1. Suppressing body growth and being picky about food will cause the baby to get unbalanced nutrition, insufficient intake, and problems in growth and development. Insufficient intake of nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins and fats. If you are underweight, your growth rate will also slow down. Just a diverse diet. More comprehensive nutrient absorption can ensure the baby's healthy and rapid growth and development.
2. Poor resistance and easy to get sick: Due to an unbalanced diet, babies with partial eclipses cannot obtain nutrients from food to improve their immunity, so they are more likely to get sick.
3. It affects intellectual development. Poor body immunity and abnormal development will also affect the intellectual development of babies. Babies with picky eaters are prone to inattention.
4. Formation of bad character, unbalanced nutrition will also prompt the baby to form an extreme character. If parents often use threats, scolding, etc. to force their babies to eat, it will cause the baby to develop a rebellious mentality, which will strain the parent-child relationship in the long run. These negative effects are the cause of bad personality.
5. Harm the cardiovascular system. Rejecting fresh foods rich in nutrients and favoring high-fat and high-sugar foods will not only cause nutritional imbalance, but also harm the cardiovascular system. Picky eaters can lead to poor diet quality and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
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Get rid of picky eating habits
1. Give food a fair status. Parents should treat food rationally and not say that certain foods are high-end and delicious, while other foods are low-grade and unpalatable. If the food is really unpalatable, it can only be said that it was not cooked properly, but it cannot detract from the food itself.
2. Explain the relationship between food and health. Educate your children that healthy eating will produce healthy people. Combine not being picky about food with the goals that your baby focuses on, such as growing taller, becoming stronger, becoming more beautiful, etc., and give appropriate examples to prove the harm of not eating well.
3. Let children participate in making food. Let children know more about food and help them develop psychological recognition. For example, take children to see how vegetables grow in the vegetable field; help adults choose and wash vegetables; older children can make cold dishes by themselves; plant vegetable seedlings and sprouts by themselves, etc. Children will fall in love with the food they helped prepare.
4. Improve cooking methods. Make the food tastier and serve it on beautiful tableware; cut the food into smaller pieces that are suitable for children to eat. As long as the taste is mild and the look is cute, children are usually happy to accept it.
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