Our Chiropractor Andrew and Naturopath Hayley are presenting seminars on Childhood Nutrition and specifically on the effects of sugar on Children's behaviour and development. We present to schools and clubs and to anyone who would like to know more about how todays processed diet is affecting our kids.
When we present this seminar, teachers and parents alike are disgusted at the amount of hidden sugars that are present in the foods we give to children. Also when they see how much damage sugar can do to the developing brain, they quickly have a sort through their cupboards.
One of the most valuable things a parent can do is to check the ingredients of any product they buy for their kids. There are a number of different names given for sugar, Barley malt, dextrose, fructose, cane sugar, corn syrup etc..For this reason it can be hard to know how much sugar a product contains. Take a common supposedly healthy cereal like Just Right from kelloggs, and it has 4 different types of sugar. It is marketed as the healthy option but laden with sugar, so when you think you are giving your child a great start to the day, you are actually giving them a sugar high and will probably crash just as they're getting to school.
Once you get used to checking the ingredients and making sure the sugar content is low, it will become second nature and shopping will not take any longer than usual. Of course if you keep to mostly fresh foods, you needn't worry!