| Here is something I have personal experience of, not | | | | of fish, seed oils and vegetables such as avocado. I |
| as a parent but as the hyperactive child in question. I | | | | find the easiest and most fun way to do this is a form |
| had a real sweet tooth as a child, as many do and | | | | of deception! I smuggle avocado and oils such as |
| found quickly that sugar was followed by even more | | | | hemp oil into smoothies, you'd be surprised that |
| sugar to get the same sweet taste fix. For breakfast I | | | | avocados and oils give an apple and banana smoothie |
| loved sugar frosted cereal augmented by a heavy | | | | a delicious creamy taste. Once in a while I'll even throw |
| dusting of sugar, caster sugar if possible as it has a | | | | a handful of raw spinach leaves in there too! In a |
| finely ground nature made it soak up milk and give that | | | | powerful commercial blender the result is a smooth |
| too, a sweet taste. You get the picture. Obviously I had | | | | tasty drink that is attractive to kids and stubborn adults |
| the judgment of a child too and thought nothing wrong | | | | alike. |
| of feeding my addiction. | | | | Look out for high sugar content in production food and |
| No wonder then that I found it hard to concentrate in | | | | avoid them, check the ingredient panel on the side and |
| class, got bored easily and could never sit down to | | | | if sugar is in the top 4 ingredients, put it back on the |
| homework when I got back home. Since studying | | | | shelf. To sweeten tea and breakfast cereal try using |
| nutrition I am utterly convinced that fined sugar is | | | | honey or black strap molasses, these are more |
| nothing more than a stimulant that has no right to be in | | | | complicated sugars and take longer to digest, avoiding |
| the food chain. It is that simple, read my article | | | | the highs and lows of blood sugar rushes associated |
| "reasons to go sugar free" to find out. | | | | with refined sugar. |
| But what can we do with a sugar addict child that | | | | This is a gradual process with the end result of a more |
| doesn't see the need to eat greens or some nice oily | | | | calm and rational child with stable energy and a |
| fish. It is true that when you are young food is just | | | | greater ability to focus and learn. It is a terrible waste |
| food. You eat what you like the taste of and are less | | | | that a child may get frustrated with learning and give |
| interested in its nutritional properties. Well what I | | | | up on themselves feeling that they are stupid, only |
| suggest is simple, you must start a gradual process of | | | | because they are lacking correct nutrition, nothing |
| weaning off sugar as soon as possible. Slowly replace | | | | more. So next time the pressure goes on for a junk |
| sugar with more natural and slow to digest sources of | | | | food take away with a bucket sized soda, think of the |
| sweetness, honey, black strap molasses and fruits | | | | consequences, and get the juicer or blender out |
| with their natural complex sugars. Ensure that a steady | | | | instead! |
| supply of natural fats and oils is in the diet in the form | | | | |