How Good Is Your Child's Diet

The quality of our children's diets needs to be improved.  Poor eating habits established  in childhood may be carried over to adulthood.  How often do we stop at the fast food places when time is difficult to find?  The high sugar, high glycemic carbohydrate diet shows in your children's teeth.  Poor  eating habits are contributing to children that are either overweight or obese.  Nutrition related diseases in children that were once considered adult illnesses such as Type 2 Diabetes and High Blood  Pressure are more common.  Due to high carbohydrate (the bad carbohydrates- sugars that break down easily- cookies, candy, pop,the newer energy drinks -which are mostly sugar with an acid base to help keep it in stores, refined carbohydrates- almost anything that has a label on it, will affect your child's health and teeth.  Try to Plan meals and snacks before hand- instead of cookies or pop for a snack give your child a banana, apple , orange -cheese in slices nuts - Crackers will stick to their teeth and until they brush and floss lay there and eat away at their teeth.  A cavity is just that a hole in their teeth due to acid from food.