Children's nutrition lecture held

There is no one-size-fits-all nutrition template for all children. What parents have to do is never to copy Internet celebrity recipes, but to make dynamic adjustments based on the child's growth curve, allergic history, and daily activity level. This is the most different part of this lecture that breaks out of the previous "dry information list" model.

As a pediatric nutrition consultant who participated in the preparation of this lecture, I sat through the whole process and received on-site consultations from more than 20 parents. The most impressive thing was Grandma Zhang who squeezed to the front of the stage 10 minutes before the start. She was holding a crumpled A4 paper. On it was the "3-6-year-old golden meal menu" she printed from a child care account. She said that her grandson had been eating this for half a year, but his height had not caught up, and he had not even gained half a kilogram in weight.

What's interesting is that this time we deliberately did not invite a lecturer from "One Family", but instead invited two doctors from the Department of Clinical Nutrition and the Department of Child Health who have different tendencies on children's nutrition. Dr. Li, who works in clinical nutrition, has always advocated "precise proportioning". She directly showed the data of 37 picky children who were followed up for 12 months: among them, 22 children who adjusted their diet strictly in accordance with the "Reference Intake of Dietary Nutrients for Chinese Residents" had their low hemoglobin problem improved within 3 months. She also bluntly said that this method is only suitable for families with strong execution and children who have no obvious eating resistance. Forcing them can easily have counter-effects.

Dr. Wang, who works as a child care provider, is a supporter of "adaptive feeding". The case he gave on the spot just touched the pain points of many parents: last year, a mother packed lunch boxes for her children according to the grams every day. She even had to cut up 100 grams of fruit and chased after feeding her if she couldn't finish it. In the end, the child developed an eating disorder and cried when he saw the rice bowl. “Raising a baby is not a chemistry experiment. A difference of three to five grams will not cause problems. On the contrary, the anxiety you feel watching him eat will have a much greater impact than eating one less bite of vegetables. ”Several parents in the audience nodded.

Oh, by the way, this time we did not engage in empty theoretical output. We specially added a 40-minute "free meal menu" session. We collected more than 30 daily meal menus brought by parents on site and adjusted them one by one. The mother of a 7-year-old asthmatic child always gave her child "highly nutritious foods" such as broccoli and salmon. However, after the doctor checked the allergen screening report she brought, it was discovered that the child had a mild intolerance to cruciferous foods. The recurring coughs and eczema may have something to do with eating broccoli every day. The mother was furious at the time and said that no one had ever told her this before.

We also conducted a heart-wrenching little test on site: We poured out three Internet celebrity children's soy sauces and ordinary brewed soy sauces that parents often buy, and compared them with sodium testing reagents. The sodium content of two children's soy sauces was higher than that of ordinary soy sauce. The so-called "salt reduction" is just a marketing gimmick. A mother standing next to me took out her mobile phone and deleted the children's soy sauce in the shopping cart.

In fact, I have been doing science popularization of children's nutrition for five years. I used to compile various "universal recipes" and distribute them. I always felt that parents would use them if they were given standard answers. It was not until I talked with two doctors in preparation for this lecture that I discovered that what many parents lack is not the recipes, but the idea of ​​"how to modify them according to my children." Just like the mother who chased her after the show and asked if her child could squeeze vegetables into juice if he didn't like to eat them, the answer we gave was not a black-and-white "yes" or "no": if you can drink it with the dregs, it would be fine. If you only drink clear juice, the loss of dietary fiber will easily raise blood sugar, so it is better to chop it into fillings and put it in dumplings.

We have uploaded the replay of this lecture and the 21 general menus that have been adjusted on the spot to the official public account of the Municipal Health Commission. You can get it by replying "Children's Nutrition" in the background. Oh, yes, we will hold two special sessions next month, one for children with food allergies and one for overweight and obese children. Parents in need can pay attention to the registration notice on the official account. You don’t need to be so nervous when raising a baby. Taking your time is better than anything else.