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We’ve long known that processed sugar is bad for kids. And yet new data presented this week (June 10) at the American Society for Nutrition’s annual meeting show that American infants are consuming excessive amounts of added sugar in their diets, much more than the amounts currently recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA) and other medical organizations.
The study, conducted by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, looked at added sugar consumption—sugars in your diet that are not naturally occurring, like those found in fruit and milk, but rather added into foods during preparation or processing. Researchers used data collected from a nationally representative sample of more than 800 kids between six and 23 months old who participated in the 2011 to 2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Parents were asked to record every item their child ate or drank during a 24-hour period, and the researchers calculated a mean sugar intake based on these testimonies.
The study found that toddlers 12 to 18 months consumed 5.5 teaspoons per day, and that toddlers 19 to 23 months consumed 7.1 teaspoons. This is close to, or more than, the amount of sugar recommended by AHA for adult women (six teaspoons) and men (nine teaspoons). Parents of more than 80% of kids aged six to 23 months reported their children consumed at least some added sugar on a given day.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 19 2018, @09:07AM (2 children)
Yup. I saw a DaVita dialysis place go up next to my local hardware store. What do you know, it's a chain...
(Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday June 19 2018, @09:51AM (1 child)
I can't help but believe that all these pills we seem to take are bad news for our excretory systems.
You know, the ones we see all the time advertised on TV... usually something for depression, rash, or sometimes things quite trivial.... while they show something like a football play to keep one distracted, the motormouth in the background mumbles stuff like heart and kidney failure...
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday June 19 2018, @12:32PM
Just about every Rx med has some serious downsides - if they didn't they'd be OTC.
Is the thing you are taking the pill for really worse than the side effects?
There's some short term vs long term tradeoffs to consider, but on the whole, it seems to me like prescription meds are best avoided.
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