Article 29: Ditch the knitting needles and pick up a baseball-Knitting burns too few calories, you need to exercise more.

Indeed, hand-knitted sweaters represent warmth and love for family. Some pure wool yarns or wool sweaters must be hand-knitted to show their quality. This is why, even after machine-knitted sweaters became widespread, there are still people who want to pass on this traditional craft.

Some people find knitting makes their eyes dizzy, while others feel they've gained weight overnight from knitting every day. Indeed, while knitting is a form of hand exercise, it involves only manual movement while the person remains seated, resulting in very few calories burned, and it's also taxing on the eyes.

If you are a simple housewife and still have some free time after finishing your housework and exercise, you might as well knit some sweaters for your own enjoyment; however, if you put down all your other work and devote yourself entirely to knitting, it will greatly hinder your weight loss.

Therefore, busy modern people should be selective about their knitting habits. If you have a physically demanding job and already get a lot of exercise, then you can knit more in your spare time. Conversely, if you have a mentally demanding job, you should make sure to exercise more in your free time and increase your physical activity level, and definitely avoid getting knitting needles. For the sake of your lifelong health, sometimes it's necessary to sacrifice a little enjoyment.

You'd better just buy some ready-made sweaters to wear!

Lunch: One steamed flower crab and a plate of mustard greens.

Dinner: Egg crepe with asparagus (make a large crepe in a non-stick pan with one egg, wrap one ounce of skinless chicken breast, one shrimp, two asparagus spears, and sliced ​​cucumber inside, sprinkle with salt and vinegar, roll it up and it's ready to eat), a plate of stir-fried chives (stir-fried with a small spoonful of oil), half a bowl of salted rice, a bowl of soybean and pork rib soup, and one apple.

Breakfast: One hot dog bun (one hot dog and a little lettuce and tomato sandwiched in a small bun, preferably unsweetened), half a cup of Ovaltine.

Taking the children outdoors

Q: In recent years, many doctors have advocated against feeding children too much from a young age, but what if my child is still not full?

A: Let him eat his fill.

Chinese people have always liked chubby children, but now this view has changed 180 degrees.

It seems that starting a few years ago, newspapers and magazines began to feature warnings from many doctors and experts. These doctors, acting as authorities, pointed out that a person's fat cells are already formed before the age of three, so children should not be fed too much from infancy, lest the cells become too large and unable to shrink in the future, causing them to suffer from obesity for the rest of their lives.

Once this theory spread, many parents became very nervous. This was especially true for young parents with their first child, who already lacked knowledge about childcare and were simply following a parenting guide. Now, they became even more cautious, restricting their child's feeding and hesitant to give them even a single extra drop of milk.

So often, even when the baby is crying his heart out, the mother insists that "four hours haven't passed yet" and the baby can't eat. Then, at night, when the child doesn't want to eat anymore, the mother wakes him up because it's feeding time.

Another mother wrote in worriedly, asking what to do because her child was always hungry.

In reality, all parenting guides or formula recipes are just general principles and theories; putting them into practice isn't so rigid. Especially for infants, if they are truly hungry, they must be fed. Because babies can't speak and don't cry for no reason; when they're hungry, it's better to feed them than to waste energy holding and comforting them.

Furthermore, recent statistics from doctors indicate that most obese children have obese parents. Therefore, the genetic factor contributing to obesity is greater than the so-called "eating to get fat" or cell enlargement.

Scientists point out that significant differences in metabolism are also inherited. Therefore, it is necessary to control the diet of infants or young children, but it is important not to rigidly adhere to the portion sizes in books.

Recently, I saw a report with advice from a nutritionist to parents. He doesn't advocate that parents not feed their children enough, but on the one hand, they should feed them "healthy" foods, such as whole grains and high-fiber foods, and avoid high-calorie foods; on the other hand, they should encourage children to go out and play, and try to let them "forget about eating." This is the correct way to feed children.

Breakfast: One bowl of steamed egg with dried radish (beat one egg, add some water and chopped dried radish and steam until cooked), half a bowl of savory tofu pudding, and one soda cracker.

Lunch: Shrimp and tofu (half a block of tofu, about 50 grams, 2 ounces of shrimp, a little green bell pepper and carrot, cooked together in broth and seasoned with salt. When eating, add some pepper and a few drops of sesame oil), and a slice of papaya.

Dinner: Steamed pork with tomatoes (one tomato, cut off the top, remove the core, and put in 60 grams of minced pork marinated in soy sauce), one-third bowl of rice, a plate of stir-fried asparagus with shredded pork (60 grams of shredded pork, asparagus cut into sections, cooked over low heat, stir-fried with a teaspoon of oil and a little salt), and a bowl of seaweed soup.