The 3-year-old child has myopia just because of his parents' "spoiling"

Every sweet food has infinite temptation for children. "Eating too much sugar will damage your teeth" may be a reason most parents use to reject their children, but do you know other harmful effects of eating too much sugar?

He's only 3 years old and he's already wearing glasses!

"Uncle, I'm here again!" The 5-year-old girl shouted to the doctor as soon as she entered the door. Mingming's mother said that Mingming squinted when he was 3 years old. He went to the hospital for a check-up and found that he was nearsighted. He has been wearing glasses since then. The annual number has increased again in the past two years and is now 300 degrees. "I'm not nearsighted, and neither is his father. I don't know why this child is nearsighted?" Mingming's mother said, "He's nearsighted before he even starts school. He still has a long way to go. How can he get there?"

Doctors say that the main cause of myopia in children is unscientific use of the eyes, watching TV and using the computer for too long, mostly more than two or three hours a day. Another important reason is too much sugar intake!

What are the dangers of eating too much sugar?

1. Endocrine system diseases

Candies or sweets contain a lot of sugar and are high in calories. Eating too much can easily lead to obesity. Gaining weight may also cause cardiovascular diseases.

Eating too much sweets will also increase the burden on the pancreas. If the human body stays in a high blood sugar environment for a long time, the body's originally balanced internal environment will be disrupted, excessive blood sugar secretion will occur, and there is a risk of developing diabetes. Especially for children with a family history of diabetes, they should pay more attention to eating less sugar and exercising more.

2. Myopia

What is the relationship between eating sugar and myopia? It really does matter!

When sugar is metabolized in the human body, a large amount of vitamin B1 is needed to help reduce the calcium content in the body. Vitamin B1 has a nourishing effect on the optic nerve, and its content will affect the state of the optic nerve. Calcium is the "protector" of eye tissues. Calcium deficiency will not only cause a decrease in the elasticity of the retina, but also increase the pressure in the lens, lengthen the anterior-posterior diameter of the eyeball, affect the toughness of the eyeball wall, and make myopia more likely to occur.

Eating too much sugar can also increase myopia! Because of eating too much sugar, blood sugar increases, which correspondingly reduces the osmotic pressure of body fluids, causing the aqueous humor in the eyeball to penetrate into the lens, causing lens deformation, increased refractive power, and worsening myopia.

3. Malnutrition

Aren’t candies and sweets high in calories? How can malnutrition still occur? In fact, high calories and nutritious are completely different things! Because sugar can only provide calories and has no other nutritional value. When you eat too much sugar every day, the intake of other nutrients will inevitably decrease, resulting in a lack of protein, vitamins and minerals in the body, which can easily cause nutritional imbalance.

Some children don’t want to eat if they eat too much sweets. If they accidentally get cavities, the pain when chewing food will also affect their appetite. Over time, it will lead to nutritional deficiencies and affect their growth and development.

4. Withdrawn personality

Some children not only have strange personalities, but are also hyperactive, have difficulty concentrating, and have poor academic performance. Investigations and studies have found that a considerable number of children with similar symptoms are related to excessive intake of sweets.

From a medical perspective, if there is too much sugar in the body, metabolites such as pyruvate and lactic acid will increase significantly. At this time, a large amount of vitamin B1 will be needed to accelerate the excretion of these metabolites. Vitamin B1 cannot be synthesized naturally in the body and depends entirely on intake from food. However, children with picky eating habits find it difficult to take in more foods containing vitamin B1. When the body lacks vitamin B1, carbohydrate metabolites such as pyruvate will accumulate in the brain in large quantities, causing abnormalities in the child's personality.

5. Reduce immunity and affect sleep

A recent study found that sweet foods can reduce the body's immunity. Under normal circumstances, the average phagocytic ability of a white blood cell in human blood is 14. After eating a dessert, it will become 10. After eating a sugary snack, it will become 5. After eating a piece of cream chocolate, it will become 2. It can be seen that sweets have a certain impact on immunity.

In addition, eating too much sweets also has adverse effects on sleep. Researchers once surveyed 1,000 people with sleep disorders and found that more than 87% of them loved to eat sweets.