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Tricks for introducing solids to a stubborn baby
shmokes:
I hate to get argumentative in a thread where people are giving me free advice, but I think sugar is by far the worst thing we eat. Sugar as part of something is just as bad as straight sugar. Cheerios don't grow on trees with sugar built in to them. Sugar is added to them to make them tasty. Whether you add the sugar to your food personally or have someone else add it for you, it's still being ingested. For one thing, sugar is a straight carb that lasts about 2 seconds in your system, so it doesn't stave off hunger. Secondly it causes your body to overproduce insulin, which in turn causes your body to start storing fat. I think it's hilarious that everyone avoids eating fats because they don't want to get fat, as though cow fat is just transfered, in tact, to your thighs. Everything we eat is broken down and any fat on our bodies is created by our bodies. Americans are getting so fat because everything we eat is loaded with sugar (it is the third ingredient in Cheerios, for example).
Some sugars are, of course, worse than others, but just because your body can break the sugar down easily, doesn't mean it's okay. In fact, that's part of the problem.
And I agree with Saint. Sugar is damned tasty and would really like to avoid a situation where my kid refuses to eat something unless it's sweet - largely cos I consider obesity to be a character flaw and am disgusted by parents with obese kids. They're cruel, IMO.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: shmokes on February 19, 2007, 01:58:10 am ---Cheerios don't grow on trees with sugar built in to them.
--- End quote ---
Do Cheerios grow on trees at all? :P
I agree with you on keeping the sugar in foods down, but regular Cheerios are actually pretty good there. The Cheerios box claims it only contains one gram of sugar per serving. When something basically only contains grains, corn starch and sugar then sure it's the third ingredient, but one gram of sugar per serving isn't a lot is it? Not counting the carbohydrates in the starch of course.
Actually even natural products aren't always good for babies. They told us not to give the kid (too much) apple juice because it would spoil it's appetite and it contains so much fructose that it would be bad for the digestive system of the baby. For instance, a small glass of apple juice can contain up to 20 grams of "natural" sugar.
ChadTower:
You have to have some reason built into the "avoid sugars" effort. Froot Loops, yeah, too sweet. Cheerios?! They taste like recycled paper! How could a baby get hooked on sugary foods (and I do agree to keep the overly sweet foods in low moderation until much later) with Cheerios?
shmokes:
I wasn't clear. We have Cheerios and give them to the baby. Peal just used that as an example of a product that naturally had sugar in it, so I was responding to that. For that matter, she'll get candy and ice cream, etc. I don't want to be the nutty parent who doesn't let their kid go trick-or-treating or ever have any sugary treats. I just want to keep an eye on it. And while I don't plan to vigilantly guard her at all times from sugar, I certainly don't plan to introduce candy and ice cream to her before I have to.
ChadTower:
Exactly. Moderation. Most of life's "problems" can be easily solved with moderation. My kids both did well with Cheerios.
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