What is the effect of feeding food by showing a mobile phone to children?

 What is the effect of feeding food by showing a mobile phone to children?

  Now it is becoming a household story of feeding food to children by showing them mobile phones. Before feeding the baby, it has become a habit to show him his favorite cartoons or let him play games. By doing this, the parents think that the children will forget about the mobile phone and it will be easier to feed them.

But is it correct to feed the child by showing the mobile phone in this way? Does feeding in this way have any negative effect on the child or not?

Nutritionist Kamna Acharya says, 'Feeding or eating food while showing the mobile phone has not only an immediate but also a long-term effect. Because they eat food whether they are hungry or not.

In this way, when feeding food, children's attention is on the mobile phone rather than on the food. They know that they have eaten whatever they are fed, but they do not know what they are eating and how it tastes. Acharya, a nutritionist, says that he eats foods he is not interested in and keeps eating even if his stomach is full.

Can you digest food even if you are not interested?

Acharya says that when a child eats food he is not interested in, he can swallow it but cannot digest it. Children often feel nauseous and vomit while feeding or after feeding. If they are fed in this way, they may not be able to digest food, stomach upset and other health problems may occur," she says, "parents do not seem to pay much attention to this matter. There is a mindset that the parents will be able to eat as they please.

Psychologist Dr. Dilip Shrestha says that feeding by showing mobile or TV is not health promoting. This is called toxin (poison) practice. "Rather than enjoying food, watching videos on mobile is more fun. So he does not know what he ate. Even if he gets the nutrients his body needs by eating food, the digestion process is not easy," said Dr. Shrestha says.

What kind of video the child watches on the mobile also makes a difference. The enzymes needed to digest food cannot be developed. This will disturb the digestive process. Shrestha says.

Is there a connection between food and the mind?

Psychologist Shrestha says that there is an inseparable relationship between food and the brain. Even if the stomach feels hungry, the mind demands food. When it comes before food, the mouth becomes watery and excited, he says, 'Tasting is also easy to digest. Because the brain produces the enzymes needed to digest food.

According to psychologist Shrestha, children's minds cannot be focused on one place when they are fed food by showing them mobile phones. If you are not aware that you are going to eat, when you eat, the body cannot produce as much or as much of the enzymes that are needed to digest the food. Due to that, there may be a disturbance in the digestive process.

If you are watching violent, aggressive scenes on your mobile, it creates stress in your mind. This causes the body to produce the stress hormone cortisol. It causes the problem of disturbing the digestive process, increasing the heart rate, and disturbing the blood circulation.

Long-term effects of eating while looking at a mobile phone

The habit of feeding food by showing the mobile phone, television or laptop causes the child to become angry, stubborn, do anything to fulfill his wishes, depressed, not excited, unable to focus on one place, lack of thinking ability, lack of memory, Psychologist Shrestha Tells.

It also causes the problem of not mixing in the society and affecting the digestive process.

How to feed the baby food?

Acharya, a nutritionist, says that just like adults, children should be hungry while eating. She suggests that while eating, one should focus only on the food, be aware of what one has eaten and what one is eating.

Likewise, you should chew your food well, eat it happily until you swallow it, eat as much as you can, and set aside a regular and fixed time to eat. But nowadays children are fed whether they are hungry or not. Which is a very wrong habit,' says Acharya.