Diet for obese children

Protein is a necessary nutrient for children's normal growth and development, and it must be sufficient. Fat should be strictly restricted and lard, fat, fried and fried foods should be avoided. To satisfy children's appetite as much as possible, you can choose food with large volume and low calorie. Crude grains are preferred, such as roughly processed rice noodles, corn, vegetables and fruits with high cellulose content.

Long-term ingestion of foods with high glycemic index can significantly increase postprandial blood sugar, induce hormone release related to hunger, lead to excessive diet, produce central obesity, and are related to cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Therefore, the treatment of childhood obesity should not only limit the intake of fat, especially saturated fatty acids, but also limit the intake of sucrose, glucose, fructose, maltose and other sugars and bread with high glycemic index.

Establishing good dietary habits is very important for children to lose weight. It is necessary to help children establish healthy habits, formulate weight loss plans, encourage children to eat regularly and quantitatively, try not to eat or eat as little snacks as possible, and avoid eating while watching TV. Eat slowly and chew carefully, don't gobble tigerly, because slow eating is easy to produce satiety, which is helpful to diet control. Properly changing the cooking habits of families, because the oil content of food after frying will increase significantly, and the calorie of 1 gram of oil is twice that of the calorie of the same amount of sugar and protein, so it is advisable to avoid frying as much as possible, and to adopt steaming, boiling and stewing methods that do not obviously heat the calorie.

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