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What foods should children eat less?

when children have holidays and spend more time at home, their parents will think about making delicious food for them, such as fried chicken legs, shrimp and so on. They thought that they would be healthier at home, but they told their parents that they would also affect their children's intelligence. Let's look at the factors that affect children's intelligence.

Factors affecting children's intelligence: trans fat

Ms. Zhuo's son is in grade 3 of a primary school. Recently, during the school winter vacation, Ms. Zhuo often fried lotus root cake, mutton kebab and spiced sticks for her son to eat. The mother and son enjoyed themselves. But yesterday morning, Ms. Zhuo found her son's mouth was all blistered. She took her son to the stomatology department of the hospital.

When Ms. Zhuo got the test report, she was shocked: her son's blood viscosity was twice as high as that of normal people. After asking about his lifestyle, the doctor said it was because he had too much trans fat. The doctor also reminded her that if he ate like this for a long time, he would increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease in the future.

Trans fat, also known as trans fatty acid, is generally produced by the 'hydrogenation' technology of vegetable oil. Compared with general vegetable oil, artificial trans fat has the advantages of high temperature resistance, less deterioration and longer storage. At present, artificial trans fat is widely used in American fast food industry. It is usually used to make crispy bread, French fries and doughnuts. Some fats, margarines and oils used for frying may contain artificial trans fats.

So parents should pay special attention to the following food: first, artificial oil, such as margarine (vegetable cream); second, fried food, such as instant noodles, chips, chips, etc. Some processed food containing oil, such as instant soup, fast food, frozen food (such as Tangyuan), baked food (such as biscuits, cookies and bread), all kinds of instant paste powder food (such as powder oatmeal, coconut powder, sesame paste, etc.), all kinds of cream sugar, peanut butter and chocolate sauce, may have trans fatty acids. So, although some of the things children eat seem to be healthy, they also contain trans fat. So try to eat as little as possible!

Factors affecting children's intelligence: puffed food

In recent years, puffed food is popular among children because of its crispy, crispy, fragrant and sweet taste. However, medical experts at home and abroad believe that puffed food is not really safe or healthy food. If children eat such food for a long time, it is harmful to their brain and physical development.

American nutritious food experts have advised for many years that there are more harmful metal elements lead or aluminum in puffed food, and parents should not often let their children eat these foods. The reasons for the high content of lead and aluminum in expanded food are as follows: first, additives such as bulking agent are often added to the processing of such food, and some bulking agents (such as alum and sodium bicarbonate) contain more heavy metals such as lead or aluminum; second, the food is processed through metal pipes, which usually contain lead and tin alloys. Under high temperature, these lead contents It is easy to gasify, and the lead after gasification will pollute these expanded foods. It is harmful for children (especially those under 3 years old) to eat puffed food frequently.

When lead enters from the mouth for a long time, it will slowly lurk in the blood and bones, and it is difficult to metabolize naturally. Children are in the stage of growth and development, the absorption of lead is several times that of adults, while children's excretion of lead is relatively weak, which makes it easier to accumulate in the body. When harmful heavy metals accumulate to a certain amount, it will cause obvious damage to the nervous, digestive, hematopoietic and other systems of the human body, especially lead to cognitive impairment or mental decline, and may even affect the life-long health of children.

Too much aluminum will damage brain function. For example, it can interfere with people's thinking, consciousness and memory function, and cause nervous system diseases, such as memory loss, visual and motor coordination failure, brain injury, mental decline, and dementia in severe cases.

Factors affecting children's intelligence: foods containing lipid peroxide.

Lipid peroxide can lead to premature brain failure or dementia, which will directly damage the development of the brain. Bacon, smoked fish and other foods that have been fried or exposed to the sun for a long time at an oil temperature of more than 200 degrees contain more lipid peroxide. Parents should give less to their children.

Factors affecting children's intelligence: foods with more monosodium glutamate.

Medical research shows that if pregnant women often eat monosodium glutamate in the late pregnancy, it will cause zinc deficiency in the fetus, and if children under one year old eat too much monosodium glutamate, it may cause brain cell necrosis. The World Health Organization proposes that adults should not eat more than 4 grams of monosodium glutamate per day, and pregnant women and children under one year old should not eat monosodium glutamate. Even if the child is older, try to give the child less food containing more monosodium glutamate.

It is suggested that parents should strictly control children's diet, let children eat more natural foods, and try to choose foods without any artificial additives when buying processed foods. To avoid the influence of artificial colors, children should pay attention to their daily diet. When buying some bright colored food or drink, they should be careful. They should not choose the processed food with too bright color. They should also develop the habit of reading the food ingredient list, and pay attention to whether synthetic colors such as carmine, lime yellow and Sudan are added.

Factors affecting children's intelligence: aluminum food.

Often give children to eat high aluminum content of food, will cause memory decline, slow response, and even lead to dementia. Therefore, parents had better not let children often eat oil sticks, oil cakes and other foods with high aluminum content.

Factors affecting children's intelligence: salty food.

Salty food can not only cause hypertension, arteriosclerosis and other diseases, but also damage the arteries and blood vessels, affect the blood supply of brain tissue, cause ischemia and hypoxia of brain cells, lead to memory decline and mental retardation. The human body needs less than 7 grams of salt per day for adults and less than 4 grams per day for children. In daily life, parents should give their children less salt containing food, such as pickled vegetables, pickled mustard, bacon, bean paste, etc.

Factors affecting children's intelligence: artificial pigment

Nowadays, there are many kinds of children's food with exquisite packaging and gorgeous colors, but some of them contain pigments, which are hidden dangers to human health. Excessive or long-term consumption is harmful to children's health and development.

In the stage of children's intelligence development, a large number of high-quality protein, lipid and other nutrients are needed, and synthetic pigments cannot provide these nutrients. At the same time, the synthetic pigment itself or its metabolites are toxic, and it may be mixed with arsenic, lead or other toxic intermediates in the process of preservation, which will affect children's intellectual development and neurobehavior.

In addition, excessive intake of synthetic pigments can also cause allergies, such as asthma, laryngeal edema, rhinitis, urticaria, pruritus and neurogenic headache, etc.; some synthetic pigments act on human nerves, which will affect the transmission of nerve impulses, resulting in a series of symptoms.

After seeing so many things that affect children's intelligence, do mom and dad feel restless? In fact, it doesn't matter if they eat a little bit in moderation. Once again, it's OK to let children drink more water at ordinary times, which can also discharge toxins in their bodies.