Not too early for children to eat chocolate

 Not too early for children to eat chocolate
Q: I see a lot of parents around the two-year-old children will feed chocolate, so in the end it really does not know is good?
Readers of Ms. Yang, Sichuan, senior public nutritionist
Zhang Jingyang: whether ordinary chocolate wafer, or the dazzling selection of chocolate cake, chocolate pastry, are attracting the child's eyes, a taste, but also can not forget. but parents must be noted that the baby should not be under the age of 3 eating chocolate, eating up a large number also pay attention to.
chocolate contains high calories, nutrients are not suitable for children growth and development needs. The first is the children to eat chocolate, it will reduce appetite. because of partial protein content of chocolate low, high fat content, sugar content is relatively higher, before meals, excessive consumption may produce satiety, thereby affecting the appetite, but the child soon after dinner there will be hunger. again and again, the normal patterns of life and eating habits is disrupted, is bound to affect their health. Second, and more fat in chocolate, but without the normal gastrointestinal motility can stimulate the cellulose, thus affecting the gastrointestinal tract of the digestion and absorption. Again, chocolate contains the nerve system stimulant substances, easily lead to over-excited children difficult to sleep. Finally, there is a problem, because children can not properly brush your teeth, eat chocolate easily lead to tooth decay, and to an increase in intestinal gas caused by abdominal pain.
some parents to develop children's sense of taste, the taste of chocolate taste to the baby, it is possible, but pay attention to controlling the amount of really kick the tires. eating chocolate in a timely manner so that the baby Hekou white water to avoid tooth decay.
older kids can eat a little chocolate. According to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nutrition and Food Safety, jointly prepared by the Chinese Nutrition Society and the appropriate. I suggest that parents preferred dark chocolate, because dark chocolate in the relatively less sugar content, is relatively more healthy.
suffered from eczema, urticaria, or allergic children to eat more chocolate to be careful, because the chocolate up to hundreds of chemical components, For the children, about to accept so many substances, a little bit risky.