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Jul 5, 2024 · Too much added sugar early in life is linked to obesity, high blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes. Sweet treats. It’s tempting for parents and caregivers to reward good behavior with them. And ...
May 28, 2024 · Our brain has a reward system (4), which gets activated when you eat sugar. Eating sugar produces dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter. But when you eat more sugar, the production of dopamine reduces. Every time you eat sweets, the tolerance level reduces, increasing sugar cravings. Besides this, when you consume foods with simple sugars ...
- Evaluate your own mindset and fear around sugar. Have you ever considered how your own personal thoughts and fears around sugar may be impacting the current situation?
- Take notice of how you talk about sweets and sugar. Our words our so powerful. What we say and how we say it can profoundly impact how our children view food, nutrition and their bodies.
- Allow foods high in sugar regularly with meals and snacks. Not just at holidays. You may also be experiencing an increase in perceived ‘sugar-obsession’ around the holidays if you normally restrict sugary foods and then the availability suddenly increases.
- Give kids opportunities to self-regulate and learn more about their bodies. On this note, there is great value in letting children eat until they’ve had their fill, even with foods high in sugar.
- Serve them. And sometimes don't limit them. Often, when I suggest this to parents, they look at me like I have three eyes. "You mean, sometimes I just let my daughter eat all the cookies?
- Don't talk about these foods as good or bad. Stop making sweets into something they’re not: something that makes us feel shame or judgment when we eat them.
- Don't use them as a reward for other food. I don't like using sweets as a reward for eating other food, or for anything for that matter. When we offer food as a reward, think about the message you’re sending: "I have to eat my broccoli (yuck) to get my candy (yum)."
- Sometimes, serve them (gasp!) with a meal. Yep. Just try it. To put sweets on a level playing field, give it to your child with a meal. Think about this
Aug 29, 2023 · One reason why sugar is so bad for children is because it leads to weight gain. Reema Patel, a paediatric dietitian at Dietitian Fit & Co, explains that foods containing too much sugar - like biscuits or sweets - can lead to weight gain because they’re high in calories but offer few other nutrients. These types of foods are often called empty ...
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Jan 5, 2022 · Here are some reasons why you do not want your kids to eat large amounts of sugar. When talking about sugar, I’m referring to sucrose or refined sugar. Some of these points are taken from Lick the Sugar Habit by Nancy Appleton, Ph.D., and Sugar Blues by William Duffy and from my many nutrition classes. Other items on the list are from a ...
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Tots aged 2 and older should limit their added — or “extra” — sugar intake to 25 grams, or about 6 teaspoons, a day. Added sugar refers to the sugar or syrups that have been added into foods or drinks during the processing stages, as opposed to the natural sugars that are found in foods like milk (lactose) or fruit and vegetables ...
