Don’t Want To Raise A Sugar Addict? Start With Cereal

Around 13 percent of American children have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. This comes from consuming too much sugar. Unfortunately, developing a sugar diet as a child doesn’t always fall off in adulthood.

Multiple studies have found that excessive sugar is tied to increased depression.

One way that parents or guardians can help the next generation develop healthy food habits is by cutting back on sugar at breakfast — which tends to be the sweetest meal of the day.

An easy place to start is cereal.

Children should eat no more than six teaspoons of added sugar per day, but many eat more than that in a single bowl of cereal.

Researchers found that “the cereals with the most sugar per ounce also tend to have child-oriented marketing such as mascots, games, colors and fun cereal shapes.”

Parents know this. But too often they buy it for their kids because their kids like it. But their kids like it because they buy it for them.

It isn’t a classic case of chicken and egg. It’s just straight-up egg. The kiddies wouldn’t have that cereal sweet tooth if it hadn’t been available.

Cereal is one of the easiest foods on the market. It’s perfect for rushed school mornings, and many adults…