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15 Harmful Foods Our Children Eat YOU NEED TO KNOW Natural Health Remedies
Raising our children is the biggest job we will ever do in our lives. Not only do we need to make sure our little ones grow up to be kind, respectful individuals, we also need to teach them how to live healthily on their own. The foods we give to our children on a regular basis don’t just directly affect their current health, they also leave an impression on our children on what is acceptable to eat frequently. If these foods are harmful to health, and we’re not offering them as a one-off “treat”, our children may grow up to believe that these unhealthy foods are diet staples. We’re sharing the top 15 worst foods to feed your children in this video, so stay tuned to learn everything you need to know. 1. Juice boxes It might be easy to put a juice box or pouch into your child’s lunch box to take to school, but these are essentially just sugar in a drink. Your child will most likely drink it, get a sugar rush, and then crash. All types of fruit juice are problematic, but apple juice seems to be what young kids are drinking the most. It’s a common misconception that apple juice in a carton is somehow healthier than orange, grape, or cherry juices, when in reality, even 100 percent apple juice can contain 160 calories of empty sugars per cup. If you want your kids to get their fruit fix, give them an actual piece of fruit – it’ll help them get their fibre intake, plus benefit from all the nutrients packed into the peels. Don't bother buying juices just because they’re fortified with vitamin C and minerals either, because children aren't usually lacking in these nutrients. 2. Honey Until your child is 2 years old, honey is something that they should never be included in their diet. Honey can contain a toxic type of bacteria that causes botulism, which can be potentially fatal on occasions. This bacteria won't hurt most adults, but young kids' immune systems haven't been built up enough to fight it off. You can find botulism in any type of honey, whether it be raw or highly processed, so it’s best to stay on the safe side and avoid it altogether. 3. Fizzy drinks We all know that fizzy pops and other sugar-sweetened drinks have scientifically proven links to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and even aggressive behaviour in children. And yet research shows many parents across the country continue to give their children these drinks on a daily basis. When you consider that a 20-ounce bottle of fizzy pop can have over 60 grams of sugar, which is roughly four times what kids should get in an entire day, that’s quite a scary thought. 4) Boxed Mac 'n' Cheese and other pastas Given the long list of non-food ingredients in boxed mac 'n' cheese, like artificial flavourings and preservatives, it’s hard to understand exactly what you’re letting your kids eat. Besides being highly processed, boxed macaroni and cheese and other pastas contain virtually no nutrients. Instead, they contain sodium and preservatives, which can condition actually condition children to crave more salty, artificial foods. The other problem with boxed pastas is when you throw a package in your shopping trolly and cook the contents up in minutes, children don’t learn where their food is actually coming from. Since pasta and cheese sauce is simple to make from scratch, it’s a better idea to give your children an educational experience about their food. Take them shopping for whole-grain pasta, fresh cheese, and other ingredients and encourage them to help you cook. This will help them to understand how to make better food choices as they grow up. 5) Fruit Snacks Gummy fruit snacks, fruit rolls, and jellies are nothing but sugar. They’re often placed on the dried fruit aisle in shops as if their fruit flavour somehow makes them healthy, but that is usually far from the case. You should view them like any other gummy sweet instead of a lunchtime snack. Even if the snack has some sort of misleading advertising, like "made with real fruit" or "made with real fruit juice", keep in mind that the majority of these foods are mostly just empty sugar. If you're looking for an easy sweet snack with some actual nutrition, go with dried real fruit instead. 6) Canned Tuna Fish can be an excellent source of lean protein, healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals, so it's great to introduce it into your child’s diet early. But certain kinds of fish should only be enjoyed sparingly because of their high mercury content, including swordfish, king mackerel, tilefish, and canned tuna. You shouldn’t include these fish kinds in your young child’s diet regularly, as research has found they can affect kids’ nervous systems as they grow up. 7) Granola Bars Many people fall for the marketing for the likes of granola bars and cereal bars and assume that they’re healthy snacks. In reality, most bars offer very little protein and fibre, and the all-at-once sugar hit that they provide essentially has the same effects as a chocolate bar.

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