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We will introduce excerpts from past musubi magazines and books published by Seishoku Publishing.
The eighth installment is an interview with Ms. Shoko Yamanaka about children's food worries from the special feature "Musubi Magazine June 6" "Can you change your eating behavior?"
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At the time of baby food, give various foods “perseverely”
"It's especially important when weaning baby food," says Yamanaka.
Babies around that time will try to grab anything that comes in contact with their hands or eyes and put it in their mouth. It is a remnant of the work of checking whether it is edible or not.
Omnivorous animals have contradictory behavioral tendencies, [food neophobia] and [food novelty preference].
Food neophobia is reluctance to eat foods that have never been eaten.Food novelty, on the other hand, refers to the willingness to eat foods that have never been eaten before.This conflicting behavioral tendency is called the omnivorous dilemma.
Ms. Yamanaka advises, "Give them all kinds of things," since they may not want to eat foods that their mothers didn't give them when they were weaning, due to food neophobia.
The trick is to repeat it patiently, such as giving the same thing after a day without giving up even if it doesn't work the first time.Babies are fickle and can turn away not because they like or dislike the food, but simply because it's hot or cold.
If mothers don't think, "I've gone to great lengths to make this," but have the feeling of, "I don't have to eat it," then they won't get frustrated even if their child doesn't eat.
Place a newspaper underneath and let them eat by hand.
"Eating by hand" that stains not only the area around the mouth and what you are wearing, but also the surroundings.Some adults frown, but Mr. Yamanaka preaches, "Let's do it more and more."
By eating with your hands, your baby develops the sense of the hands and the distance from the mouth to the food.This in turn helps when holding a spoon or holding chopsticks.
It also recognizes the difference between "hot/cold" and "soft/hard" foods as well as the mouth.
If you understand the importance of eating with your hands, you won't have to worry about being "badly behaved" or "dirty."Having said that, if the floor gets dirty, it will be difficult to clean, so if you put newspaper on the floor beforehand, you won't get angry.
“In order to raise a child with leeway, it is necessary to anticipate the future to some extent. I want people to understand that things like that can happen.I hope that through this kind of simulated experience, they will be able to come up with ways to avoid getting angry.”
"I'm hungry" is a chance to overcome what you're not good at
The question "How do I get rid of my likes and dislikes?" is an old and new problem.
As soon as I get home from work in a hurry, my child often cries, "I'm hungry."How are you doing when that happens?
Mr. Yamanaka, who had a similar experience, said, "That's when you end up doing 'baby rice crackers'. But if you do that, the baby will be full. Even if it doesn't, the next thing you eat will definitely not taste good."
There is a psychological experiment in which people are given sweetened sugar water and have them put a small amount of sugar water in their mouths every few minutes.Have one person spit out the sugary water, and have the other swallow it straight down.
After continuing for more than an hour, the person who spit it out maintains the initial sensation of “sweet and delicious,” while the person who swallows it gradually loses the feeling of “delicious.”
Even if it is a small amount, if it enters the body as nutritional value and energy, it will raise the blood sugar level.When blood sugar rises, people respond by curbing their appetite.
“If something tastes good all the time, you won’t be able to stop eating it, so your body is designed to make it taste less delicious.
Even if you are not actually full, if you eat even a little something that gives you energy, the taste will gradually decrease.This seems to be a theory of food behavior studies called [Kansei Satisfaction].
Applying that theory, instead of giving a hungry and crying child a snack, if you give him something that he was not good at until then, he may come to think that it is surprisingly delicious. No,” Yamanaka said.
"However, there are times when they are too hungry and say 'Oh', so I want you to see the limit. The point is to give them something they don't like when they are a little hungry."
As the Western saying goes, “Hunger is the best seasoning.”
Instead of forcing green peppers, which I originally disliked, I “replace” them with other vegetables.
There are other ways to deal with likes and dislikes.
What Mr. Yamanaka tells students, especially those studying nutrition, is to “try to replace them.”
For example, it is not uncommon for children to dislike green peppers.One reason for this is the bitterness of peppers.For living organisms, bitter and sour tastes foreshadow dangers such as poisons and putrefaction, so it is actually a rational and natural behavior for children to try to avoid these tastes.
If you know this, you can replace it with other vegetables that contain the same nutrients, such as the vitamin A contained in peppers, without forcing the bitter green peppers that children originally try to avoid.
“There is no need to raise the hurdle if you want your child to eat bitter peppers right from the start. Contrary to bitterness, it is a taste that people naturally like, so it works well.”
As children gain experience with bitterness, they will understand that it is not poison.
And it's also effective to praise your child if he or she manages to eat even a few peppers. “When children say, ‘I was able to eat green peppers!
There is also a trick to cutting green peppers.If you cut it horizontally, the bitterness and smell will be stronger, so it's a good idea to cut it vertically to soften the bitterness.
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Sachiko Yamanaka
Associate professor at Ikenobo Junior College.He is a doctor (new medicine).He is also a part-time lecturer at Kobe Shoin Women's College Faculty of Human Sciences and Kyoto Tachibana University Faculty of Human Development. In 1991, she graduated from Doshisha University, majoring in psychology. After working for a private company for three years, she went to study in France for half a year. In 3 she entered Kobe Shoin Women's Junior College.After giving birth and taking a leave of absence, she graduated from the same junior college in 97, majoring in food and nutrition science, and obtained a license as a nutritionist. In 2000 she obtained her registered dietitian license. In 2002, he worked as an assistant in the Department of Life Sciences at Kobe Shoin Women's Gakuin University, completed the first half of the doctoral course at the Graduate School of Human Sciences at Kobe College, and completed the second half of the doctoral course at the Graduate School of Chemistry at Doshisha University.He took up his post at Ikenobo University in 05, and has been teaching public health, food hygiene, and food value to students aiming to become confectionery hygienists.
