Uma sekuyisikhathi sokulumula ingane yakho ebhodleleni? Lokhu kungase kube nzima ngabazali abasha ukukukala, kodwa isifundo esisha sikhuthaza imikhaya ukuba ingalindi isikhathi eside kakhulu.
I-American Academy of Pediatrics incoma ukuthi izingane ziliyeke ngokuphelele ibhodlela cishe eminyakeni engu-1, futhi zingakapheli izinyanga eziyi-18. Kodwa ucwaningo olusha, ukuhlaziya idatha yezingane ezingu-6,750 ezazalwa ngo-2001, ezabamba iqhaza ocwaningweni lwe-Early Childhood Longitudinal, i-Birth Cohort, lwathola ukuthi u-22% wezingane usasebenzisa amabhodlela njalo ezinyangeni ezingu-24. Futhi cishe ingxenye yesine yalezo zingane, ucwaningo lwathola, yayikhuluphele lapho eneminyaka emihlanu nengxenye.
Uma kuqhathaniswa, u-16% wezingane ezaziyeke ukusebenzisa amabhodlela lapho zineminyaka engu-2 zazikhuluphele eminyakeni emithathu nengxenye kamuva.
Abacwaningi basikisela ukuthi "ukusetshenziswa kwebhodlela isikhathi eside" - ukuphuza ebhodleleni ngaphezu kwezinyanga ezingu-12 kuya kwezingu-14 - kunezela ama-calories ngokweqile ekudleni kwengane, okwandisa ingozi yokuzuza isisindo. Izingane ziqala ukudla ukudla okuqinile cishe izinyanga ezine kuya kweziyisithupha; lapho eneminyaka engu-1 ubudala, umntwana ojwayelekile usuke edla ukudla okuqinile, okuhambisana nama-ounces ayi-10 kuye kwayi-16 obisi lonke ngosuku (futhi, kwezinye izingane, ukuncelisa).
Kodwa uma izingane ezisacathula ziqhubeka nokuthatha amabhodlela ngaphezu kwalokho (ibhodlela lobisi elingama-ounce angu-8 liqukethe ama-calories angu-150, noma u-12% walokho okudingwa ngumntwana oneminyaka engu-2 onempilo ngosuku), ama-calories aqala ukukhuphuka.
Ababhali balolu cwaningo babalele ezinye izici ezingase zibe nomthelela ekukhuluphaleni kwezingane, okuhlanganisa impilo kamama nokukhuluphala ngokweqile, isimo senhlalo-mnotho, ukuthi izingane zazinceliswa ibele ziseyizinsana kanye neminyaka lapho izingane ziqala khona ukudla ukudla okuqinile.
Ngisho nangemva kokulawula lezo zici, izingane ezineminyaka emibili ubudala eziphuze ebhodleleni zazisenethuba lokukhuluphala kakhulu - okuchazwa ngokuthi zinenkomba yesisindo somzimba noma ngaphezu kwe-95th percentile yeminyaka yazo - kunezingane ezilunyuliwe ngaphambili, abacwaningi bathi.
Banezela ukuthi ukuthembela emabhodleleni njalo ngesikhathi sokudla noma ukulalisa ingane ngebhodlela akukhona nje ukukhathazeka ngokukhuluphala. Lokhu kuziphatha kungase futhi kwandise ingozi yokuntuleka kwensimbi, uma izingane zingakutholi umsoco owanele ekudleni okuqinile, noma zikhuthaze ukubola kwamazinyo lapho izingane zithatha amabhodlela ukuze zilale futhi zehluleka ukuhlanganyela ekunakekelweni komlomo okufanele.
Ababhali bakhuthaza abazali ukuthi baxoxe ngamasu okulumula nodokotela bezingane, uma benenkinga. “Siyabona ukuthi ukumisa ibhodlela usenonyaka akulula, futhi ukulimisa lapho uneminyaka engu-2 kungase kube nzima nakakhulu,” umlobi oholayo u-Rachel Gooze, i-Ph.D. umfundi wezempilo yomphakathi e-Temple University's Center for Obesity Research and Education, utshele i-HealthDay. “Kungase kusize ukucabanga ukusuka ebhodleleni uye enkomishini njengengqophamlando yentuthuko, njengokusuka ekugaqeni uye ekuhambeni, okuyinto yokubungaza, ngisho noma kunezinselele.”
Ucwaningo lushicilelwe ku-Journal of Pediatrics.
