Sugar’s Effect on Children

What do you feed your children at snack time?
Fruit snacks?
Kid’s yogurt?
Gatorade?
So many of us don’t realize how much sugar is in these foods, which are often marketed as healthy options.
With more than two decades of experience as a pediatrician, Dr. Shakha Gillin noticed how many health issues could be solved by a better diet.
She realized to fix kid’s eating habits, she needed to educate parents and the school system, the main sources teaching kids the right way to take care of themselves.
Note: This episode was recorded before the 2020 quarantine.

0:00:05 Emily’s intro.
0:03:00 Guest DR. SHAKHA GILLIN, a San Diego pediatrician, has been actively changing nutrition guidelines for schools.
0:04:24 First question. What are you seeing wrong in your pediatric practice?
0:09:16 Kids get twice the daily amount of recommended daily sugar by drinking just one juice box.
0:13:58 Kids aren’t getting lab tested, as a rule.
0:19:46 How does this doctor talk about nutrition to parents as sensitively as possible?
0:23:40 “They come in and they’re constipated. Twenty years ago, I would see kids with constipation, but not to this extent. I feel like now every other kid is constipated.”
0:30:07 Emily remembers how her mom looked out for her nutrition and her siblings’ nutrition.
0:34:55 Almost half of America is diabetic or pre-diabetic.

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