makeshift breakfast and regard it as dispensable. A bowl of porridge, a piece of steamed bun and some pickles is a breakfast, and its calories do not even reach 20% of the total calories that should be consumed in the whole day. Since young children are more active in the morning, which accounts for about half of their total activity, such a breakfast cannot meet the physiological needs of children. What's more, if they skip breakfast, insufficient energy and nutrient intake in the long run will affect their development and health, and even cause disease. At present, researchers have found that if children do not eat breakfast or have a poor quality breakfast, they will suffer from inattention, fatigue, lack of active thinking and panic; frequently skipping breakfast will lead to protein, calcium, iron, zinc and vitamin deficiencies, nutritional deficiencies and iron deficiency anemia; it can also affect gastric acid secretion and bile excretion, causing digestive dysfunction and making them prone to diseases such as gastritis and cholelithiasis. Stimulate your child's appetite: For children who do not eat breakfast, giving them a glass of water or juice as soon as they get up can stimulate their appetite. In addition, washing before eating can help him wake up slowly and even feel hungry. After he sits down, don't put all the food out at once. Start with the lightest or his favorite food and serve it little by little. It is important to let children eat at their own pace.