How To Sugarproof Your Kids with Dr. Michael Goran

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“Just like the classic metaphor of the frog in the pan of boiling water, it doesn’t happen overnight, it’s a lifelong thing,” says Dr. Michael Goran, Professor of Pediatrics and Program Director for Nutrition and Obesity at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Adult issues such as weight gain, cardiovascular disease, Type II diabetes, are most often formed by poor childhood eating habits, most notably the excess consumption of sugar. The only problem is, sugar is practically in everything. Food manufacturing companies know that children’s palates especially favor sweet tastes because they are primed to crave the naturally sweet taste of breast milk. Worse, loopholes in standards set by agencies like the Food and Drug Administration allow certain amounts of sugar present in food to go unaccounted for. Food packaging features ambiguous language like “no sugar added,” to suggest a lack of sugar, or emphasizes that a food is made with fruit juice concentrate, or brown rice syrup, when those alternatives can actually be more harmful than plain sugar.

So, what is the answer? Dr. Goran urges that though sugar can clinically be classified as an addictive substance, there is no need to go cold turkey. Instead, we can mitigate the intake of sugar and introduce healthy habits starting pre-birth, where mothers can avoid growing “sugar babies” by passing sugar to the baby in utero, via “secondhand sugar.” Just as crucial is the period between ages zero to five, when the majority of brain development occurs, and a child’s lifelong threshold and craving for sugar are formed. Lowering intake early helps prevent health problems later in life, from acne to heart failure.

Join us as Sasha presents Dr. Goran with a series of myths raised in his book “Sugarproof: The Hidden Dangers of Sugar That are Putting Your Child’s Health at Risk and What You Can Do,” and learn the steps you can take to navigate this real-life Candyland.

Quotes

• “You know those two-pound bags of sugar that you can buy at the grocery store? The average adult eats one of those every five days.” (13:10-13:21 | Dr. Goran)

• “The food industry has kind of got us tricked because some of the newer sugars like fruit-based sweeteners, the fruit juice concentrate. Sounds pretty good? But what if I told you it’s even higher in fructose than high fructose corn syrup?” (15:45-16:08 | Dr. Goran)

• “We’re consuming more liquid sugar. If you think about raising kids historically, generations ago, it was water or milk. Now, we have fruit juice, energy drinks, all kinds of flavored drinks. (18:50-19:08 | Dr. Goran)

• “If you really want to avoid the pushback you think you might get, start small. Say, ‘OK, this calls for a cup of sugar,’ take 20 percent out of that one cup. Then next time take a quarter out, then 30 percent.” (41:25-41:42 | Dr. Goran)

• “With kids, there is some semblance of a blank slate, although they do have that innate preference, they don’t know how sweet something is “supposed to be.” (42:14-42:25 | Sasha)

• “When you start to implement these same type of sugar proof practices, in being mindful of how much sugar or the type of sugar versus natural that you’re putting in your foods, you’re creating a palate for your children.” (43:01-43:18 | Sasha)

Stats

• “Babies have an innate preference for sweet flavors, as breast milk is naturally sweet and contains a sugar called lactose.” (0:13-0:20 | Sasha)

• “70% of all foods and 80% of snacks for kids contain some kind of sugar.” (0:28-0:35
| Sasha)

• “98% of toddlers and 60% of infants are consuming added sugars on any given day, because nearly every product designed for their age group is sweet.” (0:36-49 | Sasha)

• “This industry spends $10 billion per year advertising to children; $500 million is allotted for sugary drinks alone.” (1:16-1:27 | Sasha)

• “A recent report from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity found that in 2017, 86% of television advertising on programs targeted to African Americans, and 82% of ads on programs targeted to Hispanics were focused on junk food, sugary drinks, and other high-sugar snacks and candy.” (1:43-2:05 | Sasha)

• “The USDA dietary guidelines have now come out with a recommendation which is zero added sugars for infants zero to two years of age. So the US Department of Agriculture’s dietary guidelines for healthy Americans recognizes that we should avoid healthy sugars, but if you have added sugar in formula it doesn’t count, according to the USDA.” (30:14-30:49 | Dr. Goran)

• “Added sugar, technically, according to the FDA, is sugar that’s added to a food during processing.” (34:03-34:10 | Dr. Goran)

• “90% of brain development occurs in the first five years of life so what is fed, what the brain is nourished upon during those years is very critical.” (1:00:20-1:00:31 | Dr. Goran)

• “So, if we look at subclinical markers, the studies show too much sugar is associated with elevations in those subclinical markers, starting quite early in life. So children may not have childhood Type II diabetes, or fatty liver disease, or cardiovascular disease yet, but they will have subclinical risk that will gradually build up over time.” (1:02:31-1:02:09 | Dr. Goran)

Notable links:

Connect with Dr. Michael Goran:

Website: www.sugarproofkids.com

*** “Sugarproof: The Hidden Dangers of Sugar That Are Putting Your Child’s Health At Risk And What You Can Do” is available at all bookstores and on Amazon.

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Twitter: @michaelgoran

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