Har du tänkt på hur mycket godis som barn bjuds på som inte ges av föräldrarna?. En bra artikel av Yoni Freedhoff här, How I Saved My Kids from Sugar.
Den sista poängen i citaten här under är något jag själv irriterar mig på. Jag vill vara den som då och då kan göra mina barn glada genom att bjuda på något gott. Istället är jag den tråkiga pappan som säger nej nästan varje dag året runt.
Der här är även en väldigt passande text att dela idag när fler och fler barn klär ut sig för att jaga godis från sina grannar.
Nu gäller det här Kanada som troligen är värre än Sverige. Men vi är på precis samma bana utför, vi har bara inte hunnit så långt än.
”The numbers were staggering. Over the course of the year, friends, family members, teachers, camp counsellors, neighbours, and others pushed forty-one pounds of sugar on our kids, distributed across 921 different offerings. That’s over 4,600 added teaspoons—just shy of ninety-seven cups.
Some sources of added sugar were predictable, like cake at friends’ birthday parties. Others were a surprise, including the Halloween-sized boxes of Smarties chocolate all three girls were offered by a pharmacist when they received their flu shots. One of them was given an extra because she was crying.”.
”We began when our eldest daughter was about two. As Stacey remembers it: “It was around that time that we began to notice the number of treats that [she] was being offered on a regular basis , not just on Halloween when we were expecting it.
It was frustrating for us because while we wanted to enjoy the pleasures of giving our daughter treats—taking her for ice cream, baking cookies with her—we felt that the amount of sugar she was being offered . . . was already more than her little body ought to be consuming.”.