限制小孩喝含糖飲料、或經常陪孩子進餐，真的有助他們養成良好的飲食習慣，避免出現小胖子嗎？答案恐怕未必。
據調查，國內學童肥胖率逐年升高，目前已達12%，且有5~10%的小孩罹患代謝症候群（血壓、血脂、血糖(新聞、網站)等數值偏高），日後健康堪虞；為此，正在舉行的台灣醫學會年會，今年還特別以此為題，探討影響兒童體位的因素。
董氏基金會食品營養組主任許惠玉調查了一千多名國小三到五年級學童，並訪問其家長，結果發現，家長的飲食行為是預測兒童飲食行為最重要的因素，例如，家長細嚼慢嚥、口味清淡、每天吃早餐頻率高，小孩過胖比率也相對較低。
值得注意的是，並非嚴格管教就能導正兒童的飲食習慣，像一般人都以為，避免小孩喝含糖飲料，小孩應該比較不會變胖，但調查卻發現，如此作法對女孩有效，對四、五年級的小男生卻有反效果，亦即家長愈是限制，肥胖比例愈高。
此外，調查也顯示，家長陪小孩進餐頻率愈高，其體型不正常的比率本應愈低，但這也只對低年級、尤其小女生有效，小孩一旦上了四、五年級，家長是否在旁監督進食，並不影響體型。
許惠玉表示，這可能因女孩子個性較順從，男孩子則隨年齡漸長，愈易有叛逆性格，一旦被限制食物，或家長在旁要求，反可能刺激他們故意唱反調，陽奉陰違，顯示家長的飲食教養策略必須視性別、年齡，而作調整。
她建議，培養飲食習慣要從幼兒開始，此時小孩尚無飲食偏好，沒有固定行為，只要家長勿錯誤引導（如要他們多吃點、吃快點），提供健康的飲食環境，其習慣應不致太差；而到了學童期，飲食應重質、多元，不應重量，就可減少肥胖問題。
專家提醒，隨著孩子長大，家長應尊重他們的自主權，以關懷、引導取代要求、限制，以免過度的控制降低了他們的自制能力，反更易導致飲食失調，埋下肥胖或過瘦的因子。
Restrain the child from drinking and sucking the candy beverage , or often accompanying the child to have meal, really help them to form the good eating habit, avoid the little fat person? Answer may not probably.
According to the investigation, the domestic pupil’s fat rate rises year by year, already been up to 12% at present, and 50% of the children suffer from the supersession disease group (number value , such as blood pressure , fat of blood , blood sugar (the news , website ) ,etc. on the high side), will bear the supposition healthily in the future ; For this reason, the annual meeting of medical association of Taiwan held, also very with the title of this this year, probe into the factor influencing children’s body posture.
Dong food nutrition group’s director Xu HuiYu of the foundation has investigated more than 1,000 three to fifth grade primary school pupils, and visited its parents , found finally , parents’ diet behavior was to predict the most important factor of children’s diet behavior, for example, parents chew carefully and swallow slowly, the taste is light , have breakfast frequency high every day, the child is relatively low too when passing the fat rate .
What merits attention is , disciplining strictly can lead the eating habit of straight children , as common people all thought , prevented the child from drinking and sucking the candy beverage , the child will not become fat, but investigate that finds , such practice is effective to girl , have the little boy student of grade four , five against the result, the more namely parents limit , the higher the fat proportion is.
In addition, the investigation shows too, parents accompany the child to have meal frequency is the higher, should be low its rate with abnormal size, but this is only effective to lower grade , especially little girl student, once the child is in grade four , five, whether parents are supervising to take food , do not influence the size .
Xu HuiYu says , perhaps this, because girl’s individual character is relatively submitted to, the boy is up to the age longer and longer, unless it is the apt have not rebelling against by personality , it once limit into food,or parents in by require, may irritate them to deliberately act contrary to on purpose instead , overtly agree but covertly oppose , must look at the sex , age to bring up the tactics while showing parents’ diet , and change.
She proposes, training the eating habit to begin from the infant, the child has no diet to have a partiality for yet at this moment, without regular behavior, so long as mistakes of parents are guided (if wants them to eat some , eat fast more), offer the diet environment of the health, its habit should be unlikely to be too bad; And has reached pupil one, quality , pluralism that diet should be heavy, not in conformity with weight, can reduce the fat problem .
The expert reminds, as the child grows up, parents should respect their autonomy , in order to show loving care for , guide and replace the request , restriction, in case that excessive control has reduced their self-control ability , it is apter to cause the diet to lack proper care instead , bury fatly or cross the thin factor.
文章定位：
