We often heard many parents talking about their headache for a picky eating children. No matter how delicious are the foods, the children just do not want to eat.
If little children only eat what they like to, in most cases these children will end up with a number of negative consequences, including malnutrition, behavioral problems and mental problems. Information from a number of sources provided various types of tips to treat picky eating, such as those from Mayo’s Clinic, including listen to the kids, stick to the routines, eat only when the kid is hunger, etc. However, these are either too hard to follow or not effective after implemented. The best way toward no picky eating is to prevent it from occurring.
In most cases, kids like or dislike certain type of food is determined by their ability to digest the food, not because of their subjective assessment of the food (like adults). To digest various kinds of food, the body has to produce corresponding enzymes. Liver is the place where all the most important digestive enzymes are produced and what type of enzymes are produced depending on the type of food a person take, particularly when a person first started to try to eat food. The food we eat will induce the liver to produce the corresponding digestive enzymes. This is why people born in China like to eat rice while people born in the United State like to eat cheese. When reading to here, you may already have the answer to the problem.
The following are the three ways we recommend:
- If a mother breast-feeds the baby, the mother should have a very diverse food receipt. Whatever a mother eats, the food components will go to the baby’s stomach, stimulating the production of corresponding enzymes for food digestion.
- Diverse the food when the little life starts to “eat”. In addition to sweats, mild, give them soups made up of various types of components, particularly vegetables, eggs, and meats. Prepare a piece of fruit, hold in hand and let the little thing suck it.
- When a child grows up, it becomes very hard to change their eating habit. Following the same principle – when a kid is very hunger, try to add a little bit of everything to the food the kids like most to help stimulate the production of the corresponding enzymes. As time goes, a picky kid may become non-picky.
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Provided by Jim Sweet. 5/29/2011
Hello Jimysweet,
Interesting Thoughts, The term meals neophobia is a term that has long been made use of to explain the fearfulness of new meals found notably in youthful children. It is not a new term. All the same, it has recently been utilised to explain a newly acknowledged eating disorder in which children refuse a wide variety of textures and variations of food items. This form of severe food refusal is also regularly referred to as Meals Avoidance Psychological Condition. In the prior, foods refusal had been categorized with each other with issue swallowing and failure to thrive. Lastly, dietitians and therapists working with eating issues have recognized it as a separate issue and are paying consideration to the underlying panic and stress and anxiety these children show when confronted with new foods.
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