Parents

Children of all ages are rapidly becoming overweight.

Sugar has been linked to obesity in numerous studies. This evidence appears to be getting stronger.

Children aged 1 -3 are averaging 12 teaspoons of sugar per day, aged 4 -8 are having 21 teaspoons per day. And older children up to 34 teaspoons. (NHANES US data 2004) Link

Suggestion: drastically reduce your child's sugar intake or risk:

overweight, obesity, fatty liver disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension

(Yes, younger and younger children are developing all of these)

We suggest:

• learn all you can about sugar on this website and from other sources
• stop fruit juice and soft drink at home
• carefully select breakfast cereals e.g. oats, weat bix, vitabrits
• party foods are only for parties
• learn to cook and bake with non fructose sweeteners and glucose powder
• limit sweets, cakes, biscuits, desserts, icecream. Or probably much better to not have them in the house at all

Or, they will be overweight or worse.

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