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The Daily Tonic is a two to five minute read sharing science backed health news and tips, all while getting you to crack a smile or even lol on occasion.

Monday. Ahh to be a kid again. Life is so simple when you are a kid. No responsibilities, no work, all play. Oh, and apparently kids can eat anything. Your metabolism is so fast as a kid, what’s the harm in Lucky Charms for breakfast and Mac n’ Cheese for lunch? Well… let’s dive in.

Kids Can Eat Anything, But Should They?            

Nope—they shouldn’t. What evidence is there in support of that? The rate of childhood obesity has almost tripled in the last four decades. So much for having a fast metabolism. 

Some of the unhealthiest foods are the ones strategically marketed at children. It is a brilliant business strategy if you think about it. The belief is that children can get away with eating anything. So why not take sugary, cheap foods, and market them heavily using sports figures, celebrities, characters and mascots, cartoons, cross-promotion toys, collectibles, kids’ clubs, internet games, and contests? That’s how you create customers for life.  

Now you are pinning a frantic child against their parents at the grocery store. Children will want the sugary cereals, chocolate-flavored energy bars, and yogurt smoothies in all the fun flavors and colors. Now it is up to an exhausted parent to say no every time? Big food brands also masterfully know how to make parents feel better about giving in. Organic, all-natural, high fiber, vitamin fortified, high protein—all these labels are added to these sugary, highly processed products to make parents feel a little more OK about giving in. 

All the while, big food corporations are making a killing. Sugary, processed foods are some of the most profitable for the food behemoths that run our food system. Take breakfast cereal as an example. As Dr. Robert Lustig points out in his new book, Metabolical, there is an interesting reason why Lucky Charms have marshmallows in them. It isn’t actually because children love marshmallows, but rather because oats cost more than marshmallows. So in typical big food fashion, why not fill up space in the cereal box with cheaper, high volume sugar, while still selling Lucky Charms at a slightly higher price per unit? Diabolically genius. 

All this results in breakfast, the supposed most important meal of the day, morphing into nothing more than a huge load of sugar to start the day. 

Eating breakfast at school is no better. The American Heart Association recommends limiting kids to 3 to 4 teaspoons of added sugar per day. Yet, a typical school breakfast consists of a bowl of Froot Loops and a glass of orange juice—that’s already 11 teaspoons of sugar. And that is just one meal. Now what if some kid is celebrating a birthday that day? You know what that means—cupcakes!

In another excerpt from his book, Dr. Lustig points out that any food is a dessert if any form of sugar is one of the first three ingredients. Trader Joe’s Beef and Broccoli (32 grams of sugar) is a dessert. Chinese chicken salad is a dessert. We, and especially our kids, are eating and drinking dessert all day long. Yikes.

So what is the impact all this sugar has on children? Aside from growing waistlines, sugar alters kids’ brain function in two ways—behavior and cognition.. If you are reading this and you are a parent, you know very well that sugar can make kids more irritable. Give a kid a Snicker’s bar and you’ll now have a Tasmanian devil to contend with. Good luck. There have also been studies that link processed foods and sugar consumption with poor performance in school and lack of focus. 

The solution? It may seem as though kids can get away with anything, but they can’t. Sugar and processed foods impact us all, regardless of age. I am assuming we don’t have a big underage readership at the Daily Tonic, so it falls on parents to make intelligent choices that will set up our future generations for a healthier future.

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Another Chicken Recall  

As if this is even news anymore.

Serenade Foods, an Indiana-based company, is recalling nearly 60,000 pounds of frozen and raw chicken products for possible salmonella contamination this week after dozens of people across multiple states have gotten sick.

Surprise, surprise. Our heavily centralized, mass-produced meat industry is making more people sick. 

I will spare you the details of Salmonella infection symptoms, but needless to say, they are not pretty.

The solution? It is simple and always bears repeating. Vote with your dollars and push our system towards meaningful change by shopping from local farmers and regenerative, pasture raised brands. 

Big box chicken may be cheap in terms of what you pay at the register, but the hidden cost of supporting our conventional system is so expensive and the debt we are accumulating is high enough.

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