Eating high sugar food makes children crave for sweetness in later years

Make shopping a learning experience by teaching your children to read food labels to pick out unhealthy ingredients. If sugar is listed at the top of the ingredients list, that is an indication it contains mostly sugar as one of the main ingredients. – Filepic

Excessive sugar in the diet during childhood may have lasting effects, say experts.

Children are biologically programmed from birth to prefer sweet tastes over other flavours.