Abstract
Cultivation and development of children’s healthy diet behaviors is one the major purposes of children’s education, and meanwhile it will have far-reaching impact on the behaviors of behaviors. Healthy diet behaviors of children refer to rational selection and intake of food so that the children can ensure enough intake of nutrition that can meet the needs for metabolism and growth. Thus, it is of vital importance to develop healthy diet habits of children. This study interprets the physical qualities of adolescents, analyzes the guiding role and value of nutrition education on the children’s healthy diet behaviors, and explores how to give full play to the role of nutrition education to children’s healthy diet behaviors.
Highlights
According to surveys by World Health Organization, aside from factors including congenital conditions, geographic conditions and movements, other factors influence the human nutritional balance; in particular, diet behaviors take up 55% of the total influence
Kindergartens should organize more diverse nutrition education activities to increase their awareness of healthy diets, guide children towards healthy dietary habits that will benefit them for a life time and lay a foundation for their future development [1]
Children lack selfcontrol or judgement, requiring teachers and parents to provide correct guidance, guide them towards good dietary habits, including not being picky in food, no overeating, no dietary biases, etc., to improve their physical development, protect them from chronic diseases and ensure their healthy development [5]. Given these analyses, carrying out nutrition education in kindergartens can allow children to learn about the importance of healthy diet; diverse and interesting nutrition education activities can increase the children’s awareness of healthy dietary habits, encourage them to follow the guidance of teachers and parents, adopt rational dietary habits so that children can develop physical and psychological well-being [6]
Summary
According to surveys by World Health Organization, aside from factors including congenital conditions, geographic conditions and movements, other factors influence the human nutritional balance; in particular, diet behaviors take up 55% of the total influence. Mr Hong Ping from China Student Nutrition and Health Development Association analyzed the conditions of excessive nutrition and malnutrition among children in China, and pinpointed that some chronic disease caused by imbalanced diets such as diabetes and obesity to draw more attention to children’s nutrition intake and dietary nutrition [2]. Studies reviewed above revealed that how to develop healthy dietary habits would be a crucial step in improving the physical conditions of infants, children and adolescents. To improve this problem, kindergarteners, as the guide for children in growth, should undertake their responsibilities and pay attention to children’s diet, conduct nutrition education, increase the society’s awareness of children’s nutrition, encourage children to develop healthy and scientific dietary habits and gain good psychological and physical development
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