No baby can resist the temptation of candy, the sweet taste, and the colorful packaging. Not to mention children, even adults sometimes can’t control their sugar addiction! However, you can’t eat sugar without restraint! The dangers of eating sweets for babies! Sugar will cause the body to secrete dopamine, which stimulates pleasure in the brain. When the body develops tolerance to sugar, it will need to eat more sugar to produce pleasure! Therefore, if parents do not limit their baby\’s sugar intake, the harm will be more serious than we imagine: ① causing dental caries; ② leading to obesity; ③ malnutrition; ④ osteoporosis; ⑤ easily addictive, and if you don\’t eat it, you will feel uncomfortable and unhappy. , severe cases may even cause symptoms such as anxiety and restlessness; ⑥ induce a variety of chronic diseases (gout, diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, etc.); ⑦ accelerate skin aging (aging, acne, dull skin). Sugar intake standards! The sugar intake guidelines published by the World Health Organization strongly recommend that children’s daily free sugar intake be controlled to less than 10% of total energy intake. It is best to further limit it to less than 5% or about 25 grams per day. Free sugars: are simple sugars (such as glucose, fructose) and disaccharides (such as sucrose or granulated sugar) added to foods and beverages by manufacturers, cooks, or consumers, as well as sugars naturally found in honey, syrups, fruit juices, and fruit juice concentrates . It does not include naturally occurring sugars in fresh whole fruits, lactose in milk, or starch in grains and potatoes. When many mothers see about 25 grams of sugar, they think they won’t let their babies eat a lot of candy, and it will definitely not exceed the limit! Then let’s not count candies first, but only count the “invisible candies” in life! The hard-to-prevent “invisible sugar”! Although many families are consciously limiting their babies\’ sugar intake, however, the obvious candies are limited, but those \”hidden sugars\” are ignored! 1 Beverages The sugar content may not be marked on the nutritional label of drinks, but the carbohydrates marked in the drinks are basically equivalent to sugar! Calculated in this way, if a baby drinks a 100 ml bottle of Yakult, it is equivalent to consuming 18 grams of sugar. For example, a large bottle of 300 to 400 ml fruit juice or lactobacillus drink contains too much sugar! We have mentioned before that the baby’s drink is boiled water, pure milk or homemade yogurt is also acceptable. As for the various drinks on the market, drink as little as possible! 2. Baked foods: Baked bread, cakes, biscuits and other foods are big consumers of sugar. Moms who have made their own bread must know that every 100 grams of bread generally contains about 10 to 20 grams of sugar! You can eat these foods, but be careful about how often you eat them! 3. Snacks such as chocolate, ice cream, and ice cream naturally contain high amounts of sugar. Preserved fruits, dried fruits, etc. generally add sugar in order to soften and preserve their taste. Puffed foods, such as potato chips, shrimp crackers, etc. are also big consumers of \”added sugar\”! 4. Family meals such as pork ribs, braised fish, sweet and sour pork ribs, cold tomatoes, etc. The sugar content is quite high after careful calculation! Although sugar is one of the three essential nutrients for our human body, the carbohydrates we need are contained in the natural ingredients such as grains, rice, flour, fruits and vegetables that we usually eat. As long as they are taken in reasonably, they can basically satisfy the baby\’s body. need for sugar. Therefore, you don’t need to add sugar when your baby drinks water. The milk powder is already very sweet, so don’t add sugar to it! If you expose your baby to sugar too early, quitting it will be no easier than quitting smoking for a man! Therefore, eat three meals a day, fruits and vegetables, and try sugary foods at other times. Don’t develop the habit of eating sweets! Seeing this, some mothers may say that since eating sweets is not good, then they will never let their babies eat it in the future. In fact, drinks, snacks, candies, etc. cannot be protected for a lifetime. When the baby grows up and tastes the deliciousness of sweets, he may be so shocked that he overeats and cannot stop! Therefore, it is of course best for parents to be flexible and instill in their babies the concept that sweets are unhealthy, so that they can control themselves!
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