Myth 1: Calcium Supplement and Calcium Tablets
Children’s nutrition should not be supplemented by medicine, and it is best to obtain it through a balanced diet. Calcium supplement is not the more the better. Blindly giving children calcium tablets is also easy to cause excess calcium supplement. Light calcium supplement will lead to loss of appetite, abdominal pain, abdominal distension and constipation, while heavy calcium supplement will lead to hypercalcemia, iron and vitamin absorption disorders after a long period of excess calcium supplement.
Myth 2: Dry stool and eat bananas
Bananas do contain a lot of dietary fiber, but they are not the most, even worse than pears and pitaya, while some vegetables and coarse grains contain more dietary fiber. If they are not ripe bananas, the tannic acid content is relatively high, which is easy to cause constipation.
Myth 3: It is good to eat more animal liver,
The iron in the liver is in the form of heme iron, The human body absorbs it more than iron from other sources. If you rely on eating liver to supplement iron, In the amount of food, It can be less than other iron-containing foods. However, The liver, as an organ that decomposes toxins, has relatively more heavy metals and drugs than other organs. For children whose bodies are not yet fully developed, the liver is not the best choice. If you want to eat liver, you can give priority to poultry liver (such as chicken liver and duck liver), and when it is used as a supplementary food for infants, it should not exceed 25g per week.
Myth 4: If you don’t like vegetables, replace them with fruits.
In fact, fruits cannot replace vegetables. Although they have many similarities in nutritional ingredients, similarities do not mean the same. In daily diet, children can eat less or no fruits by supplementing a certain amount of fresh vegetables, but on the contrary, eating only fruits and not vegetables is not feasible.
Myth 5: Drink Milk Early
Relevant data from the Chinese Nutrition Society show that the mortality rate of diarrhea among infants who are not exclusively breast-fed within 6 months is 15-25 times higher than that among infants who are breast-fed. Therefore, babies under 1 year old are not recommended to drink milk, and exclusive breast-feeding should be adhered to within 6 months and continue breast-feeding until after 1 year old.