Report on the Dietary Behavior of Primary and Secondary School Students in Seven Cities of China

The “Report on the Dietary Behavior of Primary and Secondary School Students in Seven Cities of China” found that most students had an insufficient nutritional mix for breakfast. A foreign study shows that the quality of breakfast directly affects students' performance.

    Everyone knows that ensuring your child's nutrition is the most important thing. However, do you know what kind of breakfast is enough to ensure adequate nutrition?


    Recently, the “Report on the Dietary Behavior of Primary and Secondary School Students in Seven Cities of China” led by the Nutrition and Food Safety Institute of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that most primary and secondary school students did not have enough breakfast. According to the survey, at present, primary school students, junior high school students, and high school students have a higher proportion of breakfast every day, but their nutritional mix is ​​only less than 20%.

    Breakfast nutrition misunderstanding

    Professor Zhao Lin, a researcher in the Nutrition Department of the General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army, once made a TV show to let the grandparents who participated in the program pick up breakfast. One of the grandmothers chose 3 ham, 1 loaf, 1 egg and 1 cup of milk. The grandmother said, "As long as my grandson eats more, I am happy"; another parent chose one. Banana, an apple, a bean bag and a bowl of porridge.
    “Actually, the parents’ cultural level or concept of life has a lot to do with the choice of breakfast. Some children’s breakfast is prepared by grandparents and requires some healthy eating training for grandparents.” Zhao Lin said, breakfast guarantee Enough carbohydrates are important, you can eat a small apple or a fresh vegetable, breakfast does not have to pursue bread and milk.
    “Bread is baked at high temperatures. Once the cooking temperature exceeds 120°C, carbohydrate-rich foods will produce by-products – acrylamide. It is a healthy way to promote low-temperature cooking. In addition, the effect of drinking milk in the morning is also It’s better to drink a cup of soy milk or a bowl of porridge.” Zhao Lin explained that milk will produce serotonin, so it will be sleepy and hypnotic. The effect of drinking at night is better than that in the morning. The milk contains less than 11 solid substances. %, nutrients are far from meeting the child's demand for carbohydrates and glucose.



    For the student's breakfast, you can choose to drink a bowl of eight-treasure porridge, including grains, beans, and nuts. You can also eat low-temperature cooking buns, sesame paste, boiled eggs and a small bowl of dates. If you have an exam in the morning, you can take a small piece of chocolate to replenish your strength; and if you have a heavier physical activity in the morning, you can eat a fritter or a cake.

    Breakfast quality and student achievement

    Spain's "National News" recently reported that a survey conducted by the University of Alcala in Madrid showed that 7 out of every 10 teenagers had insufficient breakfast, and the quality of breakfast directly affected students' academic performance. Maria Aguilar, the head of the University's Department of Nutrition and Toxicology, stressed that an important way to get enough food for adolescents at home is to ensure a variety of foods.
    "Children have a good breakfast and have a great effect on improving learning efficiency in the morning, because, in the day of study, the morning study tasks are very heavy, including early self-study and four classes in the morning, so it can be said that breakfast Quality will directly affect students' performance.” Professor Zhao Lin pointed out that it is well known that the brain's activities consume about 30% of the body's glucose. Eating a nutritious breakfast can ensure that people are energetic throughout the morning and maintain normal brain. Running.
    On the contrary, today's working families choose not to eat breakfast in the morning, or simply deal with the breakfast, and the immediate consequences not only make the work in the morning inefficient but also bring various physical discomforts in the long run. "Don't eat breakfast in the morning, it is easy to form gallstones, hypoglycemia, etc." Zhao Lin said.

    Children should pay more attention to healthy eating

    With the development of the economy, people's living standards are also constantly improving. In the past, the phenomenon of “three days without knowing the taste of meat” has long ceased to exist. On the contrary, many families, if they have less fish or meat every day, will make people unable to swallow.
    “We went to Erdos to do a survey and asked the children there: 'What is your favorite food?' Most children choose meat, fried foods, foreign fast food, etc., and few children choose vegetables and fruits. This phenomenon makes us very worried." Zhao Lin said that many children now have obesity problems, which is closely related to the diet structure.

    In the 1990s, the World Health Organization recommended the “Mediterranean diet”, which is characterized by “omnivores”, starch-rich cereals and vegetable pastes, plus a large number of green leafy vegetables and fresh fruits, and a small amount of meat. The variety of foods and nutrients are comprehensive and meet the comprehensive needs of the human body for nutrition.
 
 “Now there are some meat products that are not safe, high-speed fattening livestock, poultry, feeds that contain antibiotics, hormones that promote growth, fattening, animal protein, etc. These ingredients enter the food chain and can adversely affect human health after eating. Nowadays, 'foreign fast food' is rampant because 'foreign fast food' is addictive, it will interfere with the body's hormone - 'leptin', making it impossible to control the amount of food; most of the fast foods cooked in high temperature are contained in fried foods. The calories are very high, and it is easy to gain weight when eating more. In addition, some of the oils used in foreign fast foods are hydrogenated oils, that is, oils produced by hydrogenating vegetable oils.” Hydrogenated oils produced by hydrogenation of natural vegetable oils contain natural substances. The existence of "trans fatty acids", "trans fatty acids" can affect the body's endocrine system, endangering health. Zhao Lin suggested eating vegetables and fruits as much as possible, using plant protein instead of animal protein, and controlling the amount of food for meat.

    Zhao Lin reminded: "Children should eat a few snacks as possible. Some snacks such as various pies (yolk pie, strawberry pie, apple pie), wafer biscuits, cream cakes, etc., most of the oil used is margarine (ie plants) Butter), the test found that the children love to eat, 27% of the fat contained in the trans fatty acid, 25% of the fat contained in the wafer is trans fatty acid, which will seriously affect the body's cholesterol level after consumption. Increased the content of harmful cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, thereby promoting the occurrence of coronary heart disease, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases." 
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