Re:American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount r...
by sevensor on Thursday June 14, 2018 @09:15AM
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Agreed. We don't water it down, but we do consider it a treat -- a juice box is a lollipop, not an apple. It's not for daily consumption.
I also see lots of parents offering "fruit snack" candies to their kids as if that's a legitimate substitute for actual fruit.
Don't even get me started on breakfast cereal.
One thing I've noticed is that a huge percentage of the American population had been tricked into thinking that fruit juice is healthy.
It isn't healthy. It is soda with some vitamins tossed in as far as the body is concerned.
I fully blame the US government for this. Even liberal cities that pass soda tax laws ignore fruit juice, because hippies with a naturalistic fallacy are a powerful voting bloc on the Democratic party.
I would say that MOST toddlers I see drink several juices a day.
For my kids, it was always a treat, and served incredibly watered down, as in 1 part juice to 6 parts water. So sweet that they don't even know that.
Insanity.