How to cure a sweet tooth
How to cure a sweet tooth
by: Fiona Baker
From: National Features
September 15, 2012 6:00PM
IT'S natural for children to crave sugar, but is it a true addiction or merely a bad habit?
It would be a rare Australian child who is not eating up to twice as much sugar than is recommended. Whether it is hidden in the cereal they eat or making their break-time muesli bars extra tasty, our children are used to eating highly sweet food.
In the US, they have come up with an easy-to-understand figure to explain just how much sugar their kids are eating on a daily basis – and while it could be argued that their eating habits are worse than ours, with Australian being the fifth-fattest nation in the world, maybe our kids’ diets are not all that different from their American counterparts.
A study by the American Heart Association found children aged between 12 months and three years are already consuming about 12 teaspoons of sugar a day. By the time a child is aged between four and eight, sugar consumption jumps to an average of 21 teaspoons a day. Teenagers ingest a whopping 34 teaspoons of sugar a day......
Proves really that governments don't give a damn about anybodies health to allow manufacturers to do this. Lots of money generated by treating all the ill health that follows and a good way to get rid of the fluoride.
by: Fiona Baker
From: National Features
September 15, 2012 6:00PM
IT'S natural for children to crave sugar, but is it a true addiction or merely a bad habit?
It would be a rare Australian child who is not eating up to twice as much sugar than is recommended. Whether it is hidden in the cereal they eat or making their break-time muesli bars extra tasty, our children are used to eating highly sweet food.
In the US, they have come up with an easy-to-understand figure to explain just how much sugar their kids are eating on a daily basis – and while it could be argued that their eating habits are worse than ours, with Australian being the fifth-fattest nation in the world, maybe our kids’ diets are not all that different from their American counterparts.
A study by the American Heart Association found children aged between 12 months and three years are already consuming about 12 teaspoons of sugar a day. By the time a child is aged between four and eight, sugar consumption jumps to an average of 21 teaspoons a day. Teenagers ingest a whopping 34 teaspoons of sugar a day......
Proves really that governments don't give a damn about anybodies health to allow manufacturers to do this. Lots of money generated by treating all the ill health that follows and a good way to get rid of the fluoride.
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