date:Mar 19, 2014
ing greater control in their children's diet for added sugar than for added salt. Or it could reflect increased use of non-nutritive sweeteners in foods geared for children in other words, the sweetness of some foods doesn't reflect their sugar content.
Current intakes of sodium and added sugars among US children are well in excess of recommendations. For almost all 2- to 8-year-olds, added sugars account for more than half of their discretionary calories (130 total discretionary calories are