How to manage obese children

Food and nutrition directly affect the physical and intellectual development of teenagers. Only by ensuring a balanced diet for three meals a day can children's growth and study be guaranteed. First of all, let children develop the good habit of eating regularly on time and in quantity. Breakfast should pay special attention to reasonable collocation, including milk, beans, meat, eggs, cereals, vegetables, fruits and so on. Frequent skipping breakfast will lead to insufficient energy and nutrients intake throughout the day, which will affect students' cognitive ability and short-term memory ability. More likely, children will be hungry at lunch and unconsciously eat too much food, which leads to excessive energy intake, which translates into fat accumulation in the body and further leads to obesity. For lunch and dinner, we should ensure that children eat enough grains, proper meat and vegetables. At the same time, you can add meals to your child according to the specific situation, and add some nuts, fruits, milk and miscellaneous grains.

A reasonable diet should be diversified: mainly cereals, including barley, corn, oats, rice, wheat and so on. In addition, eat fruits and vegetables every day, and often eat milk, beans and bean products; Eat proper amount of fish, eggs and lean meat, and eat less fat and meat oil. Take children's breakfast as an example. When considering the nutrition of children's breakfast, most parents think that eating more meat and milk will be better, but they ignore cereals, vegetables and fruits. The classification method of China residents' dietary balance pagoda divides food into cereals, vegetables, fruits, meat and milk. If you eat two or less, the quality of breakfast is poor; if you eat three, the quality of breakfast is good; if you can eat four, it is nutritious.

To do diet therapy for children, we must first master the nutritional characteristics of sick children, so as to make diet recipes for children of all ages and stages of disease. However, the general principle should be to limit energy intake, at the same time ensure the needs of growth and development, make its food diversified, have sufficient vitamins, and do not give irritating condiments. Food should be cooked by steaming, boiling or cold salad to reduce the intake of digestible carbohydrates (such as sucrose). Don't eat sweets such as candy, sweet cakes and biscuits, try to eat less bread and potatoes, eat less fatty foods, especially fat, and appropriately increase protein's diet, such as bean products and lean meat. However, when it comes to losing weight, it's not that you can't eat any sugar or sugary food. Importantly, childhood obesity is in the developmental stage. In order to avoid extreme calorie restriction, school-age children can increase by 5 ~ 6 cm every year. As long as their weight is maintained at the present situation, their obesity will be improved after one year. Extreme dietary restrictions will cause psychological depression to children and sometimes cause resistance to treatment. In short, as long as the diet of obese children is reasonably adjusted, the good effect of losing weight can be achieved without affecting the growth and development of children.

After understanding the introduction, we should clearly understand the knowledge about the diet management of obese children. The emergence of this disease will bring quite serious harm to children's health, so the treatment of the disease should be timely, and the child's diet must be strengthened, and the diet should be light.