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As a parent, it can be tempting to offer sweets and sugary snacks as a way to appease your fussy kid. However, such action comes with consequences to their health. In this article we will talk about how sugar affect your child’s health.
Sugar Danger
Sugar can impact your child’s health negatively. Here’s some of the more common health issues of consuming excessive sugar:
- Cavities
Each time the bacteria in your child’s mouth comes in contact with sugar, acid is produced, which attacks the teeth, and eventually, these processes cause cavities. Although dental cavities are not life-threatening, they can cause severe toothache and severe tooth decay which may result in the removal of the entire tooth.
- Obesity
Sugary drinks and sweets are high in calories which are not necessarily bad since our body and brain use needs the energy to perform day-to-day activities, but eating too much may cause a problem. You see, our body converts any unused energy into fat and stores them under our skin. Excessive consumption of sugar will lead to excessive weight gain.
- Poor Nutrition & Appetite
Sugar contains calories, but no nutrients. Research also shows that sugar reduces the production of hunger hormones which control our appetite. Excessive consumption of sugar can lead to decreased appetite and subsequently disrupt our children’s meal plan.
Should Parents Avoid Sugar Entirely?
Adequate consumption of sugar is still acceptable. Moreover, sugar is also the main fuel for our brain, and completely omitting sugar from the diet may lead to a decrease in alertness.
How To Spot Hidden Sugar
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Added sugar is found in many food products marketed towards children, like sodas, candy, sweetened cereals, and kuih. Sugar can also be hidden in seemingly nutritious granola bars, flavored yogurts, “healthy” cereals, pasta sauces, and ketchup.
Parents can also read the food label to spot ‘hidden sugars’. Simple swaps like choosing unsweetened applesauce over-sweetened products and picking fruit cups in juice or water rather than those packed in syrup can help cut out unnecessary sugar.
Sugar comes in many different names such as:
- evaporated cane juice
- corn syrup
- sucrose
- dextrose
- fructose
- maltodextrin
- corn syrup solids
Tips To Make Healthy Desserts With Your Kids
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- Mix your child’s favorite dessert with a spin of healthy food. For example, mix vanilla ice cream with bananas or other healthy fruits.
- Mix sparkling water with freshly made juice to get that fizziness from unhealthy soft drinks like coca-cola.
- Mix a small amount of natural and none sweeten cocoa powder with your child’s formula milk.
Karihome Tablets – Healthy & Nutritious Snack
Karihome goat’s milk tablets are a nutritious snack that is rich in calcium, vitamin A and fortified with probiotics and prebiotics for children. While Karihome tablets do contain sugar namely lactose, a natural sugar present in goat milk, and natural glucose, it does not contain artificial & processed sugar such as sucrose and corn syrup.
Karihome goat’s milk tablet comes in 5 different flavors and 4 unique flavor combinations:
Karihome goat milk tables white – Original milk flavor and yogurt flavor
Karihome goat’s milk tablets berries – Strawberry flavor and blueberry flavor
Karihome goat’s milk tablets honey melon – Honeymelon flavor
Karihome goats milk tablets surprise – Comes in all flavors which include milk, yogurt, strawberry, blueberry, and honey melon.
While Karihome goat’s milk tablet is nutritious, we do recommend parents to limit their child’s daily intake of Karihome tablets to 10 pieces per day. Healthy eating for children can include some sugar as small amounts of sweet treats in their diet brings enjoyment to eating, but parents should be wise to choose the right kind of snacks for their children. With a little creativity, parents can make meals fun and help their children enjoy healthy eating with less sugar.
