The harm of picky eating in children

I believe that as parents, we can fully understand the harm of children being picky eaters. However, there are still many parents who spoil their children and will not correct their children's partial and picky eating habits. Instead, they follow the children's wishes. In fact, this kind of spoiling is very undesirable, because children's picky and partial eating habits will not only lead to their own nutritional imbalance, but in severe cases it will also affect the formation of their character and lead to a decrease in their body's resistance.

Some people do not like to eat vegetables, fruits or meat, which leads to iron deficiency anemia. This is because iron needs to be combined with vitamin C and cysteine ​​broken down in meat to become a soluble substance before it can be easily absorbed. Therefore, not eating vegetables and fruits will lead to insufficient intake of vitamin C, which will naturally affect the absorption of iron, leading to malnutrition, yellow hair, decreased intelligence, lack of concentration, short stature, etc. Unbalanced nutrition, poor appetite, bad stomach, improper absorption, poor physical fitness, poor resistance, and unfavorable growth and development.

Picky eating refers to the bad habit of only liking to eat certain kinds of food, such as only liking to eat fish and meat but not vegetables. Being picky about food means eating only the foods you like and rejecting other foods. Partial eating and picky eating have become a common problem for many children today, and are also one of the reasons for the lack of certain nutrients in children.

Anorexia, picky eating, eating strange foods, and eating strange things can easily lead to slow growth and development, dry and yellow hair, sparse hair, hair loss, low immunity, poor resistance, frequent colds and fevers, geographic tongue, hyperactivity, lack of concentration, poor memory, decreased learning ability, decreased vision, myopia,

Hyperopia, astigmatism, etc., when trauma occurs, the wound is difficult to heal, it is easy to suffer from dermatitis, stubborn eczema, developmental delay, short stature, repeated oral ulcers, incomplete organ development, loss of appetite, and gastrointestinal diseases.

Studies have shown that vegetables contain large amounts of vitamins A, B, and C. Lack of vitamin A can cause symptoms such as dry hair and memory loss; lack of vitamin B can cause cracks at the corners of the mouth, redness and swelling of the tongue, and depression; lack of vitamin C can cause even greater damage and affect the growth and development of children. People need many different nutrients in a day, and these nutrients are contained in a variety of different foods. Therefore, we cannot only prefer one kind of food, we should eat a little bit of everything so that the nutrition in the body can be balanced.

Above we have carefully explained to you the harm of picky eating in children, so we parents must help children overcome the habit of picky eating. Excessive pampering is very detrimental to the development of children in all aspects. Each type of food contains different nutrients. Only by not being picky or partial to certain foods can we more comprehensively absorb the nutrients that food provides us and allow our children to develop in an all-round and healthy manner.