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Here in Finland, our food consumption is quite high especially in autumn and winter time. When it gets too dark and too cold, our appetite somehow develops more than usual. We always try to keep carbohydrate at low level and consume more protein in our daily diet. Not only that, we also try to keep our sugar intake at optimal level as possible for a better and healthier lifestyle.

Talking about food always reminded me of how bad diet we had not too long time ago. When I was pregnant for Mikael, my desire for food was rising way too much! Faiz was unfortunely infected too!

The chicken picture was taken over 2 years ago. We could easily finish the whole ayam pencen just for lunch. And yes, it was just the two of us! Fortunately, we are now more careful and always remind each other to keep a healthy way of eating

Well, that was about our chicken story. Nonetheless, our concern is more on Mikael as he is growing pretty fast nowadays. When I was browsing and looking for information about milk for children, I figured out that most of children’s milk powder in Malaysia contain very high amount of added sugar. Sadly, this is not supposed to happen especially when we need to put priority of their well being and health over other things.

Those added sugar are not necessary at all, and do not contribute to nutritional purpose in any way. The manufacturers seem to confuse buyers by putting different names of the added sugars on the labels. Please please please… bear in mind to check for the amount of added sugar everytime you’re happen to buy milk for your children. The other names of added sugar are as follows:

1. 1.      Corn Syrup Solid
2. 2.      Sucrose
3. 3.      Glucose Syrup Solid

They are all unnecessary for children especially in milk powder!

Few weeks ago, one of my good friends was one day taking her son to Klinik Desa Murni by Dr Azhar in Penang when she saw a video by KOL playing in the waiting room. If you heven’t read my previous posting about KOL, it is HERE (http://www.blogresipi.com/2011/11/30/excessive-sugar-intake-and-obesity-problems/).

She was telling me that the discussion topic in the video was very interesting and they were circulating about similar topic as I wrote in my previous post. She insisted that I should watch it too. From the name of the panel that she wrote me, I managed to find the video and watched it myself. Well you know… you can find almost anything from youtube

Then I thought, maybe sharing it here would be a good idea too!

I’m personally interested with The WHO say that we should keep added sugar intakes to less than 10 per cent of our total calorie intake. So for a 2 to 3 year old that’s really not many calories to put aside for added sugars – only 150 kcal or less than 7 teaspoons per day maximum.

I’m not really good with the calories calculation yet. But I’m trying my best learning it

Here is one more video which I think brings good information for us.

Remember that when out children are taking those added sugar which is totally unnecessary, they can simply obtain extra calories which will go towards laying down excessive body fats and may bring them to obesity and overweight problems. What makes it worse, the children may experience many more complications from those problems