Benefits of Babies Eating Coarse Grains
Eating coarse grains is beneficial for everyone, and it also has advantages for babies. So what are the benefits of babies eating coarse grains? Let's take a look at them below.
1. Cleanse the Internal Environment
Various coarse grains, fresh vegetables, and fruits contain a large amount of dietary fiber, which plays an important physiological role in balancing the diet, improving digestion, absorption, and excretion, and acts as a "cleanser" inside the body.
2. Relieve Constipation
Babies who only eat refined foods in their daily diet are more prone to constipation due to the lack of dietary fiber. Therefore, letting babies eat foods rich in dietary fiber in moderation every day can stimulate intestinal peristalsis, accelerate bowel movements, and relieve the pain caused by constipation.
3. Control Baby's Weight
Dietary fiber can absorb several times or even dozens of times its own weight in water in the gastrointestinal tract, increasing its volume and weight several tens of times, and forming a gel-like substance in the gastrointestinal tract, resulting in a sense of fullness and reducing food intake, which is beneficial for weight control.
4. Prevent Childhood Diabetes
Dietary fiber can slow down the absorption of sugar in the intestines, avoid postprandial hyperglycemia, and improve the body's tolerance to sugar, which is beneficial for maintaining stable blood sugar levels. Dietary fiber can also inhibit the secretion of glucagon, allowing insulin to function effectively.
