Lazy bloody town and damned sports candy

[ailbhe]

Linnea is really confused by what constitutes "healthy" food and since I explained that fruit contains sugar (we were talking about dental health) she's not sure whether she's ALLOWED to eat fruit any more. I can't see why any child likes bloody Lazytown because it is incredibly irritating and all the people are wholly unattractive and the puppets are horrible, but they do - and it's a bit crazy about the whole food thing.

Sports candy. Fruit is FRUIT, it's not a substitute for sweets and cake. It's worth eating in its own right. And conflating sugar and refined sugar is really annoying.

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[astrogeek.livejournal.com]

my kids drink water or milk. There's no need to ffer any kind of fruit/sugar/sweetener based drinks to kids, but once you've started there's no going back.

[astrogeek.livejournal.com]

We'll have to agree to disagree here - while the sugar and calorie content of milk and juice are similar, milk also contains fat, protein, vitamin D and calcium which aren't generally present in most fruit juices in any appreciable quantity. I offer my children (ages 1 and 3) milk to drink because it has dietary benefits beyond just the calories it provides, which juice doesn't (in my opinion).

And as for the "milk is bad" argument - I would love to see one peer-reviewed study, published in the medical literature, that has categorically shown that milk is detrimental to the health of the general population, as opposed to random so-called experts' opinion published in popular newspapers and magazines. Humans have been drinking and cooking with the milk of other species (cows, sheep, goats in particular) for many hundreds of years, and we're still here. I'm not saying it's the best thing for us (but then most of the modern western diet isn't), but (in my opinion) it certainly isn't teh evil that some people seem to have decided it is.

[ailbhe]

We found it very easy to eliminate fruit juice from Emer's diet when she was on a healthy-teeth diet. Much easier than eliminating fresh fruit, which is, of course, much worse for the teeth because you can't bypass them with a straw.

[astrogeek.livejournal.com]

yeah - mine pretty much live on fresh fruit. We'd struggle to get rid of that too.