Patient's question:
The child is 9 years old and weighs 55 jin, with a height of 1.33 meters.Doctor's answer:
Dietary Principles1. Avoid obesity and maintain an ideal and appropriate weight.
2. Eat at fixed times and in fixed quantities, following the planned portion sizes for each meal without arbitrary increases or decreases.
3. Consume less fried, deep-fried, oily, and high-fat foods such as pork skin, chicken skin, and duck skin.
4. Prefer cooking methods like steaming, boiling, cold salads, hot pot, grilling, roasting, stewing, and braising. Avoid excessive salt; the recommended daily salt intake should be less than 6 grams.
5. Avoid excessive salt and limit foods high in cholesterol, such as offal like kidneys, liver, and intestines.
6. Use plant-based oils for cooking.
7. Combine long-term and appropriate exercise, medication, and dietary control.
8. Frequently choose high-fiber foods, such as unprocessed fruits and vegetables.
9. Consume high-starch foods and Western and Chinese pastries according to planned portion sizes, avoiding eating to prevent excessive intake.
10. Limit refined sugar foods, such as condensed milk and candied fruits.
11. Use bitter melon or bitter melon tea more often. Bitter melon helps lower blood sugar safely and has no side effects. Diabetes prevention and control are much simpler than treatment.