Many times we believe we are offering our children the best diet regardless of the amount of sugar that come to take just unwittingly. We give you the keys to reducing the intake.
The World Health Organization (WHO), has spent several years warning about the dangers of excess sugar in the diet of children. This is not to eliminate this sweet pleasure but to promote healthy consumption and away the ghosts of diabetes, tooth decay and obesity among children.
Indeed, organize daily healthy menus, taking into account both main meals and snacks to ensure that children grow up healthy do, by extension, the family eat better and more healthily.
Certainly, the sweet taste is a favorite of most children can be complex and restrict or control sugar consumption among young, especially because many of the processed products have added sugar. Therefore it is essential to read the labels of breakfast cereals, desserts and prepared or juices and soft drinks.
WHO recommends that the daily amount of sugar should not exceed 50 grams and yet, 600 milliliters (less than two cans of soda) contains the equivalent of 13 teaspoons of sugar, which far exceeds that amount. So, besides sugar that can be incorporated directly at home must take into account the energy consumed in fruits, honey, juice, jam, biscuits, cereals, ketchup or yoghurt.
How do then to control sugar intake? The important thing is to follow simple guidelines which together transform the diet without adopting drastic changes.
1. Prohibit: That prohibition goes on to become the biggest object of desire. It is best to check that ban.
2. Consume homemade products: Avoid if possible taking processed foods that you can not control the amount of sugar they contain.
3. The consumption of soft drinks and packaged juices: You have to be very casual.
4. Fresh fruit is the best ally: This is the best daily dessert for the whole family. Dried fruits also have to consume controlled since its amount of sugar is much greater than that of the fresh fruit.
5. The candy and sweets are not a prize: they must not associate baubles and pastries with good behavior, so must not be used as a prize or reward.
6. Sports: An opportunity to make something sweet to take advantage of higher sports activity day for children. You can also book to take them on weekends after a good family bike ride or after a day of hiking.
7. No temptation no sin: Although the will to want to educate our children, we all know that it is much more difficult to control sugar intake if we have ice cream in the freezer, in the refrigerator desserts and chocolate, cookies and cake in the cupboard . It is best to purchase the products responsibly, that is, when we want to eat and moderate.
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