According to Dr. Do Thi Tuyet (Clinical Nutrition Institute), many families prefer children to eat soup, drink bone broth because they think this dish has high nutritional value, rich in calcium absorbed well, helping to increase height effectively.

However, experts affirmed that in fact, bone soup and bone soup in general have no miraculous nutrient with children so much.Using too many types of water can backfire.The causes are specified below:

1. Soup, soup with nutritional density is not as high as many people think

Want children to increase the optimal height, the diet for children plays the most important role.In nutrition, the most important thing to pay attention to is the nutritional density of food.

Nutrition density refers to the concentration of important nutrients in food based on calories.Put simply, food must have energy, help children full, healthy, and must contain ingredients to help children grow such as protein, vitamins and minerals.

Although the nutritional content of different types of soups and bone soups is sometimes different, most of them are high in water and fat, only a small amount of protein and minerals soluble in them.Let's analyze in detail:

Bone broth

What we get from bone broth is not only a rich color but also a more delicious taste.The reason is that the main nutritional composition of the bone broth is fat.Excessive consumption will cause children to be full of abdomen quickly, the risk of overweight, obesity.

Many people believe that the calcium content in bone broth is very high.But in fact, 1 liter of bone broth contains only about 10mg of calcium, while 1 liter of milk contains more than 1000mg of calcium.

Drinking bone broth not only supplements calcium but also loads large amounts of fat into the body.Therefore, this is not an effective calcium supplement solution to increase the optimal height for children.

Vegetable soup

Many babies do not like to eat vegetables, so parents have found a way to cook ingredients such as vegetables and mushrooms into soups.However, the main ingredient in vegetable soup is only water, minerals and a small amount of water -soluble vitamins.

Vegetable soup also does not provide children with necessary fiber and certainly cannot replace nutrients from raw materials.

Therefore, calcium loading for babies in this way is not as effective as expected.

Rice water

Rice juice is a water that produces in the process of boiling rice, which is considered as a nutritious dish.However, this water is not related to the nutrition for babies to grow height.

It is also not as nutritious as many people think.After boiling, starch in rice combined with water to form a concentrated soup but extremely low energy density.If you use it as a complementary food for your child, it is basically no more than drinking water.

However, sometimes, you can give your child these types of water, as long as not too much.Abuse of these types of water makes the child's stomach fill quickly, soon create a feeling of fullness and affect the use of solid food.The most obvious manifestation is that after drinking soup, eating soup, children cannot eat other dishes.

What should children do to increase comprehensive height?

In order for children to develop height to the maximum, parents need to focus on 3 golden stages in their development, which are the 3 stages of the fastest height increase.The first stage is when the baby is in the womb.The second phase is in the first 2 years of life.Stage 3 is when children start puberty.

In addition to focusing on the above 3 golden stages, parents need to pay attention to maintain their children a reasonable diet, moderation activities, and go to bed early before 10 pm.

Regarding the diet to pay attention to feeding the children fully, balancing groups of substances, supplementing foods rich in calcium (found in eggs, seafood such as shrimp, crab, fish, milk and dairy products ... ), vitamin D (cho con tắm nắng hàng ngày, từ 6-8h vào mùa hè và 7-9h trong các mùa khác, uống D3K2...).

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