![]() One study published last year in the Journal of American Medicine found that a sugar-laden diet can increase the risk of death-even for people who are not overweight. ![]() Sugar is now often cited as the cause of various chronic illnesses, from diabetes to Alzheimer’s disease. These days, though, our culinary enemies have shifted again, and sugar has increasingly come to be seen as the principal poison in our diets ( except, of course, for those who are certain that the devil is gluten). Coffee? Always with half and half instead of cream and what people used to refer to as “a couple of sugars.” Actually, make it three or four. Strawberries for dessert? Better with a few tablespoons of sugar. A packet of sugar had relatively few calories, so we sweetened everything we could find. ![]() They gave you energy, and how could that be bad? Rice was fine, too, and pasta was fantastic. Bread was fine, though, because bread consisted largely of carbohydrates. If you would like to purchase The Sugar Story, click here to find it on Amazon in Paperback or Kindle.Along with our margarine, we drank skim milk, ate ice milk, and avoided ice cream. So if you are looking for something in depth and descriptive for older children, this might not be the book for you.īut if you are wondering how to talk to young children about sugar without them going totally the other way out of sheer rebellion, or simply how to talk to little ones about nutrition and about eating healthily in an easy, light, totally scientific but not too in depth way, then The Sugar Story is perfect for you. It is food and nutritional education at its simplest and most accessible, and it really helps! My daughter loves telling me that broccoli makes her body go “YAAAAAAAAAAY” and Emelie makes this kind of thinking a normal part of a child’s understanding. And she does it in just 20 pages!Īnd my personal favourite aspect is that there is a wonderful focus on what you can eat rather than what you can’t, and on why certain fruits and vegetables are so good for you in ways that kids can totally understand, relate to, and desire. ![]() She explains through cartoon sketches and simple language why sugar is addictive and can cause problems in some forms but not necessarily in others. This book explains the very basic story of what happened along the way that led us from sugar in fruit as a natural, wholesome source of energy to sugar in pretty much everything as a cause of disease. It is short and sweet (excuse the pun!) and even includes a few recipes!īut the main achievement of this book is that it is wonderfully simple and yet says everything you want to say to young children who are not going to understand long-term consequences and things like “diabetes” or “depression” or “heart disease” or “obesity”. She has created a short children’s book called The Sugar Story. After all, they will most likely be looked on as “deprived” by many for not being allowed free rein with sugar, and they will start to wonder as they get older why many of their friends eat things that look yummy that they never get. It’s a difficult question to answer, because we all know what happens if you ban something or moralise food and make it seem “good” or “bad” when it comes to kids: it’s a perfect recipe for rebellion or guilt-ridden bingeing and emotional eating.īut it is really hard for us parents to know exactly how to explain the effects of sugar to young children. If you’ve ever wondered how to talk to your children about sugar, I may have found a great solution! It’s called The Sugar Story, and it’s written by Emelie Kamp.Įmelie is a Nutritional Counsellor & Wellness Coach from Sweden who runs Worth It Living and who found herself being asked again and again (as I am, too) about how to broach the subject of sugar with children.
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