The harm of babies' love for sweets
Release time : 01/18/2025 18:13:27
In winter, the cold weather increases the energy consumption of babies. They become more eager to eat candies, cakes, chocolates, and doughnuts.
Recently, 12-year-old Wenwen suddenly experienced all-over pain and rapid breathing upon consuming excessive amounts of sweets, leading to a diagnosis of diabetic ketoacidosis by the doctor.
In fact, the harm that excessive sweets can cause is often overlooked by parents. If you think that consuming too much sweets only leads to obesity, then it's time to catch up on some knowledge! The dangers of sugary foods for babies are far beyond your imagination, posing adverse effects on their growth and development.
If babies often eat sweets, and their moms are unable to refuse, beware of the potential for this: 1. Inducing diabetes. Consuming high-sugar foods can trigger a variety of potential endocrine diseases, such as an increase in blood sugar levels due to excessive sugar consumption. This can overburden the pancreas's metabolic function, potentially leading to diabetes.
The cause of Xiao Wenwen's illness is precisely as such.
2. Myopic at a young age. The reason for my baby's myopia is not only the radiation from TV and computer, but also too much sugar intake! If you eat sweets frequently and have a lot of sugar in your body, you need a large amount of vitamin B1 during sugar metabolism. Vitamin B1 has a protective effect on the optic nerve. Too little content will affect the development of the optic nerve.
In addition, if the baby eats too much sweets, the blood sugar in the body will increase, which will correspondingly reduce the osmotic pressure of body fluids, which will cause the lens of the eye to bulge and deform, increase the refractive power, and aggravate myopia.
3. Low immunity, prone to illness. Sweets have a certain impact on immunity, research has shown that sweets can cause changes in white blood cell function and vascular walls, reducing the body's ability to resist disease.
Children who eat sweets regularly tend to be more prone to illness and allergic reactions than those who eat less sugar.
4. Attention deficits can lead to temporary happiness from consuming small amounts of sweets, but excessive sugar intake can stimulate the central nervous system in infants and cause them to become irritable and difficult to concentrate.
Additionally, consuming too much sweet food before bed can lead to sleep disorders.
5. Effects on Personality Development: Consuming too much sweets can have a significant impact on a baby's personality development. This is because the baby's body contains an excessive amount of sugar, which leads to a significant increase in metabolites such as pyruvate and lactate. If these metabolites accumulate in the brain, it can cause abnormal personality traits in the baby.
6. Speaking with a black tooth often eating sweets can harm the baby's teeth, turning white into black, because a large amount of sugar in sweets easily breeds bacteria and also easily causes teeth to mineralize, leading to dental caries. It also affects the growth of permanent teeth in babies.
What should I do if my baby loves sweets? It is the baby's nature to love sweets. If Ma Ma wants her baby to eat less, it is not a good way to strictly guard against sweets. The key is to use a clever trick to get the baby to get rid of the bad habit of eating sweets through habit induction.
So what can Mom do? 1. Don't treat sweets as prizes. Although your baby has a high enthusiasm for sweets, Ma Ma must not reward sweets as prizes to your baby, because if your baby eats too much sweets when she is happy, it is easy to develop a love for sweets. habit.
In addition, it is even more important to avoid making sweets part of your baby's daily diet.
2. Use healthy snacks as a substitute. If your baby frequently eats chocolates, candies, etc., it's time for mom to replace them with whole-wheat bread, low-sugar cookies, and other snacks that are beneficial to the body.
Regularly, mommy also reminds the grandpa and grandma to not buy sweet snacks for their children.
3. From a young age, it's important to control the amount of sweet foods your child consumes. Moms and dads should pay extra attention from the start, limiting their child's intake of sweet treats and avoid keeping them in the house as much as possible.
4. Storytelling to guide babies in developing their imagination, and weave the fact that eating too much sugar can lead to cavities into a story for them to hear. This will help them understand the dangers of this and foster a fear of it.
Note, the story shouldn't be exaggerated too much to avoid frightening the baby.
How to eat sweets properly for babies? Although eating too much sweets is harmful, it's okay for babies to have some occasionally as long as the methods are correct.
Q1: When can my baby start eating sweets? A1: Babies can add complementary foods from 4 months old, but before the age of 1, they should try their best to eat less sugary foods. Because eating sugar will affect the baby's appetite, so it is not recommended to give the baby sweets.
After the baby is 1 year old, Ma Ma can give the baby a small amount of sugar according to the situation.
Q2: What is the most appropriate time to eat sweets? A2: The baby has just finished exercising, his body sweats a lot, and sugar is lost. You can give the baby some sweets to supplement sugar.
In addition, when the baby is emotional, you can also give the baby a small amount of sweets to soothe the baby's emotions.
Q3: Can my baby eat honey? A3: Honey is a food with high sugar content and can be regarded as a sweet tooth. Eating more is also harmful. It is recommended that your baby eat as little or no food before the age of 1.
Because honey contains a type of porter toxin, babies under the age of 1 do not produce the corresponding antibodies, so they cannot eat honey.
Q4: How can my baby eat sweets without destroying his teeth? A4: Try to reduce the number of times your baby eats sweets, shorten the stay time of sugar in your baby's mouth, and ask your baby to brush his teeth in time after eating sweets to avoid accumulation of sweets in your teeth.
In order to satisfy the greedy baby's desire to eat sweets, Ma Ma might as well change the way to make some healthy sweets for the baby to eat.
So which sweets are suitable for your baby? Here are some nutritious and low-sugar snacks for Ma Ma: First item: Yogurt and sweet potato mashed Ingredients: 1 sweet potato, 1 bottle of original yogurt, 10 grams of peanuts, nuts, and a little raisins.
Practice: Chop the raisins and nuts and keep them for later use; then clean the sweet potatoes, cook them, peel them, and roll them into mud. Then spread the sweet potato mashed on a plate to make it look like the baby likes, sprinkle with yogurt, and sprinkle with the raisins and nuts. Serve.
Second item: Tofu brownie Ingredients: 200 grams of silk tofu, 15 grams of whole milk, 40 grams of low-gluten flour, 70 grams of dark chocolate steak, about 30 almonds, 1 egg.
Practice: Put the milk and dark chocolate together in an egg beater and stir, then add the eggs and sugar, stir well, then add the low-gluten flour and stir to form a batter, finally add the crushed almond wood, put it in the oven, and use 180 ° C heat for 35-40 minutes, and then serve it to your baby after cooling naturally.
Third item: Banana oatmeal soft cookies Material: 1 cup of mixed oatmeal, 1 ripe banana, about 200 grams.
Practice: Put the bananas and mixed oats together in a blender and beat them, then pour them into a bowl and add water to stir until they are made into a puree, then make them into the desired shape, place them in the oven, and bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
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