What food should I eat to remedy a child’s slow growth?

Parents are the most anxious when their children grow slowly. They are not only worried about their children's short height, but also worried about their children's insufficient nutrition intake. Therefore, they will try every means to make their children grow faster. Many parents believe that children who grow slowly should take some health-care drugs or foods. In fact, this may cause harm to the child's body. The correct approach should be to strengthen exercise and allow children to get more nutrition through a diversified diet.

1. What can children eat to grow taller?

Pork liver and egg: 50 grams of fresh pork liver, one fresh egg, 100 grams of rice. First, boil the rice in a pot until it blooms. Mash the pork liver and stir-fry with a little cooking oil for later use. Make egg drops, put them into the porridge together with hot chicken liver and cook until it becomes porridge-like. When it is warm, season and eat it every other day. Pork liver is rich in high-quality protein, calcium, phosphorus and vitamin A. Eggs contain ovoglobulin and ovoprotein needed for the growth of infants and young children, and are also rich in inorganic salts such as calcium and phosphorus, making them an ideal food for children to grow taller.

Egg yolk flour porridge: Boil a fresh egg, remove the egg white and leave the egg yolk. Grind the egg yolk into fine powder, add it to the cooked rice porridge, mix well and eat it 1 to 2 times a day. Egg yolk is rich in lecithin, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin A, and various lipids. It is colorful, fragrant and delicious, and is suitable for infants and young children.

Chicken liver, pork leg and astragalus soup: take 50 grams of fresh chicken liver, 50 grams of fresh pork leg bone, 30 grams of astragalus, and 3 grams of schisandra. Cut the chicken liver into slices for later use; break the pork leg bones into pieces and put them into a casserole together with astragalus and schisandra chinensis. Add appropriate amount of water, boil it over high heat, then simmer for one hour over low heat, and filter out the bone and medicinal residues. Then put the chicken liver slices into the cooked pork bone soup and cook until done. Add seasoning according to taste, and eat the chicken liver and drink the soup after it is warm.

2. Foods that increase appetite

In order to promote eating in young children, it is necessary to supplement them with foods that enhance appetite. Of course, it is not necessary to supplement them with zinc-containing medicines. Just eat natural zinc-containing foods, and there are no side effects. Try eating foods rich in zinc:

① Meat: pork liver, pork kidney, lean meat, etc.;

②Seafood: marine fish, kelp, shrimp, seaweed, oysters, clams, etc.;

③Beans: soybeans, mung beans, broad beans, red beans, etc.;

④ Dried fruits: peanuts, walnuts, melon seeds, almonds, chestnuts, cocoa, lotus seeds, sesame seeds, etc.;

⑤Fruits: lychee, persimmon, etc.;

⑥Vegetarian dishes: radish, celery, cabbage, etc.

3. Eat foods high in calcium

If you want your child to grow taller, you must supplement the raw material for bone growth - calcium. Therefore, young children should eat more foods high in calcium, such as: spare ribs, animal cartilage, fried fish, dried shrimp, kelp, seaweed, hair algae, black fungus, black sesame, walnuts, Chinese mustard, pakchoy, rapeseed, fennel, coriander, celery, tofu, etc.

4. Drink calcium protein drinks

In order to help children grow taller, you can encourage them to drink more calcium-containing drinks and protein drinks, such as: milk, soy milk, soy milk, tofu pudding, lotus seed soup, peanut milk, almond milk, etc. It is the good wish of parents that their children grow taller. As long as you carefully prepare the diet of your children, it is entirely possible for them to grow taller!