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Children love sweets. As soon as they drink breast milk, they realize that there is something good associated with this taste. However, what is good and important for the infant becomes a problem for older children and their parents. How much sweetness is necessary, what is allowed? And how can the eternal dispute over the coveted sweets be settled?
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Snacking on sweets
Children like sweets. As soon as they drink breast milk, they realize that there is something good associated with this taste. However, what is good and important for the infant becomes a problem for older children and their parents. How much sweetness is necessary, what is allowed? And how can we settle the eternal dispute over sweets? Sweet tastes good to everyone
If you go back in human history, the hunger for sweets makes sense. Fruits, which taste sweet, contain vitamins and were an important food supplement for our ancestors. The sweet taste was also a sign that the fruit was edible. Problems only arose when sugar from sugar cane and sugar beet became available in practically unlimited quantities. Nevertheless, we still associate the sweet taste with something good. Sweets and chocolate are often used to comfort the soul or as a reward. We are familiar with this pattern of behavior from childhood and retain it for the most part into adulthood. As a result, most parents are also untrustworthy role models, as they themselves reach for chocolates and potato chips all too often. Do not get used to it
A radiant smile again thanks to bleaching.
Sweet tastes good to everyone
A radiant smile again thanks to bleaching.
The taste buds get used to sweetened foods
The result: you have to consume more and more sugar to have the same "sweet experience". With children, care should therefore be taken from the outset not to spoil this sense of taste and let them enjoy the food naturally. Incidentally, it makes no difference whether you use white or brown sugar, honey, fructose or lactose, because the main ingredient is always simple sugar. For a healthy diet, however, only higher-value carbohydrates from vegetables and cereal products are necessary. The body then produces simple sugars from it itself - in a place where it does not harm our teeth. Demonizing is useless
Since no family lives on an island, there is no point in banning sweets completely. This only increases the children's interest in the forbidden, which they come into constant contact with when they are with others. It is better to teach children a healthy approach to sweets.
The best choice:
Banning sweets completely makes no sense
Possible steps are
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The supply of sweets should be kept low. Because where there is a lot on offer, there is also a lot of snacking.
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Fresh fruit is suitable as a healthy snack, alternatively yogurt or quark can be decorated with fruit.
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Constant small amounts of sweets are particularly dangerous for the teeth. It's better to have a short "sugar orgy" every now and then than to snack on sweets all the time.
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Only ever give sweets after meals, when the actual hunger has already been satisfied.
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Sweets should never be used as a reward or bribe.
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And don't forget: Brushing your teeth is an automatic part of every sweet treat.
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