Eating by hand more useful

Eating by hand more useful

 

Proposed study by researchers from the University of Nottingham British the usefulness of skip feed the mother for her spoon to feed himself with his hands. After researchers tracking the habits of children ages 20 months to 6 years, they found that leaving the child eat with his hand giving him better control his appetite and time management food and quantity of intake, leading to avoid weight gain, compared with the mother is fed by a spoon for a long period (3 years).

Therefore, the researchers suggest that catering to the child even ate his hand since the beginning of the unit for solid food, rather than eating mashed with a spoon. But we drew attention to several things, including that the child does not develop skill capacity to carry food into the mouth, well before the age of 9-12 months. And you must customize one meal of solid food and the rest for soft meals eaten with a spoon, and cut food into small pieces (antifriction) while avoiding giving baby foods that may cause choking such as grapes and cut sausage and meat in General.

And for the development of the child's appetite, the controller advised the mother to stop feeding the child pending when winding on destination or take it out of his mouth. This is his own way of understanding you have satiation and feel the fullness