A bleak picture with general indicators of development, with metabolic processes, gastrointestinal tract, heart and blood vessels, musculoskeletal system. There is a high growth of problems with neurology, depressive moods, chronic fatigue. Many allergic people from a very early age who do not outgrow allergies, according to popular belief, but, on the contrary, experience impairment with age.
What is the reason for this egregious situation? In most cases, the hitch is in the wrong diet.
Very often the child does not eat at home, eats only in school cafeterias or in buffets. And this is not the worst option, because it happens that the child does not eat anything at all for a whole day, or eats harmful and high-calorie food with snatches. Even more threatening are the problems with food on the background of the modern ecological picture.
Of course, do not fall into a non-constructive panic. Still, many schools are working on a healthy diet. However, at the same time, some school buffets still offer the student a choice, without which he would have been better off. For example, instead of soup or chops - chips and soda. To foresee what the average student will choose, it is not difficult.
And this is especially sad, because it is in these school years that food habits and eating habits mature and form, and taste preferences. Well, in a more mature and conscious age, breaking your habits will become harder many times, even if absolutely necessary. That is why the task of teachers, educators, and, first of all, parents, to tackle the issue of nutrition, until it's too late.
Let's talk about the most harmful products and diseases caused by malnutrition in children.
Of course, one of the biggest problems is sweets consumed in excessive quantities. No one argues that a child needs sugar for development, but it is enough for a child's body when consuming fruits, compotes. In small quantities, you can cookies, jam, marmalade. Do not feed your child with sweets, sweet drinks, cakes, etc. By your behavior, you will instill the child's dependence on sweet, and, as a consequence, erroneous taste habits. Such diseases caused by malnutrition in children due to excess sugar include serious illnesses, for example, excessive stress on the pancreas, weakened immune system, allergy, dental problems, caries, and finally obesity. The surplus of foods with a high sugar content interferes with the assimilation of many useful and necessary substances, and as a result vitamins, minerals and dietary fibers do not reach the child's body.
The nutrition of a child or adolescent, however, like an adult, directly determines the metabolism in the body. It is nutrition that determines the future rates of development and growth of the child, his physical and mental abilities to learn. Immunity to diseases, infections, viruses, a stable immune response in general - it all depends on nutrition. It is worth noting that the most critical period of growth - up to three years, and all the consequences of malnutrition at this age, will necessarily affect the future health of the child. The same immune system that is still being formed, with an incorrect approach to nutrition threatens to take revenge on infectious diseases. Intellect develops, the foundations of cognitive, emotional, social abilities are laid. If at this time the body experiences, for example, iodine or iron deficiency caused by malnutrition in children, it is quite possible that a child will not go into growth, become anemic or begin to lag behind in development.
The early age of the topics is also dangerous, that the consequences caused by malnutrition are irreversible. Lag in the development of motor activity, cognitive (or cognitive) activity. Deviations in behavior, lack of social adaptation skills, aggression, hyperactivity, inability to concentrate, inability to learn ... This terrible list of diseases caused by malnutrition in children can continue.
Let's address to physicians. So, the most frequent malnutrition in children and adults, leading to diseases are the following: excessive consumption of fat; deficiency of polyunsaturated acids; deficiency, or, on the contrary, an overabundance of animal protein; deficiency of vitamins (C, B1, B2, folic acid, A, E); lack of mineral substances (calcium, iron); lack of trace elements (iodine, fluorine, selenium, zinc); deficiency of dietary fiber.
How to avoid all these consequences of malnutrition? How to grow a really healthy and happy child, active, friendly and capable? The answer to the surface - feed your baby right from birth. Diseases caused by malnutrition in children can be excluded only by proper nutrition.
Do not overfeed your child with sweets. Do not let soda or any harmful sweet drinks. Focus on raw fruits and vegetables. Accustom the child to the right foods from childhood, and he will keep these habits for life. Pay attention to the natural instincts of the child, because nature is arranged so that we ourselves can choose the most useful products for us.
Do not force the child to eat through strength. There is nothing wrong in that he will miss this or that meal. Cook porridge for children, and preferably on milk. Fill it with vegetable oil, add for a variety of dried fruits.
Eat healthy foods with the baby, because you are for him - the best example. Vegetable and fruit juices, rye bread, green tea. All this should be on your desk. Try to refuse from sharp, roasted, smoked and seasoned. Try replacing ketchup and mayonnaise with fresh tomato paste and sauces.
Be healthy!