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On Parenting by Nancy Shute

How to Protect Your Kids Against Metabolic Syndrome

January 13, 2009 11:25 AM ET | Nancy Shute | Permanent Link | Print

Reader Comments

Great post

Nice blog as for me. It would be great to read a bit more concerning this theme.

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let's make up more....

oh, but, geez- what is this? too many doctors so let's create more diseases... more "syndromes" to justify higher salaries. I mean, really, must we?

Kids and metabolic syndrome

Stop the sodas, vitamin waters and all the sugar laden drinks. Stop shoving yogurt and Otis Spunkmeyer muffins down kids as a poor excuse for a "healthy" lunch, stop feeding them sugary garbage for breakfast - THAT is how we stop metabolic syndrome and subsequently diabetes! 4 gms of sugar = 1 tsp. Most of our kids are getting 40 to 80 tsp of sugar per DAY, our bodies were meant to handle maybe 2 to 4 at best. When they can concentrate sweet in high fructose corn syrup and add it to everything we eat, it's no wonder we are fat and diabetic. The two go hand in hand. There is no mystery as to why our kids are obese and have health problems. It really isn't lack of exercise as much as it is sugar!!

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About On Parenting

Parenting may be an art, but there's a lot of science behind raising healthy, thriving children. Contributing Editor Nancy Shute explores the latest discoveries and developments affecting children's health and parenting. Send her your comments and questions at onparenting@usnews.com.

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