Kids are way too sweet

06 January 2016 - 02:39
By Katharine Child and The Telegraph

In a single year, a five-year-old in Britain will eat the equivalent of its own body weight in sugar and advocacy group Public Health England is urging parents to help their children cut back on sugar consumption. The organisation worked out that most five-year-olds eat at least 22kg of sugar a year, equal to their average body weight.

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