That is a lot of sugar when you think about it! " By sugar the report means sugars in processed foods like soda, cakes and ice cream. It also includes sweet substitutes like corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, malt syrup, fructose sweetener, honey, molasses, anhydrous dextrose, crystal dextrose and dextrin." All these ingredients can be found in almost everything your child eats or drinks. Soda, juice, cookies, snack paks, you name it. "Boys consumed about 362 calories from added sugars compared to 282 calories for girls. The sugary consumption increased with age, beginning at 218 calories for boys between the age of two and five, which increased to 442 calories for teens ages 12 through 19.
White males were more likely to consume the largest percent of sugar, compared with black or Hispanic males. The same trend was true for white females, although the differences in the percentages were lesser than those seen among boys."
This was oustounding to to me. I try and watch how much sugar intake my son gets. If he gets too much he bounces off the walls. He does not really eat sweet stuff very often though, he love his chocolate milk though. Guess I better start paying closer attention to what is in the snacks that I buy for him.
That's shocking to see what a large percentage of their diet is sugar. I try to do a good job of monitoring how much sugar my ten year old gets, but I still have room to improve. I remember a long, long time ago when I was a kid my parents let me pretty much eat whatever, there was no public concerns of hyperactivity or childhood obesity.
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