Dietary considerations for children with precocious puberty

Nowadays, many foods on the market contain hormones. The most common ones are junk foods, such as hamburgers, French fries, etc., but these foods are children’s favorite. Some parents take their children to eat these junk foods every now and then, resulting in more and more children having to face the phenomenon of precocious puberty. So, for children with precocious puberty, what should they pay attention to in their diet in daily life?

1. Tonic foods

Including Cordyceps sinensis, ginseng, dried longan, dried lychee, astragalus, adenophora, etc. Traditional Chinese medicine points out that the more nourishing the medicinal food is, the more likely it is to change the child’s normal endocrine environment, causing an imbalance in his or her physical and mental development.

2. Eat less fried poultry

The vast majority of poultry sold on the market today are fed with feed mixed with rapid growth agents. The residues of ripening agents in poultry meat are mainly concentrated in the glands in the head and neck of poultry. Eating the necks of chickens, ducks, and geese becomes a high-risk behavior that promotes precocious maturity.

3. Avoid off-season vegetables

Strawberries, grapes, watermelons, tomatoes, etc. in winter, and pears, apples, oranges, and peaches that are available early in late spring, are almost all out of season or ripen early with the help of ripening agents, so they must be avoided from being eaten by young children.

4. Avoid fried foods

Fried chicken, French fries and potato chips, the high calories will be converted into excess fat in children's bodies, causing endocrine disorders and leading to precocious puberty; after cooking oil is repeatedly heated and used, the high temperature causes it to oxidize and denature, which is also one of the causes of precocious puberty.

5. Use oral solution with caution

Many supplements and oral liquids targeting the children's market that claim to help them grow taller and stronger contain hormone ingredients. These hormones make children grow taller and stronger than other children of the same age when they are five or six years old, and their bone age has reached 8 or 10 years old. However, when the child enters the normal development stage, the growth has stopped.

The above five points are aimed at children with precocious puberty. The cause of precocious puberty in children is mostly due to their daily diet, eating too much food containing hormones. When the human body is stimulated by hormones, it will cause the secondary characteristics of the body to develop prematurely. I also hope that parents will pay more attention to this aspect.