American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount recommended for adults
&#x27;We’ve long known that processed sugar is bad for kids.&#x27; Why &#x27;for kids&#x27;? It&#x27;s bad for everyone. People don&#x27;t realize sugar is the most socially accepted and legal drug ever and with more addicts I would say.<p>There&#x27;s plenty of studies that talk about how bad are added sugars. Governments don&#x27;t do enough to contain this drug.<p>WHO recommends free sugars to be less than 10% of daily calorie intake. And suggests going down to 5%. Source: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.who.int&#x2F;nutrition&#x2F;publications&#x2F;guidelines&#x2F;sugar_intake_information_note_en.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.who.int&#x2F;nutrition&#x2F;publications&#x2F;guidelines&#x2F;sugar_i...</a>
An adult that takes 2000 calories, should not take more than 25g of free sugars. Now tell me if it&#x27;s easy for you to not go over the limit.<p>Kids and todlers food has more sugar than adult processed food, maybe so they create a dependency on sugary products since they are babies? And so they buy these products when they are older.<p>We&#x27;ve all seen kids asking cookies and shitty food instead of vegetables (or unprocessed food), they get angry and parents have to say &#x27;no, you&#x27;ve to have lunch now&#x27;. Isn&#x27;t that strange? We are so used to this.<p>Food is not only calories. Quality of ingredients matter. Plenty of studies relate refined oils, flours, sugars to cancer, diabetes, heart problems. Cheap, easy to get != healthy. It&#x27;s cheap and unhealthy because ingredients are low quality.<p>Was processed food in supermarkets a hundred years ago? Humans don&#x27;t need it. Of course food is safer than 100 years ago, but also processed food has pulled apart healthy and unprocessed food from our diets.<p>Nestle, Coca-Cola, Unilever, they are in universities, associations, etc... we see plenty of cases here in Spain. They do courses for professionals... and they are the brands with the best public perception. And we say advertising doesn&#x27;t work?<p>So many inputs when you go to a supermarket and so easy to fall for a chocolate bar, for some cereals, sweetened yogurts, refined flours white breads... Then, they try to sell you some (supposedly healthy) food because it has some part of bio unrefined flours, but it&#x27;s the same disguised as healthy.<p>To avoid all these games they play you just have to look for vegetables, fish, (some) meat, dairy products, eggs, fruits, dried fruits... just unprocessed food or foods like canned peas and other minimal treated foods were a physical process like boiling has been applied.