Eating ice ≠ health: get out of the traditional concept of health

with the improvement of people's living standards, ice cream has become China's children in the hot summer heat to quench thirst, to maintain a happy mood of the main snack. When it comes to ice cream, people love its deliciousness,always worry about whether eating ice cream will get fat, will not cause children abdominal pain tummy tuck. This essay aims to correct parents' misconceptions that ice cream can lead to sub-health in their children.eating reasonable ice cream does not lead to childhood obesitythe causes of childhood obesity depend not only on energy intake and spending imbalances, but also on the choice of snack type. Ice cream contains more water and carbohydrates, protein and other nutrients, compared to fried fast food snacks(fried chicken wings, fried potato chips, etc.), ice cream energy density is much lower (energy density refers to each unit of weight of food to provide the amount of energy absorbed by the body). And in children and adolescents in the hot summer after a lot of exercisesweat, can be timely water and nutrients such as protein needs, to help cool the heat, happy mood. International dietary research shows that choosing snacks with high energy, high fat and added sugar is one of thefactors leading to obesity. Ice cream is not among the top three foods that cause obesity, while refined and fried fast food is often considered to provide excess energy without providing the necessary othernutrients. Unhealthy dietary nutrition and lack of exercise are important causes of obesity in children and adolescents. Many parents one-sidedly believe that childhood obesity is caused by children eating snacks such as ice cream , as long as the control of children do not eat snacks can solve the problem. This concept is not only not conducive to children to establish healthy eating habits, but also affect the family to create a pleasant dining environment, increase the negative mood of children against eating.Unilever's team of dietitians believes that children choosing low energy density or recommended snacks based on their physical condition and meal intake in moderation can maintain a balanced diet, promote health, and avoid overweight and obesity .There is no inevitable link between ice cream and gastrointestinal discomfort many parents believe that eating ice cream can causesymptoms of gastrointestinal discomfort in their children, limiting their children's choice of ice cream in order to eat other snacks or beverages with higher energy sugar. There is a lack of understanding in this concept. According to the study, this kind of cognition is moretraditional ideas and lacks the necessary scientific reporting support. Too much cold food interferes with the body's internal environment leading to stomach discomfort, and TCM's explanation is not entirely due to food temperature. But many people define ice cream as coldfood, and the low temperature characteristics of ice cream are simply classified aschilling
"
, so it has a stimulating effect on the gastrointestinal, and such misreading of Traditional Chinese medicine theory is often the theoretical basis of some traditional ideas. Scientific tests showedthat the intake of cold drinks had no significant effect on stomach secretion. At the same time, the study found that even people who were extremely sensitive to lactose intolerance had a minimum tolerance that was not affected by the milk content contained in ice cream at normal consumption.For the cold properties of ice cream on gastrointestinal discomfort concerns, people should be more alert to overeating eating behavior, suddenly change normal eating habits, eat too many snacks or drinks, a large amount of food stay in the gastrointestinal, can not digest ato's, can cause acute gas expansion, will produce gases or harmful substances. This is likely to cause acute gastroenteritis, abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, vomiting and other symptoms. Nutrition experts believe that children and adolescents in the weekday diet rules law, reasonable enjoyment of ice cream not only make people happy, create a relaxed dining atmosphere, conducive to food intake digestion, but also in the need for energy supplements (especially after sweating), timely provision of points of water, energy and other important nutrients, play a role in relieving tension.
, the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations jointly published a book on human energy demand,
6-12
years of age, the average daily energy demand of young children is
1855
kca (
7767
kJ). China's children's and adolescents snack consumption behavior trend research (
1991-2004
) shows that a child and adolescent to remove three meals a day to provide the energy required, and
18 to 21%
of the energy from daily snacks and beverages, such as ice cream. It is calculated that about 330 kca
of
energy comes from snacks and
.
if children eat
3
snacks a day, that snack should not exceed
110
kca. To help consumers who love ice cream make a reasonable choice, Unilever recommends choosing ice cream based on the following principles:
1
) depending on the individual's physical condition and the intake of the meal;
2
) Snacking at the right time does not affect 's appetite for a meal;
3
) Parents should select ice creams suitable for young children for energy, saturated fat and sugar, and choose products designed to meet the physiological conditions and nutritional needs of the population.