What are the health hazards of drinking fake milk for babies? Common knowledge of children's food safety

Milk is rich in protein and nutrients, and many parents will let their children drink milk. However, there are some fake milks on the market. If parents buy them carelessly, it may cause great harm to children's health.

1. Obesity All milk drinks and lactobacillus drinks contain a lot of sugar. Studies have shown that children aged 2-3 should not consume more than 25 grams of added sugar per day, and children aged 4-8 should not consume more than 35 grams of added sugar per day. The sugar in a bottle of lactobacillus drink far exceeds this amount. If children often consume excessive sugar, they will easily become obese. In addition, excessive sugar intake can easily lead to diseases such as type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

2. Tooth decay Many children now have tooth decay since childhood, and a large part of the reason is that they often drink sweetened drinks. Therefore, for the sake of their children's dental health, parents must let their children drink less fake milk.

3. Impact on growth and development Milk-containing beverages have another common feature, which is that they contain more food additives such as flavors and pigments, and have less milk content and low nutritional value. Frequent drinking of such beverages can easily cause children to have poor appetite, picky eating, and partial eating problems. Long-term drinking can easily cause malnutrition in children and affect their growth and development.

1. Buy fresh milk. Fresh milk is raw milk that has been pasteurized and packaged directly. It is truly "real milk". Therefore, it is recommended that parents choose fresh milk when purchasing milk, or order fresh milk. The ordering service generally delivers fresh milk to your door every day, which can ensure the freshness of the milk, safety and convenience.

2. Buy pure milk Pure milk is also genuine "real milk". Compared with fresh milk, pure milk is sterilized differently, so the shelf life is also different. If it is inconvenient to buy and order fresh milk, pure milk is also a good choice.

3. Check the nutrition label If you don’t buy milk that is clearly marked as fresh milk or pure milk, parents must check the nutrition label. If the protein content is less than 20%, it is not real milk and it is recommended not to buy it for children. In addition, if there are multiple additives in the ingredient list, it is not recommended to buy it for children.

4. Pay attention to the shelf life. Many foods contain preservatives to extend the shelf life of food, but this ingredient will destroy the freshness of milk and cause the loss of nutrients in milk. Therefore, when parents choose milk for their children, they should try to choose milk with a short shelf life, which is fresher and more nutritious.

5. Don’t be cheap. Fresh, high-quality milk requires high costs for processing and storage, so the price of such milk will naturally be higher. Therefore, parents should not buy inferior products for the sake of cheapness, but choose products of better quality, which are worth it even if the price is a little higher.

1. Boiled water is the best drink for children

Children have a fast metabolism and need more water than adults. Therefore, lack or excess of water, minerals and trace elements will affect their health. At present, whether it is carbonated drinks, nutritional and health drinks, or purified water and mineral water that many families are keen on, they are not suitable to replace tap water as the main drinking water for people. Children who love to drink beverages but not water often have poor appetite, hyperactivity, bad temper, and are underweight. The most common and ordinary boiled water in life is actually the best drink for children. Drinking boiled water can not only meet children's physiological needs for water, but also provide them with some minerals and trace elements. When boiled tap water is cooled to 25-35 degrees Celsius, the biological activity of water increases, which is most suitable for human physiological needs.

2. Long-term excessive consumption of cold drinks is harmful to health

In summer, many children love to eat ice cream. Children aged 3-6 generally cannot control their appetite and eat whenever they want. Letting children eat 4 or 5 ice creams or drink 2 or 3 bottles of soda at a time is very bad for children's health. First of all, the body's gastric acid secretion decreases in summer, and the immune function of the digestive system decreases. The climatic conditions at this time are just suitable for the growth and reproduction of bacteria. Therefore, summer is a season for digestive tract diseases. Excessive consumption of cold drinks can cause a sudden drop in temperature in the gastrointestinal tract of children, slow down local blood circulation and other symptoms, affect the absorption and digestion of nutrients in food, and may even cause digestive disorders, nutritional deficiencies and frequent abdominal pain in children. In addition, some products in the cold drink market are in poor sanitary conditions, and many products do not meet hygiene standards. In this case, excessive consumption of cold drinks will increase the chances of children suffering from digestive system diseases.

3. Canned drinks are harmful to children

The cans that are loved by children are made of aluminum (AL) alloy. In order to prevent the aluminum alloy from contacting the beverage, the inner layer is coated with organic coating for isolation. During the production process, some manufacturers fail to fully coat the can wall with protective coating, or the coating is damaged during capping, filling and transportation, which will cause the beverage to come into direct contact with the aluminum alloy and dissolve aluminum ions in the beverage. A survey shows that the aluminum content of canned beverages is 3 to 6 times higher than that of bottled beverages. If you often drink canned beverages, you will inevitably ingest too much aluminum. Too much aluminum may cause children to have reduced intelligence and abnormal behavior, and is not conducive to the development of children's bones and teeth.

