Kids mealtime should not be too long

Each meal time the children should not eat more than 30 minutes, because if too long to develop the habit of eating, easy propagation of bacteria causing tooth to increase the chance of suffering from dental caries.

Malaysia, the clinical dental experts found that children suffering from dental caries in general have a bad habit, that is, eating a long time. Therefore, further study of dentists showed that if the food stays in the mouth for more than half an hour, then easily lead to the breeding of germs and teeth to increase the chance of suffering from tooth decay dental caries. Experts recommend that children eat each meal time should be controlled within 30 minutes.

Experts also said: "eating food for more than half an hour not only taste variation, making children more reluctant to eat, resulting in a vicious cycle, and cooling of food also affects digestion and induced gastrointestinal diseases." In addition, if the children develop the habit of eating too long, not only affects the normal family life and the health of its future, will also lead to problems of collective life.

Two-year-old to five-year-old eating habits children develop a critical period, but this time the child is full of curiosity and self-awareness, vulnerable to the attraction of the external environment, can not concentrate on the consumption of food likes and dislikes are also gradually set up. Children 6 months or so training should begin to chew during this period if parents fail to give adequate help, resulting in the lack of chewing training children, resulting in only eat liquid food, refusal of solid food to eat when they grow up will be very slow speed.
Experts remind parents that if the child was found not long-term loss of appetite, growth and development even worse than the average child should see a doctor promptly, so as not to delay the disease; At the same time, parents should set an example, various types of food intake evenly; meals to avoid the evaluation of food quality to help children establish good eating habits.