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Posted on 09/20/2015 1:45:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
WHAT COMMON PRACTICE WILL HORRIFY OUR KIDS SOMEDAY?
It puts babies' overall nutrition at risk
Question Everything IconMany families are trying to reduce their soda intake but manufacturers are fighting back with “no added sugar” formulations and “fruit” drinks. So far, they’re winning.
A drink of diluted fruit juice is the routine afternoon snack of many babies. It’s often the good stuff: pure juice. No nasty preservatives, more vitamin C than necessary and no added sugar. But you don’t have to add sugar to make fruit juice sweet—that’s why babies prefer it to water. And because they prefer it, it becomes habitual.
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A culture of instant gratification starts when people won’t give their children water — hey, the kid prefers grape juice, so grape juice it is!!!
I never could get my baby/toddler/pre-schooler to drink juice. He didn’t like pop either, though I did not offer that very often. He liked water best, milk second. I have known kids who craved the sugary drinks. I can’t be smug because I never faced the challenge. When you have a screaming kid you sometimes offer something like that just to have some quiet. It is easy to point fingers. Yes you must deal with the challenge. But then again when a parent is very busy and all they need is a little more sleep, I can sympathize.
I suppose a parent could never ever offer sweet stuff and how would the kid know to crave it. The reality is that parents have fun introducing their child to new tastes. Plus the kid tends to get whatever the rest of the family gets. There are worse things.
My kid absolutely loved water. I was grateful because he also loved to shake his sippy cup and let the water splash all over his face.
So glad my Mom gave me black coffee... kept me thin,
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No, juice does not cause obesity.
Obesity is caused by too many calories (from any source) combined with too little activity.
If more parents would raise their kids “free range” style (the way kids used to be raised), instead of restricting their activity to whatever they can do within viewing distance of the parent, the obesity problem might not be so bad.
Yup.
Its why some people can eat fast food for a month and lose weight, while,others eat that and everything else, and baloon up huge. Its amount of calories AND activity level.
My “baby” is a grown man...but my dear Pediatrician, almost 30 years ago, was adamant about withholding juice from a baby or toddler and giving them water instead.
His words: “If you’re going to give him juice, you might as well go get a glass of water and add sugar...it’s cheaper.”
You will lose weight.
It’s the Jooooooooos!
My DIL only gave my grandson chocolate milk the first years of his life. My son snuck in some ovaltine when he could. Poor kid was so constipated all the time. He is five now, and his diet consists of chips, candy and chocolate milk. It makes me sick.
YEP....what you said. Dr. Mercola had a great email today on a woman doing research on the 3500 calorie deficit to lose a pound MYTH. Basically says what YOU said.
Is that what your DIL eats, too?
I was very surprised to see so many nurses and hospital employees from administrative types to nurses aides who were almost to a person extremely large when I was in the ER on Tuesday. I can’t help but wonder if kids get physical education in schools every year through high school these days like I did? It seems those who are thin these days are about as many as those who were considered obese in the 50’s-60’s?
Obesity is Tupac and Omar Epps fault.
We need to start smoking and doing coke again.
Free range
Like go outside and “come back before dark”?
That was the normal life for me and my friends, every summer day starting in early grade school.
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