10 DAYS WITHOUT PROCESSED SUGARS IMPROVES THE HEALTH OF CHILDREN

10 DAYS WITHOUT PROCESSED SUGARS IMPROVES THE HEALTH OF CHILDREN

Is the news that no parent wants their child to read. A few days celebrated Halloween, a US university released the results of a study on children and consumption of processed sugars:when a child stops eating sweets health 

improvement within 10 days .

Candy, gumdrops, marshmallows ... a wide variety of processed sweets are weakness of many children, also of adults, but the sweet tooth can generate various health problems .Obesity, hypertension and type 2 diabetes are the main diseases causing high consumption of processed sugars for long periods of time.

Challenge: Eat less sweets

Researchers from the department of pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco and the College of Osteopathic Medicine of Touro University in California, evaluraron to 43 obese children , aged between 9 and 18 years. All children had some metabolic síndorme related to weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol and fatty liver.  

Children were asked to nine days continue their usual diet, which mostly consists of fast foods, chips, flour, etc., with a single limitation: lose 28 to 10% intake of processed sugars and this percentage by replacing starches.

And what happened? After 10 days, 43 children presented a drop in blood pressure, the values ​​of "bad" cholesterol and triglycerides and insulin levels. And with the slightest change in their diet, some children also recorded a slight decrease in weight, that while it was not the end of the study , it also meant a positive result .

Trick or treat?

The Halloween October 31 leads to thousands of children in the world knocking on doors in your neighborhood hoping to receive candy.Your children will get sweeter than that night in several months, and probably need after reviewing a dentist, but eating candy in one night not harm them.

The  World Health Organizationrecommends that daily intake of added sugar does not exceed 10% of total calorie intake in a day .

Do not deprive your children of the candy, but educate them so they know how to take care of your health.Remember: prevention is better than cure .