Every year the school doctor conducts all students anthropometry. This beautiful word is understood as measuring the growth and weight of a person. And then, according to the formula, you need to calculate the body mass index. The formula is simple: the ratio of body weight (kg) per square of height in meters (m 2 ). And very often in our children we meet with a noticeable excess of this index. And without the index it is known that around a lot of children inclined to fullness and the most real fatties.
Nearby there is another serious problem - it's constipation. For some reason, there is an opinion that this is, rather, the ailment of the elderly. But we can safely say - today it is often a child's misfortune. There are many explanations for this - the children's addiction to buns, sandwiches, smazhenkam, pizza. Improper diet in general, when a carbohydrate diet is accepted in the family - the predominance of macaroni and potatoes in the menu. Low physical activity, rare and short walks of children. And one more delicate circumstance: our children are forced from childhood to observe a certain order - to tolerate a call to a break. In general, all conditions for the development of persistent constipation in children are available.
Constipation is unpleasant and harmful to health. But the problem is aggravated further - because of debris in the intestine there is an expansion of the large intestine, calomization is developing. Many mothers do not even admit the thought that this is a medical problem, they think that an educational one has not taught their child to follow her, to be careful. At many children even at the age of 12-13 years really cowards happen are soiled. If you ask in a good way, many children will tell you that even after the bowel has been emptied, they still have a sense of heaviness and an incomplete "business." In the United States, they conducted a study and found out that the country's population spends more than a billion dollars a year to buy medicines. Of these, 150 million accounts for the treatment of constipation. In this case, doctors are unequivocally sure: frequent use of laxatives and enemas launches a vicious cycle when the intestine ceases to work on its own.
Treatment of obesity, including in children, is very difficult. First, you need to organize proper nutrition, and this is difficult. The main problem is animal appetite. In lovers of good food is often increased the production of their insulin and at the same time reduced the sensitivity of cells. Therefore, the body cells all the time remain hungry, I want to eat again and again. And it's so hard for parents to refuse a child in food!
So, obesity, constipation, increased blood pressure and high blood cholesterol even in children go today side by side. Adult patients with multiple diseases in this case can not do without a serious examination and equally serious treatment. Children inclined to fullness with constipation can try a different tactic. Mummies plump children advise to pay attention to proper nutrition. Food bran should be injected into the diet of children more often. What are food bran? Most often it is the husk of wheat grains, to which are added dried and mashed berries, prunes, pine nuts, some vegetables. In the stomach they swell, fill it, creating a feeling of satiety. Bran also soften the stools, helping them to evacuate from the body. By the way, bran contribute to the removal of excess cholesterol, improve the separation of bile. All this is scientifically proven facts! When you add bran to food, the appetite decreases noticeably, and soon the saturation begins.
After a month of taking an adult dose - it's 5-6 tablespoons a day - people, for example, improve the work of the gastrointestinal tract. Heartburn is lost, excess weight is dumped. Children can be given bran in much smaller doses. And in advance it is necessary to consult with the doctor. And that's not all - it's interesting that in the intestine bran causes the formation of a powerful layer of mucus. What for? Slime serves as a remarkable antiulcer, protects the internal walls of the digestive tract from many aggressive agents. Taking bran, it is possible to cope with one more unpleasant condition - reflux, or reverse throwing food from the stomach into the esophagus and from the duodenum to the stomach. This cast is the cause of such an unpleasant phenomenon as eructation.
It is recommended to introduce bran into your menu to healthy people. Agree, we do not eat 800 grams of vegetables and greens recommended by dietitian doctors per day (this excludes potatoes). This means that we do not get the very necessary dietary fiber, the presence of which directly affects the digestive system. Rapid promotion of food through the colon is very favorable. And vice versa, when it stagnates, putrefactive processes, the absorption of carcinogenic and simply harmful chemicals, are intensified.
Children from three years can safely add 1 teaspoon of food wheat bran in food - in porridge, mashed potatoes, cottage cheese, in their favorite pastries. It is better to buy bran in the pharmacy, choose those in which there are berry additives. And, of course, it is not necessary to force this initiative, we need accuracy and gradualness. The fact is that with the intake of bran, bloating may sometimes occur, flatulence. In such cases it is necessary to give dill water, which was given to the baby in childhood. And remember that obesity of children with proper nutrition can not only reduce, but also win.