Do not add salt baby food supplement

how to add supplementary food, both nutrition letting their children eat, which is Many parents concerned about the baby, which nutrition experts train the answer.

City Health Department deputy director Liu Dongdong, said the baby 6 months old, meal arrangements can be gradually began to try with cereals, vegetables, animal food, every day should be arranged with fruit.Note that, parents should make as little as possible complementary sugar, no salt, without spices, but can add a small amount of cooking oil.This is the latest version of Chinese dietary guidelines recommendations.

She explained that the high incidence of hypertension in China with a high salt intake is related to control and reduce salt intake in adults, we must start from childhood, and the control received the sooner the better.The baby's kidneys were not well developed, add salt too early will increase the burden on the kidney.Baby's taste is in the developmental process, the external stimulus sensitive seasoning, add seasoning likely to cause the baby fussy or loss of appetite, less food to the baby sugar, the aim is to prevent dental caries.

Liu Dongdong, said food supplement should be noted that the baby gradually began to try and become familiar with a wide variety of food, especially vegetables, can gradually transition to the addition of milk outside the meal separately from other food components.

month, can be gradually increased to three meals a day, this meal does not include the number of dairy food.To limit the intake of fruit juices and avoid beverages with low nutritional value, so as not to affect food intake.Recommended for feeding to the baby food spoon, for the July to 8-month-old baby should be allowed to use hand or grab food to eat, to 10 months to 12 months old infants were encouraged to eat with a spoon himself, so the baby can exercise hand-eye coordination function, and promote fine motor development.She reminded that the milk should be 6 months to 12 months old the main source of nutritional needs of infants, it is recommended to ensure that every day should be 600-800 ml of milk to ensure normal physical and intellectual development of infants.June breast milk is still the first choice to 12 months old baby food, baby needs, such as breast milk can not meet, you can use a larger infant formula be supplemented.

(internship Editor: Wu Jinyu)

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