When you are angry or irritated, you impulsively choose sweet foods… You also need to take care of your children.
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Reducing impulsivity due to negative emotions in childhood can help children avoid craving too many sweet foods.[사진=게티이미지뱅크]There are many parents who are upset because their children are constantly looking for sweet snacks and want to feed them only healthy foods, but things are not going as they would like. You may want to stop eating altogether, but what if you just don’t listen? Research has shown that if children stay in as good a mood as possible, they are less likely to crave sweet foods.
According to the medical news portal ‘News Medica Life Science’, a recent study analyzed whether increasing the psychosocial well-being index or decreasing emotional impulsivity is useful for improving children’s diet during childhood, and the result was a decrease in impulsivity It was introduced that the effect was greater.
This means that maintaining positive emotions and mood and taking care of emotional or mental health can help reduce the consumption of foods that are too sweet or high in fat. Especially during adolescence, food choices can be greatly influenced by the environment, and it is especially easy to try to relieve negative emotions and stress by eating unhealthy foods that are high in sugar or calories.
The researchers conducted the study by collecting and analyzing data four times through 2021, starting with data collection on young people in eight European countries between 2007 and 2008. In the first period, data was collected from 16,230 people, and in the fourth data from 5,703 people were analyzed in the most recent period. Accordingly, it was confirmed that as the psychosocial well-being index increased, the average tendency towards sweetness decreased significantly, but changes in impulsivity due to emotions could have a greater impact.
Generally, people with a high index of psychosocial well-being tend to choose a healthier diet. Since these psychosocial well-being effects are also achieved based on the ability to control emotional impulsivity, the analysis is that paying more attention to children’s emotional health and psychological state during childhood may ultimately be a way to take care of their physical health.
The study is considered significant as it can be approached from a psychological perspective to improve children’s diets to reduce sugar and fat intake. Starting from the fact that efforts to make children happy and lead them to grow up emotionally healthy can influence their diet, some voices argue that it is important to find more effective and feasible ways to reduce the intake of sweet and high-fat foods. out However, it was noted as a limitation that the data were collected using questionnaires filled in directly by the participants, which could lead to large errors.
Eating a lot of unhealthy foods, such as sweet foods, during the growth period can disturb the body’s nutritional balance and hinder growth. Of course, it can cause childhood obesity, and active oxygen and sugar destroy skin cells, causing skin diseases such as atopic dermatitis and acne. Eating a lot of sweet foods can make you feel better in a short period of time, but as the body adapts to blood sugar levels suddenly rising and then falling rapidly, it can actually have a negative impact on your mental health due to the flu of hormones.
The study was published in the international journal “Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity”.
Journalist Kim Geun-jeong
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