Watch that Sugar for pre-schoolers!

Penn State Live

"American preschoolers get about 14 to 17 teaspoons of added sugar a day, on average, mostly from fruit-flavored drinks, high-fat desserts and cola-type soft drinks which displace the grain, vegetable, fruit and dairy food groups and lower the quality of their diet, a Penn State study has shown."

For instance:

"Forty percent of the 2- and 3-year-olds and 70 percent of the 4- and 5-year-olds with the highest added-sugar intake did not get an adequate intake of calcium. Even at the lowest added-sugar consumption level studied, 14 percent of the younger children and 39 percent of the older children didn't receive an adequate intake of calcium."


The article is published in the January issue of the Journal of Pediatrics as “Adverse Effect of High Added-Sugar Consumption on Dietary Intake in American Preschoolers. “