Research On The Status Quo And Countermeasures Of Children's Snack Consumption

Nowadays,the phenomenon of children's consumption of snacks is common,and the behavior of children snack consumption is closely related to the healthy growth of children.In this research,525 patriarchsaged 3 to 6 were picked from N city?M county and L village to take part in the snack consumption investigation.Then auther through interviews with parents and use some statistical analysis methods to explore the present situation of children snack consumption,such as descriptive statistics,chi square test,multivariate logistic analysis,two logistic regression analysis.This study found that:(1)Children snack consumption is common and highly frequence.There are significant differences in the frequency of snack consumption among children in different family income.The frequency of parents' snack consumption and the frequency of home snacks have a significant forward effect on the frequency of Children snack consumption.(2)The top five kinds of snacks for children are fresh fruit,ice cream,potato chips/strips,milk/yogurt and biscuits,and there are difference between urban and rural areas in the type of snack of consumption.(3)Parents' consumption of ice cream,potato chips/strips,biscuits,ham sausage and lactic acid beverage significantly forward affect children's frequent consumption of ice cream,ice cream,potato chips/strips,biscuits,ham sausage and lactic acid beverage.(4)Snacks are mainly consumed by snacks with toys.The most important provider of snack consumption for children is mothers,the most likely provider is a grandparent.The most important place to purchase snacks is supermarkets,the most of the consumption place is at home,on weekends.The daily snack consumption time is concentrated at 0.5-1.5 hours before and after the meal.(5)The health habits of children's snack consumption are not optimistic.There are significant differences between urban and rural children in snack consumption health habits,urban children snack consumption health habits are better than those of township children.(6)Most parents regard snack as a reward for children,clean hygiene is the main consideration to choose snacks for children,agree to eat snacks but do not affect dinner,restrict children to eat some snacks.Some optimizing strategies are put forward in order to improve the present situation of the present situation of snack consumption in children.Suggestions are given from four aspects.Firstly,the family must do the two thing as follow:strengthening food and nutrition knowledge reserve;actively guiding children's snack consumption behavior.Secondly,the kindergarten need do the following things:improving the quality of teachers' diet and nutrition attainment in multi-way;carrying out the course of diet and nutrition based on actual conditions;scientifically guiding parents,cooperating with family to enhance the effectiveness.Thirdly,the community can do the two thing as follow:making full use of resources to improve parents' nutrition and health literacy;increasing the attention to the nutritional status of children.inally,food supervision department should do the two thing as follow:resolutely banning shoddy products,investigation of counterfeit and inferior manufacturers;assaultly inspecting the dessert situation in kindergartens,severely punish the garden where children's health snacks are issued.