Chips, Snacks, Salads, Or Why We Forgot The Bread

Author: Nia Rouseberg Time for reading: ~2 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022

Chips, Snacks, Salads, Or Why We Forgot The Bread

We tend to blame the subsistence for overweight children, forgetting that we have to look elsewhere for the cause.

Take BGN 2 or 5 - as much as you give your child for breakfast at school, go to the first store that is closest to the place where your child studies and ask them to give you what is sold the most. You will be amazed - the saleswoman will immediately serve you chips, snacks or salads. Thus, a few days ago our leading pediatric endocrinologist Prof. Violeta Yotova from the University Hospital "St. Marina" - Varna, figuratively presented to the media the typical way of eating Bulgarian children. Which, of course, is very harmful, but is permanently present in the attitudes of both parents and children, judging by the queues in front of the pavilions for treats in the breaks.

Excessive employment, negligence, inertia, imitation, lack of desire and motivation for a change of attitude, simple laziness - probably for few of all these reasons form the basis of an irresponsible, but at the expense of very sustainable parental behavior - children to eat with ready-made attractive packaged foods that are not only not useful, but also harmful.

On the other hand, there are probably a few children who will share that they have breakfast with a slice of bread and cheese at home in the morning, for example, even less likely are those of them who bring a small breakfast from home .

"There is nothing better than the breakfast that mom and grandma prepared at home. Children do not gain weight from bread, but when they move a little, they consume a lot of sweets and their menu lacks fruits, vegetables and dairy products, "said Dr. Biserka Strahilova, a specialist in nutrition and dietetics at the University Hospital" Queen Joanna - ISUL ". .

Another young doctor, the pediatrician from the Children's Clinic of Alexandrovska Hospital, Dr. Dimitrinka Miteva, admitted that we need open positive information campaigns for healthy nutrition of children.

The medics said and continue to say their word. But does anyone bother to hear them?

Bread is a traditional Bulgarian food, today bread production in our country is one of the most highly developed parts of our food industry. Now parents have a choice between dozens of types of bread, produced by the most modern technologies and with the most precisely selected raw materials. However, there is a lack of awareness of these possibilities. And this void is opposed by an avalanche of advertisements for the aforementioned "delicacies" in shiny packaging, which have displaced the normal nutrition of children and caused many troubles, among which obesity and immobility occupy a leading place.

And they are completely preventable, experts say. If mom, dad and grandma listen more often to the advice of medics and do not blame the living, it is the cause of most pounds. Because bread is a staple food and if properly chosen, it can only be useful .

Chips, Snacks, Salads, Or Why We Forgot The Bread

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