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what's depressing is how much sugar is in processed food. I watch the food my friends' kids eat and it's stunning. It's not even extreme, either.

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Apr 26 '11, 09:01

like, they eat some kind of "healthy" whole grain cereal, which they eat for breakfast and snacks. Loaded with sugar. They also have yogurt, which is marketed as healthy. If you read the label, it's a sugar bomb.

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*eats a pixie stick and runs around screaming from the sugar rush* - sycor Apr 26, 09:22
My mom used to tell me if I ate too much sugar I'd get diabetes and other diseases. That's kept me going. -- nm - Hotkiss Apr 26, 09:19
In our house, we read the labels. Kieran's only had one kind of processed food, and that choice was purely for form factor. - Beryllium (iPhone) Apr 26, 09:06 9
- I think it gets a lot harder as they get older. -- nm - loosilu Apr 26, 09:07 8
  - Yes, absolutely. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Apr 26, 09:07 7
    - Honestly, you just have to let a lot of stuff go. All my high falutin' parentin' ideals have gone by the wayside. -- nm - Amy Apr 26, 09:12 5
      - Yep, we're aware of this already :) (See: soothers. We'd be clinically insane right now if we didn't compromise on that.) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 26, 09:17
      - One of my last ones is on the verge. We have resisted getting our son a cell phone for years but I'm starting to cave. -- nm - Fuzzy Apr 26, 09:17
      - In regards to food, maybe. -- nm - Spawn Apr 26, 09:14 2
        
        And TV, and toys... -- nm - Amy Apr 26, 09:18 1
        
        He still watches 20% of the tv most kids do. -- nm - Spawn Apr 26, 09:22
    - my friend showed me the snacks menu at her son's kindergarten. Sugar up to the eyeballs. -- nm - loosilu Apr 26, 09:08
also, for mara - I'm still reading the NYT article, but he gets into your exact question. -- nm - loosilu Apr 26, 09:03

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what's depressing is how much sugar is in processed food. I watch the food my friends' kids eat and it's stunning. It's not even extreme, either.

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