The Chinese Children's Balanced Dietary Instruction Manual was officially published, and the "1357 Rule" helped healthy growth

How to control the nutrition of infant and child diet? How to make infant and child diet more scientific? Recently, the Chinese Children's Balanced Dietary Instruction Manual (hereinafter referred to as the Balanced Dietary Instruction Manual) was officially published. As a reference tool for infant and child health service institutions, student meal service institutions and parents, the book can provide scientific guidance for balanced diet of infants and children. The book is jointly edited by China Agricultural University, China Nonstaple Food Circulation Association and Hangzhou Xinya Information Technology Co., Ltd., and published by China Business Press.

The Balanced Dietary Instruction Manual has a wide coverage and strong universality, and proposes a balanced nutrition solution that is highly operational and convenient and suitable for Chinese infant and child families. The book puts forward the 1357 balanced diet principle around the five categories of food and seven nutrients that infants and children need to take in, and gives more specific dietary suggestions in food selection and collocation, recommendation of three meals a day and example application.

It is reported that in November 2022, China Agricultural University, China Non staple Food Circulation Association and Hangzhou Xinya Information Technology Co., Ltd. jointly set up the "Science Popularization Guidance Group for Chinese Children's Rational Diet", and launched the writing project of the "Chinese Children's Balanced Diet Guidance Manual" to promote the comprehensive popularization of the concept of reasonable diet feeding for infants and children in Chinese families.

In March 2023, China Agricultural University, China Non staple Food Circulation Association and Hangzhou Xinya Information Technology Co., Ltd. held a seminar on "Balanced Diet Instruction Manual" and a demonstration meeting on "1357 Balanced Diet Rules", and combined with the research results of "2022 White Paper on the Research of Children's Reasonable Diet Industry", the participating experts formed a final opinion paper. It is worth mentioning that the 1357 balanced diet rule is a scientific feeding core concept jointly promoted by the research team of the "Balanced Diet Instruction Manual", which gathers the practice and discussion of all parties in the industry, university and research.

He Jihong, president of the China Non staple Food Circulation Association, said that balanced diet can not only promote children's health, but also help children develop good and scientific eating habits, which will benefit them all their lives. In the food safety strategy, children's food should enjoy a special security role, which is widely valued by all sectors of society. Children's food should be more friendly to children's health. On the one hand, we should provide good food to children. On the other hand, we should guide children and parents how to scientifically choose and eat children's food, so as to better promote children's health. "The balance between children's nutrition, energy intake, attraction and consumption is the key to ensuring children's health. The emergence of" bean sprouts "and" little fat people "directly exposed the serious consequences of children's unbalanced diet. How to let children and parents understand and scientifically solve the relationship between diet and health needs to vigorously promote food education. This is the purpose of this book. "

Sun Junmao, Deputy Secretary General and Office Director of the National Food and Nutrition Advisory Committee, pointed out that reasonable diet and balanced nutrition are the prerequisite and guarantee for children's healthy development. Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022), the book proposes the "1357" balanced diet rule based on the characteristics of children's nutritional needs, which has a strong dietary guidance significance for both infants who are still at the stage of complementary food addition and school-age children who have entered school, and can be used as a family for children to eat healthily Operating instructions for schools and other catering institutions.

Luo Yunbo, professor of Beijing Technology and Business University, believes that childhood is the most critical period of life growth and development. It is self-evident that it is important for all children and their families to ensure the nutrition of children's diet in this period. It is hoped that this guidance manual can not only become a reference material for professional nutrition and health practitioners, but also a practical treasure trove to solve the urgent needs of parents, so that every parent can become an exclusive nutritionist for their own children, and make nutritious, healthy and delicious family meals to protect the healthy growth of children.

From the white paper on children's balanced diet formed by sufficient research data to the official publication of books by the publishing house, the development of China's infant food has moved from planning in development to standardization. The publication of the Guide to Balanced Diet is like an industry barrier, marking the maturity of the industry, and providing hundreds of millions of Chinese families with readable, landing Operational scientific feeding guidance.

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