date:Mar 27, 2019
ment. On average, children are consuming over 30 gallons of sugary drinks every year. This is enough to fill a bathtub, and it doesn't even include added sugars from food.
Even fruit juice, which many parents offer as a supposedly healthy alternative to sodas, is not consequence-free. Fruit juices are extremely high in sugar and low in other essential nutrients like fiber, when compared with whole fruit. Just one cup of orange juice, for example, contains 112 calories compared with the 62 calor