August 27, 2008

How Sugar Robs Your Children of Good Health

Based on current research, sugar harms your children’s health in many ways. Besides contributing to diabetes and tooth decay, sugar also can suppress your child’s immune system and impair his or her defenses against infectious disease.Once school starts, many factors contribute to the colds and flus that often contribute to our children missing school: being exposed to lots of germs, lack of fresh air and sunshine, and the stresses that go along with school are just a few. One often-overlooked factor is the amount of sugar in our children’s diets. Since sugar suppresses our immune systems, it is the last thing you want to give your sick child, and limiting it for your healthy child wil help keep his or her immune system working more effectively.Sugar also sabotages your child’s health and happiness by contributing to reduced learning capacity, drowsiness and decreased activity, learning disorders, eczema, depression, worsening symptoms of ADHD, and it plays a factor in heart disease and cancer.Sugar sneaks into your child’s diet in many different forms. Food makers often use several types of sugar so that it appears on the ingredient list under different names in hopes that you won’t recognize it.Here are some of the […]

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