Childhood obesity is harmful: Five strategies to prevent it

Due to lack of sufficient nutritional knowledge, many parents are always worried that their children are not getting enough nutrition, so they blindly feed their children extra food or add meals during feeding, which often puts infants and young children in a state of overnutrition. The hypernutrition state will seriously interfere with the body's metabolic order, causing the baby's weight to continue to increase. Most mothers are not clear about the standard weight range for their infants and young children, and simply think that fat is better than thin. In fact, this is extremely wrong.

1. Parents and grandparents should have the same opinions

First of all, you need to enlist the support of all family members, especially grandpa and grandma. Otherwise, if they are soft-hearted, and their parents urge their children to lose weight while their grandparents provide them with plenty of nutrition behind their backs, or even directly deny their parents' actions, then the road to weight loss will surely be full of obstacles.

Most obese children love to drink carbonated drinks such as Coke and Sprite. These drinks are high in sugar and calories. If they drink too much, it would be strange if the baby does not get fat.

Therefore, controlling your baby's intake of carbonated beverages is an important way to help your baby lose weight. Normally, mothers should try to use sugar-free juice and water instead. Before eating, the mother lets the child drink some juice. After a glass of juice, the little stomach will have little capacity.

Most obese children like to eat meat but not vegetables, which makes them seriously lack certain nutrients. Therefore, parents should gradually cultivate their children's good habit of eating everything.

A child's eating habits are rarely innate; they are mostly determined by the example set by their parents. If you tell your child that a certain food is nutritious and delicious, but you stay away from it every time, it will make your child more disgusted with it and cause your baby to develop a picky eating habit. Therefore, when parents try to get their children to eat more vegetables, they must also set a good example themselves.

In kindergarten, the children are sometimes a little hungry when eating, and their mother has repeatedly told the teacher that they don’t need to feed their children until they have almost finished eating.

At home, mothers should also be careful not to let their children eat unlimited amounts of whatever they like, so as not to stretch their children's stomachs, which will make them eat more. Generally, children can eat some fruits between meals to prevent them from eating too much due to hunger during meals.

When eating, most of the movies played on TV are cartoons. Therefore, in order to let children eat quietly and smoothly, parents feed their children while they watch TV. However, this is not a good idea as it can easily lead to overfeeding. In addition, parents may find that children who love watching TV and do little exercise are mostly fatter.

In order to prevent the child from getting fatter, the whole family should motivate the child to take walks in the community or do other exercises with him. Experts believe that to overcome children's laziness, they should be encouraged rather than forced to do physical exercise. If your child doesn't like running, teach him to play ball or games. If your child doesn't like to do 40 minutes of exercise at a time, then doing it four or five times a day for 10 minutes each time can also achieve the fitness effect.