Introduce Baby First Food? Avoid Salt

News Health Articles - Introduce Baby First Food? Avoid Salt. The food is given as a child can affect a person's food tastes all his life. It may be caused by a factor of habit. A new study finds that, the type of foods given to infants seem to affect the future of their salty taste of salt.

Introducing solid foods to infants is a very important part. These periods is at once exciting and worrying time. Because this period is the first step to helping your baby develop healthy eating habits that will last a lifetime.



The study was conducted to test the salt preferences involving 61 infants aged 2 months. In the study found that babies did not taste of the salty liquid or even declined. Babies who are involved in the study prefer fresh water.

"At the age of 6 months, 26 infants involved in research have been introduced to food from flour is preferably compared with a liquid salty foods. A number of 35 infants who had not eaten anything, including food from flour, continue to ignore or reject the salty liquid," say researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia.

The researchers examined the mothers of 26 children when they reach preschool age. On examination it was found that, 12 children are introduced to food from flour before the age of 6 months were more likely to eat salt from food and to eat salt plain.

"While the introduction of other foods, like fruits, was not associated with increased preference for the taste of salt," the researchers said.

Their study focused on starch-containing foods because these foods include processed foods. Starchy foods such as breakfast cereals, breads, and crackers, which are often used as food for the baby early and often contain additional salt.

"Our results indicate that early experience affects diet preference for salty taste," said Leslie Stein, a psychologist at the Monell physiologically in this news release as reported from MSNHealth, Wednesday (21/12/2011).

The results of these studies have been published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Believed that reducing sodium intake can prevent more than 100,000 deaths per year and save billions of dollars in medical costs in the United States. Hence the introduction of salty taste of sodium in infants may affect tastes salty when it has grown. It is important to familiarize low-sodium foods for infants.

Foods high in sodium has been associated with high blood pressure (hypertension). Hypertension increases the risk of heart disease and blood vessels. Foods high in sodium also has been associated with obesity.