4. Long-term drinking of purified water can cause disease

The main difference between mineral water and tap water is that the content of certain minerals or trace elements in mineral water is high, which has health effects on specific groups of people. Drinking mineral water should be targeted, and it is best to supplement what is lacking. For example, children with zinc deficiency will benefit from drinking high-zinc mineral water. On the contrary, if there is no zinc deficiency and the zinc supply in the diet is sufficient, there is no need to drink this mineral water. Long-term excessive deposition of minerals and trace elements in the human body may cause certain diseases, the most common of which is kidney stones. Experts believe that at present, mineral water consumers are generally blind. Some parents do not understand that the ingredients of each mineral water are different, and their health effects are also different. Instead, they treat mineral water as an ordinary thirst-quenching drink for their children to drink, blindly believing that mineral water is better than tap water. This is a misunderstanding. If children drink it all year round, it will have an adverse effect on their health. Most products such as distilled water, purified water, and space water remove a large part of the minerals and trace elements in the water when removing industrial pollutants in the water. Long-term drinking will inevitably lead to insufficient intake of certain minerals or trace elements in the human body, causing adverse effects on the body, and the impact will be greater for children who are in the growth and development period.

5. Colored soda can affect physical development

The main ingredients of colorful soda are artificial sweeteners, artificial flavors, artificial pigments, and carbonated water, which are made by adding carbon dioxide gas. In addition to a certain amount of calories, there is almost no nutrition. The artificial sweeteners here include saccharin, sodium cyclamate, acesulfame potassium, and sweeteners. These substances are not absorbed and utilized by the human body, are not nutrients for the human body, are not beneficial to the human body, and are harmful to health. Those sodas with particularly bright colors contain a large amount of artificial pigments and flavors, which will cause potential harm to children. After excessive pigments and flavors enter the body of children, they are easily deposited on their immature digestive tract mucosa, causing loss of appetite and indigestion, interfering with the functions of various enzymes in the body, and causing adverse effects on metabolism and physical development. In addition, some colored popsicles, colored ice bricks, colored bags of ice, etc. are also harmful to children's development like colored sodas, and are also recommended not to be consumed.

6. Try to eat less or no puffed food

French fries, snow cakes, potato chips, shrimp crackers, shrimp chips, chicken strips, chicken strips, corn cobs...are the children's favorite puffed foods. Tests show that although puffed foods taste delicious, they are high in fat, high in calories, and low in crude fiber in terms of their ingredient structure. From the perspective of dietary structure analysis, they have certain defects and can only be eaten occasionally. Long-term and large-scale consumption of puffed foods will cause high intake of fat and calories and insufficient intake of crude fiber. If there is insufficient exercise, it will cause body fat accumulation and obesity. Children who often eat puffed foods will affect their normal diet, resulting in the lack of guarantee and supply of multiple nutrients, and prone to malnutrition. Puffed foods are generally high in salt and MSG, which will make children prone to high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease when they grow up. These are not conducive to the healthy growth of children.

7. Don’t take nutritional supplements at will

Parents believe that giving children supplements will promote growth and development, and hope to improve their intelligence through it, so they will buy various nutritional supplements, such as ginseng, deer antler, donkey-hide gelatin, cordyceps, pollen and other nutritional supplements. Little do they know that these supplements may be beneficial to adults, but they often cause many adverse consequences for children, such as decreased appetite and precocious puberty, because these supplements contain hormones and trace active substances, which affect the normal physiological metabolism of children. If the child is indeed weaker than other children, it is best to use them dialectically under the guidance of a doctor, and not give them to children at will, otherwise it will only force the growth of seedlings.

8. Eating jelly frequently will hinder nutrient absorption

Most of the jelly sold on the market is not made of fruit, but is made of sodium alginate, agar, gelatin, carrageenan and other thickeners, with a small amount of synthetic flavors, artificial colorants, sweeteners, acidifiers, etc. Although sodium alginate and agar are dietary fibers, excessive absorption will affect the absorption of fat and protein, especially inorganic salts such as iron and zinc will combine into soluble or insoluble mixtures, thus affecting the body's absorption and utilization of these trace elements.

9. Children should not drink too much cola or coffee.

A large number of studies have found that drinking coffee and caffeinated beverages regularly is not good for children's health. Caffeine is actually a stimulant that mainly acts on the central nervous system, stimulating heart muscle contraction, accelerating heartbeat and breathing. If children drink too much caffeine, they will experience symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, irritability, increased heart rate, and rapid breathing. In severe cases, it can also cause muscle tremors and hand shaking when writing. Caffeine is irritating and can stimulate gastric peristalsis and gastric acid secretion, causing intestinal cramps. Children who drink coffee regularly are prone to unexplained abdominal pain, and long-term excessive intake of caffeine can lead to chronic gastritis. Caffeine can dilate the capillaries on the gastrointestinal wall, and children's bone development will also be affected. At the same time, caffeine can also destroy vitamin B1 in children's bodies, causing vitamin B1 deficiency.

10. Western fast food has only a limited amount of nutrition, so don’t eat too much.

According to calculations, the energy provided by fat in a Western fast food meal for children accounts for 50% of the total energy, while the vitamin content is less than 10% of the fat content. The scientific nutritional standard is that 58% of food calories come from carbohydrates, 30% from fat, and 12% from protein. According to this standard, Western fast food, which is mainly composed of hamburgers, is just the opposite. It has the characteristics of "three highs": high calories, high fat, and high protein; "three lows": low minerals, low vitamins, and low fiber. High calories and high fat can lead to obesity. For children, the impact of Western fast food will be more obvious. If children eat Western fast food for a long time, it will have adverse effects on their physical development over time.