I remember when M was a baby, and we lived in Massachusetts, I had stopped breastfeeding. Her pediatrician prescribed flouride drops because they didn’t add flouride to the water. I didn’t give them to her. K & M still ended up with a few white spots on their teeth from using too much toothpaste. I need to check up on the little kids more often, to make sure their not using too much toothpaste.
This is a great video about too much flouride.
This is an interesting article titled Sugar is Back on Food Labels – This Time as a Selling Point
I really prefer my family to eat less processed food. So I have read labels looking for HFCS, and we do try to avoid it. The kids also read labels, and it’s great to be in the store with them and hear them say “We can’t buy this one!” 🙂 If we are going to eat sugar, then I would rather we have sugar, than HFCS.
I do use some Splenda for D’s lemonade and ice tea. Since he’s a diabetic, he can’t have sugar of any kind. I do have some stevia, (and some seeds to grow my own!) that I’m going to try in his ice tea this summer. As long as it doesn’t have a taste, he won’t care.
When D was diagnosed with diabetes, and we went to a nutrition class, the nutritionist did say that if your going to use artifical sweeteners, that Splenda was a better one to use. After doing research, none of them are good for you. I don’t let the kids have anything with artifical sweeteners in it.
While we do lots of things right with our diet, we still have areas of improvement. Less sugar use, being one of them.
