Mothers know that they can't eat too much sugar for their babies, otherwise it will be not beneficial to health, and it will cause obesity, myopia, caries, indigestion, and then affect the growth of children... However, many mothers only notice the candy on the surface of the control, but ignore a lot of "invisible sugar", even more terrible than candy...
"Invisible Sugar" in Everyday Life
The so-called "invisible sugar" refers to the addition of sucrose, fructose, glucose, etc. added to food, including added maltose, starch sugar and other hydrolyzed products.
Some mothers will wonder, this child's outdoor activities are not less, usually do not give any sugar to eat, why the child still caries?
In fact, children seem to eat less sugar, but does not mean that the child's intake of sugar is also less, mainly there are too many invisible free sugars in life, just like fruit juice, lactic acid bacteria drinks, freshly squeezed juice, yogurt, and some sweet and sour cooking food contains sugar, although the mothers are restricted by sugar on the surface, but they ignore the invisible sugar in the above types of food, and the problem will come for a long time!
What are the effects of eating invisible sugar on your baby?
The World Health Organization recommends that the daily intake of added sugars should be controlled below 25 grams, but according to statistics, the per capita daily intake of added sugars on the mainland has reached 30 grams. Some people are blindly confident that if they do not eat sugar, they should not exceed the standard, but in fact, when a child drinks a glass of ice cola in the summer, his sugar intake exceeds the standard. A 255 ml cup of cola contains 27 grams of sugar.
Once read a news, a 2 and a half-year-old child in Wuhan, in order to ensure the nutrition of the child, the family changed the pattern every day when the child was 1 and a half years old to squeeze juice for the child to drink, so the child milk and juice every night, the baby teeth at a young age were all rotten!
Giving your child too much sugar, including all kinds of invisible sugar in life, in addition to tooth decay, can also cause these injuries to your child:
1. It is more likely to cause children to be impatient, emotionally unstable, and cry.
2. Affect the child's normal appetite, due to eating sweets before meals, it will reduce the child's appetite, resulting in a bad meal, insufficient nutrition, and then affect the child's physical health development!
3. Cause childhood obesity, obese children after adulthood, the risk of suffering from hypertension, cardiovascular and other diseases is higher than the average person!
How to lower sugar in the diet
In life, parents buy food for their children, and the most important thing is to learn to read the ingredient list, so that no matter how the merchant wipes the edge ball, it cannot escape your fire eye!
In addition, you can give your child more fruit, note that it is fruit, not juice, to know that a cup of unsweetened orange juice is equivalent to eating the sugar contained in 6 oranges!
There are also children's favorite yogurt, lactic acid bacteria, as long as you pay a little attention to the ingredient list, you will find that the drinks advertised by the merchants suitable for children actually contain a lot of sugar.
Children naturally love to eat sugar, there is no immunity to sugar, violence prohibits children from eating sweets, is unreasonable and cruel way, as parents we must learn to control the degree of sugar in children, let children develop normal three-meal habits, with normal meals to fill the stomach, rather than drinks and snacks in the high sugar, high calories.